Anchore completes $5 million funding round
Updated at 9:15 a.m. Oct. 5 Santa Barbara startup Anchore completed a $5 million funding round, the company announced Oct. 4. Serial entrepreneur Saïd Ziouani launched the company April 6. It provides a portal for software containers used in IT software app development by software developers and system administration teams. The company was founded with Read More →
Read More →Amgen partners with Swedish company to develop drugs
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen will pay a Swedish company up to $410 million to help it develop oncology and neuroscience drugs. The companies announced the partnership Oct. 4 and said Nuevolution will use its Chemetics drug discovery platform to discover drugs for Amgen. Nuevolution may receive licensing payments along with development, commercial and milestone payments. It Read More →
Read More →Air Force awards AeroVironment a $22.8 million contract for miniature missile system
The U.S. Air Force awarded AeroVironment a $22.8 million contract for miniature missile systems Oct. 3. First deployed by the USAF in 2011, the AeroVironment Switchblade is a small missile system that can be fit in backpacks and can provide precision strikes using a missile carried in its body. The Switchblade is fired from a Read More →
Read More →LTC Properties increases dividend to 19 cents per share
Westlake Village-based LTC Properties increased its monthly dividend on its common stock to 19 cents per share for the fourth quarter, the company announced on Oct. 3. The dividend was a 5.6 percent increase from the 18-cent dividend in the previous quarter. It is payable on Oct. 31, Nov. 30 and Dec. 30 to stockholders Read More →
Read More →PennyMac declares dividend of 47 cents per share
Moorpark-based PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust declared a cash dividend of 47 cents per common share for the third quarter of 2016, which was in line with the previous quarter. This dividend will be paid on Oct. 27 to common shareholders of record as of Oct. 7. PennyMac is a mortgage real estate investment trust that Read More →
Read More →CoastHills Credit Union opens branch in Thousand Oaks
Lompoc-based CoastHills Credit Union recently opened its first Ventura County branch at 125 N. Moorpark Road in Thousand Oaks. The 5,000-square-foot “branch of the future” features a virtual banking experience as well as a tech bar that offers tutorials for CoastHill’s digital products. CoastHills completed a renovation of the space that was formerly home to Read More →
Read More →Amgen paying Arrowhead for traits to develop cardiovascular drugs
Amgen will license two traits from a Pasadena pharmaceutical company to develop cardiovascular drugs under a partnership announced Sept. 29. Under the agreement, Thousand Oaks-based Amgen will pay Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals $35 million up front, $21.5 million in the form of an equity investment by Amgen in Arrowhead common stock, and up to $617 million in Read More →
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