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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - Panda Express Expands Deal With Beyond Meat <#0081861> - Daring Foods Snags $65M More <#0081859> - ZmBIZI Launches Smartphone, Telecom Service Aimed At Small Businesses <#0081858> - Green Dot Names New CFO <#0081860> - LA Mixers Co-Founder Michael Pilla Dies <#0081857> - HiveWatch Focuses In On $20M Funding For Security Software <#0081856> *Marketplace* - Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <#ad764> - Pacific Western Bank, Venture Banking Group <#ad749> - Network Thinking Solutions - DevOps and Managed Services <#ad774> - Pixelgate.net - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services <#ad188> *Wednesday, October 27, 2021* *Stradling <http://www.sycr.com>* Stradling, Attorneys At Law ( href="http://www.sycr.com";>http://www.sycr.com ) For more than 40 years top companies and municipalities have counted on Stradling to have the right team and skills to meet their toughest challenges 24/7, 365 days a year. *Panda Express Expands Deal With Beyond Meat* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081861.html> Rosemead, California-based Asian food chain Panda Express said this morning that it is expanding an effort it has with El Segundo-based Beyond Meat. According to Panda Express, it will expand its new Beyond The Original Orange Chicken across 70 locations nationwide, after a pilot in New York City and Southern California. The dish uses Beyond's meat alternatives, instead of chicken. Panda Express said the expanded availability of the disk will be for a "limited time". (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081861.html>) *Daring Foods Snags $65M More* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081859.html> Los Angeles-based *Daring Foods <https://www.daring.com>* disclosed on Tuesday that it has raised $65M in a funding round, which came from Founders Fund, D1 Capital, and also included a number of celebrities, including DJ Steve Aoki, the NFL's Cameron Newton, tennis star Naomi Osaka, plus Tiger Global's Chase Coleman. Daring Foods makes a meat alternative, a soy-based chicken product which it calls "Vegan Chicken". The company says it has now raised more than $120M.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081859.html>) *ZmBIZI Launches Smartphone, Telecom Service Aimed At Small Businesses* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081858.html> A new, Santa Monica-based startup, ZmBIZI is launching a new, smartphone aimed at small businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs. According to the company, it is launching a smartphone with a built-in point of sale (POS) terminal, aimed at helping small business owners, and tied into a merchant account. The startup says its phone service allows its users to accept payments by physically tapping their contactless enabled cards or Apple Pay and Google pay wallets on the back of its smartphone. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081858.html>) *Green Dot Names New CFO* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081860.html> Pasadena-based digital banking provider Green Dot says it has named George Gresham as the company's new Chief Finance and Operating Officer, the company said on Tuesday. Gresham has been involved with Green Dot since 2016, having been on the Boards of Directors of both Green Dot Corp. and Green Dot Bank from 2016 to 2019. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081860.html>) *LA Mixers Co-Founder Michael Pilla Dies* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081857.html> One of the founders of the Los Angeles technology networking group, LA Mixers, and co-founder of the New Media Vault monthly networking event, Michael Pilla, has died, according to the Los Angeles Times. Pilla was 58. A cause of death was not given. Pilla was extremely active in the Los Angeles technology world, and was most recently Senior Counsel to TikTok (ByteDance). Pilla's clients had included such companies as TrueCar, CitySearch (IAC), and other local technology startups. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081857.html>) *HiveWatch Focuses In On $20M Funding For Security Software* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081856.html> Los Angeles-based HiveWatch, a developer of "multi-sensor" data collection tools being applied to physical security, has raised $20M in a Series A funding, the company said this morning. The funding was led by former Twitter executives Dick Costolo and Adam Bain. HiveWatch is developing artificial intelligence tools which take data from cameras, door sensors, and other sensors at enterprise companies to help them identify physical security threats. 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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]. *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 Zero Trust Policies. 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