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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - AmazeVR Finds $15M For Virtual Reality Concerts <#0082080> - Amgen To Award Lab Space, Support To Karma Biotechnologies <#0082079> - Hadrian Finds $36M for Aerospace Manufacturing <#0082078> - Renovo Solutions Gets Growth Investment <#0082076> - ACELYRIN Names New COO <#0082077> *Marketplace* - Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <#ad764> - From Idea to IPO - KPMG’s Emerging Growth Practice <#ad760> - Stradling <#ad608> - KPMG QuantumShift Program: Join an exclusive group of elite entrepreneurs <#ad778> - IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <#ad750> *Tuesday, January 11, 2022* *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]. *AmazeVR Finds $15M For Virtual Reality Concerts* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082080.html> Los Angeles-based AmazeVR has raised $15M more in a new funding, from Partners Investment and Murex Partners, plus Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea, ABC Partners, Everrich Group, GS Futures, We Ventures, Base Investment, Duname&Partners, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Mirae Asset Capital, Partners Investment and Timewise Investment. The company offers up a way for artists to hold concerts in augmented reality. The company has now raised $30.8M in total. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082080.html>) *Amgen To Award Lab Space, Support To Karma Biotechnologies* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082079.html> Thousand Oaks-based *Amgen <https://www.amgen.com>* and share lab provider *Biolabs LA* said Monday that they have awarded *Karma Biotechnologies* one year of lab space at Biolabs, as well as other facility benefits and connections to Amgen's scientific and business leaders. According to the two, the "Amgen Golden Ticket" is the second awarded in Southern California, intended to help accelerate life science start-ups in Southern California.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082079.html>) *Hadrian Finds $36M for Aerospace Manufacturing* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082078.html> Hawthorne, California-based *Hadrian <https://hadrian.co/>*, which is working on aerospace manufacturing technology, disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that it has raised $36.3M in an ongoing funding. Details of the funding have not yet been announced by the company. The filing says that so far, the firm has 28 investors in the round, with a target of $38.1M. Hadrian says on its website that it is building "the most advanced Space & Defense factories on the Planet."(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082078.html>) *Renovo Solutions Gets Growth Investment* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082076.html> Irvine-based Renovo Solutions announced this morning that it has raised a round of growth investment, from investor Water Street Healthcare Partners. Size of the investment was not announced. According to Renovo Solutions, it will use the new funding to expand offerings. As part of the funding, it has appointed Bill Newell as CEO. Newell previously served at Cardinal Health, Baxter and Dentsply Sirona. Renovo Solutions provides health care and life sciences technology management programs. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082076.html>) *ACELYRIN Names New COO* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082077.html> Los Angeles-based ACELYRIN, a biopharma company focused on unspecified drug candidates, said today that it has named Melanie Gloria as the company's Chief Operating Officer (COO). The company said Gloria is a former oncology nurse, and previously worked at teams at Abbott, AbbVie, and Horizon Therapeutics, and most recently was Senior Vice President of Development Operations at Horizon. 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