It's interesting to see how the Internet continues to create new marketplaces for what are otherwise inefficient businesses. An area we've been seeing a lot of companies attacking recently is tutoring ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carlsbad-based 3E, which provides compliance products for the chemical and workplace safety market, said early this morning that it has acquired Quick-FDS, a provider of workplace safety solutions in ...

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 ...

Los Angeles-based CraveOnline.com, a operator of a number of online male-focused web sites, said Monday that it has acquired MyAnimeList, a anime and manga social networking web site. Financial terms ...

Dollar Shave Club, the subscription razor delivery service headed by Michael Dubin, has raised $9.8M in a Series A funding. The round was led by Venrock, and also included Kleiner Perkins Caufield & ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the third, separate piece of news from Pasadena-based UberMedia today, the firm said it has completed a financing round from Accel Partners this morning. The firm raised $17.5M in the new funding ...

Los Angeles-based Readout AI has raised a pre-seed funding round, which will help it "turbocharge the biostatistical and medical writing tasks associated with clinical trials." Size of the funding was ...