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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Rental cars. I have never met a person who loved their rental car company or the experience of turning up at an airport, waiting in line, paying a huge fee and then dealing with returns, airport shuttle buses and so forth not to mention half-washed and smelly cars. I think the closest parallel I have is the feeling I had for taxi cabs (inconvenient, smelly, expensive) before Uber.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Los Angeles-based Appetize , a startup which is backed by Guggenheim, the Jacksonville Jaguars and San Francisco 49ers family offices, Marc Geiger of William Morris, and Roar Entertainment, has signed up Live Nation Entertainment as a customer, the company said this week. Appetize said that Live nation will be rolling out the Appetize point-of-sale (POS) payment platform across 32 of the company's U.S. venues.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Lawrence Ng , the former founder of Oversee.net--who is now running an asset management company called LNG Management--has linked up with New York City-based venture capital firm Metamorphic Ventures. According to LNG Management, Ng has become an advisory board member for Metamorphic Ventures. LNG said that Ng is incubating a number of startups and selectively invests in early stage startups and funds.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Ever wonder what people around you are getting paid? A new, Woodland Hills-based startup, WageSpot , said Tuesday that it has launched, offering up a way for people to see what other people are being paid near them on a map, while filtering for things like age, industry, gender, experience, and more. The startup--founded by Raphael Morozov and Marat Galperin--said its app is free and available for download for both iOS and Android.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Los Angeles-baesd online lender ZestFinance said today that it has raised $150M in debt financing, from Fortress Investment Group. ZestFiance said the funding goes towards the company's Bastix loan service, which is aimed at providing loans to people who normally would not be able to qualify for loans from traditional banks. ZestFinance was founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google; the company is venture backed by Peter Thiel, Matrix Partners, Kensington Capital Holdings, and Eastward Ca
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Los Angeles-based Hulu has announced an expanded deal with Viacom , adding the exclusive, streaming video-on-demand rights to Inside Amy Shumer, Broad City, Faking It, Drunk History, Finding Carter, as well as a lineup of kids programs from Nickelodeon. According to the two companies, the deal includes streaming rights to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rabbids Invasion, Sanjay and Craig, Breadwinners, Bella and the Bulldogs, and The Thundermans, as well as the Rugrats and Doug.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Skurt , said Tuesday that it has raised $1.3M in a seed funding round, and launched an on-demand, rental car service at Los Angeles International Airport. The company--led by Harry Hurst--said the funding came from Upfront Ventures, Hipmunk CEO Adam Goldstein, Wonga. founder Errol Damelin, Whisper Presisdent Mark Troughton, and early Facebook employee Scott Marlette.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
One of the Youtube stars represented by Los Angeles-based Maker Studios , 15-year old Caleb Logan Bratayley , has died unexpectedly, after a sudden medical emergency. Bratayley died Thursday, in what his mother said on Instagram were natural causes. Bratayley--whose family has its own Youtube channel called the Bratayley channel, following the family's daily life--ran his own Youtube channel focused on Minecraft, called FlimsyArrow , with over 115,000 subscribers.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Culver City-based cancer immunotherapy developer NantKwest , which is led by billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, said this morning that it has named Stephen Farrand, Ph.D., as its new Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing. Dr. Farrand was previously at Merck Research Laboratories, and also had served at Delta Biotechnology, Sigma Chemical and G.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
Los Angeles-based AwesomenessTV , the Youtube MCN which is now owned by Dreamworks Animation and Hearst Corporation, said Monday that it has linked up with content creator, producer, and distributor Endemol Shine Group. Financial details of the strategic partnership were not disclosed. The two said that the will partner to extend the international reach of the AwesomenessTV brand, launching localized versions of AwesomenessTV channel in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, and Brazil.
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OCTOBER 6, 2015
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