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JANUARY 9, 2023

Even in this age of videos and text messages, the quickest way to kill your startup dream with investors, business partners, or even customers, is embarrassingly poor writing. Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Lone View Capital said this morning that it has made an investment in Trend Health Partners, a developer of products in the credit balance management and payment accuracy market. Fnancial details of that investment were not announced.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Mojave-based space launch provider Virgin Orbit is planning its very first launch in the United Kingdom--the first space launch in that country--using its Boeing 747 aircraft, the Cosmic Girl. According to Virgin Orbit, the launch window for its Start Me Up mission opens on Monday, 9 January at 22:16 UTC with additional back-up dates continuing into mid and late January.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Camarillo-based PBS Biotech, which is developing single use bioreactors for the biotech industry, said it has raised $22M in a funding round. The funding was led by Avego Management, and also included BroadOak Capital Partners. According to the company, it will use the new funding to improve its product portfolio, expand its process development services capability, and increase customer support.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Santa Barbara-based Live Data Technologies said this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series A funding round. Source of the funding was not announced. The company says it is developing software to verify B2B contact data for people, tracking people as they move jobs. The company says its database covers 70 million people at 2 million companies, and is tracking over 30,00 daily job changes.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

San Diego-based Verogen, a developer of next generation sequencing technology for the forensics industry, has been acquired by Netherlands-based QIAGEN, QIAGEN said early this morning. Financial details of the transaction were not announced. Verogen was founded in 2017, and develops tools and services used by forensic science laboratories and criminal investigators in criminal and missing-persons cases.

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