socalTECH

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A new, Los Angeles startup, Whatnot , which operates a online live stream shopping service and marketplace for collectors, said late Thursday that it had raised $4M in a seed funding round. The company said it has built an online marketplace which addresses the issues of fraudulent activity on existing marketplaces.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 5, 2016

About the Book: Recent technological developments in biology, computation, cybernetics, engineering, industrial design, materials, and robotics allow architecture to evolve beyond static functionality and become an active participant—with the capacity to perceive, react to, and connect—with humans and the natural world.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. Each group should consist of at least a business developer, designer and technical developer. The post Startup Weekend Los Angeles | Stop Dreaming, Start Doing!

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2019

Maybe a robot can help--at least, that's the thought of Los Angeles-based VARRAM , which announced this week that it has launched a "pet fitness robot". Varram said its robot is "specially designed to keep dogs and cats mentally and physically engaged", by automatically interacting with your pets while you are away.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this morning that it has raised a new, $675M fund. The company said its new fund, Diversis Capital Partners II, exceeded its target of $500M. The company said it reached the $675M in commitments just three months after its formal launch.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company under Alphabet, has started creating 3D maps in some heavily trafficked sections of Los Angeles to better understand congestion there and determine if its self-driving vehicles would be a good fit in the city. — Waymo (@Waymo) October 7, 2019. Kirkland, Wash.,

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2021

Los Angeles-based online electronic retailer Newegg said on Friday that it is looking to take advantage of the recent closure of Fry's Electronics, to both hire and place workers from the now defunct electronics chain.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Los Angeles’ district attorney is warning travelers to avoid public USB charging points because “they may contain dangerous malware.” Several security researchers have dropped me messages saying they’ve seen proof-of-concepts, but nothing actively malicious.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2013

It's a new year, and another batch of accelerator startups, as Demo Day season in Los Angeles kicks off this week. The first Demo Day of 2013 in Los Angeles is tomorrow, as MuckerLab launches its latest class of startups; fellow Los Angeles accelerator StartEngine has its first 2013 demo day scheduled for January 30th.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2017

Los Angeles-based Two Bit Circus , the entertainment startup founded by Brent Bushnell, and non-profit T4G.org announced this morning that they have launched the Two Bit Circus Foundation.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 18, 2012

There has been talk for the past week about Microsoft making a “Major” announcement here in Los Angeles. Company executives showed two Windows tablets and accessories that feature significant advances in industrial design and attention to detail. Wait no more! Starting with magnesium, parts can be molded as thin as.65

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Los Angeles-based Happiest Baby , the developer of a "smart" crib which automatically soothes babies to sleep, depending on their activity level and fussiness, has raised $23M in Series B funding, the company said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Created by founder Toby Daniels , Social Media Week Los Angeles will focus this series of discussions around the theme of “Empowering Change Through Collaboration.” Monday: Los Angeles – The Social City. Why Los Angeles Is The Next Silicon Valley. ” SMWLA will take place next week Sept.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi revealed Tuesday evening in Los Angeles the e-tron Sportback as the German automaker begins to chip away at its plan to launch more than 30 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2025. This is not a two-door car with a fixed roof and a sloping rear, although there are “coupé” elements in the design.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Tim Street – Topping Mashable’s list of Social Media VIPs in Los Angeles Tim Street is a Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, New Media Consultant and Web Video Branded Entertainment Pioneer. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a. NewTek Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, Klarna is live in 20 markets, has more than 90 million global active users and more than 2 million transactions a day conducted on its platform. While the company was profitable for its first 14 years of life, it has not been profitable the last two, according to Siemiatkowski, and that’s been by design.

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socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2013

For all of the activity in Silicon Beach which seems to be crystallizing in Santa Monica, there are many other parts of Los Angeles which have a long history of involvement in the technology industry. One of those areas is Pasadena, home to Idealab, Caltech, and a large number of technology companies, big and small.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2019

Los Angeles-based Internet services and publishing giant j2 Global has acquired two companies, saying this morning that it acquired Ekahau , a company in the digital media space, and Castle Connolly , a company in the digital media and healthcare industry.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

The new information, gleaned from recently unsealed court documents , provides new insight into the company’s past activities and what that might mean for its upcoming IPO. After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. billion investment in 2018.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2015

General Assembly , the co-working and education startup which is extremely active in the Los Angeles area, has raised $70M in a new funding round. General Assembly offers up a wide range of classes on coding, design, marketing, and more, as well as acts as a host to countless community groups, meetups, and events.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2014

The problem is that with WordPress I just found it a bit too cumbersome to change the design on my own. I like to get what is in my brain out into words and as you probably know I worry less about typos, grammar or – generally – visual design. He was able to take Jess’s design concepts and get them built into my blog.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The startup said it is developing novel drugs based on the anti-cancer activity of metformin and designed to reduce cancer energy production to treat a range of cancer types. The company was founded by Dr. Michael Jung and Dr. Richard Pietras, both of whom are professors at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2020

A new initiative from a Los Angeles investor is taking stock of venture firms and their ability to commit capital in an effort to match firms that are still open for business and cutting checks to startups that are fundraising in the age of COVID-19. PLEASE RT to spread the word. — Laurent Grill (@laurentgrill) March 18, 2020.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2011

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Tim Street – Topping Mashable’s list of Social Media VIPs in Los Angeles Tim Street is a Writer, Producer, Director, Editor, New Media Consultant and Web Video Branded Entertainment Pioneer. Justine Ezarik (a.k.a. NewTek Inc.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Even though the plan by Los Angeles to create a Clean Technology Corridor on the banks of the LA river has yet to advance much beyond the planning stage, a competition pitting architects to create their vision for the clean technology zone has just named winners who have expressed their futuristic visions for what the area might look like.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

When the Los Angeles-based startup Maslo launched its first product in early 2018 , the company was focused on a direct-to-consumer tool designed to encourage mindfulness and self-awareness through a machine learning enabled avatar that would respond to individual’s inputs. Image courtesy of Maslo.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I fell in love again with the process of working with founders, designing systems, executing business ideas and driving to mass scale and audience. He is one of Los Angeles' most active angel investors, with more than $2.5B

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

K5Launch , which was announced yesterday, is headed up by Amir Banafatemi, Ray Chan, David Cheng, and Kai Tao, four Southern California angel investors. Similarly, the firm is using a Y-Combinator/TechStars model to startups, and covers Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 26, 2022

Four years and hundreds of long lines later, the truck is still there, but the company is taking on what co-founder Nile Dreiling calls “a stale $40 billion donut industry ” by expanding its presence into brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles after raising $9 million in financing.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I've lived in Los Angeles for ten years now. The Nextspace @ Amplify campus is an attractive co-working space designed to foster working, learning and networking. Travis Oberlander has beene chronicling the local technology scene for socalTECH, with a particular focus on the startup accelerators and activity in Silicon Beach.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2018

All your happy neurotransmitters fire, and your dorsolateral prefrontal cortex performs differently –you do not second guess yourself, you quite simply just flow into the next stages of the activity at hand. I got my first hands-on demo of all three products in one sitting at a cannabis technology event in Los Angeles, Grassfed LA.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. From the site, Relativity will be able to launch its first designed rocket, the Terran 1, which is the only fully 3D-printed rocket in the world. 3D-printing the first rocket on Mars.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Los Angeles-based Bev is no different. In Canada, INKSmith , a startup that was making design and tech tools accessible for kids, has now moved to making face shields and is hiring up to 100 new employees to meet demand. “I Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images).

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Developers also choose Epic’s Unreal Engine for cinematic production, visualization, design and simulation. is a game-based learning platform with more than 50 million monthly active users in 180 countries. ProductionPro pulls scripts, research, designs, and continuity together to empower creative decision-making.

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