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Reflections on 2018: Alon Goren, 805 Startups and Crypto Invest Summit

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? We're proud to hold it twice a year in Los Angeles. You'll hear about it soon.

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LA-based A-Frame, a developer of celebrity-led personal care brands, raises cash for its brand incubator

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A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. Bloom is also a founder of the Wise Sons Delicatessen in San Francisco. “We first invested in Avametric at Initialized in 2013 and he had experience prior to that as well.

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An LA-led, public-private partnership pitches a $150B green infrastructure package to Congress

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Representatives from the government and the utility managing the power of Los Angeles are proposing a sweeping infrastructure package worth roughly $150 billion centered on the broad electrification of transportation and industry. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson.

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Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watt’s next act

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based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base. Watt began talking to investors in 2018 about the idea and spent the bulk of 2019 trying to build out its first few companies. The company has ten people on staff to help build its first slate of companies. ”

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Startup Boost Los Angeles Opens Apps For Spring Program

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Startup Boost Los Angeles , the early stage startup program which is led in LA by Matt Stoddard, says it has opened up applications for its Spring 2019 program. The program said that its last program, in Fall of 2018, attracted over 120 applications for its eight spots. READ MORE>>.

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Boost Your New Venture By Teaming With An Incubator

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One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Doctours offers packaged medical tourism for U.S. customers

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Doctours , a Los Angeles-based online platform for booking trips and treatments for medical and dental care around the world, is expanding its services to 35 countries. In 2018 alone, 14 million patients traveled abroad to seek healthcare, according to the company. surgery, weight loss surgery, dental work and Lasik. .

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