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OCTOBER 24, 2018

California Lutheran University has been particularly active engaging with the startup and technology industry in Ventura County, and runs the Hub101 startup incubator and coworking space in Westlake Village, one of the most active locations for startup events and the local startup and tech community in the county.

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JUNE 28, 2019

For our Friday video interview, we have Evan Brandt , the CEO of VideOMS (www.videoms.com), an early, seed stage startup offering up a videos, drone shots, photography, and more of real estate property listings nationwide, through a network of drone operators. VideOMS is based in Westlake Village, California.

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MAY 31, 2019

Friday video interview: Greg Monterrosa is the Community Manager at Hub101 , a startup community in Westlake Village affiliated with California Lutheran University (CLU). We talked with Greg about finding your startup community, and to get some advice from him about startup success. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2021

The startup is backed by $50M in a Series A funding from Versant Ventures and Westlake Village BioPartners, and an additional $90M multi-year strategic collaboration and option agreement with AbbVie. The deal with AbbVie also includes additional potential future option, development and commercial milestone payments.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Westlake Village-based PureSpectrum , a startup which operates an online marketplace to help buyers collect survey panels, has raised $1.6M PureSpectrum is part of the Hub101 startup incubator space in Westlake Village, which is part of the Cal Lutheran University Center for Entrepreneurship. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

CoverHound , which has offices in Westlake Village, and is also one of the portfolio firms of Los Angeles-based venture investor Core Innovation Capital , has raised $33.3M Los Angeles investor Core Innovation Capital, which makes investments in fintech startups, also invested in CoverHound's prior round. in a Series C funding.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Westlake Village-based Avinew , a new startup looking at developing auto insurance for the autonomous vehicle market, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Crosscut Ventures, and also included American Family Ventures, Draper Frontier, and RPM Ventures.

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JULY 5, 2017

Westlake Village-based Sienna Biopharmaceuticals , a startup biopharmaceuticals firm developing products for the medical dermatology and aesthetics market, has filed for an IPO. Sienna said it is hoping to raised up to $74.8M in an offering on the NASDAQ Global Market. The company has applied to list as SNNA.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Editor's note: Our apologies to our readers who use our service for keeping up on technology and finance news for our lack of coverage on Friday, as we were evacuated at 3am on Thursday morning as flames approached Thousand Oaks, and our homes and servers have been within the mandatory evacuation zones. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Two are clinical-stage biotechs: Cambridge, MA-based Black Diamond Therapeutics, which is looking to raise $151 million, and Westlake Village, CA-based Arcutis Biotherapeutics, which aims to add $125 million. Cancer drug developer Black Diamond filed IPO paperwork with regulators on Jan.

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JUNE 27, 2016

The Hub101 Incubator Program is a 13-week incubator for early-stage, high-potential startups from the Conejo Valley and across the globe. The Program brings these startups to sunny Westlake Village and helps them build a repeatable, scalable business model in a mentor-driven format.

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APRIL 28, 2016

Westlake Village-based Sienna Biopharmaceuticals , a new aesthetics and medical dermatology startup, said Thursday that it has raised $34M in a Series A financing round. The funding was led by ARCH Venture Partners, and also included Altitude Life Science Ventures, Partner Fund Management, and Venvest Capital, along with angels.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

We''re continuing to feature reflections on the last year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community, and today have thoughts from Gerhard Apfelthaler , who is Dean of California Lutheran University''s School of Management , which has been very active in Ventura County helping to promote startup and entrepreneurial activity.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Westlake Village BioPartners is launching today with $350 million in committed capital. Harper will start with Westlake in January after retiring from Amgen. Los Angeles has long been in San Francisco’s shadow when it comes to life sciences investment. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Westlake Village-based inVia Robotics , the developer of warehouse robots led by Lior Elazary, has raised $20M more in funding, in a Series B round. inVia said the new funding was led by Point72 Ventures and also included investments from Upfront Ventures and Embark Ventures. The funding brings the company's total raised to $29M.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , the startup developing an online mail delivery service based on street addresses, said today that it has partnered with GovDelivery , a provider of a communications platform for goverment-to-citizen communications. Financial details of the deal between the firm was not announced.

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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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JUNE 8, 2010

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto.com , a new startup headed by former NextMedium COO John Ellis, and whose exec team includes prior executives from ReachLocal, ValueClick, and YellowPages.com, said Tuesday that it has acquired the assets of Los Angeles-based PhotographyMentor , an online photography education and social networking site.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

INVST , a Westlake Village-based startup which offers up an online platform to help alternative investment funds find accredited investors, has signed up three new clients for its service, the company said this week. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , which is starting up a service to deliver messages electronically based on postal addresses, said today that it has launched its service in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The firm said that the City of Minneapolis is using its service to send public notices and other municipal mail.

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JULY 3, 2012

The new service is powered by Westlake Village-based startup Row 44 , headed by John LaValle, which has added live television to its in-flight, wireless services.

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JULY 6, 2011

In a sign that demand for employees from Southern California technology firms is on the rise, two, separate announcements Wednesday from local companies indicates that hiring demand at local companies is up, and companies are again scrambling to fill positions.

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AUGUST 3, 2011

Westlake Village-based Cynvenio Biosystems , a developer of medical diagnostics technology, said Wednesday that it has bolstered its board of directors with two appointments. Raab is co-founder of FARO Technologies, which he took from startup to a $200M public company.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a startup developing a service to help companies sent electronic notices based on physical, postal addresses, reported today that it has signed on Mother Earth News as a customer.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Westlake Village-based PurePhoto is announcing today that it has officially exited beta for the site, and is launching a social commerce site focused on sharing and selling original photographic art.

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JULY 21, 2010

Favrav , Westlake Village - FavRav has developed an online tool to help small businesses to promote and gain referrals from facebook users. Tags: facebook users applications growth startups startup. Backed by Facebook's fbFund. Founded by Rob Carpenter. Founded by Taher Scherzay and Bill Manos [ Profile ]. Let us know!

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MAY 25, 2010

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a startup developing a system to allow for paperless delivery of mail based on physical postal addresses, said today that it has been granted a Motion to Stay in a patent infringement suit brought against the firm by Pitney Bowes.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , the online postal mail startup headed by John Payne, said this morning that it has partnered with Crawford Technologies, a provider of software used by companies to print large quantity of bills. Zumbox maintains a service which lets users pull up their mail, based on their postal address.

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OCTOBER 9, 2009

Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is continuing his crusade against angel groups and others who charge startups to pitch their groups, saying that he's now calling on groups to stop charging fees, and post what fees they were charging to entrepreneurs on their web sites.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For our interview this morning, we sat down with Lior Elazary , the CEO of Westlake Village-based inVia Robotics (www.inviarobotics.com), which develops robots being used to automate the labor intensive, exhausting work of retrieving items from warehouses for e-commerce. How did you start the company?

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Gevo , the biofuels startup spawned out of technology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Caltech, has set an offering range for its IPO. Gevo, which started in Pasadena but is now located in Englewood, Colorado, said it is looking to sell 7,150,000 shares of its common stock at between $13.00 and $15.00 READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 9, 2020

It's an unusual time for the startup world, however, despite the ongoing health emergency, companies are still announcing funding. Tell me how you started the company? Guy Friedman: I'm a startup guy, I had a previous startup in the educational technology space. Guy Friedman: We're healthy guys, and care about our health.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a startup developing a system to deliver electronic communications to people using just their postal address, has been sued by Pitney Bowes. Pitney Bowes said Tuesday that Zumbox's system infringes on the firm's patents.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a new startup, said today it has launched a service which the firm said will deliver regular mail to users via an online system. Tags: postal startup zumbox mail delivery. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Southwest Airlines has begun testing its Wi-fi service, the firm said today, tapping Westlake Village-based Row 44 for equipment. Tags: travel row44 aircraft wifi startup southwest airlines wireless. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2011

For this morning's interview, we talked with Westlake Village-based PurePhoto (www.purephoto.com), which is looking to help photographers market and sell their photographs. It started as a partnership between myself and my co-founder, Ryan Phillips, who is a professional photographer. What's the story behind PurePhoto?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Westlake Village-based Zumbox , a startup looking to help companies distribute their content digitially using postal addresses, said today that it has inked a distribution partnership with local newspaper publisher 22nd Century Media. According to Zumbox, it will deliver digital editions of 22nd Century Media's local newspapers.

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