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LOS ANGELES Like tens of thousands of other employers around Los Angeles County, Sunder Ramani is scrambling to meet a July 1 state deadline to craft a custom-tailored workplace violence [...]

Malibu-based robotic microsurgery company Horizon Surgical Systems Inc. has raised $30 million in series A financing to support the development of its eye surgery system to ready it for human [...]

THE VALLEY: SYLMAR Sylmar-based civil construction company Tutor Perini Corp. began this month with a flurry of contract activity. First, on Oct. 2, came the announcement that Tutor Perini, in [...]

WALNUT Walnut-based water treatment company Economic Alternatives Inc. has expanded to the East Coast with its acquisition of Clearwater Industries, a water treatment company based in Shelton, Connecticut. Economic Alternatives, [...]

ALHAMBRA July was a busy month for Alhambra-based Astrana Health Inc. Astrana, formerly called Apollo Medical Holdings, is a health care management and technology company enabling physician groups to better [...]

THE VALLEY: SYLMAR Sylmar-based civil construction contractor Tutor Perini Corp. has announced a trio of project awards in recent weeks. The largest of the awards--for a $1.3 billion bridge replacement [...]

CULVER CITY ImmunityBio Inc., the Culver City-based immunotherapy company founded by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong that last month won Food and Drug Administration approval for its lead drug candidate Anktiva, has [...]

Pharmavite, a West Hills vitamin and supplement company, has acquired Bonafide Health, a women's health products company based in Harrison, New York, for $425 million. Pharmavite, founded in 1971, is [...]

West Hills-based ImmPACT Bio USA Inc. a clinical-stage company developing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies for treating cancer and autoimmune diseases, has received fast-track designation from the Food and Drug [...]

Investors in Culver City-based immunotherapy company ImmunityBio Inc. have recently been buoyed by the company's announcements that it resubmitted--and the Food and Drug Administration has accepted--its application for review of [...]

AMGEN INC. HEADQUARTERS: Thousand Oaks YEAR FOUNDED: 1980 BUSINESS: Pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes therapeutics focused on treating cancers, inflammation, cardiovascular disease and other health conditions and [...]

Toronto-based private equity firm North-leaf Capital Partners has agreed to invest $200 million--and acquire a controlling stake in--Venice-based EVPassport, Inc. an electric vehicle charging platform company. EVPassport, which was founded [...]

Northridge-based SpineX Inc., a clinical-stage company developing noninvasive neuromodulation devices, has had some of its research published in a peer-reviewed journal as it gears up for clinical trials of a [...]

EV SAFE CHARGE INC. HEADQUARTERS: Downtown Los Angeles YEAR FOUNDED: 2016 BUSINESS NICHE IN EV CHARGING MARKET: Provides clients range of electric vehicle charging options: permanent installations for sale, charger [...]

Westwood-based Sensydia Corp., which is developing a noninvasive cardiac assessment platform, has received a S3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for clinical testing of its artificial intelligence [...]

A new name has joined the ranks of publicly traded health care companies in the San Fernando Valley and environs: Agoura Hills-based immunology company Acelyrin Inc., which began trading May [...]

Two new biomedical facilities in the western San Fernando Valley held their official openings in recent weeks. First, on April 29, the Westwood-based Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation officially opened [...]

Finally, some good news for beleaguered shareholders of Culver City-based ImmunityBio Inc., who had watched their share values plunge roughly 90% in 14 months. The immunotherapy company founded by billionaire [...]

Marina del Rey-based Wellth has raised $20 million in series B financing. The funding round was led by San Francisco-based venture capital firm SignalFire. Another major contributor was Frank Williams, [...]

More than 40 years ago, Gene Hale was working as an analyst for a financial institution's construction equipment loan portfolio and saw how minority-owned companies were getting the short end [...]

Thousand Oaks-based gene therapy company Capsida Therapeutics Inc. has signed a multi-year partnership deal with a subsidiary of pharma giant Eli Lilly and Co. to develop genetic medicines for serious [...]

Woodland Hills-based late-stage clinical immunotherapy company Acelyrin Inc., which has amassed more than $550 million in funding in less than two years, has acquired Bethesda, Maryland-based immunotherapy company ValenzaBio Inc. [...]

Thousand Oaks-based pharma giant Amgen Inc. closed a pair of multibillion-dollar deals last year, both aimed at furthering its ability to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The bigger of the [...]

El Segundo-based 24 Hour Home Care is expanding outside of California and Arizona for the first time. The nonmedical in-home care services company said last month that it had formed [...]

By HOWARD FINE Staff Reporter When it launched 12 years ago as a solar panel installation spin-off business, Pasadena-based SunGreen Systems Inc. could have tried to compete with major players [...]

A German science and research trade delegation visited earlier this month with GoodRx Holdings Inc. and Quantgene Inc., health tech companies based in Santa Monica. GoodRx was founded in 2011 [...]

Downtown L.A.-based Clean Power Alliance, a community-based renewable energy provider, has been receiving 100 megawatts of capacity from AES Corp.'s Luna Battery Storage Project in Lancaster since early August, the [...]

Brentwood-based biopharma company CytRx Corp. on Sept. 7 announced the European Patent Office had awarded it a patent for its main drug platform. CytRx has developed a platform called LADR [...]

A health tech accelerator has launched at UCLA. Called the TechQuity Accelerator and run by UCLA Health, this program is aimed at life science companies with innovations for communities underserved [...]

It may be the least glamorous part of medicine, but Alhambra-based Apollo Medical Holdings Inc. has reaped considerable profit for itself and its shareholders by managing administrative and back-office functions [...]

USC's health system just got larger. On July 1, Arcadia-based Methodist Hospital of Southern California officially joined Keck Medicine of USC as an affiliated hospital and was renamed USC Arcadia [...]

This past weekend was slated to see major milestones for two iconic bridge crossings in Los Angeles County. On the eastern edge of downtown, the replacement for one of those [...]

Methodist Hospital of Southern California in Arcadia announced on June 27 that it received a $7.5 million gift from businessman, financier and Arcadia resident Charles Huang for a new operating [...]

SpectrumAi, a digital health company using artificial intelligence algorithms to improve treatments for patients on the autism spectrum, announced on June 2 it raised $9 million and plans to move [...]

Monrovia-based biotech company Cytolmmune Therapeutics Inc., which is developing natural killer cell theraoies to treat diseases, opened a manufacturing plant in Puerto Rico in March that will make natural killer [...]

OneLegacy, a downtown L.A.-based organ procurement organization, announced April 11 that its chief operating officer and chief information officer, Prasad Garimella, has been promoted to chief executive. Longtime chief executive [...]

The next time you visit Grand Canyon Sky-walk in northwestern Arizona and marvel at how the semicircular bridge that juts out over the gorge has avoided breaking off and sliding [...]

Pasadena-based consulting and technical services company Tetra Tech Inc. announced March 3 that it has acquired Vancouver, British Columbia-based water management company Piteau Associates. Financial terms of the purchase were [...]

Amid all the devastation in the air travel industry. Century City-based Air Lease Corp. stands out as a good news story. The aircraft leasing company, co-founded a decade ago by [...]

Santa Monica-based GoodRx Inc., which rose to prominence through its app allowing consumers to comparison shop pharmacies for prescription drugs, now wants to give consumers the power to lower their [...]

For the next chapter in his extensive career in health care, Mario Molina had planned to serve as the first dean of a new local medical school. But then the [...]

Santa Monica-based health tech communications platform provider TigerConnect Inc. has received a $300 million investment from New York-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners Management, the company announced Jan. 11. [...]

Some knew that they had to leave their native countries to seek business success here because opportunities were limited at home. Others set up their own shops after they landed [...]

It may be the largest construction project in Los Angeles history, but until recently, construction work related to the Sixth Street Viaduct replacement bridge had mainly been a local affair, [...]

Rancho Park-based NovaSignal Corp., which makes technology to monitor blood flow inside the brain, announced Sept. 28 that it closed $37 million in a Series C1 funding round. Founded in [...]

Anew cancer research institute has opened its doors on L.A.'s Westside. The Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, the first nonprofit that bears the name of Oracle Corp. founder [...]

Uniper Care Technologies, a homebased senior services content provider headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, with its U.S. headquarters in Palms, has raised $14.5 million to expand its television-based platform in [...]

A new immunotherapy biotech company that launched three years ago in Europe with backing from local biotech magnate Arie Belldegrun has set up its U.S. headquarters in Belldegrun's former haunt, [...]

1 Patrick Soon-Shiong NET WORTH: $8 billion ↑3% LAST YEAR: $7.8 billion AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: West Los Angeles SOURCE OF WEALTH: Pharmaceuticals FOR the fourth consecutive year, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong [...]

Los Angeles County is losing another major corporate headquarters. Pasadena engineering firm Parsons Corp. announced Feb. 28 that it is moving its HQ to Centreville, Va., in the Washington, D.C., [...]