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JULY 23, 2019

On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. The startup had raised only a “small seed round” prior to today’s announcement, Vaish said, declining to reveal any financial details. We have done some business in the U.S.

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MAY 15, 2019

A brand new, Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence startup, Halla , announced on Wednesday that it has raised $1.4M The startup says it uses machine learning to help online grocers increase order volume and frequency, helping consumers with such efforts as food discovery and making smarter food choices.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . “Up until now, robotic actuation was mostly about super rigid, super stiff, super strong, repeatable actuation, mostly for manufacturing.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Los Angeles-based Ferret, a startup working on artificial inteligence software to help people determine who they can trust, has raised $4M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The company said it is developing machine learning algorithms which help users determine who they can trust in real time.

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APRIL 10, 2019

One of the hottest sectors of the technology startup market today is the use of artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning across many different sectors including finance. One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Los Angeles-based fintech startup ZestFinance appears to be on the cusp of a deal with housing finance giant Freddie Mac , according to a report today in the WSJ. ZestFinance is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to make more accurate credit decisions.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too often comes with success today.” “We can use technology to hook people to unhook them from unhealthy behaviors.”

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MAY 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based Pearl , the machine learning startup which was spun out of advertising AI software startup GumGum , has raised $11M in a funding round, which came from Craft Ventures, as well as un-named strategic investors.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S. Nuggetverse — Los Angeles-based Nuggetverse is creating a children’s media business based on its marquee character, Tubby Nugget. The company is backed by none other than the National Science Foundation and based in Los Angeles. Wabisabi Design, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Chicago-based venture capital investor Pritzker Group Venture Capital announced this morning that it is expanding its efforts to invest in early stage companies in Los Angeles, and has moved partner Gabe Greenbaum to Los Angeles. Greenbaum had been based at Pritzker's home office in Chicago. READ MORE>>.

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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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MAY 8, 2019

GumGum , the Los Angeles-based startup that’s spent the past decade applying machine learning technologies to advertising and sports, has spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental industry called Pearl. “I started the process of collecting dental x-rays over three years ago.”

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JULY 20, 2021

Los Angeles-based startup MSBAI, which is developing artificial intelligence tools for assisting in engineering reports it has received a $1M US Air Force grant. According to MSBAI, its autonomous system for engineering simulation sets up engineering simulations in minutes that used to take humans hours.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor TenOneTen Ventures is one of the investors in a newly launched startup, which is looking to use artificial intelligence and DNA testing to identify autism and other medical conditions. The startup recently graduated from Y Combinator, and is based in the Bay Area.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

March Capital Partners , the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has raised $300 million for its latest fund. ” Those two themes are borne out in the support March Capital has provided for The Hive , an artificial intelligence-focused incubator, and The Fabric , an infrastructure and internet of things-focused incubator.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Los Angeles-based Camino Financial , a fintech startup offering up small business loans to Latinx businesses, announced an $8M funding round this morning, its Series A. The company said it is using machine learning models to make credit and other financial products available to those entrepreneurs.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

Los Angeles-based fintech startup InvestCloud and seed-stage venture capital fund Stage Venture Partners have announced a new collaboration, where Stage will move into InvestCloud's "Innovation Center" in Los Angeles. Stage says it recently raised its second fund. READ MORE>>.

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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 7, 2021

Los Angeles-based artificial intelligence and robotics startup GrayMatter Robotics said today that the company has received a $1M award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), via a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant. The company said the funding comes on top of the $4.1M

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based Camino Financial announced this morning that it has hired a new Vice President of Engineering. Smeby previously has served at such companies at Capital One and Ellucian, and founded a startup named TuitionCoin. According to the company, it has appoined Eric Smeby to the position.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Q-CTRL , a quantum computing startup started in Sydney, Australia, says it has set up a new, U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles. Q-CTRL said that the Los Angeles office is close to many of its key customers and research partners. The company's founder and CEO is Michael J. READ MORE>>.

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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. According to the company, it has created its own "lifestyle VR world" called the MeetKai Metaverse.

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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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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based LegalMation , a startup which develops artificial intelligence and machine learning-based software for litigation and law practices, has raised a round of funding, according to the company. Size of the funding was not announced.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based Wonder Dynamics, a startup founded by actor Tye Sheridan of "Ready Player One", said it has raised $9M in a Series A funding round. The company said it is building artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the film and "Metaverse" markets.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based Sunbit , a fintech startup which provides point-of-sale financing for purchases, using machine learning to qualify consumers, has raised $26M in a Series B funding round, the company said this week. Oren Zeev, the founding partner of Zeev Ventures, joins Sunbit's board along with the funding.

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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.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Papaya is a Los Angeles-based startup with a mission to do just that. The company’s mobile application lets users take a photo of any bill and then its artificial intelligence-powered “bill-understanding technology” makes sure it gets paid (after a user has provided payment details, of course).

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MARCH 16, 2018

LiveEdu (aka Education Ecosystem), a new startup in the blockchain area which wants to enable the live streaming of educational content, said it has raised $10M in crowdfunding, and set up its headquarters in Los Angeles. Education Ecosystem's CEO is Dr. Michael J. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 26, 2020

Los Angeles-based Cleareye.ai , a developer of artificial intelligence for the banking and finance industry, said today that it has acquired AIWare.ai , a startup developing AI software. is based in Kerala, India. Financial term sof the acquisition were not announced.

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APRIL 12, 2018

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. Founded by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan in 2012, ServiceTitan is very much an up-and-coming billion-dollar business that’s a family (minded) affair. The city of Glendale, Calif.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Los Angeles-based Snafu Records said on Thursday that it has launched a new startup, which will use artificial intelligence to help find musical talent. The company, founded by Ankit Desai, said it raised $2.9M

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MAY 23, 2019

The company is in talks with some insurance companies and expects to have some pilot projects up in the last quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2020. Ezra initially came to market with a single test to screen for prostate cancer using machine learning to diagnose the screens coming off of an abbreviated MRI scan that takes 20 minutes.

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MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based ringDNA , the venture-backed startup which is developing artificial intelligence tools to help sales teams, says it has acquired a popular podcast focused on sales. According to the company, it has acquired the sales podcast "Accelerate!",

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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.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

Los Angeles-based Cinelytic , a developer of artificial intelligence software, says it has signed a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures International (WBPI), where Warner Bros. will use its AI-driven project management software.

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