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TechCrunch LA
APRIL 17, 2018
The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. The company intends to build a manufacturing facility on an 18-acre site at Berth 240 and use waterways to transport the massive rocket.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 9, 2018
“It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.” ” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 9, 2018
“It feels like investing in Uber when it first launched.” ” That’s what one investor said of the hot new Santa Monica, Calif.-based
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 23, 2018
Brud , the actual company behind one of Instagram’s most popular virtual influencers (it’s a thing), has raised millions of dollars from Silicon Valley investors because this is 2018 and everything is awful.
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 2, 2016
If you were to write a history of Silicon Valley, you could do it by looking at a series of major diaspora.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 27, 2018
The smash dockless scooter rental startup, Bird , is expanding beyond its Southern California nest with a new rollout in San Francisco, San Jose, Calif. and Washington, DC, the company said today.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 1, 2018
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011.
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 29, 2018
Los Angeles is becoming one of the more interesting destinations for startups and the investors that provide money for venture capital firms to place bets on young companies are increasingly starting to take notice.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 22, 2018
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 22, 2018
What started with an esports team is now quickly becoming an esports empire, backed by some of the biggest names in sports and money managers for entertainment family dynasties and Hollywood power brokers.
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 31, 2018
What began as a movement among couture culturati with the success of Rent the Runway has moved into everything from cars (Porsche's got a subscription service ) to construction equipment and furniture.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 6, 2018
WHOOP, the company behind the Tesla of health tracking and sports performance wearables, has raised a whopping $25 million in a new round of funding.
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Developing skills-based online courses and credentials is the easy part. The hard part is getting employers to pay attention. Column Education TC Coursera edtech flatiron school Galvanize London Los Angeles MIT mooc Software Thinkful udacity United Kingdom WeWork
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2017
This week has been a good one for those who like to talk about the limits of technology. Over in the UK, a prankster managed to fool Trip Advisor into naming his shed the #1 ranked restaurant in London. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a city struggling to manage several wind-fueled wildfires, the L.A.P.D.
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Alongside co-founder and longtime partner Stephan Ango, Jesse Genet has built a business with Lumi that's already been profitable, and has just raised $9 million in venture funding to boost its growth. .
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 12, 2018
The city of Glendale, Calif. seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 6, 2017
CrossCut Ventures, a Los Angeles-based seed investment firm has just closed its fourth (and largest) fund with $125 million in new cash. It’s been a long road for the firm’s three co-founders, who have been investing in Los Angeles since 1997.
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2017
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TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 8, 2017
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TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
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TechCrunch LA
MAY 2, 2017
Looking to make EV car sharing the next perk for real estate developers, Envoy, a new Los Angeles startup has launched its first pilot. Initially, they’re starting with one apartment building and a fleet of two cars in an LA apartment complex.
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MARCH 7, 2018
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DECEMBER 20, 2017
Passport, company that's managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami and Los Angeles, has just raised $43 million.
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FEBRUARY 15, 2018
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DECEMBER 20, 2017
Passport, company that’s managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami and Los Angeles, has just raised $43 million.
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APRIL 12, 2018
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JANUARY 18, 2018
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JANUARY 29, 2018
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FEBRUARY 22, 2018
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JANUARY 15, 2018
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2017
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SEPTEMBER 3, 2017
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