ChipAgents keeps venture capital dollars flowing
Just five months after ChipAgents tacked on $50 million to its Series A round, the AI company is piling on the cash yet again, adding another $60 million in Series A2 financing, bringing the expanded round to $134 million in total. New investors in the round included B Capital, joining Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Read More →
Procore announces $845M buy
Carpinteria-based Procore Technologies is beefing up its AI capabilities by announcing the acquisition of DroneDeploy for approximately $845 million in cash. Announced July 29, DroneDeploy is a robotics and visual intelligence platform for the built world, used on over 3 million job sites across more than 180 countries. Procore said in the press release that Read More →
Former T.O. building inspector to stand trial in bribery case
A former Thousand Oaks building inspector and another man are headed for trial on charges they solicited a bribe from a contractor in return for the issuance of a city building permit for a residential project. At the conclusion of a preliminary hearing on July 22, a Ventura County Superior Court Judge found there was Read More →
MannKind wins FDA approval for Furoscix ReadyFlow
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Guest commentary: The bear necessities
By John Grace Some of life’s most valuable investment lessons don’t come from Wall Street. They come from Mother Nature. As a young Boy Scout, I vividly remember a camping trip where the park ranger gathered our troop and delivered a simple warning: “Don’t keep food in your tents.” Bears have an extraordinary sense of Read More →
Guest commentary: Christopher Nolan tries making a blockbuster worthy of Homer
By Paul J. O’Reilly “Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys … longing for his wife and his homecoming.” So begins Homer’s “Odyssey” (in Richard Lattimore’s translation), the poet recounting Odysseus’ travels back to his wife, kin and homeland after a 10-year battle in Troy. The epic is, above Read More →
