*socaltech.com <http://socaltech.com> TechNews - Tuesday, April 20, 2021* Edited by Benjamin F. Kuo ISSN: 1524-6736 http://www.socaltech.com/News <https://www.socaltech.com/News> ------------------------------
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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - XPRIZE Names Two Winners In Carbon XPRIZE Competition, Including LA Startup <#0081168> - Newegg Jumps On Dogecoin Bandwagon <#0081167> - J2 Global Plans To Split Company <#0081165> - Wills.com Launches Online Estate Planning Service <#0081166> - Zefr Names New Sales VP <#0081169> *Marketplace* - Network Thinking Solutions - DevOps and Managed Services <#ad774> - Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <#ad764> - Bestronics - Electronic Engineering Services, SOMs, Imaging Products, Displays & Batteries <#ad752> - IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <#ad750> - Pacific Western Bank, Venture Banking Group <#ad749> - Pixelgate.net - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services <#ad188> *Tuesday, April 20, 2021* *From Idea to IPO - KPMG’s Emerging Growth Practice < [email protected]>* KPMG provides Bookkeeping, Audit, Tax, and Advisory services to assist you at any stage of your life cycle. Whether you are starting your business, strengthening your business, expanding into new markets, or pursuing an exit, we have a global network of experienced resources that can take you to the next level. For more information, please contact Ryan Youhan at [email protected]. *XPRIZE Names Two Winners In Carbon XPRIZE Competition, Including LA Startup* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081168.html> Los Angeles-based XPRIZE says it has named two winners in its $20M, NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition. The competition challenged teams to convert CO2 emissions into valuable products. According to XPRIZE, it has awarded two companies--CarbonCure Technologies and CarbonBuilt, both working on ways to decarbonize concrete. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081168.html>) *Newegg Jumps On Dogecoin Bandwagon* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081167.html> Los Angeles-based electronics e-commerce retailer Newegg has jumped on the Dogecoin bandwagon, saying late Monday that it now accepts Dogecoin as an official payment method on its website. According to the company, its customers can pay with Dogecoin by selecting BitPay as its payment method in the checkout page. Newegg has been an early adopter in accepting cryptocurrency, having been one of the first major online retailers to accept Bitcoin, back in 2014. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081167.html>) *J2 Global Plans To Split Company* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081165.html> Los Angeles-based J2 Global, which operates a large number of Internet related businesses--both Internet services and Internet publishing--says it plans to split itself into two separate, public companies. According to J2 GLobal, it plans to separate into two companies, J2 Global and Consensus. According to J2 GLobal, it plans to spint=off at least 80.1 percent of the new company, Consensus, to existing J2 shareholders. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081165.html>) *Wills.com Launches Online Estate Planning Service* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081166.html> Santa Monica-based Wills.com said this week that it has launched a new, online estate planning service, which lets users create their own wills and digital estate plans. According to the company, new laws that allow some states for notaries to conduct remote notarization makes it possible for some of its users to sign and notarize their documents electronically, dramatically reducing the time it takes to make a legal will. Wills.com is led by founder and CEO Vincent Hoonings. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081166.html>) *Zefr Names New Sales VP* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081169.html> Los Angeles-based *Zefr <http://www.zefr.com>*, which provides services to help monitor brand safety and other services for online videos, particularly on YouTube, has named a new sales VP. According to Zefr, it has named *Kelsey Garigan* as Executive Vice President, Head of North American Sales. Garigan was previously Director of Sales West for DoubleVerify, and also previously had been at Pricegrabber.com.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081169.html>) *Network Thinking Solutions - DevOps and Managed Services <http://www.networkthinking.com>* Network Thinking Solutions provides DevOps and Managed Services for Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. NTS helps development teams implement, manage and monitor CI/CD, Load Balancing, Docker and Auto Scaling technologies. NTS also provides Desktop Managed Services for your business team which includes antivirus, threat protection, ransomware detection, and inventory management. Please reach us at [email protected] to start a conversation. *Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <http://www.preccelerator.com>* The Preccelerator® Program is an accelerator for early-stage startups offered to select companies out of the Santa Monica office of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP that provides initial capital, sophisticated legal services, interim office space, mentorship, a targeted curriculum, investment strategy counseling and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping you grow your idea from business concept to funded startup. www.preccelerator.com *Bestronics - Electronic Engineering Services, SOMs, Imaging Products, Displays & Batteries <https://www.bestronics.com>* Are the great ideas stacking up faster than your engineering resources can handle? Your company needs a reliable resource of analog/digital and software engineers to understand your issues, define the problem statements and lay out a course of action to output hardware products ready for integration into your system. Our unique capabilities, used by many in the medical, scientific, military and aerospace industries, allow us to offer engineering services that result in deliverable, production ready subsystems so you can concentrate on targeting your customer base and not stressing about the right mix and numbers of engineering talent needed to see your vision become reality. Contact us at http://www.bestronics.com *IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <http://www.socalip.com>* Patents. Trademarks. Copyrights. Trade Secrets. IP Filings. IP Strategy. IP Litigation. IP Transactions. US and Worldwide. Offices in Westlake Village and Santa Barbara. [email protected] www.socalip.com *Pacific Western Bank, Venture Banking Group <http://www.pacwest.com/lending-solutions/venture-lending>* Pacific Western Bank is a commercial bank with over $29 billion in assets and 70 full-service branches primarily located in California, with one in Durham, NC and another in Denver, CO. Our Venture Banking Group offers a comprehensive suite of financial services focused on entrepreneurial and venture-backed businesses and their capital and private equity investors. We also offer Community Banking and National Lending services. For more information about the Venture Banking Group, visit www.pacwest.com/lending-solutions/venture-lending, or send an email to Britt Nelson at [email protected]. *Pixelgate.net - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services <http://www.pixelgate.net>* We put the "Service" back into Internet Service Provider. http://www.pixelgate.net ------------------------------ *Recent Funding <#funding>* 4/13/21 Tagger Media <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102521> Los Angeles $8.50 M 4/07/21 MarketSpark <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102516> San Diego $7.00 M 3/16/21 Pledge <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102379> Venice $3.00 M 3/16/21 Flowspace <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102312> Los Angeles $31.00 M 3/11/21 Cheese <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102234> Pasadena $3.60 M 3/08/21 TheoryCraft Games <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102123> Los Angeles $37.50 M 3/04/21 Whatnot <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102122> Los Angeles $20.00 M 2/24/21 Emotive <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102079> Los Angeles $50.00 M 2/24/21 BeSmartee <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102080> Huntington Beach $0.00 M 2/23/21 SpaceX <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=102053> Hawthorne $850.00 M 2/18/21 talkshoplive <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=101941> Los Angeles $3.00 M 2/12/21 Pipeline Therapeutics <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=101930> San Diego $80.00 M 2/03/21 LeaseLock <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=101670> Marina Del Rey $52.00 M 1/21/21 Plexium <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=101426> San Diego $35.00 M ------------------------------ *Upcoming Events* Submit your events at least two weeks in advance to: http://www.socaltech.com/submitevent.html ------------------------------ *Recent Job Postings * More jobs at http://www.socaltech.com/Jobs ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *Sponsored By * Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (http://www.stubbsalderton.com). 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