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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. Canoo said it will provide engineering services to develop the electric platform. ”

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. Based out of Los Angeles, Starship initially made its name, back in 2017, running pilots with delivery companies in the U.S. It has now made more than 2.5

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 30, 2021

Self-driving and robotics startup Cartken has partnered with REEF Technology, a startup that operates parking lots and neighborhood hubs, to bring self-driving delivery robots to the streets of downtown Miami. Starship Technologies CEO Lex Bayer on focus and opportunity in autonomous delivery.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. REEF Technology raises $700M from SoftBank and others to remake parking lots. In all, Metropolis has raised $60 million since it was formed back in 2017.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

Thursday, January 26, 2017 -- Digital Marketing Bootcamp. The one-day boot camp, will discuss the absolute essentials of digital marketing and effective strategies for growth. Sessions will focus on data, technology, social media, email and content marketing. Join us January 26 Irvine, CA.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

has released its latest report on the state of the Los Angeles technology scene, saying that the city had a "landmark year". pointed at all of the companies in Los Angeles that came out of the demise of MySpace, and argues that the growth of Snap is about to trigger another wave of startups in the market. In the report, Amplify.LA

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 12, 2018

The company is ServiceTitan, and its market… is air conditioners. It was Iconiq that put a whopping $80 million into ServiceTitan just last year — and while the 2017 cash infusion may have been larger, the company’s valuation has continued to rise. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

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JULY 3, 2017

Los Angeles-based YP.com , the provider online directories and services to help businesses get their companies online which has been remade by a number of technology executives into a provider of local business marketing and automation software, has been acquired by competing directory provider Dex Media. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 20, 2017

I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share. So how did a company that provides storage grow so fast (we’ll exit 2017 with 10’s of millions in recurring revenue), why is it so defensible and is it really a tech startup?

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

Read on for our top posts from 2017! ?? Here’s why that should scare you… In recent years the pace of the market has accelerated dramatically. from sales to marketing, product, to ops and finance?—?centers In the meantime, we’ll continue publishing thoughts and ideas we’ve learned from great product managers here. Read more… ??

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

It’s not about checking off as many technology trends, it is about finding useful and valuable trends that align with your goals and strategy for the rest of the year. Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. Blockchain Technology. Sure, they are hot topics in tech hubs these days.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 23, 2019

Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. The move is part of Haptik’s broader strategy to both expand its technology expertise and team and business overseas, Aakrit Vaish, cofounder and CEO of Haptik, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Tesla, which unveiled the Tesla Semi prototype in November 2017 , began testing its prototype semis in California and Nevada earlier this year. The electric VNR, which will be based on powertrain technology used in the Volvo FE Electric, will be produced for the North American commercial vehicle market starting in 2020, the company said.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 16, 2020

It’s an auspicious time for both Los Angeles-based businessmen, as the LA venture community sees a wave of technology talent relocating from New York and San Francisco in the newly remote work culture created by the COVID-19 epidemic. One people look at the effects of where the market’s going. . “I see two things happen.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sharma has been the company's Executive Vice President IoT & Mobile Solutions since September of 2017, and also has been the company's Chief Marketing Officer. The company says Sharma is responsible for advanced technology, product line management and engineering. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 26, 2017

The IT Summit is the executive technology conference series returning to Los Angeles for our eleventh annual event on October 11th, 2017. The IT Summit was selected as one of the top ten “must-attend” events for CIOs and IT Marketers. April 2013 CTOsOnTheMove.com.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

Upon arrival, Yu realized she’d need a strong co-founder with experience in branding to help her navigate the massive market in the U.S. A serial entrepreneur with a background in retail, whose first company TryTheWorld was acquired by EarthBox in 2017, Dey was looking for her next project. ”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 26, 2018

just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming. But that’s still a far smaller market than the 10 million game consoles that were sold in the U.S. Earlier this year, in a small, grey-walled storefront inside a very large mall in Torrance, Calif.

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APRIL 16, 2018

General Assembly , the provider of technology education which is very active in Los Angeles, has been acquired by Swiss staffing company Adecco Group , in a $412.5M Adecco Group said it would acquired General Assembly to help complement its existing solutions, plus to position it in the fast growing "up-/re-skilling" segment of the market.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio. There’s no denying that BB-8 was the star of the most recent installment in the Star Wars universe, Rogue One.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Los Angeles-based Triton Digital , a provider of advertising services and technology for the online radio streaming, digital audio and podcasting markets, has acquired Omny Studio , a developer of a podcast and on-demand audio publishing platform. Financial terms of the acquisition were not annoucned.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The next IPO of a technology company with Southern California roots is expected next week, as SendGrid now appears to be planning its IPO, on Wednesday, November 15th. According to the upcoming market IPO calendar, SendGrid is planning on its IPO on Wednesday. and $15.50 READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based Social Reality (SRAX), which developing digital marketing and consumer data management software--and more recently, has tried to launch its own cryptocurrency called BIGtoken--said it is restating its results all the way back to March of 2017.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year?

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 -- Bitcoin, Blockchain, and the Distributed Ledger: What's in Your Digital Wallet? MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast.

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APRIL 10, 2017

San Diego-based antenna technology developer Airgain announced late Sunday that it has acquired substantially all of the assets and certain liabilities of Antenna Plus , a developer of antenna products for the mobile and automotive fleet market. in 2016, and that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to the firm within 2017.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US. Jason Rowley. Contributor. More posts by this contributor. Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar. Crunchbase News recently profiled a selection of U.S.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. Michael--despite a recent move to Puerto Rico--is a longtime fixture of the LA technology community, having founded Marketwired here, and is an expert on Bitcoin. He's also a very active angel investor.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers? But expanding beyond our core customers was going to take more effort than simply launching in new markets. We realized that operating a business in distributed markets presented multi-city coordination efforts that we weren’t prepared for.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops tablet-based, modern point-of-sale (POS) technology for the food service and retail markets, says it has doubled its employee count in the last year to 200, as it sees what it calls "exponential" growth in its business. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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JULY 17, 2017

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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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Irvine-based a href="[link] Technology, a developer of advertising software, says it has launched an IPO, intending to sell 7,500,000 shares of its Class A common stock in an offering on the Nasdaq Global Market as DSP. Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ. and $21.00

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MAY 31, 2019

had acquired Placed in 2017, paying $135.2M Foursquare said the acquisition will deepen its location technology platform. The acquisition by Foursquare came after it raised a new $150M investment from the Raine Group. As part of the acquisition, Foursquare said that Placed founder and CEO David Shim becomes President of Foursquare.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Viant is led by technology veteran Tim Vanderhook, who founded Viant with brothers Chris and Russ. in 2018, and the acquisition of Adelphic in 2017. The company is trading as DSP on the Nasdaq Global Market. The company jumped all the way to $47.72 per share in its first day of trading. in trading on its first day of trading.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since that time the speed at which companies have developed both technologically and from a business perspective has been nearly as staggering as the 760 mph system itself. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies collaborates with over 800 field experts from around the world.

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