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JANUARY 19, 2022

Long Beach-based Rocket Lab said Tuesday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of SolAero Holdings. SolAero Holdings is a manufacturer of solar power technology and aerospace structures for use in space. The deal was worth $80M in cash.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit, which is developing satellite launch systems, says it has partnered with signals intelligence provider Horizon Technologies.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Long Beach-based Rocket Lab says it has scored a contract from NASA, to launch a payload to the moon. The NASA funded mission will place a 55 pound satellite into lunar orbit, as part of a mission by NASA to establish a long term presence on the Moon. Financial details of the win were not announced.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Long beach-based Rocket Lab is expecting to be a public company by Wednesday, thanks to a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger with Vector Acquisition Corporation, the two said this morning. According to the two, Rocket Lab will be renamed Rocket Lab USA, Inc.,

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MARCH 23, 2021

Long Beach-based satellite launch provider Rocket Lab has launched another mission, deploying its 100th satellite, the company said late Monday evening. According to the company, it launched its 19th Electron rocket mission, deploying six satellites into orbit. Army's Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 18, 2020

Our work with the Cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach has helped thousands of people access testing at drive-through facilities and we are fully equipped to expand that access to help thousands more across the country. With the new authorization, the company is going to begin working with additional distributors around the country.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Long Beach-based Ways2H , a developer of waste biomass-to-hydrogen technology, says it has partnered with Massachusetts-based Local Power , to develop hydrogen-fueled community microgrids for Community Choice Aggregators and municipalities.The two said they have partnered to develop community microgrids powered by renewable hydrogen produced from waste, (..)

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit, the satellite launch technology company which is related to Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism business, says it will become a publicly traded company through a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC).

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MARCH 1, 2021

Long Beach-based rocket developer Rocket Lab is joining the very long list of local technology companies, which is heading towards the public market through a merger with a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC).

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

The Alliance for SoCal Innovation , a nonprofit looking to help connect Southern California's innovation ecosystem, has partnered with Verizon Media to help launch microsites to connect the local technology community, and grow the ecosystem, Verizon said on Wednesday.

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OCTOBER 6, 2011

This past weekend, the annual Long Beach Soundwalk took place across the blocks of downtown Long Beach’s art district. Really neat stuff.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Long Beach-based Way2H , a startup developing technology to convert waste into clean hydrogen fuel, has scored a strategic investment from Pacific6 Enterprises, the company announced this morning. Size of that investment were not announced. Pacific6 Enterprises is led by John C.

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APRIL 26, 2010

The monthly report, which tracks the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), said that overall employment declined by 150,800 people, or 2.9 Tags: information technology employment jobs satistics. percent, compared with March of last year in the region. percent versus last year.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

Long Beach-based Cargomatic , which develops technology to connect shippers and carriers, said this week that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Warburg Pincus, and also included Canaan, Genesee & Wyoming, Xplorer Capital and Muse Family Enterprises.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

XPRIZE , the Los Angeles nonprofit which promotes development of new technology to help solve world problems, has whittled down the number of teams competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , focused on using AI to world's greatest challenges.

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JUNE 17, 2013

OpenAirplane said Monday that it has launched in Los Angeles, letting pilots join and rent aircraft, and aircraft operators to list their aircraft, starting with Long Beach Airport (LGB). aviation technology rental plane openairplane' OpenAirplane is based in Chicago. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With an angle on a long-neglected part of the shipping industry — the short-haul movement of cargo from docks to logistics centers — Dray Alliance is joining a growing startup scene for logistics businesses based in Los Angeles.

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JULY 15, 2013

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ranked further down on the list, at number 16, at $13.1M The report, from The Atlantic , found that Santa Barbara-Santa-Maria-Goleta was number five in the nation in terms of venture capital activity per 100,000 people, with $59.1M in deals in 2012 and 3.3 venture capital deals per 100,000 people.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

Daimler Trucks North America said in July it would begin testing 20 fully electric heavy- and medium-duty Freightliner models at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach this year. The state has set aggressive targets to improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions, particularly those generated from tailpipes.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Long Beach-based Apriso said Monday that it has landed manufacturer Cummins Inc. Apriso's others customers include GM, Volvo, Honeywell, and others; the firm is venture backed by Brentwood Venture Capital, CMEA, LogiSpring, SAP Ventures, and WallStreet Technology Partners. as a customer. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

In previous years, BIL has been held in the bowels of the Queen Mary in the Long Beach Seaport, however, this year BIL has grown its land legs and relocated to the old Z Gallery building in downtown Long Beach.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M Carlsbad-based Ostendo Technologies , a developer of solid state lighting raised $41.8M According to the report, there were 71 deals worth a total of $663.2M in funding in Q3, down from the much larger, $2.5 for San Diego, then $189.0M

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JUNE 6, 2012

PortTechLA's monthly forum featuring reports on green technology, trade, logistics and transportation in and around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and presentations from client entrepreneurs. Tuesday, June 12, 2012 -- PortTechLA Forum - June.

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JANUARY 26, 2011

Fans of TED , the popular technology and ideas-focused conferences held in Long Beach and Palm Springs, have a new place to get their TED fix today, through a new digital book effort called TEDBooks, being run in conjunction with Amazon.com.

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JULY 13, 2011

According to the latest Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment report, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area was among the areas with the largest amount of clean economy jobs, with 89,592 jobs--even more than the 51,811 clean economy jobs in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area.

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JUNE 28, 2010

Long Beach-based Apriso , a developer of software used for managing manufacturing operations, reported today that it has been selected by Boston-Power. Apriso is funded by Brentwood Venture Capital, CMEA Capital, LogiSpring, SAP Ventures and Wall Street Technology Partners LP. Financial details of the win were not disclosed.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

According to the firm, both schools are using Active Network's operations management software and hosted technology for their campus recreation departments. Financial impact of the two wins was not announced.

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MAY 20, 2010

Long Beach-based Apriso , a privately held firm developing manufacturing software, said today that it saw "strong customer growth" in the quarter from manufacturers in the solar, fuel cell, and battery industries. The firm did not provide any actual financials. Apriso's software is used for managing supply chains.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The airplane trip is the first step in getting the Endeavour to the California Science Center; the shuttle will be sitting in a hanger at LAX and transported by ground next month in a complicated move via surface streets.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Long Beach-based Apriso , a developer of planning and control software for the manufacturing industry, reported Thursday that the firm had record revenues in 2009. Apriso is venture backed by Brentwood Venture Capital, CMEA Ventures, LogiSpring Investment Fund SA, SAP Ventures, and Wall Street Technology Partners. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 15, 2009

San Diego-based Inovio Biomedical and Long Beach-based Cardigant Medical announced this morning that the two firms are in a commercial license, where Cardigant Medical will use Inovio's technology to develop intravascular catheters.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Long Beach-based Apriso, a developer of software for monitoring manufacturing processes, has scored a win with IT technology services firm Atos Origin, the firms said yesterday. billion provider of IT technology services, with over 50,000 employees. billion provider of IT technology services, with over 50,000 employees.

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OCTOBER 24, 2008

Long Beach-based Digital Performance, which develops technology for online sales efforts in the after market automotive parts sector, is announcing Monday that it has raised $3.2M Digital Performance has a database and technology which matches buyers of after market automotive parts with manufacturers.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

We caught up with founder and CEO Clint Brauer , a former executive from LA's technology industry who went home to Kansas to get back into farming, to learn more about how robotics can be applied to agriculture. With the amount of technology required for robots, how does the cost of this compare with those chemical treatments?

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AUGUST 1, 2019

We all had a background in different spaces, primarily in the startup and technology space. I grew up in the Bay Area, in an interesting time, in the 200's, where there were lots of emerging technology and innovative companies growing. I think that, in the long term, scooters are actually a commodity.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. We're a disruptor, the third wave in human resources technology. Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. What is Fuel50? The whole space has been neglected.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

And, because there are many companies in Long Beach and sourcing operations here, it really made sense to open up operations in Southern California. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China.

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