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Kim Kardashian becomes a private equity dealmaker in collab with ex-Carlyle partner

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Kardashian is launching private equity firm SKKY Partners in conjunction with ex-Carlyle consumer head Jay Sammons to invest in business across consumer products, hospitality, luxury, digital commerce and media, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Jenner will be joining SKKY as a partner, the Journal reported.

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SciVee Adds Elsevier Health Sciences Journal

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San Diego-based Scivee , which develops software for hosting scientific videos on the web, said today that it has added The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM), published by Elsevier, as a customer. Tags: scivee video hosting journal elsevier publishing software. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Honest Co. To Reformulate Products

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Los Angeles-based eco-friendly products company The Hoenst Company says it is reformulating its products, to remove the use of sodium laurel sulfate , an ingredient that the company had pledged to avoid, but had managed to be used in a number of its products. s products in a investigative report earlier this year.

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LA-based Maslo pivots to professional services, launching an AI product for executive coaching

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When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs. Image courtesy of Maslo.

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Super League Studio Allows Remote Production

L.A. Business Journal

Video production is limping along in Los Angeles as pandemic-related safety protocols have made traditional shoots challenging.

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Software Developer Nobl9 Raises $21 Million, Releases Signature Product

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It’s not every day that a startup attracts more than $20 million from investors without having released a product.

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Sony Pictures Television to Acquire Funimation Productions Ltd.

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Sony Pictures Television has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Texas-based Funimation Productions Ltd., a distributor of Japanese anime content, valuing the company at about $150 million.

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