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MAY 3, 2022

Obviously, there’s a huge demand for it, and it shouldn’t be this difficult to access high-quality convenient hair solutions.”. Upgrade’s e-commerce marketplace has two sides: one that enables consumers to choose a vetted stylist and have their wig colored or customized based on their desired look. Remember Mary J.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Is there room on your curb for (yet another) on-demand scooter company? Los Angeles-based SUN thinks there is, and said on Wednesday that it is getting set to launch a new, shared scooter model in California. The company says that so far, it is offering up its scooter service in Los Angeles and San Diego.

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MARCH 29, 2021

an on-demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations, has seen these issues firsthand. One customer assumed that poor usage rates at a particular station was due to a lack of EVs in the area, Terry recalled in a recent interview. . Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors.

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JULY 29, 2020

” That’s the way Nick Desai, the co-founder and chief executive of the Los Angeles-based startup Heal describes the future of traditional healthcare delivery. We continue to see high levels of customer satisfaction and improved health outcomes when care is delivered in the home.

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JUNE 20, 2018

Los Angeles-based UNREAL Mobile , a spinout of FreedomPop, is targeting disgruntled Sprint customers who were hoping to take advantage of Sprint's now unavailable $15 per month unlimited mobile service. UNREAL is using FreedomPop's underlying technology to power its low cost mobile phone service. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

But where traditional insurance companies have struggled to acquire the acumen needed to accommodate the growing demand for cybersecurity insurance, startups like At-Bay have filled the space. In the past year, the company has tripled its headcount and now has offices in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, and Dallas.

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MARCH 17, 2021

The Los Angeles-based company has a new residential solar plus energy storage program for homeowners in Queens that’s going to be rolled out in partnership with ConEd. It’s a project that will create solar-powered home batteries for eligible ConEd customers.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Right now, the app is only available in Los Angeles. With Darkstore, companies like Nike, Adidas and Levis are able to offer same-day delivery to customers by storing their products inside Darkstore’s urban fulfillment centers. Image Credits: Darkstore.

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AUGUST 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based Soothe has raised $10.6M for an on-demand, massage service, the company said this week. Soothe currently lets customers in the Los Angeles and a few other areas book a massage from a network of independent massage therapists. The funding was led by The Riverside Company.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Los Angeles-based Swell was commissioned by utilities across three states to establish the dispatchable energy storage capacity, which will be made available through the construction and aggregation of approximately 14,000 solar energy generation and storage systems.

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APRIL 24, 2017

MakeSpace , a provider of "on-demand" self storage in Los Angeles, new York City, Chicago, and Washington D.C., According to the company, the funding will go towards building outs its operations in Los Angeles as well as its other cities. has raised $30M in a funding round, from 8VC and Upfront Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy , an on-demand, car wash service, said Wednesday that it has officially launched its service in Los Angeles. The company then dispatches a mobile car wash to a customer's home, office, or other location for an on-site car wash. Squeegy's on-demand app currently runs only on iOS.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

that currently means flights from Los Angeles and San Francisco to destinations like Aspen, Los Cabos and Sun Valley, while the company’s European base is London, with flights to Obiza, Mykonos and Nice. Los Angeles to Aspan and Los Cabos are currently its most popular routes. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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MAY 14, 2020

A little over a year after its graduation from Y Combinator’s demo day, the on-demand construction materials delivery service Curri is beginning to offer its services in all 50 states. The company estimates that it saves its customers roughly half the cost of deploying an in-house fleet for delivery. .

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APRIL 26, 2022

Food Rocket uses AI-enabled technologies to manage warehouse stocks, forecast demand and optimize delivery time by predicting the closest store that offers the fastest delivery time and the lowest costs of putting together and delivering the order. We are creating new habits of customers.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

San Diego-based GoShare , the developer of an on-demand, moving and delivery app, has raised $1M in a seed funding round, the company said on Friday. GoShare has been targeting its service to local businesses, helping those local businesses connect their customers to third party truck and van drivers. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based livestreaming and on-demand audio, video, and podcasting content provider LiveOne says it has connected its long list of products into Google's Android Automotive platform.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

The Battle Is For The Customer Interface. If anyone is aware of the massive market potential for leveraging on-demand services, it’s Kalanick. Sprig and Spoonrocket are now defunct, and Munchery had to pull back from markets in Los Angeles, New York, and Seattle as it fights for survival.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

The first concern stemmed from the financial investors that typically finance these projects demanding that developers pay closer attention to low-carbon or no-carbon real estate developments. And finally, the customers who rent and buy space among real estate developers had their own demands around decarbonization, Wallace said.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Los Angeles-based on-demand, dog walking marketplace Wag! said this morning that it is opening up a new, "customer care" center in Phoenix, where it hopes to hire 100, as an addition to its existing customer care operations center in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2020

with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; In total, Google now offers its customers the option to host their applications in 23 regions globally; with the opening of this new region, it now has seven U.S. With this, Google Cloud now operates four regions in the western U.S.,

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MARCH 18, 2020

Uber is planning to file a federal lawsuit against Los Angeles, claiming that LA's requirement that on-demand scooter and last-mile transportation companies provider real-time location data on where its customers are raises privacy concerns. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2020

When former Bill Clinton speechwriter and political wunderkind Andrei Cherny launched Aspiration four years ago , the upstart fintech startup was one of Los Angeles’ early entrants into a financial services market dominated by players from Europe and the financial capital of the U.S. in New York City.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Even as oil companies are getting crushed by the collapse of demand for energy in the wake of international shutdowns responding to the global pandemic, investors representing one of the world’s savviest financiers are placing a small bet on electric charging as the future of transportation.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Good Eggs says that in the past year, revenue has grown to the nine figures (more than $100 million), hired more than 400 employees and nearly doubled its customer base. So the team was busy enough trying to operate a new warehouse, meet increased demand for grocery delivery and keep workers safe in the process.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2021

That’s how much Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan , a startup founded just eight years ago is worth now, thanks to some massive tailwinds around homebuilding and energy efficiency that are serving to boost the company’s bottom line and netting it an unprecedented valuation for a vertical software company, according to bankers.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Greenlots, which based in Los Angeles, was founded in Singapore; and Shell is one of Singapore’s largest foreign investors. The island city-state has been building up its EV infrastructure to meet anticipated demand as ride-hailing drivers and commercial fleets switch to electric vehicles.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Postmates is launching a new feature called Postmates Party that lets customers within the same neighborhood pool their orders. In return, these customers get the food delivered for free, eliminating a major pinch point for potential Postmates users. The feature is now available in Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Calif.,

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. ”

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Los Angeles-based Just says it uses telematics “to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias” by looking at factors such as how, when and where customers drive, rather than factors such as ZIP code or marital status as most traditional insurers do. For its part, MetroMile charges customers a base rate plus a per mile rate.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Los Angeles-based talkshoplive, a startup which operates a livestreaming shopping network and app, has raised $3M in a seed funding round. According to the company, the funding round came from Spero Ventures LLC. Talkshoplive says it livestreams e-commerce, allowing viewers to make purchases from within an embeddable video player.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media , which operates a livestreaming and on-demand audio, video, and podcasting service, says it has signed an agreement to acquire Custom Personalization Solutions, LLC , in a deal worth up to $6M.

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MAY 19, 2015

Need something--anything--delivered in Los Angeles? On-demand, delivery startup Schlep and Fetch (www.schlepandfetch.com) wants to be the place you contact first to get practically anything delivered for you, whether that's a food order or something you forgot to pick up from home. How does Schlep and Fetch work?

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JULY 3, 2018

Postie , a new Los Angeles-based startup, has a vision for the future of advertising and marketing — and it’s direct mail. million in seed funding from the Los Angeles-based firms Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures to expand its business (maybe through direct marketing?). They aren’t the only ones.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Shell’s plan to roll out 500,000 electric charging station in just four years is the latest sign of an EV charging infrastructure boom that has prompted investors to pour cash into the industry and inspired a few companies to become public companies in search of the capital needed to meet demand.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Los Angeles-based online electronics retailer Newegg says it has "dramatically increased" its logistics capabilities, as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Newegg said its third-party logistics (3PL) operation has both increased production and made "significant hires" across the U.S.

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MARCH 5, 2020

The new moped is the latest effort by Bird to diversify its product offerings to capture more customers. Initially the mopeds were piloted in Los Angeles, according to Bird. Users of the Scoot Moped must be 18 years or older and have a valid driver’s license. . But then scooters came en masse. ”

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