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GrubMarket raises $60M as food delivery stays center stage

TechCrunch LA

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

Twilio has now raised around $235 million, including a July 2015 round totaling $130 million. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. Unicornless. billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

socalTECH

We sat down with Brett Crosby (who founded Urchin Software, the company which became Google Analytics) and Brew Johnson , the co-founders of the company, to learn more about the company and what it's working on. Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. in a funding round.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) What is Fuel50? It was really a meeting of the minds with the fund.

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Interview with David Sobie, Happy Returns

socalTECH

Some of the big milestones we did, include a seed round of financing in the fall of 2015, which was led by Upfront Ventures. That was an insider round, where ssetnailly, Upfront led and angel Brian Spaly, the former co-founder of Bonobos and the CEO of Trunk Club ended up investing. That money was meant for us to expand.

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How the Hell do I Prioritize Work, Blog & Find Balance?

Both Sides of the Table

Tuvia Elbaum (@Tuviae) July 14, 2015. BTW – if anybody at Twitter reads this you need to fix your “embed Tweet” code because as you’ll see from above it doesn’t properly embed when you have a quoted Tweet. **. When I was done I had to send an email to Adam Lezack that was urgent and due by the morning.

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6 Top Trends For The Digital World In 2016

Tech Zulu Event

In 2015 an additional 237 thousand joined the online community. As online viewership and behaviors grew in 2015 – the average U.S. In 2015, issues of online security and data privacy consumed headlines. Efforts of product integration between online softwares are set to continue. Data Security Concerns Dominate.