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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Santa Monica-based Fair , which operates a service which lets consumers essentially gain access to automobiles on a month-to-month "car-as-a-service" program, has raised a giant, $385M funding round. The funding was led by SoftBank, and also included Exponential Ventures, Munich Re Venture's ERGO Fund, G Squared, and CreditEase.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Ross Lipson, the chief executive officer and co-founder of the on-demand marijuana and cannabis delivery service, Dutchie, had thought he was done with the online delivery business. But with online delivery services, a whole city’s worth of restaurant options opened up to consumers (as long as they were in your delivery area).

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Thanks to data from Crunchbase , we can bask in the glory of the five highest funding rounds in 2017 so far. Didi Chixing, the Chinese ride-sharing giant, has had the largest funding round of 2017, with a $5.5 The post 5 Largest Funding Rounds Raised in 2017 appeared first on Tech.co. Read more about funding rounds at TechCo .

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Freebird was founded in 2017, and is led by CEo Kurt Brendlinger. The company's service is available through its own app, which runs on both iOS and Android in conjunction with Uber and Lyft. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 14, 2017

Los Angeles-based streaming television- and video-provider Hulu has selected San Antonio, Texas, as the site for a new customer service center, the company said on Thursday. Hulu said it will hire 300 people by the end of 2017, and another 200 in 2018, as part of the new "viewer experience headquarters" in Texas.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Wrench , the Seattle-based on demand vehicle maintenance and repair service for consumers and fleets, has raised $20 million in its latest round of financing. RepairSmith , which operates a similar service out of Los Angeles and San Francisco, is backed by Daimler to provide much the same on-demand repair services.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 22, 2020

Other companies are experimenting with specialization as a way to differentiate from the major delivery services that are on the market. Black and Mobile , which launched in Philadelphia but is in the process of expanding across the country, is a delivery service focused on Black-owned restaurants and food stores.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 23, 2017

Thursday, June 29, 2017 -- Startup Superhero Series Presents: Michael Schneider, Founder of Service and Mobile Roadie. What is a Startup Superhero? See [link] (more)

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In 2016, we saw cyber attacks increasingly shift from external breaches of confidential data to internal disruption of data and services, as attackers used distributed denial of service (DDoS) or encryption to hold businesses hostage. This shift will continue in 2017, alongside these other shifts in the landscape: 1.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based free mobile broadband provider FreedomPop has officially opened up service in the UK today, offering up UK residents 200MB of data, 200 minutes of calls, and 200 text messages a month for free. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Verogen was founded in 2017, and develops tools and services used by forensic science laboratories and criminal investigators in criminal and missing-persons cases. Financial details of the transaction were not announced. Brett Williams is the CEO of Verogen.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 15, 2019

Furniture subscription rental service, Feather , is heading to Los Angeles and Orange County, California with $12 million in new funding and “thousands” of customers in New York and San Francisco. Feather launches a high-end furniture rental service for liminal living.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 3, 2018

Xconomy asked technology and innovation leaders around our network to reflect on the most important developments in their industries during 2017, and the answers were appropriately wide-ranging.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 16, 2021

The online website creation and hosting service — which has now expanded into e-commerce by hosting online stores — then raised another $40 million round in 2014. But it is perhaps best known for its epic 2017-era $200 million secondary round that General Atlantic financed. That round was raised at a $1.5

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Los Angeles-based TeleSign, which provides two factor authentication and other related services to businesses--which has been running as a unit of Belgian telecom firm Proximus--is going public via a SPAC, the companies said on Friday. Telesign was acquired by Proximus back in 2017. The deal will value the new company at $1.3

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 27, 2017

Here are five trends startups are considering for their operations in 2017. If you are a software service provider, set your sights on this particular security trend. Meanwhile, the same cyber threat affects you if you are a startup offering products and services via a mobile app. Blockchain Technology. Application Security.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 5, 2019

Snap is taking a leaf out of the Asian messaging app playbook as its social messaging service enters a new era. The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. The result?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Santa Monica-based Fair , which offers up very flexible, subscription-based leases on used cars, has acquired the Canvas subscription car service, which was owned by Ford Motor Credit. According to Ford, existing customers of Canvas will be given an option to join Fair's service at the ends of their current vehicle subscription term.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based RepairSmith , which offers up mobile automobile repair, has acquired CarDash , a startup which offers up car repair and maintenance services. CarDash offered up its service in the Bay Area, providing same-day valet service to transport cars to and from repair ships. CarDash had raised $5.3M READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Los Angeles-based online car rental service HyreCar has just raised $1.465M in debt funding, as part of an ongoing $2.3M According to those filings, the funding comes on top of $1.65M in equity raised in a round which opened in June of 2017. funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm on Thursday.

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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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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , which owns a vast range of cloud-based businesses, including eFax, OneVoice, FuseMail, and many other services, along with digital media properties such as PCMagazine, IGN, AskMen, Everyday Health, and many other sites, has just passed up $1 billion in revenues. million in 2017, which was an increase of 27.9%

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JUNE 7, 2021

The company was launched in 2017, and now says it has over 10 million customers. The company recently launched its own spending and debit card account service called Dave Banking, which it says now has more than 1.3 million members.

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MARCH 22, 2019

The number of subscribers to online video services have just passed up that of traditional cable, according to an MPAA report today, which said in 2018 that there were 613.3 million subscribers to online video services around the world, a 27 percent increase from 2017. The report says that surpasses the 556.0 READ MORE>>.

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JULY 2, 2020

DeSantis previously served at such companies as DATAllegro, Predixion Software, Cloudvirga, and Nexiant, and the company said DeSantis took ShiftPixy public in 2017, and TCI Solutions in 2004. Mavenlink is backed by Carrick Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs, and has raised more than $111.5M in total.

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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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socalTECH

JULY 18, 2018

AdQuick, which launched its marketplace for outdoor advertising space, launched its services in 2017. in its seed funding in July of 2017, in a round also led by Initialized Capital, and also included VTF Capital and Haystack Ventures. The new funding came from Initialized Capital. Matt O'Connor is founder and CEO at AdQuick.

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JUNE 27, 2018

West Hollywood-based LiveXLive Media , the parent firm of online radio streaming service Slacker Radio , says that Slacker has launched its own Amazon Alexa "Skill" to enable voice control of its streaming music services. LiveXLive says it has more than one million monthly active users using its Slacker Radio service.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Calabasas-based temporary IT and professional services provider On Assignment said this morning that it has agreed to acquire Fairfax, Virginia-based ECS Federal , a privately held government contractor, for $775M in cash. ECS provides cyber security, cloud, DevOps, IT, and other services to the government. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

from bankrupt "movie sanitizing" service VidAngel , and VidAngel will drop a appeal of a $62.4M VidAngel--based in Utah--filed for bankruptcy in October of 2017, in order to avoid paying the $62.4M A group of Hollywood studios will collect $9.9M Disney, Warner Bros., Disney, Warner Bros., judgement against the company.

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JUNE 17, 2020

San Diego-based startup Trust & Will , which offers up online estate planning, says it has hit 100,000 members to its service. According to the company, the recent pandemic doubled the volume of individuals seeking its estate planning services.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Carlsbad-based Medsphere Systems Corporation , a provider of healthcare information technology solutions and services, annoucned this morning that it has raised $32M in a funding round. The company did not disclose financials, but said its subscription revenue grew 46 percent in 2017. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Los Angeles-based j2 Global , the Internet services and publishing giant behind such brands as IGN, Mashable, PCMag, eFax, eVoice, KeepItSafe, and dozens of others, saw its third quarter revenues rise to $292.7 million, up 7 percent compared with Q3 of 2017. The company says its expects revenues of between $1.2 billion and $1.25

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Email delivery services provider SendGrid is now officially part of cloud communications platform operator Twilio , Twilio said on Friday. The company had its IPO in November of 2017. SendGrid--which has significant operations in Anaheim, where one of its co-founders also was based--was acquired in a deal worth $3 billion.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

Los Angeles-based Telesign , which provides phone-based authentication and related services, says it has partnred with Proximus , the largest telecommunications company in Belgium. Telesign the effort, in particular, will help companies in that market with complying with the new EU Payment Services Directive, PSD2. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

WebMD Health Services , which is a subsidiary of WebMD, itself a part of Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , said this morning that it hass launcheda new financial wellness product. The company said the new service is aimed at reducing money-related stress, and also to help motivate change. READ MORE>>.

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