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JANUARY 9, 2018

Woodland Hills-based REX Real Estate Exchange , a startup which helps homeowners sell their homes without using an MLS, has raised $15M in a Series B funding. The company has now raised over $30M in funding. The company only charges a 2 percent, flat free.

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JULY 16, 2021

San Diego-based Entos, a developer of artificial intelligence and automated synthetic development technology for designing small-molecule therapeutics, has raised $53M in a Series A funding. The funding was led by Coatue, and also included Catalio Capital Management, OrbiMed, Sequoia CApital, Nexus Ventures, and Freeflow.

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JULY 16, 2019

Carlsbad-based Source Intelligence , which provides supply chain compliance software, has raised new funding, the company announced this morning. Amount of the new funding was not announced. The Series B funding came from Source Capital Partners and Kayne Capital Partners, as well as "local banks". READ MORE>>.

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JULY 26, 2021

Santa Monica-based education technology platform Numerade Labs Inc. raised $26 million in Series A funding for its artificial intelligence-driven tutoring platform.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies.

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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 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 the new funding will go to scale product development. The company was founded by and is led by Gaurav Bhattacharya.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Irvine-based Bitvore , the big data, artificial intelligence, and data analytics startup, has upped its latest funding round to $14.2M, as part of what appears to be an ongoing $17.75M funding effort.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Previous Boundless investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Esther Dyson will join Thrive Global’s cap table. “We were very impressed by their neuroscience-based artificial intelligence that they used to power changes in behavior,” says Huffington. Roughly 70% of healthcare spending in the U.S.

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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. The funding was led by Alibaba Group. 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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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Mogul Millennial — this Dallas-based company is a digital media platform for black entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. TRASH — using this machine learning-based video editing toolkit, users can quickly create and edit high-quality, short-form video. Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.-based

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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. The funding was led by Shamrock, and also included other, existing, un-named investors.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

According to ServiceNow, the deal will help it advanced its own artificial intelligence capabilities, including the addition of support for all major languages on its platform. Passage AI was founded in 2016 and had received funding from Blumberg Capital, Storm Ventures, Engineering Capital, 11.2 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. 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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APRIL 8, 2020

Satna Barbara-based MixMode , a developer of artificial intelligence cybersecurity software, announced on Tuesday that it has raised $4M in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Entrada Ventures, and also included existing investors including Keshif Ventures and Blu Venture Investors. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

AlphaTrAI says it has developed artificial intelligence software which can pick, trade, and manage stocks better than humans. According to AlphaTrAI, it is in the midst of moving to live, real-time trading and will be powering a new equities fund using its artificial intelligence tools. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Carlsbad-based Ezoic , a developer of artificial intelligence software for the digital publishing market, has raised $33M in a funding round, the company said this week. The funding came from Sageview Capital. the company said it will use the funding to expand its platform. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Westlake Village-based Eta Compute , a developer of technology for energy efficient artificial intelligence processing, has raised $12.5M in a Series C funding. The funding was led by Synaptics Incorporated, as well as existing investors. The company says it has now raised $31.9M READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 15, 2016

The machine revolution has begun, artificial intelligence is here. The latest advancements in machine learning look to transform whole industries, redefining the workforce and in many instances replacing human interactions. The latest advancements in machine learning are set to transform the workplace.

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MAY 18, 2020

TRASH , a startup that was part of Venice-based Snap 's Yellow accelerator program, has rolled out a new artificial intelligence (AI) video creation platform. TRASH says it has raised $2.25M in pre-seed funding from Precursor, Dream Machine, and other institutional venture funds.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Theta Lake , a developer of security and compliance software which connects with Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and other collaboration platforms, has raised $12.7M in a Series A funding. As part of the funding, Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed joins the company's board. 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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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Carlsbad-based NextWave Ventures , a venture capital investor which focuses on commercializing early stage technology, said it has launched a new artificial intelligence start, Apical Technology. According to NextWave, Apical Technology is developing a software platform which uses AI for equities trading. Onge and Jim St.

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MAY 13, 2021

The funding came from Mountain Gro, up Partners, Rockmont Investments, and Scientific Health Development. Mindera said that the funding will go towards commercialization of its products, plus continued development.

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JULY 24, 2023

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JANUARY 3, 2019

San Diego- and Baltimore-based private equity investor JMI Equity is the lead backer of a developer of artificial intelligence software for the healthcare industry this morning. The funding was led by JMI Equity, and also included Health Enterprise Partners (HEP) and Health Velocity Capital (HVC). READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of software to help manufacturers monitor their channel and e-commerce sites--and in particular, minimum-advertising-price (MAP) policies--has raised $2M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday.

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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.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. However, its unique-for-the-industry monthly subscription model has helped it maintain healthy profits from its loyal customer base in 2023.

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JUNE 14, 2018

The company said the new funding will go towards new contracts and expansions, invest in new technology platforms, and provide excess capital.

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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 and DigitalOcean were not announced.

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JULY 18, 2017

Pasadena-based ObEN , the developer of artificial intelligence software led by Nikhil Jain, said this morning that it has raised $5M in a strategic funding round, led by Tencent Holding. According to ObEN, the funding also included Li Ruigang, Chairman of CMC and Fengshion Capital. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 18, 2014

in a seed funding round, to go towards its online marketplace for computer software algorithms. The startup--which was co-founded by Kenny Daniel, who was recently pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at USC--says that it has created an online platform to let software engineers find different algorithms for us.

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