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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - HopSkipDrive Commits $2M For Ride Credits To Customers <#0081972> - Clubspeed Acquires Vantora <#0081971> - Virgin Orbit Sets Planned Board <#0081970> - Camino Financial Sets Engineering VP <#0081968> - ViaCyte Names General Counsel <#0081969> - Virgin Galactic Selects Winner For Free Space Flight <#0081967> *Marketplace* - Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <#ad764> - IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <#ad750> - Stradling <#ad608> - Pixelgate.net - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services <#ad188> *Tuesday, November 30, 2021* *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]. *HopSkipDrive Commits $2M For Ride Credits To Customers* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081972.html> Los Angeles-based youth transportatoin service HopSkipDrive announced this morning that it will invest $2M in free ride credits, to help solve a school bus driver shortage. According to the company, it will provide those $2M in ride credits to existing education partners in CA, CO, WI, and WA as part of its Opportunity for All Community Fund. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081972.html>) *Clubspeed Acquires Vantora* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081971.html> Irvine-based venue management software developer *Clubspeed <https://www.clubspeed.com>* announced on Monday that it has acquired *Vantora <https://www.vantora.com>*, a developer of online booking and waiver management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. The company said the buy will help it expand its product portfolio. Clubspeed is left by CEO Alok Pandey. Clubspeed says it provides its software to family entertainment centers.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081971.html>) *Virgin Orbit Sets Planned Board* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081970.html> Long Beach-based Virgin Orbit has set the planned board of directors for the company, assuming its ongoing special purpose acquisition (SPAC) deal goes through as planned. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081970.html>) *Camino Financial Sets Engineering VP* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081968.html> Los Angeles-based *Camino Financial <https://www.caminofinancial.com>* announced this morning that it has hired a new Vice President of Engineering. According to the company, it has appoined *Eric Smeby* to the position. Smeby previously has served at such companies at Capital One and Ellucian, and founded a startup named TuitionCoin. Camino Financial develops artificial intelligence software for offering up credit to underserved, Latinx entrepreneurs.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081968.html>) *ViaCyte Names General Counsel* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081969.html> San Diego-based ViaCyte, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company, said today that it has named Marty Lorenzo as General Counsel. Lorenzo previously was Vice President Legal Affairs and Assistant Corporate Secretary at Petco. Lorenzo also previously served at DLA Piper, Mintz Levin, and Kilpatrick Townsend. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081969.html>) *Virgin Galactic Selects Winner For Free Space Flight* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0081967.html> Virgin Galactic has selected the winner for an almost-free trip to space, saying last week that it has selected a winner in a sweepstakes for a trip to space. The winner was part of a sweepstakes with charity donation site Omaze. According to Virgin Galactic, Keisha S. of Antigua and Barbuda won two seats on a Virgin Galactic commercial space flight as part of the sweepstakes. 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