TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The automaker Tuesday said its Maven car-sharing service, which launched in 2016, will shut down for good. Maven had paused service due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently.

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MAY 14, 2019

NetDocuments , the developer of a cloud-based platform for managing the documents of law firms and corporate legal and compliance departments which is backed by Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital , has scored a new, strategic funding. Clearlake acquired NetDocuments in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The Los Angeles-based mobile game development studio Scopely has become America’s newest unicorn thanks to a $200 million financing which values the company at a whopping $1.4 The company raised a $55 million round of financing in 2016, $60 million in 2017 and $100 million in 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The latest investment is being used to finance the acquisition of another company in the space — Appetize, a digital and mobile commerce payments platform for enterprises such as sports and entertainment venues, theme parks and zoos. SpotOn is paying $415 million in cash and stock for the Los Angeles-based company.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Eleven-year-old TiMi currently has a team working out of Los Angeles on global business and plans to grow it into a full development studio that “helps us understand Western players and gives us a stronger global perspective,” said the studio’s international business director Vincent Gao. That’s finally changing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

Rather than using streaming services or radio, drivers use Steereo because they get compensated to do so. For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms. Where'd you get the idea for the service?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2019

Rather than using streaming services or radio, drivers use Steereo because they get compensated to do so. For example, they might want to see what version of a song to put on an EP or not, or which songs they might want to put additional marketing behind on other platforms. Where'd you get the idea for the service?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2019

“Whether it be a passion for an obscure manga or your favorite football team, Kik has shown an incredible ability to provide a platform for new friendships to be forged through your mobile phone.” . “ Kik is one of those amazing places that brings us back to those early aspirations,” the blog post read.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. In addition, there are incentives for referring others to the platform.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Were part of the uCast Global video highway, which is our way of illustrating how content is being driven locally, regionally, and globally, using our platform, but also technology we have integrated and continue to integrate with our partners. We are unique in being an open platform, that allows for all of these variations to happen.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

founded in summer of 2017. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms. How we do hat, is we've built an analytics platform, Daasity, for data-as-a-service. Dan LeBlanc: Daasity is about two years old.,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

of seed funding and launching our popular subscription service for kids ages 4-10. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? What's was biggest news from you or your‏ firm this year? Grant Hosford: codeSpark's biggest news in 2016 was closing on $4.1M

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. With this announcement, Cartken officially comes out of stealth mode.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Next year, we plan on building it into a bigger business and in April 2017, we'll be doing it again, but this time in New York. Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017? What's the biggest lesson you learned this year? Alon Goren: Delegate!

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Techstars has continued to expand its global footprint with 48 accelerator programs around the world and the first company from our portfolio (Sendgrid) to IPO in late 2017 and then be acquired by Twilio in 2018. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018? Find her @annawbarber. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica. How does this work?

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Shopify quietly acquires Handshake, an e-commerce platform for B2B wholesale purchasing . The firm was launched in 2017 by general partners Eva Ho and TX Zhuo, formerly of Susa Ventures and Karlin Ventures, respectively. Our premium subscription service had another great week of interesting deep dives. Fundraising. Extra Crunch.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

In 2014, Sodexo committed $1 Billion to creating a more inclusive global supply chain for its hospitality products, forming partnerships between its local operations and small to medium sized businesses run by women in the developing world. Commitment by: The National Service Alliance, Cisco, and Lumina Foundation.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 29, 2018

Robbie Cabral, CEO and founder of Benjilock , the first biometric and rechargeable smart lock, is a veteran to Eureka Park and recipient of the 2017 CES Innovation Award. Get Your Playbook Together. With the help of CTA, startup teams have access to insight information in their respective verticals that could guide critical decisions.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. Many of these other services pay under $20 an hour, and ours is an average of $30 to $35 an hour. The second part, is our matching technology.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Startups and SMBs have been able to take advantage of the cloud, and all of the speed and flexibility it offers, long before large enterprise companies due to strict security and privacy standards, as well as regulations for major industries like banking, healthcare, and financial services. Clients want options. ” IBM gave this example.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Every business needs to develop a revenue model even before a product. This is the most common model used by online businesses and apps today, the so-called Facebook model, where your service is free, and the revenue comes from advertising. This approach doesn’t typically apply to consumer products and services.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Tim O'Neal: Kazhm was founded in 2017. Kazuhm is recapturing the capacity in those desktops, creating a commercial grade, distributed computing platform based on that capacity. I am a big fan of not getting locked in, looking at what services and vendors are there, and going multi-cloud when you can. Explain what Kazuhm does?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

I also hope to lay out a way to develop a healthy degree of skepticism for the more outlandish arguments. By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

To solve that problem, Arterys tapped into technologies used to develop three-dimensional video games like “Super Mario 3D World.” Less than five years ago, those GPUs weren’t available from commercial cloud services, says Arterys co-founder and chief technology officer John Axerio-Cilies. “In

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socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2017

Bryan Cheung: What we're specifically doing, is a product called the LifeRay digital experience platform. How did the shift come from consulting services to a product? However, they tend to be maverick developers in a large organization, or working independently. 2017 will be a great year for us.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The LIDAR, the sensors, the software, what's been developed for and by the aerospace industry, JPL, and local universities. I think we'll see a big increase in IPOs in 2017, but I think there will be, more dramatically, a big pickup in M&A. Are you looking to build a big platform, or build something for a $100M exit?

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