Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Time Magazine published its “person of the year” edition today and honored “the silence breakers” for speaking up and forcing our society to confront its position towards men in power exploiting their power for sexual gain. Real change is clearly needed. These brave women who have taken on personal risks and faced doubters to change the culture globally to stop sexual misconduct, harassment & gender bias deserve the recognition x1000 along with the many other women who have spoken up.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Kevin Novak, the architect of Uber's dynamic pricing technology and the head of its data team, has joined the Los Angeles-based financial services startup Tala as its new head of data.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Business coaches come in all sizes and shapes. Entrepreneurs will have a relative willing to devote time, a school friend with business experience, professionals who charge for the service, investors with a reason to promote your success and more. Photo courtesy IBM Business Coaching. But by far the best coaches are those that have lived through the process you’re going through and built successful enterprises in your same industry.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Minkonet , a South Korean startup which is developing 3D video game capture technology, said this morning that it has raised $1M in a "Pre-Series A" investment round, and has set up a brand new headquarters in Los Angeles. The funding came from Evergreen Investment Partners, along with existing investors Bluepoint Partners and Kite Foundation. According to Minkonet, the funding specifically goes towards its operations in Los Angeles, and expansion into North America.

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Office leases are one of companies’ largest expenses, and if your whole team is working from home with no clear end in sight, you may be wondering what to do about your lease.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Snapchat gets up to $1 million a day for branded augmented reality; K1 invests $200 million in SecureAuth; and Disney adds tech execs to board.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 6, 2017

CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a long road for the firm’s three co-founders, who have been investing in Los Angeles since 1997. In that time they’ve seen the city’s technology scene evolve in fits and starts, but now, with companies like Snap, Dollar… Read More.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Redlands-based mapping technology developer Esri has released a new, interactive map which provides information on the reach and extent of the fires in Southern California, covering both the Thomas Fire in Ventura County, and the Creek Fire near Sylmar--as well as the Rye Fire just developing in Santa Clarita. Esri said the map will allow end users to keep up-to-date on events around the fires.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Fandom site Movie Pilot acquired by France’s Webedia Digital Media Group, LAPD warns drivers navigation apps may steer towards fires and Boeing CEO Says ‘We will beat SpaceX to Mars.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Kevin Novak, the architect of Uber’s dynamic pricing technology and the head of its data team, has joined the Los Angeles-based financial services startup Tala as its new head of data. Read More.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Coachella Valley is referred to as the “Desert Empire” to differentiate it from the neighboring urbanized Inland Empire and the Imperial Valley. The Valley also houses desert resort cities of Palm Springs and Palm Desert and is the location for the infamous Coachella Music Festival. What you may not know that in the middle of these buzzing cities lies a hub for renewable energy innovation.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Santa Barbara-based HG Data said this morning that it has rolled out a new, enhanced app on the Salesforce AppExchange. The company's software is used by sales teams to sort, filter, and target B2B customers. HGData is venture backed by Updata Partners and Rincon Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 6, 2017

CrossCut Ventures raises $125 million, Prevoty secures $13 million in Series B round led by Trident Capital Cybersecurity and would Disney, with control of Hulu and Fox Studios, have formula for a Netflix killer?

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2017

This week has been a good one for those who like to talk about the limits of technology. Over in the UK, a prankster managed to fool Trip Advisor into naming his shed the #1 ranked restaurant in London. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a city struggling to manage several wind-fueled wildfires, the L.A.P.D. has asked drivers to refrain from using navigation apps because they’re steering… Read More.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Coachella Valley is referred to as the “Desert Empire” to differentiate it from the neighboring urbanized Inland Empire and the Imperial Valley. The Valley also houses desert resort cities of Palm Springs and Palm Desert and is the location for the infamous Coachella Music Festival. What you may not know that in the middle of these buzzing cities lies a hub for renewable energy innovation.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

XPRIZE , the Los Angeles nonprofit which promotes development of new technology to help solve world problems, has whittled down the number of teams competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , focused on using AI to world's greatest challenges. According to XPRIZE, it now has 59 teams across 14 countries competing for the $5M prize, with the top ten teams being named this week at the annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in Long Beach.

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Hyperloop One Co-Executive Chairman Shervin Pishevar takes leave of absence, Ziff Davis to close Mashable acquisition for $50 million and lay off 50 people and Relativity Space aims to 3-D print entire launch vehicles.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 6, 2017

CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a long road for the firm’s three co-founders, who have been investing in Los Angeles since 1997. In that time they’ve seen the city’s technology scene evolve in fits and starts, […].

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 -- AIMed: Artificial Intelligence In Medicine. Event on AI in medicine and healthcare.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based CrossCut Ventures , the venture firm run by Rick Smith, Brian Garrett, Brett Brewer, and Clinton Foy, is announcing this morning that it has raised a big new fund-- CrossCut 4 --worth $125M. According to CrossCut, the new fund was targeted at $100M, but was highly oversubscribed, even beyond the fund's hard cap at $125M. The fund is the fourth for CrossCut, which focuses on seed-stage and Series A investments, and is worth more than the combined total of the firm's prior three

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Star Wars. The franchise is one of the most famous of all time — the original 1977 film is up there with Gone With the Wind as the most beloved 20th century flick. Unlike Gone With the Wind , the futuristic Star Wars franchise lends itself incredibly well to branded tech gadgets. And also (sadly?) unlike Gone With the Wind , it has its official eighth episode debuting in theaters in just a few weeks.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Developing skills-based online courses and credentials is the easy part. The hard part is getting employers to pay attention.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Thursday, December 14, 2017 -- AIMed: Artificial Intelligence In Medicine. Event on AI in medicine and healthcare.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Welcome to Tech Scenes where we explore what makes tech founders and the cities they live in thrive. In this solo episode we meet up with Andrew Blackmon Co-Founder and Co-CEO and talk about The Black Tux, why entrepreneurship, building a company from a personal experience, Los Angeles over New York, and the challenge of logistics and technology. Watch Tech Scenes episode two we explore Los Angeles from Pasadena, Hollywood, Santa Monica to Manhattan Beach and meet up with Harrison Tang of Spokeo

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Since 2006, the Startup of the Year competition has been showcasing early-stage startups in a way that only we can. Our excitement and zeal for these budding entrepreneurs is unparalleled across the industry, as is evident from the success the companies involved have experienced. And, fortunately for you and your new venture, applications are open for Startup of the Year 2018.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Would it surprise you to know that there are more than 100 black venture capitalists or that this nationwide ecosystem is growing? Most of the VCs in this expanding ecosystem made pivots from highly successful careers in other fields. They have very impressive academic credentials, business backgrounds comparable to their Silicon Valley peers, and a will to win that belies their humble reserve.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 -- AIMed: Artificial Intelligence In Medicine. Event on AI in medicine and healthcare.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Los Angeles-based application security software developer Prevoty announced on Wednesday that it has raised $13M in a new funding round. The funding came from Trident Capital Cybersecurity, along with prior investors. Prevoty develops software which helps applications "self-defend" from attacks in real time. As part of the funding, Prevoty said that Triden Capital Cybersecurity Managing Director Sean Cunningham joins the company's board of directors.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 8, 2017

December is the month where the flurry of the holidays are in full swing and students are starting to stress out in anticipation of final exams. This week in Startup Spotlight we found companies helping students get through their final exams, gift giving chatbots, getting out of email hell, and more. ChatbotsBuilder (Boston, MA). ChatbotsBuilder is an online platform for easily building complete, effective and advanced autonomous chatbots for Facebook Messenger.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The reaction on Wall Street was a little anticlimactic after the FDA approved a new hepatitis B vaccine last month for Berkeley, CA-based Dynavax Technologies (NASDAQ: DVAX ). Many investors sold stock on the news. In the days following the company’s Nov. 9 announcement , the price of Dynavax shares slipped about 8 percent, from $20.05 a share to $18.45 on Nov. 16.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Monday, December 11, 2017 -- AIMed: Artificial Intelligence In Medicine. Event on AI in medicine and healthcare.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2017

An uncontrolled, raging fire in Ventura County--which started in Santa Paula last night around 6:45pm, and rapidly spread to more than 25,000 acres early on Tuesday morning--is directly impacting the high tech corridor in Ventura County. The fire, which had made its way into the city limits of Ventura early in the Tuesday morning hours, burning behind the Ventura Ventures startup incubator and--based on Ventura County Fire Department reports several hours ago, at least 150 structure destroyed.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Portugal was hit hard by the global financial crash of 2008. Its economy struggled to remain afloat during the crisis and it’s capital, Lisbon, suffered greatly. But Lisbon has since been working hard to recover, and the city is now making waves as a startup capital. The city is viewed so favourably as a hotpot of tech talent that it was chosen to host this year’s Web Summit for the second year in a row.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 6, 2017

How do you disrupt an industry that markets itself as the embodiment of “forever?” You bring it back to basics, says Lindsay Reinsmith, co-founder of Ada Diamonds, an online retailer of jewelry with lab-made gemstones in San Francisco. “Science is on our side,” she says. “We confront them with facts.” Machine-made gemstones are created in exactly the same manner as those found in mines, she says.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Unless you are a serial entrepreneur with a string of successes behind you, you need a business plan to convince investors that you can build a business out of the dream that has been driving your passion to change the world. Don’t believe that Silicon Valley myth that all you have to do is sketch your idea on the back of a napkin, and investors will line up to give you money.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2017

El Segundo-based SecureAuth , a developer of identity management tools, has raised $200M in a funding round from private equity investor K1 Investment Management. K1 said the investment comes as part of a merger with Core Security , a provider of vulnerability discovery, identity governance and threat management software. K1 said the merger is pending regulatory approval from the U.S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 --.

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