LA Tech Week 2024: Tuesday’s Event Lineup

LA Tech Week 2024: Tuesday’s Event Lineup
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Here’s the Tuesday, October 15 lineup for LA Tech Week 2024, organized by location so you can easily explore events that fit your goals and schedule. Dive in and see what’s happening near you!


BEL AIR

5:00 PM

Andrew Yeung, Blindspot

Elevate Members

8:00 PM

Andrew Yeung, Blindspot

BEVERLY HILLS

8:00 AM

Scrappy

9:00 AM

     
  • Operators Meet Up (Invite Only)

Halogen Ventures

5:00 PM

     
  • Innovators Connect: Founders, Executives, and Leaders Mixer : See Details Here

Plug and Play, 2045, Studio by Tishman Speyer, Breaking Bread

6:00 PM

VCPE GROUPS, ENTREPRENEUR.VC

Stellenium, MyBrand Global, Project Sanctuary

Ayana foundation, Cherub

Matey, Inc.

Mission Matters, Destination Luxury

BRENTWOOD

9:00 AM

75 & Sunny, Fika, Navitas

3:00 PM

     
  • Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs + Friends Tennis Live Ball : See Details Here

Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs of Socal

CARSON

12:00 PM

J.P. Morgan, Cooley, CAA, Porsche

CENTURY CITY

12:00 PM

Entrepreneur Ventures, VCPE Groups, CAA (Creative Artists Agency)

CULVER CITY

9:00 AM

Intersections LA

3:00 PM

AWS for Startups

5:30 PM

Techstars, Saywise

EL SEGUNDO

11:00 AM

Calibrate Ventures, Advaita Capital, ACME VC, Techstars

4:00 PM

     
  • Blowouts for Builders: Honoring Women in Hard Tech (Invite Only)

First Resonance

CX2 Inc.

5:00 PM

  • American Dynamism (Invite Only)

HOLLYWOOD

10:00 AM

Community Pros of Los Angeles

1:00 PM

Communia

LONG BEACH

2:00 PM

Our Generation Cares

6:00 PM

     
  • AI for Technology Enabled Autism Providers Happy Hour (Invite Only)

SpectrumAi, LEARN Behavioral

MALIBU

10:00 AM

Goldhirsh Foundation, LA2050, Creative Visions

MARINA DEL REY

11:00 AM

DMK Engineering, Inc., Digital Law Group, PLLC

3:00 PM

USC, Information Sciences Institute (ISI)

PLAYA DEL REY

8:00 AM

AI LA

PLAYA VISTA

8:30 AM

     
  • AI in Action: Redefining the Digital Content Lifecycle in Media + Entertainment : See Details Here

Sprockit, Verizon Innovation Lab

Google

6:30 PM

     
  • Trends in Building and Investing: Data, AI and the Future Internet Economy : See Details Here

Everi AI, Five Two Five VC

SANTA MONICA

7:00 AM

Founder Common, Founders Run Club

8:00 AM

Just Go Grind

8:30 AM

     
  • Brewing Connections: Coffee + Alfajores Networking Breakfast for Founders at Seed Stage : See Details Here

Braintly, Alt-Black

Upfront Ventures, Brex

9:00 AM

Mercato Partners

Dialpad

Garden Labs

Deel, Alumni Ventures, TeamTailor

M13

LendTech, Two to Twenty, The Artemis Fund, Orrick

9:30 AM

Mucker Capital

Qapita, Remofirst, Commenda

10:00 AM

a16z, Fenwick

The FutureList, Global Venture Network

USC Marshall Grief Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

Cherry Hill Advisory

11:00 AM

Liz Shows

     
  • Business Value - Measure, Create, & Retain (Invite Only)

Objective IBV

     
  • Transactional Trends & FinTech Transformation: Overcoming Payment Threats in a Post-COVID Marketplace (Invite Only)

Chargebacks911

     
  • The $2M to $20M ARR Playbook: Proven Tactics for Hypergrowth : See Details Here

Next Stage Trajectory

12:00 PM

SSM

     
  • Scaling Hardware: From Concept to Market - A Lunch Panel for Industry Leaders : See Details Here

SEACOMP, Conduit Venture Labs, AJProTech

FusionAuth, Global Venture Network

1:00 PM

Kiva AI

Cherry Hill Advisory

2:00 PM

Morrow, Global Venture Network

Le Club, Blueprints AI

Spartacus.app

2:30 PM

     
  • From London to #LATechWeek: What makes a world-class innovation hub with Snap, Universal Music, BAM Ventures, and OnePlan : See Details Here

London & Partners, RSM

3:00 PM

SEACOMP, Conduit Venture Labs, AJProTech

     
  • Venture Financing and Alternative Forms of Financing: What Startups Need to Know : See Details Here

SSM Law

Startup Village, Sigma Eta Pi, UCLA

Venturous Counsel

3:30 PM

     
  • J.P. Morgan Social Impact - Westside Food Bank Food Sorting : See Details Here

J.P. Morgan

     
  • Early Stage Growth: Mastering Product, Sales and Execution : See Details Here

Two Bear Capital, Binarly, CIQ

HereWefranch.com, Early Adopters Community

     
  • LinkedIn Marketing Exec Roundtable: Insights and Strategies for Engaging SaaS Buyers : See Details Here

LinkedIn

4:00 PM

NachoNacho, Kalungi, GLASS

     
  • Beyond the AI Buzz - Crafting Equitable Workplaces in the Digital Age : See Details Here

Margins, Open Venture Capital

     
  • Tech Trends Deep Dive: Innovation, Culture and Trust (Invite Only)

Edelman

     
  • What Founders Need to Know About 2D Barcodes and the Future of Transparency : See Details Here

GS1US, Global Venture Network

Bump, Capitalize VC, H/L Ventures, Trapital Ventures, Select Management Group, Symphonic Capital, Popstar Ventures

4:30 PM

Expert DOJO

5:00 PM

Nuleep Inc., Asians in Energy City of Irvine

OpenSphere.ai

     
  • Golden Hour with Gold House (Invite Only)

Gold House, Microsoft, Silicon Valley Bank

     
  • Openhouse & Tech Mixer: Innovating Golf and Sports Technology : See Details Here

Golfjoy

SimpleClosure, Cooley, Cambrian Ventures

5:30 PM

Lenny's Community

OCV Partners, Hyperlink Ventures, Mucker Capital, HSBC

Plantologist

MaC Venture Capital, Generation Space, Fenwick

6:00 PM

Stripe

Entre, WeWork, Fidelity

Republic

Stubbs Alderton, Markiles Preccelerator

Clay

Alt-Black

  • GenAI for the Entertainment Industry Dinner (Invite Only)

A16z

     
  • SVB at LA Tech Week 2024 (Invite Only)

Silicon Valley Bank

MLOps Community, Databricks

Pragma, AWS, Hathora, Mod.io, Unity

ReMatter, Zuma.AI

Tech Pitch Roast Comedy LLC

Draper University

Crosscut Ventures, Wilson Sonsini, Juniper Square

Leave a Mark

No Pressure Networking, All in All

6:30 PM

No Pressure Networking, All in All

Olympian Motors, Inc

ElevenLabs

7:00 PM

How&How, Cashapp, FNDR, Patagonia

Pearpop

     
  • CPG 2.0-Blending Physical and Digital Consumer Experiences : See Details Here

Camino5

Callista Media, Viecolo

AI Wave

7:30 PM

Los Angeles Fun Events

SUNSET

5:30 PM

D-Line Summit (A Deep Tech Summit)

  • TORRANCE

5:30 PM

     
  • Grow Your Legal Practice With AI Personas: A Personal AI Hands-On Workshop : See Details Here

Personal AI, The Simon Law Group Justice Team

USC

5:30 PM

Untapped Ventures, USC School of Advanced Computing, AI LA, Embark Ventures

VENICE

8:00 AM

Science

J.P. Morgan Startup Banking

8:30 AM

Richie Knows, NAMI Westside Los Angeles

9:00 AM

Perkins Coie

9:30 AM

Riot Ventures, Space VC, Stifel Bank

11:00 AM

     
  • The Art of Building Buzz and Community on Social Media with 3 Top Brands : See Details Here

BrandBastion

12:00 PM

J.P. Morgan

4:30 PM

Harbor

5:00 PM

J.P. Morgan, Intuit Ventures, TOOLBX

     
  • Accelerating Innovation: The Role of Venture Studios and Accelerators in the LA Startup Ecosystem : See Details Here

Reitler

5:30 PM

Ellevoy

6:00 PM

     
  • Scaling Success: Tech, Marketing, & Leadership Synergy Happy Hour : See Details Here

1Above Tech, Venture Ahead

Fenwick, Toku

7:00 PM

NGL

8:00 PM

Dropbox, 99VC

WEST HOLLYWOOD

10:00 AM

RJR Partners, Talk Shop Media

12:00 PM

AWSM SCTY, Grid110

7:00 PM

Hyphah

WESTSIDE

7:00 PM

AltiamCX, Ruckus

WESTWOOD

2:00 PM

IFC Global, APSDG, UCLA School of Engineering

TCA Los Angeles, UCLA Anderson

4:00 PM

WeAreLATech.com, LiveBash.com

WINDSOR HILLS

8:00 AM

Slauson& Co

For updates or more event information, visit the official Tech Week calendar.

Enjoy LA Tech Week 2024!

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From Sunset Boulevard to Outer Space: LA’s Latest

🔦 Spotlight

Good Morning Beliebers and Los Angeles!

While Justin Bieber’s new album dropped last night, here’s what else is making headlines in Los Angeles this week.

Luma has opened its Dream Lab on Sunset Boulevard, boldly positioning itself at the forefront of AI-powered creativity. Known for transforming ordinary photos into cinematic 3D scenes, Luma is combining cutting-edge research with practical tools to build a playground for artists, engineers, and anyone ready to push the boundaries of visual storytelling. In their words: “From Hollywood blockbusters to the next generation of immersive media, this is where the magic happens.”

Meanwhile, well beyond our skyline, SpaceX reportedly hit an eye-popping $400 billion valuation in a recent share sale, making it one of the most valuable private companies ever. The milestone reflects both investors’ fervor for the commercial space race and LA’s unrivaled role as the launchpad of aerospace innovation.

LA continues to prove it can deliver on the ground, in the cloud, and far beyond the stars. See you next week.

🤝 Venture Deals

LA Companies

     
  • Varda Space Industries, the El Segundo–based company manufacturing pharmaceuticals in microgravity, has raised $187M in a Series C round led by Natural Capital and Shrug Capital, bringing its total funding to approximately $329M. The funds will support an increased launch cadence of robotic drug-production capsules, expansion of its El Segundo lab for biologic drug crystallization, and broader efforts to scale commercial microgravity-driven drug formulation and hypersonic reentry testing. - learn more

LA Venture Funds

  • Rebel Fund participated in Vellum’s $20M Series A round, which was led by Leaders Fund. The company helps businesses build and optimize LLM-powered applications. Vellum plans to grow its team and speed up product development with the new funding. - learn more
  • Bold Capital participated in a $31M Series B funding round for Aqtual, a Hayward, California based precision medicine startup developing a cutting edge cell free DNA (cfDNA) multiomics platform. The capital will help commercialize Aqtual’s flagship rheumatoid arthritis diagnostic, currently being tested in a 1,300 patient trial, and support expansion into other chronic and autoimmune diseases. - learn more
  • Strong Ventures invested in VERAMORE, a skincare brand focused on addressing early signs of aging in women. Since launching in March 2022, VERAMORE has grown over 300% annually, expanded to more than 16 products, and entered markets including Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Taiwan, Europe, and Korea. The funding will support its D2C growth, product-driven marketing, and planned global expansion starting with Japan in 2025 and the U.S. and Europe in 2026. - learn more
  • Mucker Capital joined a $3.7M seed funding round for Velvet Capital aimed at launching its DeFAI operating system and $VELVET governance token. Velvet’s vertically integrated DeFi toolkit combines AI-powered trading, portfolio management, APIs, and a native token to streamline on-chain investment for funds, DAOs, and individual traders. The funding will accelerate platform development, the rollout of its tokenomics, and broader adoption of its intent-based DeFi suite. - learn more
  • Btech Consortium Fund participated in a $8.5M Series A funding round for Castellum.AI, a New York based financial crime compliance platform that uses in‑house risk data, AI, and screening tools to help financial institutions manage AML/KYC compliance. The funds will be used to expand their team, enhance integrations with financial institutions, and accelerate adoption of their AI‑powered compliance solutions. - learn more
  • Bold Capital Partners joined the oversubscribed $45M Series A round for Centivax, a South San Francisco biotech company dedicated to developing a universal flu vaccine using a proprietary mRNA-based immune-engineering platform. Led by Future Ventures, the funding will help Centivax advance its lead candidate into Phase I clinical trials and expand its broader universal immunity pipeline targeting pathogens like RSV, HIV, and malaria. - learn more
  • Alpha Edison participated in Honor Education’s $38M Series A funding round for the San Francisco–based learning platform. Honor uses AI‑enhanced, mobile-first courses and credentialed programs to improve engagement and leadership development. The funding will be used to scale AI capabilities, personalize learning experiences, and expand the company’s operations and customer‑success teams to meet rising demand. - learn more
  • Wasserman Ventures participated in a $7M seed round for Fantasy Life, the fantasy sports platform founded by Matthew Berry. The funding will support the launch of Fantasy Life’s revamped platform, featuring new “Guillotine Leagues,” a modernized app experience, and enhanced content and tools to scale its audience and technology offerings. - learn more

LA Exits
  • El Segundo based Kaye Capital Management, a fee only RIA with approximately $700M in assets under management and $300M in assets under advisement, was acquired by Modern Wealth Management, marking its 17th acquisition and pushing its total AUM over $8.5B. The deal strengthens Modern Wealth’s presence in California and adds Kaye’s institutional retirement plan expertise to its suite of financial and retirement solutions for clients. - learn more
  • NIRx Medical Technologies was acquired by Gilde Healthcare’s private equity fund and combined with Artinis Medical Systems to form a world-leading neuroimaging group. Both companies will retain their brands and locations while collaborating on R&D, product development, and global expansion of their functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) tools to advance research in mental health, neurodegenerative diseases, and stroke rehabilitation. - learn more
  • Emotive, a conversational SMS marketing platform, has been acquired by Privy to create a unified solution for e-commerce brands that combines email, SMS, pop-ups, and real-time customer conversations. The integrated platform will help over 10,000 merchants simplify their marketing, personalize customer interactions, and strengthen relationships with dedicated strategists and transparent pricing. - learn more

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Tinder, Starlink, and Apple’s New Studio: This Week in LA

🔦 Spotlight

Happy Independence Day, Los Angeles! 🇺🇸

While you're celebrating freedom, here are some electrifying updates lighting up LA’s tech, satellite, and music scenes:

🔥 Tinder mandates Face Recognition in California

  Image Source: Tinder

Tinder is now requiring all new users in California to complete a biometric face check, a brief video selfie processed via FaceTec, to verify profiles are genuine. The video is deleted post-verification, though an encrypted face map remains while the account is active. This West Hollywood based move could redefine trust, safety, and privacy in mainstream consumer apps.

🌐 Starlink clears hurdle to launch in India

Elon Musk’s SpaceX backed Starlink has cleared most regulatory and licensing hurdles with India’s Department of Telecommunications, marking a key step toward launching satellite broadband in one of the world’s fastest growing markets. Final approvals from the national space regulator are pending, and services, expected to deliver high speed connectivity to underserved regions, could launch in the coming months. This is a major milestone for Starlink’s global expansion.

🎧 Apple Music opens Culver City creative hub

  Image Source: Apple

Apple Music is celebrating its anniversary by launching a brand new 15,000 square foot, three story studio in Culver City. The facility, featuring a 4,000 square foot soundstage, spatial audio suites, podcast booths, and more, is designed by Eric Owen Moss and slated to open mid August. It solidifies LA’s reputation as a creative powerhouse and reaffirms Apple’s commitment to investing in and nurturing our city's cultural ecosystem.

From dating apps to deep space to sound stages, LA isn’t just watching the future unfold, we’re building it.

Here’s to independence, imagination, and everything this city dares to launch next. Happy Fourth, Los Angeles.

🤝 Venture Deals

LA Companies

  • Castelion has raised a $350M Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners alongside Altimeter Capital to scale its hypersonic missile production capabilities. The El Segundo-based defense startup plans to use the funds to expand manufacturing, accelerate testing through its SpaceX-inspired rapid development model, and position itself as a cost-effective supplier of hypersonic weapons to the U.S. military and its allies. - learn more
  • Earth Sama, a Calabasas, California–based climate-tech platform that helps rural farming and Indigenous communities generate and manage carbon credits, secured investment from Omtse Ventures. The funding will support the rollout of Earth Sama’s blockchain-powered field app, climate-creator platform, and smart-contract tools to scale community-led carbon credit projects globally under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6.4 framework. - learn more

            LA Venture Funds

            • Plassa Capital participated in Metafide’s $3.275M funding round. Miami based Metafide, the creator of SURGE, a gamified trading platform that combines AI neural networks and human insight, will use the funds to scale and launch SURGE into the market. - learn more
            • BOLD Capital Partners participated as a founding investor in Syntis Bio’s $33M Series A round, with an additional $5M in NIH grants. The Boston-based biotech is developing oral therapies for obesity and rare diseases, and the funding will help advance its SYNT platform, moving its lead obesity treatment, SYNT-101, into Phase 1 trials and supporting development of SYNT-202 for homocystinuria. - learn more
            • BAM Ventures participated in Cred’s $15M seed round for its predictive intelligence startup. San Francisco based Cred uses AI to unify company data with real time market signals and deliver actionable insights for sales and operations. The funding, led by defy.vc, will be used to scale Cred’s platform, expand its customer base, and grow team and product capabilities. - learn more
            • BOLD Capital Partners participated in Gallant’s $18M Series B round to advance its ready-to-use stem cell therapies for pets. The funding, led by Digitalis Ventures with additional support from NovaQuest Capital, will help Gallant bring its off-the-shelf regenerative treatments to market. - learn more
            • Rebel Fund joined the seed round for Rocketable, contributing to the $6.5M raised to build a portfolio of fully automated SaaS companies. San Francisco-based Rocketable, backed by True Ventures and others, uses AI agents to operate acquired software products, and Rebel’s support will help scale both the platform and acquisitions. - learn more 
                    LA Exits
                    • Leasepath, a cloud-first provider of equipment lease and loan management software, has been acquired by Solifi to enhance its mid-market offerings. The deal allows Solifi to expand Leasepath’s Microsoft Dynamics-based platform into new global markets while keeping Leasepath’s team and leadership in place. - learn more

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                              Senra Raises $25M to Rewire LA's Aerospace Supply Chain

                              🔦 Spotlight

                              Hello Los Angeles,

                              In the shadow of LA’s booming space and defense scene, a new kind of hardware startup is scaling up. And it's not building flying cars or flashy robots. It’s building the infrastructure that builds everything else.

                              This week, Senra Systems announced a $25 million Series A led by Dylan Field and CIV, with participation from General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, 8VC, and Pax Ventures. Their Redondo Beach-based facility is using custom automation, software, and new design tools to quadruple production speed. The goal is to solve a notoriously manual, bottleneck-prone part of the supply chain: wire harness manufacturing.

                              The company also launched Amp, a CAD software platform that bridges the gap between harness design and physical production. It's a process that has historically been slow, fragmented, and hard to scale. In other words, Senra isn’t just building machines. They’re rewiring the very systems that power aerospace, defense, and industrial tech.

                              It’s not sci-fi. It’s supply chain innovation. And it’s very LA.

                              Catch the latest LA venture deals, acquisitions, and fund updates below.

                              🤝 Venture Deals

                              LA Companies

                              • 2wai, co-founded by actor Calum Worthy and producer Russell Geyser, has emerged from stealth with the launch of its avatar-based social app, allowing users to create lifelike “HoloAvatars” in under three minutes for real-time, multi-language conversations. The platform gives individuals, especially creators and entertainers, control over their digital likeness by restricting avatar responses to pre-approved information, helping counter deepfake threats. The launch follows a $5 million pre-seed raise and sets the stage for broader use by celebrities, brands, and educational partners. - learn more
                              • Superfiliate secured a $2M strategic growth round led by HappyStack to fuel its rapid expansion in the creator commerce space. The platform, which automates influencer and affiliate marketing for CPG and DTC brands via deep Meta and TikTok integrations, has achieved an impressive 400% year-over-year growth. The investment will support scaling its automation engine, deepening social commerce partnerships, and onboarding more e-commerce brands. - learn more
                              • Gemist, a Los Angeles–based jewelry-tech startup, secured $6M in seed funding from Entrada Ventures, Artemis Fund, and Collide Capital, bringing its total funding to $9M. The platform offers real-time 3D visualizations, dynamic pricing, and integrated e-commerce for custom fine jewelry, and is used weekly by over 14,000 customers to design personalized pieces. The new capital will enhance its visualization tools, pricing engine, and commerce features as Gemist expands its footprint. - learn more
                              • Chronicle Studios has raised an oversubscribed $11.6M seed round co-led by Patron and Point72 Ventures to fuel the development of original, audience-driven franchises. Founded by former DreamWorks and Warner Bros. exec Chris deFaria and tech entrepreneur Aaron Sisto, the LA-based studio plans to invest in independent creators and build AI-powered tools, like automated YouTube thumbnails and social analytics, to help storytellers grow and monetize their IP. - learn more
                              • Stackup, a developer platform for crypto applications, has raised a $4.2M in seed funding round led by 1kx. Stackup helps crypto businesses build better user experiences and manage on-chain user data, and the funding will be used to grow its engineering team and expand support for more blockchain networks. - learn more
                              • Doên, a fashion brand known for its vintage-inspired, California aesthetic, has closed a growth equity round led by Silas Capital. The funding will help the company expand its retail footprint, grow its team, and scale operations. Doên plans to continue building its community-driven brand while deepening its commitment to sustainability and women's empowerment. - learn more
                              • Root has raised a $9M seed funding round led by Konvoy and Headline, to develop its platform for managing online communities. The app, currently in closed beta, enables users to build custom tools like raid planners and task trackers right into their social experience. The fresh capital will fuel team expansion and product development ahead of a broader rollout. - learn more
                              • AndrenaM, a defense-tech startup founded by a former SpaceX engineer, raised $10M in just 36 hours. The company is building an AI-powered maritime sensing network using sonar-equipped buoys to provide real-time underwater surveillance. The funding, led by First Round Capital, will support team expansion, custom hardware development, and scaled deployments off the California coast. - learn more

                                      LA Venture Funds

                                      • Westlake Village BioPartners joined Neuron23’s $96.5M Series D financing round. The capital will fund the global Phase 2 NEULARK trial of NEU‑41, a brain-penetrant LRRK2 inhibitor for early-stage Parkinson’s disease, as well as support commercial and R&D scale-up. Neuron23 also announced that the first patient has been dosed in the NEULARK study, with initial results expected in 2027. - learn more
                                      • Fika Ventures participated in Spinwheel’s recent $30 M Series A round led by F‑Prime Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate their AI-powered platform that streamlines debt and credit management, reducing friction in account authentication, automating payments, and integrating liability data, all to deliver instant, developer-friendly credit APIs. This investment supports rapid growth across fintech and banking partners aiming to improve consumer credit outcomes. - learn more
                                      • Chaac Ventures participated in a $7M seed funding round for Meridian, a New York and Miami‑based startup using its AI-powered deal management platform to help private equity firms streamline sourcing, automate workflows, and improve diligence efficiency. The funding will accelerate product enhancements, expand the global go‑to‑market strategy, and deepen its traction with large institutional investors. - learn more
                                      • WME joined a debut funding round for haircare disruptor isima, which raised over $12M to accelerate its launch. Shakira-backed and science-driven, isima will use the capital to scale operations, expand product development, and roll out via isima.com and placements at Ulta Beauty (U.S. in July; Mexico in August), debuting across nearly 30 global markets. - learn more
                                      • M13 participated in Maven AGI’s Series B round, which raised $50M to expand its Business AGI platform for enterprise use. The funding brings Maven’s total capital raised to $78M. The company will use the investment to accelerate product development and go-to-market efforts as it scales its AI platform that unifies customer journeys across support, sales, and operations. - learn more
                                      • Alexandria Venture Investments joined GeneCentric Therapeutics’ $8M Series C round. The funding will support the commercial launch of GenomicsNext™, a groundbreaking liquid biopsy platform that combines extensive gene expression profiling with high‑fidelity DNA variant detection from ctDNA. This capital is expected to carry GeneCentric through 2026 and to help it scale predictive biomarker development for oncology applications. - learn more
                                      • MTech Capital and B Capital participated in COVR Global’s $2.5M seed round, led by MTech Capital. The funding will help COVR develop its AI-powered Decision Engine—a modular platform that enables insurers to make instant, data-driven claims decisions, such as coverage validation, liability assessment, and settlement automation. The investment will fuel product development and team growth as COVR scales across the UK, Spain, Japan, and Australia - learn more
                                      • Bedrock and Khosla Ventures co-led Mach Industries’ $100M Series B round. The defense-tech startup will use the capital to ramp up production at its Forge Huntington factory, grow its Mach Propulsion engine division, and further develop and deploy its advanced unmanned systems—Viper, Glide, and Stratos. This funding brings Mach’s total raised to about $185M as it scales vertically integrated defense manufacturing. - learn more
                                      • Fifth Wall participated in Juniper Square’s Series D funding round, which secured $130M at a $1.1 billion valuation. The investment will be used to accelerate the development and deployment of JunieAI, an AI-powered, agentic platform tailored specifically for private markets general partners to streamline investor relations, reporting, and fund administration. - learn more
                                      • Mucker Capital led CarePilot’s $2.5M seed round, with participation from KCRise Fund. The Overland Park-based startup will use the funding to further develop its AI-powered tools including its new “ProblemAssist” diagnostic and coding tool and expand its team as it scales solutions for healthcare providers. - learn more
                                      • Prototype Capital participated in Sunrise Robotics’ seed round, which raised $8.5M to emerge from stealth and advance its factory automation technology. The Ljubljana-based startup develops dual‑arm robotic cells trained in simulated environments, enabling rapid, cost-effective deployment and continuous learning across a fleet. The funds will be used to scale AI and simulation capabilities, expand team and manufacturing across Europe, and deepen customer deployments in sectors like electronics, supercars, and battery production. - learn more
                                            LA Exits
                                            • Comco, the pioneer behind the MicroBlaster® micro-precision sandblasting system, has been acquired by Medical Manufacturing Technologies (MMT), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management. This strategic move integrates Comco’s advanced abrasive technology into MMT’s suite, expanding its capabilities in precision microblasting for medical, aerospace, microelectronics, and industrial applications. MMT CEO Robbie Atkinson emphasized that the acquisition strengthens their end-to-end manufacturing offerings, while Comco President Colin Weightman joins MMT to drive continued innovation and customer growth. - learn more
                                            • 3BlackDot, the creator-first gaming and digital media studio known for popular YouTube franchises like Gaming While Black and Alpha Betas, has been acquired by Offscript Worldwide, the parent company of Revolt. With an audience of over 128 million subscribers, the acquisition marks Offscript’s entry into the $347 billion gaming industry and strengthens its creator-led IP development and distribution capabilities. 3BlackDot will now leverage Offscript’s infrastructure to scale its cultural impact while maintaining its creator-first approach. - learn more
                                            • Dr. Squatch, the fast-growing natural men’s grooming brand known for its social-first marketing and strong DTC presence, is being acquired by Unilever from Summit Partners. The move gives Unilever access to a brand with viral campaigns, influencer collaborations, and revenues reportedly around $400M, enhancing its premium personal care offerings. The deal is expected to close later this year pending regulatory approvals. - learn more
                                            • CloudSoda has been acquired by Diskover Data, combining CloudSoda’s intuitive data orchestration and automation with Diskover’s enterprise-scale indexing, metadata enrichment, and AI-ready infrastructure. This comes alongside Diskover’s $7.5M seed round, led by Snowflake Ventures and NetApp, positioning the company to accelerate unified, intelligent management of unstructured data. - learn more
                                            • Inspire Clean Energy has been acquired by Rhythm Energy, significantly expanding Inspire’s reach beyond its original markets. The merger creates one of the largest independent green energy retailers in the U.S., combining Inspire’s subscription-based, 100% renewable electricity plans with Rhythm’s technology-driven platform. This union positions the combined company to serve millions more customers nationwide, offering enhanced digital tools, demand-response programs, and time-of-use pricing to promote clean energy adoption. - learn more

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