Capital Layoffs Los Angeles Sales 
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 26, 2022
“[W]e are shifting our technology strategy to leverage external partners for parts of our platform that we’re currently maintaining internally,” Weiss wrote in the email announcing the layoffs to staff. The tech team layoffs are notable for a beauty retailer that has often described itself as a technology company.
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 30, 2019
billion capital raise that the company believes it can close before the end of this year. Both companies will own 50 percent of the JV — The9 provided $600 million in capital to secure its share. The EV maker has had to sell its headquarters in Los Angeles for around $10 million to stay above water.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking service Wag has bought back its stake from Softbank, and is now seeking a sale, according to CNBC. The sale comes less than two years after SoftBank invested $300M in Wag , via the SoftBank Vision Fund. The company also is now seeking a buyer. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
JUNE 21, 2019
Why did you decide to move to venture capital? It's not necessarily to be the sales person, but to be able to sell me on the vision. We had to do a reduction-in-force and layoff early in our career, and I thought we were done. I've been going through the startup journey, and just finished our Series D investment.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 9, 2019
Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking service Wag has bought back its stake from Softbank, according to CNBC. The sale comes less than two years after SoftBank invested $300M in Wag , via the SoftBank Vision Fund. Smallwood was named CEO of Wag at the end of November. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). I had a sales force when I was at SkyPipeline, selling telecom, networking, and broadband wireless products.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 6, 2013
You got flash sales and group sales sites coming to us and basically have the same general business idea: shoot out a couple million emails to potential customers, saying they have tickets that are on sale. Marketing that our tickets are on sale is a huge problem and in the live entertainment/sport industry, that’s just bad.
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