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Congratulations to Preccelerator alumni company founder Tina Hay on their recent partnership with JP Morgan Chase Bank to provide insight into topics like determining your risk tolerance, diversification, and rebalancing your portfolio. You can check out the financial literacy campaign here. We’re very proud of your success! About Napkin FInance “Everything about money in 30 […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently adopted rule amendments that are intended to promote capital formation and reduce compliance costs for small public companies, while maintaining appropriate investor protections.  Effective as of September 10, 2018, the definition of “smaller reporting company” will be amended to allow more companies to qualify as smaller reporting companies, […]

To accommodate this growth, Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ accelerator, The Preccelerator, is moving to expand its coworking space for companies in Santa Monica. LOS ANGELES, Calif., August 6, 2018 (Newswire.com) – The Preccelerator® Program, a Santa Monica, California-based early-stage startup accelerator focused on digital media and technology companies, announced today that it is moving its […]

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles client, CDTi, a leader in advanced emission control technology,  announced the closing of its previously announced rights offering.  At the closing, they issued and sold an aggregate of 4,427,563 shares of its common stock at the subscription price of $0.50 per share, pursuant to the exercise of subscriptions and oversubscriptions in the rights […]

Preccelerator Company Checkplis was featured this week on BuiltinLA’s Top 5 companies to watch report. The Checkplis app allows users to pay at any time and restaurants can also integrate the app into their point-of-sale systems (POS).  Checkplis is a mobile app integrated into POS systems so customers can pay, tip and split the check themselves, […]

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles client Malauzai,  a provider of mobile and Internet banking solutions for community financial institutions, has been acquired by Finastra, a fintech company that builds and deploys next generation technology on an open software architecture the company developed and a cloud system. To read the full press release visit here. Stubbs Alderton attorney John McIlvery  […]

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ client Alpine Pacific Capital was a minority investor in Arable Capital Partners’ acquisition of Farmington Fresh Cuts, a processor of fresh sliced apples, oranges, pears and other packaged fruits. Farmington will merge with Fresh Innovations, which is also backed by Arable. To read the full press release visit here. Stubbs Alderton attorney representing Alpine Pacific Capital is Marc […]

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles’ client INTAC Actuarial Services, which provides administration of employer-sponsored retirement plans for about 3,000 small and mid-sized companies, their owners, key executives and employees, has announced that it will be acquired by Ascensus, a technology-enabled solutions provider that helps more than 8 million Americans save for the future. To read the full […]

LAVA Healthcare Presents: Digital Health Startups: From Ideas to Successful Exits Date 12 Jul 2018 Time 6:30pm – 9:00pm PDT Location ASU California Center 725 Arizona Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90401, USA Investments in digital health start-ups have been setting record highs since 2010.  More than $23 billion flowed into digital health startups since 2010.  2017 saw […]

“Flying with Unicorns” LAVA Awards Celebration 2018 Santa Monica Museum of Flying Wednesday, July 11, 2018 Agenda 5:30pm         Attendee Check-in + Networking Dinner 7:30pm         Fireside Chat with Unicorns 8:15pm         Dessert and Hall of Fame Award You’ll see… A Fireside Chat with Los Angeles’s recent Unicorn Exits from Startup to $1BB+       […]