Tag: startup
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Amgen To Award Lab Space, Support To Karma Biotechnologies
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen and share lab provider Biolabs LA said Monday that they have awarded Karma Biotechnologies one year of lab space at Biolabs, as well as other facility benefits and connections to Amgen’s scientific and business leaders. Accord…
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Go Disco Launches Entertainment Discovery App
Los Angeles-based Go Disco announced this morning that it has launched a new, experience and entertainment discovery app, which is designed to help individuals find “cool things to do” in their area. The startup, led by co-founder and CEO Sean Conrad, …
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LogicBoost Puts $200K, Services Into Clarevent
Los Angeles-based LogicBoost Labs, a startup accelerator which focuses on pre-revenue and early-stage B2B SaaS startups, says it has made a $300K investment in Clarevent, which supplies video infrastructure for virtual events. The company said the inve…
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Better, With Offices In Irvine, Gets Heat For Zoom Layoff, Insults
Venture-backed startup Better.com, which offers up an online mortgage service–and which has offices in Irvine–is getting widespread heat for its approach to layoffs–a three minute Zoom call, and the CEO’s messages saying those laid-off employees wer…
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Groundswell Gets $15M
Los Angeles-based Groundswell, a fintech startup which helps companies offer up personal, donor-advised funds to their employees for charitable giving, said this week that it has raised $15M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by GV, and also …
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Embrace Gets $45M For Mobile Data Tracking
Culver City-based Embrace, a new startup focused on helping companies manage the mobile data they are collecting, has raised $45M in a funding round. According to the company, the Series B funding was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), and also in…
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Former Rubicon Project Founder Launches Startup Investment Fund
The former CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based advertising exchange Rubicon Project, Frank Addante, has launched a new, startup investment fund, he announced on Wednesday, saying that after a brief foray into retirement he decided to launch TinkerBarn…
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Illumina Accelerator Backs Seven Startups
San Diego-based life sciences giant Illumina says it has made investments in seven startups, as part of its accelerator program, the Illumina Accelerator. The company said that the investments were made as part of two different programs, the Illumina A…
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i2020 Accelerator Launches Two Oncology Startups
San Diego-based i2020 Acclerator, a startup accelerator company which is backed by Torrey Pines Investment, announced this morning that it has launched two new startups. The company said that it has launched Gwynant Therapeutics and Celyn Therapeutics,…