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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. Here's Alon Goren , founder of 805 Startups and the Crypto Invest Summit. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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Next 10 Ventures is launching an incubator for YouTube personalities

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Los Angeles-based Next 10 Ventures , a $50 million fund focused on the creator economy, is launching an incubator program to support YouTubers. ” Applications to the incubator opened today and close November 17, 2018. Through this content, they may discover a field or a topic they haven’t had access to.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. Snap investment Hardworkers. Yellow investment SketchAR. making their way to Los Angeles. ”

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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. “We partner with the investment groups at the agencies,” said company founder and chief executive, Ari Bloom. The Honest Co.

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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.

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

TechCrunch LA

For Watt, the studio model represents the next iteration of startup investing. Rather than invest in companies and management teams that are unknown quantities, Watt thinks the studio will be able to create discrete companies much faster in the same way that companies today iterate on new products and services. ”

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

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Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels.