San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals announced this morning that it has launched a new company, Longboard Pharmaceuticals, with $56M in funding. According to Areana, the newly launched company will ...

Los Angeles-based HyreCar, a publicly listed, carsharing marketplace operator (Nasdaq: HYRE), says it has priced an offering of 3.5M shares of its common stock, at $3.00 per share. The stock offering ...

San Diego-based Maxwell Biomedical announced this morning that it has acquired Cardialen, a Minneapolis-based company that develops a low-energy defibrillation and cardioversion therapy designed to ...

El Segundo, California and Austin, Texas-based Slingshot Aerospace announced this morning that it has raised $40.85M in a funding round, a Series A2 funding. The company--which develops orbital space ...

Los Angeles-based Petnet, the developer of automated, smartphone connected pet feeding bowls, has raised $10M in a Series A funding, the company Tuesday morning. The funding was led by Petco, and also ...

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 ...

Santa Monica-based Bird said last week that it had overstated its revenues for more than two years, by recognizing unpaid customer rides as revenue. According to Bird, its financial reports from the ...

Los Angeles-based mPulse Mobile, which develops conversational AI software for the healthcare industry, says it has acquired HealthCrowd, a provider of healthcare communications services for the ...

Los Angeles-based startup NFT Genius said last week that it has raised $10.5M in a Series A funding round, for its NFT marketplace technology. The company said that its funding was led by Dapper Labs, ...

Los Angeles-based Halogen Ventures, the venture capital firm led by Jesse Draper, has raised $21M in its second fund, the firm said on Wednesday. According to Halogen Ventures, the fund will continue ...

San Diego-based machine learning startup PointPredictive announced on Thursday that it has closed a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Mosaik Partners. Size of the investment was not ...