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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - Snapchat Rolls Out Real Time Location Sharing <#0082210> - Sienza Energy Snags Series A For Battery Technology <#0082207> - Wiliot Taps Former Amazon Exec As Product Head <#0082208> - Nuvve In AI Joint Venture <#0082209> - Fifth Wall Raises $159M European Fund <#0082206> - Spotter Snags $200M For YouTube Content <#0082203> *Marketplace* - Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <#ad764> - Tech vs Media Episode 2: The Creators Era, and The Music Industry <#ad782> - Stradling <#ad608> - KPMG QuantumShift Program: Join an exclusive group of elite entrepreneurs <#ad778> - Pacific Western Bank, Venture Banking Group <#ad749> - IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <#ad750> *Friday, February 18, 2022* *Snapchat Rolls Out Real Time Location Sharing* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082210.html> Venice, California-based *Snapchat <https://www.snapchat.com>* announced this morning that it has launched a new real-time location sharing feature, which lets users share their location in real time with their friends. The company said the feature allows sharing of locations as a temporary "buddy system", is only available between mutual friends, and has a limited time span--ranging from 15 minutes to a few hours.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082210.html>) *Sienza Energy Snags Series A For Battery Technology* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082207.html> Pasadena-based Sienza Energy, a startup working on lithium battery technology, said on Thursday that it has raised part of a Series A funding round from billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong. Size of the funding was not announced. According to the company, the funding comes on top of earlier seed funding from Kairos Ventures. Sienza Energy says it is developing new 3D electrode technology for lithium batteries. The company's technology comes out of Caltech, where it was incubated. Dr. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082207.html>) *Wiliot Taps Former Amazon Exec As Product Head* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082208.html> San Diego-based Wiliot, a startup developing stamp-sized computers for the Internet-of-Thing market, said this week that it has tapped a former Amazon executive as its new Chief Product Officer. According to the company, Manish Bansal, who was most recently Amazon's Director and General Manager in Supply Chain Optimization Technology, has joined the company in the position. Bansal apparently had spent 15 years at Amazon. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082208.html>) *Nuvve In AI Joint Venture* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082209.html> San Diego-based Nuvve, which is developing vehicle-to-grid energy management system, said this week that it has entered into a joint venture with a developer of artificial intelligence software. According to the company it plans to form a joint venture with 2021.AI Aps (2021.AI) to integrate their artificial intelligence (AI) platform, Grace, to Nuvve's GIVe (Grid Integrated Vehicle) V2G platform. The two said the joint venture will be named Astrea AITM. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082209.html>) *Fifth Wall Raises $159M European Fund* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082206.html> Los Angeles-based real estate technology investor Fifth Wall has raised a new, €140 Million ($159M US) fund to invest in European, real estate technology. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082206.html>) *Spotter Snags $200M For YouTube Content* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082203.html> Los Angeles-based Spotter, which provides cash to license existing content from YouTube creators, says it has raised $200M in a Series D funding roudn. The company said the funding was led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, and gives it a valuation of $1.7 billion. The company said it had previously raised $55M across three, prior undisclosed rounds of funding. Spotter is led by Founder and CEO Aaron Debevoise. 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Industry leader and innovator Marc Geiger (co-founder of Lollapalooza, founder and CEO of Artist Direct, head of World Wide Music for William Morris for 20 years, and current CEO and Chairman of SaveLive) shares insights into the future of music, what exactly is the “Creators Era”, where NFTs fit in all of this, and what was it like pioneering music e-commerce Mick Jagger. 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