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Two SoCal IPOs On IPO Calendar For This Month

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Southern California's tech industry appears to be seeing a bit of a mini IPO boom, with the latest IPO being San Diego's Airgain, which had its IPO on August 21st; another IPO filing, by Temple City-based Fulgent Genetics earlier this week; and a report that Venice-based Snapchat is out hiring an IPO banker.

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Companies In Southern California

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General Atomics - San Diego - (www.generalatomics.com). Snap - Venice - (www.snap.com). How is the parent company of Snapchat involved in drone development? It's a bit of a mystery, but Snapchat acquired a maker of drones in May, Ctrl Me Robotics. Slantrange - San Diego - (www.slantrange.com).

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Southern California Firms Get $587.0M In Venture Capital In Q2

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invested across 17 deals; San Diego was third, with $147.75M in 18 deals. The biggest deal for the quarter was for Venice-based photo messaging app developer Snapchat , which raised a huge, $60M funding round in the quarter. Orange County was second, with $161.9M

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Southern California Companies Raise $2.49 Billion In VC In Q2

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billion round for Venice based Snapchat. Other big fundings contributing to the total included a $220M funding round for San Diego biotech firm Human Longevity Inc. , $111M raised by Marina Del Rey-based Thrive Market , and $100M raised by Irvine cybersecurity sofwtare developer Cylance.

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AnaptysBio Sets Estimated IPO Pricing Range

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San Diego-based AnaptysBio , which develops antibodies for treating inflammation, has set its estimated IPO pricing range, saying on Tuesday that it expects to price its IPO at between $14.00 and $16.00 The company is selling 4,000,000 shares of its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Select Market as ANAB. as early as Thursday.

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‘Megadeals’ Dominate Q2 as VCs Invest $15.3B, and Top 10 Deals

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billion that a non-traditional investor (the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund) invested in San Francisco-based Uber, and the nearly $1.3 billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. San Francisco. Venice, CA. San Francisco. Included is the $3.5 The MoneyTree top 10 deals list is below.). Expansion/8.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. All great communication companies.

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