CONEJO VALLEY AGOURA HILLS Hixme Insurance Solutions Inc. has raised $10.4 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. The Agoura Hills health benefits consulting firm also announced that Denny Weinberg, a co-founder and executive at insurance giant Wellpoint (now Anthem Inc. in Indianapolis) will serve as its chief executive. In addition, Dr. Beth Seidenberg, a general partner at Kleiner Perkins, has joined the Hixme board. Hixme offers a technology-enabled platform to help employers move from employer-owned group benefits programs to market-based private programs that enable their employees to tailor coverage to fit their needs. Hixme will invest the money into operational growth to advance its technology development and national marketing. CALABASAS Adler Realty Investments Inc. of Woodland Hills has purchased a 100,000-square-foot office building in Calabasas for $24 million. The property, in Calabasas Business Park 2 at 23901 Calabasas Road, is 95 percent leased to small professional clients who serve the San Fernando Valley, including residential brokerage Rodeo Realty. The investor plans to renovate the building, which dates to 1983 and was last renovated in 2001, upgrading the lobbies, common areas, landscaping and interior courtyard. The seller was Century National Properties Inc. of Santa Monica. Brokers Bill Bauman and Kyle Miller with brokerage Savills Studley represented both seller and buyer in the transaction. NetSol Technologies Inc. will license its software at two new companies in Taiwan, further expanding its footprint in the Asian auto finance market. Taiwan Acceptance Corp. Finance Leasing Co. Ltd. and Yulon Auto Finance Co. will use NetSol Financial Suite software, an auto finance and leasing program. The Calabasas software company valued the combined deals at $3 million, with program installation to be completed in the next six months. NEWBURY PARK Agricultural biotech Ceres Inc. of Newbury Park has entered into a licensing agreement with KWS SAAT SE, a worldwide seed developer based in Germany. According to the agreement, KWS will assess Ceres’ Persephone bioinformatics technology, a system that streamlines DNA-related information and helps to speed up biological research. “We plan to evaluate how Persephone can help disseminate data for the widest audience within KWS for discussion or discovery,” said Dr. Andreas Menze, head of bioinformatics at KWS, which employs more than 1,000 researchers. SAN FERNANDO VALLEY BURBANK The head of a Glendale bank is one of four new members appointed to the board of trustees at Woodbury University. Americas United Bank Chief Executive Adriana M. Boeka was named to the board of the Burbank school along with Talin Fakhoorian, a recent Woodbury graduate; Afshin Kateb, chief financial officer at Nimes Capital in Los Angeles; and Peter Ma, of Colbeck Capital Management in New York. The 30-member board is Woodbury’s governing body, providing policy, leadership and oversight. Boeka has been in the banking industry since 1995 and prior to Americas United had management positions at Bank of California, Bank of America, Crocker Bank and Wells Fargo. ENCINO High-end grocer Gelson’s Markets of Encino has signed a purchase agreement for eight stores being closed by Haggen Food & Pharmacy. Another group of 28 stores in California and Nevada formerly operated by Haggen, including four in the Valley, are being acquired by discount warehouse chain Smart & Final LLC of Commerce. Both deals are subject to bankruptcy court approval since the Bellingham, Wash. chain filed for Chapter 11 last month. The Gelson’s acquisition includes a former Haggen outlet in Thousand Oaks at 1736 W. Avenida De Los Arboles. It was an Albertson’s before Haggen purchased it and 82 other grocery outlets in the state earlier this year in an unsuccessful expansion bid. PANORAMA CITY Kaiser Permanente Panorama City Medical Center has named Dr. James Lau as the new medical director for the area, which extends into the East San Fernando Valley and Santa Clarita Valley. Lau joined the Southern California Permanente Medical Group in 1990 and was chief of urology from 1997 to 2009. In 2010, he became assistant area medical director, and served in that position until his promotion to area medical director earlier this month. In his new position, Lau will lead nearly 500 physicians who serve around 250,000 patients. He will also continue to offer his services at his Kaiser Permanente practice. SHERMAN OAKS El Dorado Villas, a 50,000-square-foot property at 4510 Murietta Ave. with 33 units individually deeded as condominiums, has sold to an Indonesian investor for $19.5 million, or nearly $600,000 a unit. The high sales price was achieved because of the potential to sell off individual units without having to undergo a condominium conversion process, and because the units are high-end, with an average size of 1,460 square feet, said Brent Sprenkle, a partner in the El Segundo office of Berkadia Real Estate Advisors who represented the seller, Van Nuys-based developer Shapiro Ben-Basat. The property was built as a luxury condo project in 2008, but operated as a luxury apartment building during the recession. The buyer was represented by Calabasas brokerage Marcus & Millichap. VAN NUYS Exelis Inc. has received a $38 million contract from the Pentagon to supply radar modification kits for the U.S. Navy. The work will be performed at the Van Nuys facility of Exelis and completed by September 2018, according to the Defense Department. The modification kits are for the AN/SPS-48 radar system used as the primary air search sensor for anti-aircraft warships. Options on the contract, if exercised, would bring its value to $113 million. Exelis, in McLean, Va., is an aerospace, defense, information and services company that was acquired early this year by Harris Corp., in Melbourne, Fla. WOODLAND HILLS Century 21 Peak, part of the Peak Corporate Network group of companies, acquired Granada Hills residential brokerage Century 21 All Moves and its affiliated real estate school and escrow company for an undisclosed price. The transaction adds 100 agents to Peak, bringing its roster up to 150 and expanding its reach into the eastern part of the San Fernando Valley, said Eli Tene, the firm’s managing director. The deal is part of a five-year plan to expand Peak’s presence in the Los Angeles market. Voit Real Estate Services, the development company that built Warner Center, has restructured into a brokerage firm and replaced founder Bob Voit with a new chief executive. The Anaheim company built the 3.1 million-square-foot Warner Center Plaza and Warner Center Business Park during the 1980s under Voit’s leadership. With the restructuring, Voit will serve as chairman of the board and Eric Hinkelman, a broker and former executive managing director of the firm, will become chief executive. The company, founded in 1971, no longer has a presence in the Valley. SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SANTA CLARITA Princess Cruises is adding a new ship to its fleet that will cater to the Chinese travel market. The Majestic Princess, a 143,000-ton vessel, will carry 3,560 guests for cruises to Japan and Korea. The ship will be based in Shanghai year-round, beginning operations in the summer of 2017. The large vessel will also have a Chinese name on its hull to represent its dedication to the Chinese market. Majestic Princess will offer all the amenities and features as other Princess cruises. The ship is currently under construction at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy. – Compiled by Karen E. Klein