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We Create Demand. --SoCal IP Law Group LLP - Serving the IP Needs of Business RECENT JOB POSTINGS --CDN Expert Consultant, Santa Monica, RampRate --Chief of Staff & Controller, Santa Monica, RampRate --Business Development Director, Los Angeles, Colony Logic RECENT FUNDING EVENTS ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- Key Information Systems Announces Key Cloud Key Information Systems, a leading IT systems integrator and Premier IBM Business Partner based in Agoura Hills, CA, announced the availability of Key Cloud for users of cloud computing services. Key's new cloud services are offered in conjunction with colocation, managed services and Internet connectivity offerings. To learn more about the Key Cloud, visit the Key Info website or contact Pete Elliot at Key Information Systems, Inc., 30077 Agoura Court, First Floor, Agoura Hills, CA 91301, USA, email [email protected] or call 1.818.737.2804. http://www.keyinfo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two Local Teams Compete For $2M Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE ---- Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which runs a number of prize-based competitions for developing technology, has named eighteen teams for its $2 million, Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, including two local teams. (More...) http://www.socaltech.com/two_local_teams_compete_ocean_health_xprize/s-0056780.html Nasty Gal In Major Layoffs ---- Los Angeles-based Nasty Gal, the online women's wear retailer led by Sophia Amoruso, has reportedly laid off 10 percent of its staff, or over 20 employees, according to fashion industry reports. Nasty Gal said in a statement that the moves are part of a move to "strategically re-organize" its business. http://www.socaltech.com/nasty_gal_in_major_layoffs/s-0056778.html Cynvenio Launches New Tumor Genomics Product ---- Westlake Villlage-based Cynvenio Biosystems said yesterday that it has launched a new program, aimed at sequencing patient tumors from whole blood. The new program is aimed at cancer research centers, and allows those centers to analyze the genome profile of cancer tumors, based on whole blood samples. Cyvenio said the new service is already being used by The Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Rochester, Minnesota and the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Cynvenio said its new LiquidBiopsy program is a complement to traditional, tissue biopsy testing, and is being used to measure a patient's response to treatments in a painless and risk-free way. Opoli: 250 LA Drivers Now On Ride App ---- Los Angeles-based smartphone ride service Opoli says it now has over 250 drivers on its app in Los Angeles, since it launched last month, as it looks to attract professional, commercially licensed drivers to its smartphone app. (More...) http://www.socaltech.com/opoli_now_on_ride_app/s-0056777.html CheapAir.com Starts Accepting Litecoin, Dogecoin For Travel ---- Are you an alternative currency mogul, wishing you could directly spend your Litecoin or Dogecoin cryptocurrency for an airline ticket? Calabasas-based travel booking site CheapAir.com says that it has begun accepting those two cyber-currencies -- which are similar to Bitcoin -- for booking airline flights, hotels, and train seats. (More...) http://www.socaltech.com/cheapair_com_litecoin_dogecoin_for_travel/s-0056776.html Yardi Sells Point2's Listing Syndication Arm ---- Santa Barbara-based property management software provider Yardi has sold off a part of its Point2 real estate marketing operation, saying that it has sold its listing syndication service to Move, Inc.. Financial details of the buy were not disclosed. Point2 was owned by Yardi Canadat Ltd. Move is making that service part of its ListHub real estate syndication service. ecoATM Hits Three Million Devices Collected ---- San Diego-based ecoATM, which operates a network of automated, electronic recycling kiosks, reports that it has now collected a total of three million devices. (More...) http://www.socaltech.com/ecoatm_devices_collected/s-0056769.html HireRight Names New CEO ---- Irvine-based HireRight, the provider of online employment background checks, drug and health screening, said Thursday that it has named a new CEO. 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[email protected] 805-230-1350 www.socalip.com ------------------------------ADVERTISEMENT------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECENT JOB POSTINGS More jobs at http://www.socaltech.com/Jobs Members post jobs for free CDN Expert Consultant, Santa Monica, RampRate http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5592 QA Automation Manager, Los Angeles, Fetch Recruiting, Inc. http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5591 VP of Business Development, Santa Monica, RampRate http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5590 Executive Assistant to the CEO, Santa Monica, RampRate http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5589 Chief of Staff & Controller, Santa Monica, RampRate http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5588 Business Development Director, Los Angeles, Colony Logic http://www.socaltech.com/showjob.php?id=5587 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RECENT FUNDING SUMMARY 09/02/14 Measurabl $2.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59353 09/02/14 Legend3D, Inc. $10.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59352 08/29/14 Just Fabulous $85.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59349 08/26/14 The Honest Co. $70.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59282 08/26/14 ZipRecruiter $63.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59278 08/25/14 Lastline, Inc. $10.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59277 08/22/14 Genius Biotech $0.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59270 08/21/14 Nervana Systems $3.3M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59268 08/20/14 IQMS $0.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59199 08/14/14 Geneva Healthcare $1.8M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59188 08/14/14 hovelstay.com $1.2M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59187 08/12/14 RadPad $2.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59150 08/11/14 Surf Air $73.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59146 08/11/14 Agent Ace $6.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59145 08/11/14 Viacyte $5.4M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59142 08/07/14 Retention Science $7.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59133 08/07/14 ALL DEF DIGITAL $5.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59131 08/06/14 Seed And Spark $1.0M http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=59128 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events This Month http://www.socaltech.com/Calendar socaltech.com Calendar of Southern California High Tech Events Submit your events at least two weeks in advance to: http://www.socaltech.com/submitevent.html September 9, Santa Monica -- This month's Startups Uncensored will be a fireside chat with TigerText CEO/Whisper Co-Founder, Brad Brooks and Whisper Co-Founder, Michael Heyward hosted by Docstoc Founder, Jason Nazar. Brad Brooks is the Co-Founder and CEO of TigerText. He is also the Co-Founder of the secret-sharing app, Whisper. Serial entrepreneur Michael Heyward co-founded Whisper with Brad Brooks in 2012 with the mission of giving people a place to freely and authentically express themselves. Whisper is one of the fastest growing mobile-social apps, generating over 3.5 billion page views per month. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24265 September 9, Thousand Oaks -- "Water Desalination - Inventing a Low Cost Technology" Clean Technology Conference. Keynote Speaker: Yoram Cohen, Ph.D. and Professor at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Learn how Dr. Cohen delivered a mobile water treatment technology that cut the costs of getting the salt out of brackish groundwater and agricultural runoff. Meet sustainability CEOs, energy experts and entrepreneurs. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24267 September 10, San Diego -- MIT Enterprise Forum: Attracting Technologists. Join us in a special member only, opinion-slinging dialogue between technology thought leaders, moderated in true Zeitgeist style by Forbes contributor, speaker and entrepreneur, Mark Fidelman, who is adept at bringing out the diversity in the panelists’ opinionsNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24280 September 11, Santa Monica -- LA CEOs presents: Building the Relationships Necessary for Your Success - Keith Ferrazzi. Keith is the author of the bestsellers Who’s Got Your Back and Never Eat Alone. Ferrazzi has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Inc., and Fast Company. He was the youngest person to make partner and hold the position of Chief Marketing Officer at Deloitte Consulting. Hosted by Mark Landay, Dynamic Synergy Executive Recruitment. This event is restricted to qualified CEOs Only. A confirmed RSVP is required. No service providersNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24277 September 11, Irvine -- Tech Startups for Non-Tech Founders. Founder Institute. If you are curious about what it is like to run a successful tech startup, without being an engineer come and hear from 2 of CEO mentorsNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24283 September 14, Santa Monica -- An Afternoon with Randall Munroe. Live Talks LA. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24235 September 16, La Jolla -- CONNECT's FrameWorks Workshop: The Art of the Startup. Learn how to develop and execute the right funding strategy and will receive a brief anatomy of a term sheet at 09.16 #FrameWorks Workshop – Art of the StartupNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24276 September 16, San Pedro -- PortTech Pitch. The 5th Annual PortTechEXPO Entrepreneur Pitch Competition will feature leading cleantech start-ups and emerging growth companies from all over North America. We encourage and welcome start-up teams with clean technology based devices, products, services, systems and platforms to participate. Past competitors have brought innovative emission control technology; remediation products; oil/water separators; energy storage solutions; high efficiency engines; zero emission vehicles; wind, solar, wave energy generation; shape change materials; and alternative fuels. #PortTechPitch finalists receive admission to and exhibitor space at the PortTechEXPO (Sept 17, 2014).. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24193 September 17, Irvine -- Disruptive Technologies. TechBizConnection. What is "Disruptive"? Can a "technology" really disrupt a business model? Isn't Change in Business always Disruptive? Don't we want to encourage Change? Come and hear from a group of companies that answer these questions. Each of their technologies & business models will "change" the way business is done in their marketsNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24284 September 17, Santa Monica -- Tech Talk with CTO of True Car. Are you curious about learning the ins and outs of what running of large company is like? Join our CTO speaker, Mike Dunn of True Car, and Tech in Motion for an intimate Tech Talk (think TED Talk) to hear what it takes to run all things technologyNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24278 September 18, Altadena -- 2014 Jumpstart: How to Hire, Inspire & Retire. This workshop will talk about how to hire the right kind of people for your organization/business. Come and learn some of the principles of what makes a good hire, retaining your best employees and how and when to let go of troublemakersNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24281 September 18, Los Angeles -- Peter Coffee's Annual Forecast on Technology. AITP. The more we know about how things work, the more we are likely to look for ways to do those things better, faster, and cheaper – rather than doing something fundamentally different. When we look back from the 2020’s at this century’s early years, it is possible that we will pick some year right around…2013…as the turning point when we decided to do a number of things in an essentially different way. In this year’s edition of Peter Coffee’s annual dinner with AITP and ACM, he will be looking at a number of disciplines— computing, communications, data management, and information security among others— and illuminating the massive disruptions already taking shape around us. Please join us for both interactive pre-dinner conversation and after-dinner formal remarks. . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24268 September 24, CONNECT -- CONNECT's FrameWork’s Workshop: Obtaining Commercially Effective IP. CONNECT’s FrameWorks Workshop brings you the Basics of Obtaining Commercially Effective IP on September 24 In partnership with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Intellectual property rights are often key to the foundation, growth and ultimate survival of a company. Learn the interplay of trade secrets and patents, including their relative advantages and disadvantages, the types of inventions protectable by patents, the criteria that must be met in order to obtain patent protection and the recent patent rule changes and how they will affect patent rights and strategyNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24279 September 24, Santa Monica -- LA Tech Mix & Mingle. Mix and mingle, join us for cocktails and nibbles on Wednesday, September 24th at the WOKCANO in Santa Monica. Eat, drink, and connect with other startups, VCs, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts - check out what they’re doing now, what the future holds and how they’re setting the trends. Whether you are looking for investors, a mentor, advice or just simply connecting for opportunities - this event is for you. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-tech-mix-mingle-tickets-124744564. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24238 September 24, Santa Monica -- LA Tech Mix & Mingle. Mix and mingle, join us for cocktails and nibbles on Wednesday, September 24th, 6:30pm at the WOKCANO in Santa Monica. Eat, drink, and connect with other startups, VCs, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts - check out what they’re doing now, what the future holds and how they’re setting the trends. Whether you are looking for investors, a mentor, advice or just simply connecting for opportunities - this event is for you. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/la-tech-mix-mingle-tickets-124744564. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24273 September 30, Irvine -- OC Business Expo. Please join us for Orange County's Largest Networking Event of the year, OC Business Expo, hosted by USC. Excellent opportunity to meet other professionals, secure new opportunities and expand your network. Please see link for address and more information. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24260 October 2, Los Angeles -- Chick Launcher Entrepreneur Fast Pitch Event & Conference. On Thursday, October 2nd, Chick Launcher is hosting an event from 11:30 am to 7:00 pm. The event features a networking lunch and reception, three panels: Access to Capital, Investor Panel and CEO Panel, followed by Fast Pitch presentations from 13 finalists and educational sessions from our sponsors/advisorsNEW . See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24282 October 2, Los Angeles -- 2014 Body Computing Conference. USC. The Body Computing conference is an event designed for those seeking modern healthcare solutions. Digital and lifescience executives, sensor and mobile app inventors, strategists, designers, investors, visionaries, and creatives will captivate both on stage and in the crowd. It is a one-day live event filled with dynamic demonstrations, interdisciplinary content, and valuable connections.. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24272 October 2, Santa Monica -- An Evening with Peter Thiel. Live Talks LA. Peter Thiel Technology Entrepreneur and Investor; Co-founder PayPal. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/24234 October 2, Santa Monica -- Vator Splash LA. Vator Splash is one of the must-attend startup events and competitions, where promising startups are discovered, lessons from prominent founders are learned and views from blue-chip investors are heard. 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