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MARCH 12, 2019

Monrovia, California-based Green Dot , the prepaid card and mobile banking giant, is powering the new banking offerings for mobile investing and financial app startup Stash. Stash offers up a mobile app which lets users buy stocks starting as little as $5, with an aim of helping users become more familiar with investing.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

According to the company, its new Los Angeles satellite office will be located in Monrovia, and will go to help its work in Los Angeles County, providing political advocacy, special industry events, and professional development for the life sciences sector. The company said the new office is a partnership with LA BioMed and Lab Launch.

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MAY 9, 2012

Monrovia, California-based AeroVironment , the developer of unmanned aerial vehicles and electric vehicle charging systems, said late Tuesday that it has named Tom Herring as the firm's Chief Operating Officer. Herring was previously Senior Vice President and General Manager of the firm's UAS division. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 15, 2013

Monrovia, California-based Green Dot --which created the entire category of prepaid credit cards when it was just a small, angel funded startup in Southern California--is now looking to turn another industry on its head--banking. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 25, 2013

GoBank , the mobile-only banking service started by Monrovia''s Green Dot , has gone live, exiting a beta and hitting general availability, Green Dot said today. Green Dot said its GoBank accounts were specifically "built for the smartphone generation.".

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JANUARY 16, 2013

How was Monrovia, California-based Green Dot able to quickly launch itself into the mobile banking category? to buy Loopt and its development team -- specifically to set up a Silicon Valley hub for mobile and product development for the banking product. That came all thanks to spending $43.4M

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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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