socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Coding bootcamp operator Coding Dojo had said this week that it was starting its first day of classes in Orange County on Monday, the first time the bootcamp operator has run a program in Orange County. The company also has campuses in Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, Silicon Valley, and Washington DC.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In an attempt to boost diversity and inclusion efforts and civic engagement between the growing technology industry in Los Angeles and the community that surrounds it, over 80 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs joined the city’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, and the non-profit Annenberg Foundation to announce PledgeLA. The landmark.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2016

Natural and organic goods supermarket Whole Foods Market and sam day delivery service Instacart announce today that they will be expanding into Orange County, one of the first markets in a national expansion which will allow consumers to order groceries from Whole Foods Market for same day delivery.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2019

Furniture subscription rental service, Feather , is heading to Los Angeles and Orange County, California with $12 million in new funding and “thousands” of customers in New York and San Francisco. Deliveries to Feather’s new, LA and Orange County geographies will begin on May 20.

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The Huffington Post

MARCH 30, 2015

Five teams competed in Orange County this past weekend. Read more: Slidepollajax , Hackathon , Startups , Tech Startups , Los-Angeles-Tech , Startup Weekend , Orange County , Los Angeles News. Teams were here to build a product to sell, not merely to produce an idea without a market.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Amazon.com has expanded its one hour, instant delivery service, Amazon Prime Now , to Los Angeles and Orange County, saying Wednesday that it has begun offering customers in the area with the near-instant delivery of products from Amazon warehouses to Amazon Prime members.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2010

The Founder Institute , the business incubation and mentoring program started by TheFunded's Adeo Ressi , is expanding into the Los Angeles area, and is accepting applications for entrepreneurs for a Spring session, the group said late last week. The Los Angeles effort is being headed by Ken Rutkowski.

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socalTECH

MAY 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based Fernish , a direct-to-consumer furniture rental company, said on Wednesday that it has raised $15M in a Series A funding round. Fernish offers up a wide variety of furniture to consumers in Los Angeles, Orange County, and Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2021

Capsule--a well funded, venture funded startup with more than $270M in funding and backing from TCV, Thrive Capital, and Glade Brook Capital, as well as local investors M13 and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures--has expanded into Los Angeles, part of a big expansion push by the company.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

According to the report, Los Angeles garnered the lion's share of the local funding, with $1.77 billion in Orange County. The region had a total of 124 deals logged by Dow Jones VentureSource, split between 75 in Los Angeles, 29 in San Diego, and 20 in Orange County.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based subscription airline Surf Air is extending its service into Orange County, with a new partnership with helicopter charter firm BLADE , the company said on Wednesday. The connecting flights will cost $199 per shuttle flight, and are not included as part of Surf Air's existing membership. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. TechBizConnection – Orange County monthly events. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events. Great post by John Shiple.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 17, 2020

Continuing its wildly successful limited trials in Atlanta, Nashville, and Charlotte, KFC is now setting its sights on the bigger markets in Southern California, near Beyond Meat’s headquarters in Los Angeles.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2019

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Los Angeles Chapter has teamed up with the Orange County, Inland Empire, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Bay Area Chapters to bring you another great AppSec California. Tuesday, January 22, 2019 -- AppSec California 2019.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2021

Los Angeles-based C3 (Creating Culinary Communities), the virtual kitchen startup founded by Sam Nazarian, says it has inked a partnership with consumer goods giant Unilever, and a new "virtual store" called The Ice Cream Shop.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2017

The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) has just received $5M to fund a new initiative, called Energize California , to help boost clean technology startups. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

On-demand, photography marketplace Snappr said on Thursday that it is expanding its service across Los Angeles and Orange County, allowing users to get everything from graduation photos to headshots.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2017

UberEATS , the on-demand food delivery service run by Uber, and McDonald's of Southern California said that UberEATS has launched delivery service for more than 375 McDonald's restaurants in Los Angeles County, Orange County and Riverside County.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Los Angeles-based HopSkipDrive , the ridesharing service which helps deliver kids to and from school, after-school activities, and home, said this morning that it has raised $7.4M HopSkipDrive says it is already getting kids to and from over 2500 schools across the Los Angeles, Orange County, and Bay Area.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2015

The company said the new location in Orange County will help it tap into the talent residing in southern Los Angeles, Orange County and northern San Diego Counties. The company said the location specifically helps it recruit top level engineering talent to the company.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based electric car maker Faraday Future has named a new VP to head up its product and technology products, according to the company. According to Faraday Future, it has named Jeff Risher as the company's Vice President of Product, Technology, and IP Strategy. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Online real estate site Zillow is expanding its home buying service, Zillow Offers , to the Los Angeles and Orange County markets, saying this morning that it will now let homeowners sell their homes directly to the company, to avoid the hassles of selling their home.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The report did not break down Southern California as a single region, but reported $4.408 billion invested across 386 so far in the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA this year. The report did not provide details on Orange County, San Diego, Ventura, or Santa Barbara counties. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Grocery delivery service Instacart is doubling its coverage of Orange County, the company said this morning, and will begin offering up its deliveries in a long list of zip codes in the county. The company said the expansion will serve twice as many Orange County residents than it had before. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

It’s also worth noting that this represents a bit of a turnaround for the company, after the it shut down operations in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans in 2015, with Hall coming on as CEO shortly afterwards. And it sounds like he isn’t in a rush to launch in a bunch of new markets.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2018

On-demand furniture moving and delivery service Dolly said this morning that it has launched its service in Los Angeles and Orange County, as part of a broader national expansion for the company. Dolly said that it now operates its service in a total of 11 markets nationwide.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2019

San Diego-based Fairway Technologies , a provider of consulting services in the IT area, said it has acquired Los Angeles-based IT Strategists , a provider of big data and data-driven IT consulting. Brett Humphrey is CEO of Fairway Technologies, which also has offices in San Diego and Orange County, as well as Austin, Texas.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Los Angeles-based in-home, doctor house-call provider Heal is making it possible for members of Alignment Health Plan to select Heal's licensed, board-certified doctors for primary care, the two said on Thursday. Financial details of the partnership were not announced. Heal is led by co-founder and CEO Nick Desai.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Sharp Display Company , a unit of Sharp Eectronics Corporation which develops TFT-LCD products, plus Flying Eagle Sytsems , a new company created by Foxconn crated to "drive innovation in the display industry", announced today that they have set up shop in downtown Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Angeles Equity Partners announced this morning that it has acquired printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer APCT, Inc. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. APCT is a manufacturer of quick-turn printed circuit board (PCB) prototypes. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2018

TenantBase currently allows users to search for commercial office space across Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas, Nashville, and Orange County. The company said it will use the funding to accelerate technology and brokerage hires, plus for nationwide expansion. TenantBase is led by CEO and co-founder Bennett Washabaugh.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2009

finds that the Los Angeles-Riverside-Orange County metro is number two on the list of geographies with the most clean-tech job activity. A report released this week from analyst firm Clean Edge, Inc.,

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2019

AutoGravity says that consumers can return the cars they are using at any time, and that it currently offers its service select locations in Southern California, including Greater Los Angeles and Orange County. Premium costing $500 per month; and a 2016 smart fortwo for as little as $150 a month.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Orange County, Calif. For now, the company’s party feature will only be offered in a handful of the nearly 3,000 U.S. cities in which it currently operates. The feature is now available in Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Calif.,

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socalTECH

MAY 31, 2017

Lulic is also the president and co-founder of LoanNow, and previously had served at Swagsy as co-founder, Specific Media/MySpace, founded Frugalytics, and also has served elsewhere in the finance and technology space in Los Angeles and Orange County. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2017

The company, which has two locations here, one serving Los Angeles and Orange County, and the other in San Diego, is based in San Francisco. The funding came from BMW iVentures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Highland Capital, DCM, G2VP, and Goldman Sachs. The company launched into San Diego in March of this year.

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