socalTECH

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 company said its technology was originally developed based on research in the laboratory of Viviana Gradinaru, Ph.D.,

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socalTECH

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 is venture backed by Khosla Ventures, Virgin Green Fund, Total Energy Ventures, Burrill Life Sciences Capital Fund, Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund, and LANXESS, among others.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2010

According to Inphi, Tse joins the company from Intremag Systems, where he was Chief Technology Officer. Inphi, which is based in Sunnyvale but has operations and was founded in Westlake Village, recently filed for an IPO on the NYSE. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2021

Westlake Village-based warehouse robot developer inVia Robotics, which is led by Lior Elazary, says that it has raised $30M in a Series C funding round. The funding came from Microsoft's venture capital fund, M12, as well as Qualcomm Ventures, Hitachi Ventures, the corporate venture arm of Hitachi, Ltd.,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Westlake Village-based Eta Compute , a developer of technology for energy efficient artificial intelligence processing, has raised $12.5M in a Series C funding. The funding was led by Synaptics Incorporated, as well as existing investors. The company says it has now raised $31.9M

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Westlake Village-based Inphi , a developer of high speed, analog semiconductors, announced today that it has hired on a new VP of Operations, Atul Shingal. The firm is venture backed by Tallwood Venture Capital, Mayfield Fund, Walden International, and others. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Westlake Village-based gravity-based energy storage technology developer EnergyVault says it will list on the NYSE, via a merger with a special purpose acqisition company (SPAC), Novus Capital Corporation II. The two said the combined firm will have an implied pro-forma enterprise value of $1.1 and others.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Westlake Village-based Ember Technologies , which develops a coffee mug that allows users to adjust the temperature of their cup of joe to whatever they want, has raised $8.5M in a funding round, according to the company. Ember Technologies' Founder and CEO is Clay Alexander. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Westlake Village BioPartners is launching today with $350 million in committed capital. Los Angeles has long been in San Francisco’s shadow when it comes to life sciences investment. But a new venture capital firm led by industry veterans is trying to cast the City of Angels in a new light.

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socalTECH

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. We worked on a lot of really cool technologies.

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socalTECH

APRIL 9, 2020

It's an unusual time for the startup world, however, despite the ongoing health emergency, companies are still announcing funding. Guy Friedman: I'm a startup guy, I had a previous startup in the educational technology space. Did you close the funding before the pandemic hit? Tell me how you started the company?

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