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Plant-based cereal startup OffLimits pours $2.3M into new products

For Emily Elyse Miller, founder and CEO of OffLimits, launching during a global pandemic was “interesting to navigate,” but in the end, worked out.

The biggest exit for this L.A. venture firm may wind up being . . . canned water

Earlier this week, Science Inc, the 10-year-old, L.A.-based incubator and venture firm, rolled out a blank-check company onto the Nasdaq, raising $310.5 million for what firm founders Peter Pham and M

Science Inc. is getting into the music business with incubator Heavy Sound Labs

Jason Geter, who previously co-founded Grand Hustle Records, told me that he’s looking to “redefine what a record label is today” with his new startup Heavy Sound Labs. Geter said he

Newly launched pet health startup Gallant wants you to bank your dog’s stem cells for $990

With $11 million in funding and a mission to open up the doors of regenerative therapies to dogs across the nation, the Los Angeles-based startup Gallant is now opening its doors for the first time. T

A brand called Liquid Death wants to sell mountain water to the cool kids

Inventive packaging is more crucial than ever when it comes to launching a new brand into a world already clogged with every product imaginable. Think, for example, of the sugary energy drinks that be

Equity podcast: Coinbase buys a startup, Discord’s a unicorn and Netflix soars

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch’s Katie Roof and Crunchbase News’s

Science, the L.A.-based incubator, just closed on $75 million for its first real venture fund

Science Inc, the Santa Monica, Ca.-based incubator and investment firm, has closed a new venture capital fund with $75 million in commitments, shows a new SEC filing. According to the six-year-old fi

Mammoth Media, the startup behind chat fiction app Yarn, raises $13M

Mammoth Media has raised a $13 million Series A funding to create what it calls “entertainment experiences for the mobile-first generation.” Mammoth is not the first startup to pitch itsel

Fast chat with L.A-based Science about its third exit this year (and more)

It’s been a good week for Science, a five-year-old, L.A.-based startup studio that’s known for both funding nascent startups and incubating them, including FameBit, a three-year-old ou

Peter Pham of Science on the psychology of venture capital

‘The battle between entrepreneurs and VCs is unfair’, according to Peter Pham, the co-founder of Science Inc. His reasoning: VCs have experienced thousands upon thousands of pitching pro

Science Inc. Acquires Mobile Ad Network PlayHaven From Upsight

<a target="_blank" href="http://science-inc.com">Science Inc.</a> just announced that it has acquired mobile ad network PlayHaven from mobile analytics and marketing company <a target="_blank" href="h

Science Inc. Acquires Armenian Mobile App-Maker Inlight

Looks like <a target="_blank" href="http://science-inc.com">Science Inc.</a> is getting more serious about mobile development — the startup studio is announcing that it has acquired an eight-person

Backed By Science Inc., FreeGameCredits.com Offers Exactly What Its Name Suggests

Startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.freegamecredits.com">FreeGameCredits.com</a> doesn't have the problem of an ambiguous name — just as you'd guess, it allows mobile game developers to run