Los Angeles-based SeatBoost, which offers up a service which lets passengers use their mobile phones bid on seat upgrades, says it has received an investment from International Airlines Group (IAG).

A non-profit arm of the Lithuanian government, the Innovation Agency, says it has tapped UCLA Anderson School of Management to help companies launch into the United States. According to the Innovation ...

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 ...

Los Angeles-based Varsity Healthcare Partners, a low middle-market private equity firm, says it has raised a $700M investment fund, Varsity Healthcare Partners IV. The company says it focuses on ...

San Diego-based Measurabl, which develops software used by real estate managers to manage the carbon footprint of their properties, has raised $93M in a fourth round of funding, the company said this ...

Los Angeles-based Charlie annoucned this morning that it has raised $7.5M in a venture funding round, and has launched a new, banking service aimed at retirees and soon-to-be-retirees who are older ...

Manhattan Beach-based Highway Benefits, a new fintech startup which offers up help with student loan repayments as an employee benefit, has raised $3.1M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by ...

San Diego-based Blacksmith Medicines and Forge Therapeutics said Monday that the two companies are in a definitive merger agreement. Financial details of the merger were not announced. According to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University of California, Riverside Extension (UCRX) said this morning that it is launching a number of free, massive open online courses (MOOCs). The free courses include a mental health and well ...