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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - AppliedVR Snags $36M More For VR Healthcare <#0081923> - NINJIO Adds Activision Blizzard Exec To Board <#0081920> - EnGenius Rolls Out Cloud Security Products <#0081921> - Smarty Launches Coupon App <#0081919> - MFFAIS Rolls Out Budgeting App <#0081922> - XPRIZE, Elon Musk Award $5M To Student Teams For Carbon Removal Efforts <#0081918> - Faraday Future Takes Another Step Towards Manufacturing <#0081917> - DDN Supplies Data Storage For Nvidia AI Effort <#0081916> *Marketplace* - IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <#ad750> - Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <#ad764> - From Idea to IPO - KPMG’s Emerging Growth Practice <#ad760> - Pacific Western Bank, Venture Banking Group <#ad749> *Friday, November 12, 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. *AppliedVR Snags $36M More For VR Healthcare* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081923.html> Los Angeles-based AppliedVR, a startup that is using virtual reality to treat chronic pain, has raised $36M in a Series B funding round, the company said Thursday. The Series B funding came from F-Prime Capital, JAZZ Venture Partners, Sway Ventures and SVB Ventures. AppliedVR says it has now raised $71M in total for its virtual reality platform, which it says helps people reduce their pain and help them learn skills for managing pain in the real world. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081923.html>) *NINJIO Adds Activision Blizzard Exec To Board* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081920.html> Westlake Village-based NINJIO, a provider of cybersecurity awareness training services and content, says it has added Activision Blizzard executive Brett Wahlin to the company's board of directors. NINJIO said Wahlin is SVP and CISO for Activision Blizzard where he is responsible for all aspects of enterprise security, data and intellectual property protection. (Funding Details <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showperson&id=82449>)( More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081920.html>) *EnGenius Rolls Out Cloud Security Products* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081921.html> Costa Mesa-based wireless access point developer EnGenius Technologies said this week that it has launched two new products that offer up cloud-managed security. According to the company, its new ECW230S and ECW220S "Security Wireless Access Points" scan for security threats such as rogue access points (APs), "evil twins", attempted man-in-the-middle attacks, and radio frequency jammers. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081921.html>) *Smarty Launches Coupon App* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081919.html> Los Angeles-based Smarty, a developer of a web browser extension for automatically applying coupons to e-commerce sites, says it has launched a new, mobile app. According to the company, the app runs on both iOS and Android. The company said the apps run just like its desktop browser extensions, with users shopping on their mobile devices with the company's app automatically applying coupon codes and cashback purchases at participating merchants. Smarty is led by CEO Vipin Porwal. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081919.html>) *MFFAIS Rolls Out Budgeting App* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081922.html> A new, Long Beach-based startup, MFFAIS, said this week that it has rolled out a new, free app to help people with budgeting. The company--which says its app does not require any connection to a user's bank account--is aimed at helping users establish the "groundwork for financial security". The app allows users to enter their expected income and monthly expenses as well as help streamline a user's thought process regarding finances. The budgeting app runs on both Android and iOS. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081922.html>) *XPRIZE, Elon Musk Award $5M To Student Teams For Carbon Removal Efforts* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081918.html> Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, which runs competition to spur technology development to help solve world challenges, and the Musk Foundation--the charity organization funded by Elon Musk--says it has awarded $5M across 23 different student teams, to help them compete in the larger $100M XPRIZE for Carbon Removal. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081918.html>) *Faraday Future Takes Another Step Towards Manufacturing* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081917.html> Los Angeles-based electric vehicle company Faraday Future says it has taken another step towards production, and has received a "Certificate of Occupancy" at a new manufacturing plant in Hanford, California. The company said it is aiming at starting production of its vehicles there in Hanford in summer of 2022. The facility is targeted as the place where the company will manufacture its FF 91 EV. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081917.html>) *DDN Supplies Data Storage For Nvidia AI Effort* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081916.html> Chatsworth-based data storage hardware developer DDN, which develops data storage for the high performance computing market, is taking aim at the artificial intelligence (AI) area. 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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]. ------------------------------ *Recent Funding <#funding>* 11/04/21 Biolinq Inc <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103187> San Diego $100.00 M 11/04/21 Huckleberry Labs <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103186> Irvine $12.50 M 11/03/21 Hone <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103185> Encinitas $16.00 M 11/02/21 Shoreline Biosciences, Inc. <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103183> La Jolla $140.00 M 11/01/21 Type:A Brands <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103182> Los Angeles $0.00 M 10/28/21 SKYRYSE, INC. <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103181> Ann Arbor $200.00 M 10/21/21 Flock Freight <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103179> Solana beach $215.00 M 10/21/21 VideoAmp <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103180> Santa Monica $275.00 M 10/20/21 Carbon Capture <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103178> Pasadena $35.00 M 10/12/21 Day-J <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103177> Los Angeles $2.00 M 10/11/21 Audio Up <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103176> Los Angeles $12.00 M 10/07/21 GrayMatter Robotics <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103169> Los Angeles $4.10 M 10/06/21 Amionx <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103168> Carlsbad $0.00 M 9/29/21 Sommetrics, Inc. <https://www.socaltech.com/intelligence/?action=showdeal&id=103166> San Diego $11.00 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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