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Techstars Names New Los Angeles Accelerator Class

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Techstars Los Angeles has just named the ten companies that will be joining the startup accelerator for its 2017 class, saying its theme this year was "going long on LA and southern California".

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films

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While current technologies are not quite advanced enough to make Westworld a reality, startups are attempting to replicate the sort of human-robot interaction it presents in virtual space. I think in this age and time, that’s not what we want to get into,” Xinjie Ma, who heads up marketing for rct, told TechCrunch.

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LA-based Metropolis raises $41 million to upgrade parking infrastructure

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Metropolis is a new Los Angeles-based startup that’s looking to compete with BMW-owned ParkMobile for a slice of the automated parking lot management market. In all, Metropolis has raised $60 million since it was formed back in 2017. Israel, a serial entrepreneur, has spent decades thinking about parking.

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Reflections on 2016: Jaspar Weir, TaskUs

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Today's contribution is from Jaspar Weir , co-founder of TaskUs (www.taskus.com), which powers much of the back office and customer support behind some of the best known startups here in Southern California--not to mention the rest of the world, and for many established companies, too. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Veteran's Startup Snapped Up By Workday

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In what looks to be one of the fastest Series A-to-acquisition deals in recent years, a startup backed by Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand has just been acquired by HR software giant WorkDay. Rallyteam's machine learning software was used to help match their employees to skills, experiences, and interests.

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Q-CTRL Sets Up US Headquarters In LA

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Q-CTRL , a quantum computing startup started in Sydney, Australia, says it has set up a new, U.S. Biercuk; the company was founded in Australia in 2017. headquarters in Los Angeles. Q-CTRL said that the Los Angeles office is close to many of its key customers and research partners. READ MORE>>.