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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - Meta Hollywood Announces Star Studded Advisors List For Web3 Effort <#0082687> - Quadrata Finds $7.5M For Blockchain Efforts <#0082686> - The Trade Desk Inks Major Ad Deal With Disney <#0082685> - Activision Blizzard Launches Training Program <#0082684> - GITAI Plans Space Robotics Test On ISS In 2023 <#0082688> - Sapient Gets $9.2M From Gates Foundation <#0082683> *Marketplace* - Network Thinking Solutions - DevOps and Managed Services <#ad774> - From Idea to IPO - KPMG’s Emerging Growth Practice <#ad760> - Pacific Western Bank, Venture Banking Group <#ad749> - IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <#ad750> - Stradling <#ad608> *Tuesday, July 12, 2022* *Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <http://www.preccelerator.com>* The Preccelerator® Program is an accelerator for early-stage startups offered to select companies out of the Santa Monica office of Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP that provides initial capital, sophisticated legal services, interim office space, mentorship, a targeted curriculum, investment strategy counseling and access to a strategic perks portfolio with the objective of helping you grow your idea from business concept to funded startup. www.preccelerator.com *Meta Hollywood Announces Star Studded Advisors List For Web3 Effort* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082687.html> Los Angeles-based Meta Hollywood, a Web 3, blockchain venture which is a joint venture of Planet Hollywood and Animoca Brands, says it has created a new advisory group. The group includes a large number of Hollywood insiders and celebrities, including Gary Barber (Chairman, CEO of Spyglass Media Group); Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson III; Megan Fox; Avi Lerner (Nu Image and Millennium Films); Jessica Elbaum (Floria Sanchez Productions); and Joel Silver (Silver Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment). (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082687.html>) *Quadrata Finds $7.5M For Blockchain Efforts* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082686.html> Marina Del Rey-based Quadrata, which says it is building a "passport network" to provide identity, reputation and compliance to blockchain applications, says it has raised $7.5M in a seed funding round. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082686.html>) *The Trade Desk Inks Major Ad Deal With Disney* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082685.html> Ventura-based The Trade Desk, which develops advertising automation tools, has inked a major deal with Disney, to power ad matching on Disney's websites. According to a report from Axios, the deal will allow brands to automate their ads across Disney properties, allowing Disney to sell more ads at scale. Financial details of the deal were not annoucned. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082685.html>) *Activision Blizzard Launches Training Program* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082684.html> Santa Monica-based videogame publisher Activision Blizzard said late Monday that it has launched a new, 12-week long training program, which looks to train and development professionals for engineering roles. According to the company, the new program, Level Up U is aimed at both people within and outside the game industry, to prepare them for full time engineering roles at Activision and Blizzard. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082684.html>) *GITAI Plans Space Robotics Test On ISS In 2023* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082688.html> Torrance-based space robotics startup *GITAI <https://www.gitai.tech>* says that its robotics technology will be test on the International Space Station (ISS), on an upcoming mission to the space station in 2023. According to the company, it expects its extra-vehicular autonomous robot to be deployed externally on the Bishop Airlock. The company says its robotic arm is aimed at in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing in the vacuum of space.(More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082688.html>) *Sapient Gets $9.2M From Gates Foundation* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0082683.html> San Diego-based Sapient, which is developing biomarker profiling technology, says today it has received $9.2M in a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company said the grant will support studies to identify biomarkers that can inform novel nutritional, disease-prevention, and disease-treatment interventions. Sapient is using rapid liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (rLC-MS) for its biomarker profiling efforts. Sapient is led by founder and CEO Mo Jain. 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