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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Last week, the company finally embraced the dystopian origins of the name with a brilliant, tongue-in-cheek marketing campaign introducing its new Soylent Green Mint Chocolate line complete with a spoof animation of the famous last scene of the Heston Soylent Green film. And, don't feed the trolls has typically been our policy for that.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

According to Lyft, a study conducted by the company by Land Econ Group finds that there was an increase in economic activity in Los Angeles due to its service, as a result of its rides. Lyft said the study also showed that passengers next year will save $88M in travel time value and over 7.5 READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

which will trade ont he Nasdaq Capital Market as PALI. The newly merged company will focus specifically on advancing Leading Biosciences' lead pipeline asset, LB1148, in clinical studies. According to Leading Bioscience, it is acquiring Seneca to form a new company, Palisade Bio, Inc. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new company, Apex Innovation Sciences --with headquarters in Long Beach, California and Marlton, New Jersey--has formed out of a corporate merger of CNS Network and Hassman Research Insitute , along with the Clinical Trial Centers Alliance , three companies in the clinical trial studies industry, the companies said this morning.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Playa Vista-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), the Hyperloop technology developer co-founded by Dirk Ahlborn and Bibop Gresta, said on Thursday that it has signed a study deal to look at routes to connect Cleveland and Chicago with its technology. Financial details of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2018

San Diego-based BioDuro , a life sciences contract research and development provider, announced this morning that it has acquired Molecular Response LLC , which provides a large collection of viable tumor specimens for the oncology market. Financial details of the buy were not announced. As part of thea cquisition, Thomas B.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Silicon Valley Bank is big supporter and has been a sponsor of socaltech for many, many years. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015.

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OCTOBER 1, 2008

A study of the venture capital deal flow in Southern California conducted by socalTECH shows that venture capital deals dropped for Q3, to around $720M in deals, in a market dominated by clean technology firms. in venture capital deals in the third quarter, down dramatically from $1.2B

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MARCH 18, 2014

According to Convertro, Misra will help the company with its algorithm, to make it the "most accurate and predictive" in the market. Convertro said Dr. Misra is an expert in the marketing science field, for his research using structural econometric methods to study consumer and company decisions. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

The company said it tapped Survata for the study, which interviewed 501 online respondents. The company said the margin of error for this study at a 95% confidence level is 4.4%. Onestop called Amazon "a very real threat" to online brands' sales.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

FactoryFour was foudned by 22-year old Param Shah, who grew up in Irvine, but most recently was a student at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, studying Computer Science. The company says it has now raised a total of $8M in funding.

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MAY 17, 2011

New information released in a study of the IPO pipeline, finds that California continues to be the most active market in terms of initial public offerings. According to the Renst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study, California had 25 companies looking to raised $2.2 billion on the market in Q1.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

Los Angeles-based digital marketer Connexity has acquired consumer data collection company Hitwise , from parent company Experian , the company said this morning. The two combined deals were worth $47M plus up to $5M in earnout.

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APRIL 19, 2019

Although the effort is early--the utilities are only launching a study--the effort will help determine what role electricity providers can play in electrifying the corridor and determine key locations for electric truck charging infrastructure will also be identified and prioritized. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2014

The company said the move came after early Phase 1 clinical studies of its compound resiniferatoxin (RTX) showed promise in treating pain in both humans and dogs. READ MORE>>. sorrento therapeutics lifescience biotech pain cancer oncology veterinary spinout merger acquisition animal arkanimal'

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MARCH 26, 2014

Citing a ABI Research study on Wi-Fi equipment, D-Link said it had 12.7 percent market share, and shipped more products than the next closest competitors, TP-Link and Netgear. D-Link did not say how many Wi-Fi shipments it made in the quarter.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Encino-based uSamp , the provider of technology and services for the online panel and surveying market, said that it has teamed with GutCheck , a provider of online qualitative research. uSamp said it will provide automated deliver of screened and qualified participants to GutCheck's online qualitative market research studies.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Volvo Group said the investment came due to DriveCam's complementary position to its position in the global truck manufacturing market. The companies said that Volvo Group has been studying and analyzing a large number of accidents involving trucks, as part of its design and development efforts. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2011

The study was conducted by independent market research firm Koski Research during February 2011. SVB said its Startup Outlook 2011 survey came from the responses of 375 U.S-based based private, venture capital backed software, hardware, life science, and cleantech companies.

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JULY 15, 2013

A new study released earlier this month has ranked the Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta metropolitan area, as well as the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area among the top ten markets for venture capital activity. in deals in 2012 and 3.3 venture capital deals per 100,000 people.

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APRIL 28, 2011

A new study released last night finds that Silicon Valley venture capitalists have gained significant confidence from last quarter. The survey included only San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists, and did not take into effect investors here in Southern California. The index has been rising more or less steadily since a low in Q4 of 2008.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Justin Lassoff: There was a study recently that showed that investors, in general, have a bias against women. The example in the study, was it showed that men often asked negatively focused questions when asked by women entrepreneurs. She, as well as several other, wonderful female investors, will be at our upcoming conference.

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MARCH 21, 2012

El Segundo-based Vantage Media , the provider of performance-based marketing and advertising services, is expanding into the post-secondary school marketplace today, saying that it has launched a new offering called Vantage Media SchoolSelect.

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APRIL 23, 2013

Encino -based uSamp , which provides technology to enable market research and survey panels, has tapped into its stable of survey respondents to figure out how many companies now allow employees to work remotely. uSamp said its panel included 1,000 business professionals across the United States.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The company said it will debut the study in Q4. The two said its joint research will measure various aspects of how consumers interact with brands, content, and influencers, and how consumers turn to information about brands. BUZZMEDIA operates an extensive network of music, celebrity, and other blogs and content sites.

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JUNE 13, 2012

Break said the new site is designed as a new tool for brand marketers, to help them gain "actionable intelligence" about the male demographic. The new site and research is garnered from Break Media's various male-focused websites, as well as third party studies, and more.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Mojave-based XCOR , which is developing reusable, rocket powered vehicles aimed at the commercial space market, said Monday that it has raised $5M in an equity round of funding. As part of the funding, the company said that Dyson, Fleming, and Dr. Lee Valentine of the Space Studies Institute have all joined the company's board.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

A report issued this week by Experian Marketing Services has identified two, San Diego niche social networking sites as being among the fastest growing sites between July of 2011 and July of 2012.

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MARCH 21, 2012

El Segundo-based Vantage Media , the provider of performance-based marketing and advertising services, is expanding the offerings it has in the education market. Vantage Media said its new marketplace helps schools to reach prospective students, segmented by geography and area of study interest.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

The disruption is being led by companies that understand the importance of putting the customer first, a trend I always thought began in the US a long time ago with the entry of Lexus into the US car market. Lexus upended the US car market with vehicles that were light years ahead of the junk Detroit was producing. I doubt it.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

As time has gone on, the company then shifted into the ridesharing market, essentially operating as a car availability platform for Uber and Lyft drivers. As we studied that Gen 1 and Gen 2 of the company, a few things popped out at us. When I studied the landscape, it's clear that for our consumers, they are very price conscious.

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss. How is the firm funded?

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MARCH 15, 2010

The first covers a study of Contour Energy's batteries for use in manned space missions, and another covers development of electrode materials, to advance Li-ion battery technology. The firm--fresh off $14.2M As part of the announcement, the firm said it has also scored two technology transfer contracts with NASA.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We have not just engineers, but designers, UI, UX, analytics, product managers, user acquisition, marketing managers, and others. MIT and McKinsey did some studies on this, that showed about $400 billion a year is lost in the tech industry, due to lack of diversity and inclusion. Those communities already exist.

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