Santa Barbara-based Lucidean said today that it has raised $18M in a seed funding round for what it calls "coherent optical links for data centers". The company said the funding was co-led by Entrada ...

Santa Barbara-based Lucidean said today that it has raised $18M in a seed funding round for what it calls "coherent optical links for data centers". The company said the funding was co-led by Entrada ...

Rakuten medical, a company developing precision therapies for treating cancer, has raised $119M in a Series E funding round. The company said the new funding came from Hikma, a global pharmaceutical ...

San Diego-based Firestorm Labs, a developer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), says it has received $12.5M in a seed funding round. The funding came from Lockheed Martin Ventures, as well as Decisive ...

Evan Britton: People love looking up who was born on their birthday. It's one of the most popular things they like to see, to see what birthday they have in common with the stars. That was the genesis ...

Santa Monica-based mobile entertainment startup Seriously has tapped a 20th Century Fox veteran to head up its business development efforts, and a former Rovio exec for product development efforts, ...

Westlake Village-based Anchor Operating Systems, a developer of ticketing and point of sale systems, says it has signed a number of customers. The company said it signed Miami's Art XSpace, The ...

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor Act One Ventures said this morning that it has raised a $73M, third fund. The firm--led by General Partners Alejandro Guerrero and Michael Silton--said it ...

Los Angeles-based LegalMation, a company that is developing generative AI powered software for high volume litigation in the legal industry, says it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round. The ...

Los Angeles-based Haven Energy, a company which focuses on selling home battery storage systems for "virtual power plants", has raised $7M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Giant Ventures, ...

Irvine-based Fisker Automotive will be liquidated, in an an agreement with creditors on Friday in bankruptcy court. According to reports, there are likely to be over $1 billion in secured and ...

San Diego- and Canberra, Australia-based Liquid Instruments said Wednesday that it has raised $12M in a funding round. The funding was led by Breakthrough Victoria, and also included Lockheed Martin ...