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The insurance industry is no longer made up of 'old guys in polyester suits,' as one industry chief put it. To the contrary, its professionals are dynamic individuals with diverse [...]

Although banking failures and a weak IPO market have meant trouble for many startup companies, the headwinds have managed to clear a path for the launch of startup-focused lending platform [...]

Genesis' new Santa Monica dealership marks the brand's entrance into the West Coast dealership market and is the 15th location for longstanding local dealership group LAcarGuy, which owns and operates [...]

Two local real estate companies have combined to better tackle the build-to-rent housing market, which has garnered increasing interest from young Americans priced out of buying a home due to [...]

Santa Monica-based Starco Brands has delved further into the consumer products market with the acquisition of meal replacement-product developer Soylent, which is led by Chief Executive Demir Vangelov. The deal [...]

PNC Bank, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services, is expanding its corporate banking services and plans to grow its retail branch presence in Los Angeles, a move that has [...]

BANKS: Opening branches part of westward expansion. PNC Bank, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based PNC Financial Services, is expanding its corporate banking services and plans to grow its retail branch presence [...]

1a. The Greater Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce's State of the Chamber event was attended by local business leaders and featured networking opportunities. From left to right: Dr. Steven Greenman [...]

Union Bank, after a 100-plus year history in Los Angeles with especially strong ties to the Japanese community, will operate under a new name by June since it has been [...]

Automotive lifestyle brand and specialty insurance provider Hagerty is closing in on fully completing Garage + Social Van Nuys, its entrance into Southern California's car enthusiast market. The facility's 30,000-square-foot [...]

K1 Investment Management exited one of its more than 20 portfolio companies last month with the sale of work management-software firm TeamDynamix to New York-based Level Equity for an undisclosed [...]

Culver City-based Avenda Health received the green light from the Food and Drug Administration last month for iQuest, a patient management software that identifies and visualizes prostate cancer. The artificial [...]

Yet another company has joined the Valley's burgeoning life science cluster with the arrival of biotechnology firm Dantari, which emerged from stealth with a $47 million series A funding round [...]

Local economic leader and business advocate Bill Allen is vacating his post as the chief executive and president of the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp., making way for Chief Operating [...]

Microsoft's acquisition of Santa Monica video game publisher Activision Blizzard hit headwinds earlier this month when the Federal Trade Commission announced its intent to block the $68.7 billion deal, but [...]

T-cell therapy company Neogene Therapeutics is being purchased by multinational pharma giant AstraZeneca in a deal potentially worth as much as $320 million that could greatly strengthen the regional biotech [...]

ENTERTAINMENT: Firm's networking site is growing Impact, an online professional networking site for the film and television industries, has secured $15 million in series B financing. Impact principals said the [...]

Akido Labs is a medtech startup turned health care provider that has redirected its growth strategy through a partnership with Pomona-based Chaparral Medical Group. The partnership takes Akido's proprietary tech [...]

Local real estate executives have mixed feelings on the passage of Senate Bill 6, which allows housing to be built on underused shopping centers and other commercial plots. The bill [...]

Local real estate executives such as Andre Soroudi of Century City-based CGI Real Estate Investment Strategies view the passage of Senate Bill 6, which allows housing to be built on [...]

Game studio Popularium launched last month and is working on its first video game, "Chaos Agents." One of the studio's co-founders, Richard Garfield, is the creator of fantasy card game [...]

Jonathan Bankard and his colleagues at Popularium are all industry veterans. The video studio launched last month and is working on a new title, "Chaos Agents." By ANTONIO PEQUENO IV [...]

Beverly Hills-based Platinum Equity is buying the Jeld-Wen Australasia windows, doors and related building products business from Jeld-Wen Holding Inc. for approximately $461 million. "We are proud to have crafted [...]

Advertising technology platform Nativo has secured as much as $25 million in structured capital from Bay Area specialty credit firm Capital IP Investment Partners. Nativo will use the funding to [...]

Shield, a blockchain security company focused on protecting users from online scams, raised S2.1 million in pre-seed funding from Kraken Ventures, Eterna Capital, Alchemy, Moonpay and other investors. The Los [...]

Live event and virtual production studio Mobeon, based in Burbank, is looking forward to the future of artificial intelligence --so much so that it recently swapped out its human chief [...]

Patty Juarez is Wells Fargo's new head of Hispanic/Latino Affairs, a newly created position that will task Juarez with building a Hispanic/Latino external engagement portfolio focused on national cultural engagement, [...]

Proptech venture capital firm Fifth Wall was announced as the lead investor of a $9 million series B funding round for New York-based company and leasing platform Vero, which comes [...]

Charleston, South Carolina-based software company Blackbaud's board of directors has reviewed and rejected a proposal from Santa Monica-based Clearlake Capital to acquire all Blackbaud's outstanding shares for $71 per share [...]

Angel City Football Club is benefiting from what local attorneys are calling a "surge" of investments and increased valuations in women's sports. "Since 2020, expansion fees for the National Women's [...]

Angel City Football Club is benefiting from what some are calling a "surge" of investments and increased valuations in women's sports. Angel City began playing in the National Women's Soccer [...]

Local Master of Business Administration programs have returned to in-person instruction following the disruption caused by Covid-19--a shift back to normality that is impacting MBA programs and their students. During [...]

Los Angeles Master of Business Administration programs are back to operating pre-pandemic-style, a return to normality that has come with varying consequences for the programs, their applicants and their students. [...]

Bill Allen, who will step down as Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.'s president and chief executive in January, oversaw the local economy through two big downturns: the Great Recession [...]

Valencia-based H2scan, a producer of hydrogen analyzers and leak detectors, is furthering its market reach with the addition of European Director Jordan Ferguson and Director of Safety, Power Storage Systems [...]

Aerosol-focused biotech startup Respira Technologies is gearing up for the start of its first human clinical trials and has appointed Brian Quigley as the new chief executive to lead the [...]

Equity investment platform Untold.io wants to reshape entertainment industry financing with a platform that allows anyone, including non-accredited investors, to put money in films for as little as $1,000. Headquartered [...]

Equity investment platform Untold. io wants to reshape entertainment industry financing with a platform that allows anyone, including average, nonaccredited investors, to put money in films for as little as [...]

Westwood-based Fintech company Sunbit is venturing into the payment card industry with the introduction of its own no-fee credit card that will primarily compete with buy now, pay later firms [...]

The Thousand Oaks City Council has unanimously approved the nearly 12acre Thousand Oaks Ranch development project, marking a historic development for the city.. 'The TO Ranch will be the largest [...]

In a benchmark moment for Arcutis Biotherapeutics, the company launched its first commercial product last week, after receiving FDA approval for the topical plaque psoriasis treatment in late July. The [...]

Electronic sports and entertainment company Faze Clan recently went public via a $725 million SPAC merger with B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp.--a move that gave the company flexibility to [...]

El Segundo aviation startup Skyryse has grown significantly since its 2016 founding and in the last year has secured Series B funding, tripled its headcount, secured multiple partnerships and stayed [...]

Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Chief Executive Eileen Drake won a fierce, monthslong proxy contest with Chairman Warren Lichtenstein over control of the company's board. Drake's independent slate of directors received more [...]

Torrance-based performance car company Czinger Vehicles recently announced the formation of its global dealer network, a milestone that brings the young company closer to competing with renowned car manufacturers on [...]

Valley hospitals have grappled with a global pandemic that triggered a litany of health care challenges, both operational and financial, including deferred care, staff burnout and financial losses. But those [...]

UCLA Health recently opened another primary and specialty care clinic in the Thousand Oaks market in a bid to meet demand for primary care doctors, as well as apportioning additional [...]

El Segundo transportation startup WattEV recently put its grant and seed funding to use with an order of 50 Volvo VNR Electric Trucks to launch the company's Truck-as-a-Service model in [...]

Fintech data and insights firm SRAX has made an executive change as it grapples with the aftermath of being delisted from Nasdaq. Alan Urban was named the company's chief financial [...]

Velocity Financial, an originator and manager of investor real estate loans, said in its fourth-quarter and full-year results that it managed growth in the face of a turbulent real estate [...]