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KPMG (http://home.kpmg/us/en/home/about/offices/los-angeles-1.html) Level up with KPMG ------------------------------ *Headlines * - Interview with Richard Wolpert, Ocean Life Network <#0083618> - Neopets Returns To Roots, Relaunches Games <#0083622> - Klear.ai Signs Claim Management Provider <#0083623> - Grindr's Return To Office Results In Mass Layoffs <#0083621> - Santa Monica Man Pleads Guilty To Cryptocurrency Laundering <#0083619> - Fulex Snags Amazon Exec <#0083620> *Marketplace* - Accelerating Growth For Early Stage Innovation. <#ad764> - Pixelgate.net - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services <#ad796> - IP Protection for Technology and Business - SoCal IP Law Group LLP <#ad750> *Friday, September 8, 2023* *From Idea to IPO - KPMG’s Emerging Growth Practice < [email protected]>* KPMG provides Bookkeeping, Audit, Tax, and Advisory services to assist you at any stage of your life cycle. Whether you are starting your business, strengthening your business, expanding into new markets, or pursuing an exit, we have a global network of experienced resources that can take you to the next level. For more information, please contact Ryan Youhan at [email protected]. *Interview with Richard Wolpert, Ocean Life Network* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083618.html> So tell us about this new venture? Richard Wolpert: The new venture is called Ocean Life Network. It's going to be a digital media company around all things ocean. We will have a website, but the real focus to start is going to be a TV FAST channel that covers everything about ocean life. When I say all things ocean life, it's everything from kite surfing to a yacht that charters for $1.1 million a week, that films the life of the crew,kind of a true reality version of Below Deck. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083618.html>) *Neopets Returns To Roots, Relaunches Games* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083622.html> Los Angeles-based Neopets--the online pet game site, which first launched in 1999, is back--and is pushing forward with a relaunch and resurrection of its catalog of minigames. According to the company--which received $4M in a recent funding round--it has partnered with a flash emulator company, Ruffle, to bring back more than 100 of its games. Neopets had been hit extremely hard by the discontinuation of Flash in 2020. Neopets says it is "reviving the brand" with "community-motivated projects. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083622.html>) *Klear.ai Signs Claim Management Provider* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083623.html> Cypress, California-based *Klear.ai <https://www.klear.ai>*, a developer of artificial intelligence software aimed at the claim administration and risk management market, has signed on Pacific Claims Management as a customer, the company said today. Financial impact of the deal was not announced.( More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083623.html>) *Grindr's Return To Office Results In Mass Layoffs* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083621.html> Los Angeles-based dating and hookup service Grindr reportedly laid off 82 out of its 178 employees, after most of those remote employees refused to move to offices. The company had apparently given its all-remote staff two weeks to work from an office for at least two days a week, which would have required a move by many to Los Angeles, Chicago, or San Francisco. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083621.html>) *Santa Monica Man Pleads Guilty To Cryptocurrency Laundering* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083619.html> A Santa Monica man has plead guilty for helping scammers and drug traffickers launder millions of dollars. According to the Department of Justice, Charles Jamse Randol agreed to plead guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering program at his company, Digital Coin Strategies LLC. (More... <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083619.html>) *Fulex Snags Amazon Exec* <https://www.socaltech.com/fullstory/0083620.html> San Diego-based *Fulex <https://www.fulex.com>*, a provider of e-commerce fulfillment services, says it has tapped a former Amazon Senior Manager as its new Director of Operations. According to the company, it has named Andrew Guider as Director of Operations, who had been Senior Manager of Operations Engineering at Amazon for over a decade. 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