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The #1 most connected recruiting firm in LA. ------------------------------ *Headlines * - Interview with Lidia Yan, NEXT Trucking <#m_1700311560851202021_0074671> - Rival Raises $30M for Ticketing Startup <#m_1700311560851202021_0074674> - Is Elon Musk The Next Willy Wonka? <#m_1700311560851202021_0074673> - Second Sight Medical Raises $10M Via PIPE <#m_1700311560851202021_0074672> - NASA Launches Mission To Mars From Vandenberg <#m_1700311560851202021_0074670> - SpaceX Dragon Returns To Earth, Heads To Long Beach <#m_1700311560851202021_0074669> - Google Teams With Fandango For Movie Ticket Booking <#m_1700311560851202021_0074667> - Sonos Aiming At IPO In June <#m_1700311560851202021_0074665> - VIEVU Acquired By Axon Enterprises <#m_1700311560851202021_0074661> *Marketplace* - Simplify Cloud Management - Multi-Cloud Command & Control from Key Info <#m_1700311560851202021_ad729> - Neohire South <#m_1700311560851202021_ad720> - Square 1 Bank <#m_1700311560851202021_ad695> - Support Our News Coverage - Become A Member Today! <#m_1700311560851202021_ad680> - SoCal IP Law Group LLP - Serving the IP Needs of Technology Innovators <#m_1700311560851202021_ad611> *Monday, May 7, 2018* *Interview with Lidia Yan, NEXT Trucking* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074671.html> How do you get top tier venture capitalists interested in your startup? Our interview this morning is with Lidia Yan, the founder of NEXT Trucking ( www.nexttrucking.com), a venture-backed startup which operates an online marketplace for freight shipping. Yan tells us how the company's revenues, growth, and profits--even in the early days--drove $21M in funding from Sequoia for the company. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074671.html>) *Rival Raises $30M for Ticketing Startup* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074674.html> Los Angeles-based *Rival <http://rival.co>*, a new startup founded by former Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard, has raised $30M in funding, the company disclosed over the weekend. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront Ventures, Dick Costolo (Twitter), April Underwood (Slack), and Patrick and John Collison (founders of Stripe). Andreessenn Horowitz's Alex Rampell, and Upfront's Greg Bettinelli have joined Rival's board as a result of the funding. (Funding Details <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/index.php?action=showdeal&id=92014> )(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074674.html>) *Is Elon Musk The Next Willy Wonka?* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074673.html> Elon Musk, the Los Angeles technology mogul who is behind such companies as SpaceX (rockets), Tesla (cars, solar panels), and The Boring Company (tunneling machines and "flame throwers"), joked over the weekend that he is starting a candy company. The remarks, on Twitter, apparently are related to back and forth between Musk and Warren Buffett. It's unclear if Musk--known for his sometimes geeky humor--is serious about "starting a candy company". (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074673.html>) *Second Sight Medical Raises $10M Via PIPE* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074672.html> Los Angeles-based *Second Sight Medical Products <http://www.secondsight.com>*, which is developing implantable visual prosthetics, said this morning that it has raised $10M in a private placement. The publicly held company, which trades on the NASDAQ as EYES, said the funding came from entities related to Gregg Williams, the Chairman of the company's board of directors. The company said the new funding will go towards supporting several key near-term initiatives.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074672.html>) *NASA Launches Mission To Mars From Vandenberg* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074670.html> NASA successfully launched its first mission to Mars from the West Coast early on Saturday morning, sending the NASA InSight probe to the Red Planet at 4:05a.m. PST. The mission--launched from a foggy Vandenberg Air Force Base--was visible across Southern California, for those intrepid enough to wake up early on a Saturday and look to the skies. The launch was from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074670.html>) *SpaceX Dragon Returns To Earth, Heads To Long Beach* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074669.html> The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, which has been docked at the International Space Station (ISS) for the last month, successfully returned to earth on Saturday morning, and headed back to Long Beach for further processing. According to NASA and SpaceX, the Dragon returned with more than 4,000 pounds of cargo and research materials from its stay in space. The mission is the third to and from the ISS with a "flight-proven" spacecraft for SpaceX. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074669.html>) *Google Teams With Fandango For Movie Ticket Booking* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074667.html> Los Angeles-based movie ticketing service *Fandango <http://www.fandango.com>* is powering a new service from *Google <http://www.google.com>*, announced on Friday, which lets users of *Google Assistant* book tickets to their local movie theater. Financial details of the link between the companies were not announced. The new service is now available on Google Assistant for Android.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074667.html>) *Sonos Aiming At IPO In June* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074665.html> Santa Barbara-based Sonos--which reportedly has filed for a confidential IPO with the SEC--expects to have its IPO in June, according to multiple reports, meaning that the IPO paperwork for the company should be made available soon to the public. The IPO would reportedly value Sonos at between $2.5 billion and $3.0 billion. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074665.html>) *VIEVU Acquired By Axon Enterprises* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0074661.html> Ontario, California-based Safariland, the parent company of body-worn camera maker VIEVU, said this morning that it has sold VIEVU to Axon Enterprises. Financial details of the sale were not announced. VIEVU's cameras are used by law enforcement and others in the public safety market. As part of the sale, the two said they are in a 10-year agreement where Safariland will become the preferred holster provider for Axon's TASER weapons. Safariland acquired VIEVU in 2015. 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The Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum will focus on entrepreneurial opportunities related to those blockchain technologies – ones that do not market or depend on cryptocurrencies. Our program will kick off with a Keynote by Leonard Adleman, of the University of Southern California. Prof. Adleman has been a pioneer in public key encryption, the co-inventor of the RSA encryption algorithm that is at the heart of many of the systems that help protect secure records and communications. A highly interactive panel discussion will include a Venture Capitalist, a Supply Chain Management specialist from Accenture and a serial software entrepreneur working in Blockchain. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/26070 May 15, Los Angeles -- *AI and The Future Of Sales* AI and The Future Of Sales. Jobs requiring artificial intelligence skills in the US have grown 450 0n the last five years. 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Clear your calendar - It's going down! The Preccelerator® Program Class 8 Demo Day kicks off on May 23rd @ 5:30pm, and you're invited to take part in the festivities. SAM Preccelerator® Program is our meeting spot to showcase the Preccelerator's current class of all-star companies to investors and the start-up community. Followed by an investor panel - details coming soon! Inside the Investor Boardroom - Insights to the Mistakes and Successes of Founders When Pitching. See http://www.socaltech.com/calendar/eventid/26087 ------------------------------ *Recent Job Postings * More jobs at http://www.socaltech.com/Jobs CFO or VP Finance <http:///showjob.php?id=5698> withheld Product Engineer I <http:///showjob.php?id=5697> Aerovironment Head of CRM Marketing <http:///showjob.php?id=5696> Thrive Market Accounts Payable Specialist <http:///showjob.php?id=5695> Snap Inc. 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