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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based Whistle , which develops a software platform for hotels to text message their guests, said this morning that it has added new artificial intelligence capabilities to its software.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based Podcorn , a venture-backed startup offering up native podcast advertising and matching, has launched its platform, saying that its platform will help advertisers discover and run native ads on podcasts. Podcorn recently raised $2.2M, in an August 2019 funding round.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based involve.ai, a startup developing artificial intelligence-based customer retention software, said today that it has raised $16M in its Series A funding round. The company said its platform uses artificial intelligence to help businesses prevent customer churn and accelerate its revenue growth.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Now, Thrive Global is adding a tech tool to its arsenal of cognitive behavioral therapies with the acquisition of the Los Angeles-based startup, Boundless Mind. “We were very impressed by their neuroscience-based artificial intelligence that they used to power changes in behavior,” says Huffington.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based ZestFinance , the fintech startup led by Douglas Merrill, said on Tuesday that it has rolled out a new platform aimed to help lenders better underwrite loans to millennials and others with a limited credit history. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

DGene, a content creation company which has a team in Los Angeles, but is based in San Jose, says it has raised $20M in a Series A funding. DGene says it is using artificial intelligence for content creation and restoration. DGene says it is using artificial intelligence for content creation and restoration.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based venture investor Trousdale Ventures announced this morning that it has made an investment in Preamble, a startup offering up "ethical artificial intelligence" moderation to social networks. Size of the seed funding round was not announced.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Los Angeles-based MeetKai, a new virtual reality startup, says it is taking aim at the "Metaverse" with a new set of artificial intelligence-powered offerings. The company says it plans to roll out its experiences on Meta VR, Huawei VR, and other platforms in 2022. The company did not say how it is funded.

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JUNE 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based Retina, a startup that is using artificial intelligence for predicting customer lifetime value, said on Tuesday tht it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Alpha Intelligence Capital and Vertical Venture Partners. Retina is led by co-founder and CEO Emad Hasan.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Logically , a developer of artificial intelligence software and a team of experts focused on news and fact checking, says it is expanding its news checking service to the U.S., The company did not say where its office will be located, but made its announcement from Los Angeles. election news.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Logically.ai , a startup which recently set up an office in Los Angeles, says it is developing artificial intelligence which it claims can help fact check statements and news, says it will apply its AI application to fact check the U.S. Presidential debates. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based TrillerNet, the parent company of social video app developer Triller, has acquired two companies, including a live event and pay-per-view (PPV) company, and a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) company. Financial terms of the two deal were not announced.

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JUNE 2, 2020

Los Angeles-based Trait Signal , a new, automatic analytics startup, said this morning that it has launched a software platform to provide car dealers insights on cars for sale. The startup says its platform, which is available to car dealers across the U.S. The startup is led by founder Tyler Carbone. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence developer Boundless Mind , which is uses AI to personalize the interaction of users on apps, has been acquired by New York-based Thrive Global , a startup founded by Arianna Huffington focused on behavior change. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

MarketerHire , a Los Angeles-based startup backed by a slew of executives from some of the city’s hottest startups, launched its new service matching freelance marketing experts with open jobs listed on its platform. .

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

A new, Los Angeles startup-- Elves --said this week that it has launched a new service, aimed at helping users tackle travel booking, using both artificial intelligence and real human beings. The new startup was co-founded by Karim Elsahy and his wife, Abeer Elsisi. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 25, 2018

Greycroft Ventures , which has a big presence in Los Angeles, has backed Silicon Valley-based BlueCart , a developer of machine learning software and other tools for the hospitality industry, to the tune of $5M. BlueCart said this week that it raised $5M in its Series B-1 funding, bringing its total raised to $22M.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Los Angeles-based GumGum Sports , which develops artificial intelligence powered software which helps sports team measure advertising being presented in sports coverage of their teams, has rolled out a new analytics module it says streamlines sponsorship analysis and reporting.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based Armorway , which develops data analytics software which uses artificial intelligence (AI) for cybersecurity response, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round.

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JUNE 20, 2018

Los Angeles-based UBTECH Robotics , which develops humanoid-like rbots for the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) market, said on Wednesday that it has launched a brand new programmable robot called the Yanshee. According to UBTECH, its new robot--aimed at the U.S. According to UBTECH, its new robot--aimed at the U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Since its soft launch, December 20th of last year, the app development company has built over 100 new applications.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Shamrock Capital reports this morning that it has led a $30M investment in Pixellot , an Israeli firm developing automatic, artificial intelligence-driven software for producing streaming sports video. Pixellot has now raised more than $40M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catasys , a provider of AI- and technology-enabled healthcare services, said today that it has received $10M in a debt financing round, split between a receivable facility agreement of $2.5 million with Heritage Bank of Commerce and a four-year term loan of up to $7.5

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MAY 12, 2020

The 10 startups in Yellow’s third batch include: Brightly : a media platform and community that promotes ethical and sustainable brands. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. making their way to Los Angeles.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Los Angeles- and London-based Engineer.ai , a developer of artificial intelligence software aimed at creating software for SMBs, said today that it has entered into a strategic partnership with DigitalOcean, a provider of cloud services for the development community. recently raised $29.5M

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model , where the machine is capable of creating new text, images and videos based on simple human input. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Los Angeles- and Austin-based Slingshot Aerospace , which develops artificial intelligence software that automatically processes large amounts of imagery data collected by drones, satellites, and aircraft, has raised another $5M, in a new seed funding round. Air Force.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based Wavemaker Partners is one of the lead investors in a round for a cognitive health startup, Savonix , in an extension of its Series A funding. The company said it is using machine learning to gain population health knowledge about cognition, and link that to biomarkers and diseases such as diabetes and dementia.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triller , which operates a social video sharing service which competes against TikTok, has raised $28M in a Series B funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The startup said the funding was led by Proxima Media. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 12, 2017

And over the past three years, Imperson has developed conversational chatbots powered by their artificial intelligence for several Disney projects, including most recently for Walt Disney World’s Pandora – The World of Avatar , according to a press release. Read more about startups in the Los Angeles area at TechCo.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

Currently, only two restaurant delivery robots are operating in Miami, but Lindenberger said the company is planning to expand further into the city and outward into Fort Lauderdale, as well as other large metros the company operates in, such as Dallas, Atlanta, Los Angeles and eventually New York. Image Credits: REEF/Cartken.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at

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APRIL 8, 2021

In a small industrial park located nearly halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, one company is claiming to have hit a milestone in the development of a new technology for generating power from nuclear fusion. “By the time Norman became an operating machine we had four generations of devices preceding it.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 4, 2018

market with the help of several Los Angeles-based investors. The company also plans to add a Netflix-style training platform, where “unlimited relevant training plans” will be available to paying users, as well as nutritional guidance to help people stay fit.

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APRIL 8, 2013

Ashish Soni: The mission behind the startup incubator is to boost the number of engineering co-founded or led technology companies, both from the engineering school at USC, and also in the broader Los Angeles area as well. We have a very large Ph.D. There''s a shortage of those types of people in Los Angeles.

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