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LA-based A-Frame, a developer of celebrity-led personal care brands, raises cash for its brand incubator

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A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. “For us the calculus was to look at personal care and see what categories need to be reinvented because of sustainability,” said Bloom.

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Investors cozy up to LA-based ettitude’s bamboo bedding and sleep wear with $1.6 million

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Ettitude , the Los Angeles-based, direct-to-consumer startup making sustainable bedding and sleepwear from bamboo fibers, has raised a sustainably sized round that should keep the company going even in the face of an economic recession. So Yu turned to AngelList, which is where she found Dey. ”

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LA-based Boulevard raises $27 million for its spa management software

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The two spent months pounding the pavement in Los Angeles pretending to be college students doing research on the industry. There is more than $250 billion spent per year across roughly 3 million businesses in the salon and spa category, according to data provided by the company. million in funding.

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Sir Richard Branson To Ride Through Hurricane Irma On Necker Island

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Sir Richard Branson , the technology mogul behind Southern California's Virgin Galactic , and investor in Los Angeles-based Ring , among other companies, shared his plans to ride through the Hurricane Irma, the approaching Category 5 monster storm, on his private island, Necker Island.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly.

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Disrupting Space: A new event from TechCrunch

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Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. In that spirit, TechCrunch is pleased to announce our first TC Sessions: Space , a single-day show dedicated to this fast-emerging startup category. Air Force and more. .

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The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the rental-for-everything business

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Launched by Karen Rodgers O’Neil, a longtime marketing executive, and Daniel Perrone, a serial entrepreneur and technology executive whose previous company, BroadMap, was acquired by Apple; The Shed hopes to take the rental model that Home Depot has turned into a billion dollar business line and take it to the masses.

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