TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving virtual and augmented reality in 2018. While VR might not just be about gaming, it’s accurate to say that, in 2018, it mainly is.

UCLA

Xconomy

MAY 9, 2019

Five biotechs priced their IPOs and at least one more is coming. According to IPO research firm Renaissance Capital , 47 IPOs have priced so far this year across all sectors, down 27 percent compared to the same period in 2018. Just as last year, healthcare IPOs lead the way.

Pricing

TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

Previous backer Initialized Capital also participated in the financing, along with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, former Stockton, California Mayor Michael Tubbs, GGV investor Hans Tung and Paradox Capital’s Kyle Tibbitts. Startups attempting to help address the shortage in a variety of ways abound. All have kitchens and living space.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

According to Fisker, it is working on a line of affordable vehicles, which it says will be priced "well below" $40,000, and is hoping to ultimately ship more than 250,000 vehicles a year.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

MAY 20, 2021

Carpinteria-based Procore, the construction management software developer which went IPO this morning, is now worth more than $11 billion in market value, after pricing at $67.00 Morgan Securities, Barclays Capital, and Jefferies, along with Canaccord Genuity, KeyBanc Capital Markets, Oppenheimer & Co., Piper Sandler & Co.,

Santa Barbara

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2019

Rowe Price, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and ICONIQ Capital. The company has been on a big expansion push, raising more than $200M in two funding rounds in 2018. According to ServiceTitan, Longworth has more than 30 years of sales and marketing experience. READ MORE>>.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Rowe Price, Battery Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and ICONIQ Capital. Although the company did not provide any details on its financials, it claimed it is going to double its subscription revenue in 2018, marking its fifth year in a row of doubling its revenues. billion post-money valuation. READ MORE>>.

Glendale

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2018

The funding was led by Zeev Ventures, and also included Signia Venture Capital. The company says it plans to launch in Southern California, plus additional states, in 2018 and 2019. READ MORE>>.

Southern California

Xconomy

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Before you fly off, or drive, or simply unplug, check out our preview of what could be next year’s top clinical studies; the tumult in big pharma’s on again-off again relationship with consumer healthcare; big names on the move in the nation’s capital; and a flurry of year-end deals. Happy holidays, everyone.

Pricing

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2020

San Diego-based Evofem Biosciences , a publicly held, biopharmaceuticals company which is developing products in the area of women's sexual and reproductive health, says it has priced approximately $100M in common stock to the public. Evofem had its IPO back in 2018. Wainwright & Co. READ MORE>>.

San Diego

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 5, 2018

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 -- ACG 101 Annual Food and Agriculture Update. California's $45 billion agriculture industry has long had to deal with problems like drought, labor shortages, steep land prices and regulatory pressures. This year, natural disasters have brought even more challenges to our area's food and ag industry.

ACG

Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

This year at CES 2018 at Eureka Park over 800 startups from around the world will descend on Las Vegas and meet individuals to help boost their business. The company has been selected as a CES Innovation Awards 2018 Honoree. This company has been selected as a CES Innovation Awards 2018 Honoree. HOPii (San Jose, CA).

Startup

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

That’s precisely what the company will be worth in light of Switchback II’s share price declines, but the number could be lower than the headline figure from early merger disclosures. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. billion for Bird when it began to trade.

News

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a startup in this phase you often raise capital, get press, hire staff and everything feels possible. In the case of MakeSpace we had huge initial successes in New York City as Rahul led the scaling of our drivers, our trucks and our warehouses and we figured out the right price points to beat the local competition.

Startup

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Saudi Arabian Price Al-Waleed Talal said on Tuesday that he has invested $250M in Snap, taking a 2.3 in the three months ended June 30, 2018, on revenues of $262M. Venice-based Snap Inc. , the parent company of Snapchat , has raised $250M in the publicly held company from the Saudi royal family. percent stake in the company.

Venice

Xconomy

APRIL 23, 2019

After a breakout year in 2017, the blockchain sector suffered a series of blows in 2018, from crashing cryptocurrency prices to increased regulatory scrutiny of crypto ventures and deepening skepticism about whether the technology was actually useful.

Report

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

Popular programs like Opportunity Zones, New Market Tax Credits and Community Development Finance Institutions could be used to boost the government’s commitment with private capital, the plan’s authors argue. Even Tesla benefited from the program, paying back a $460 million loan from the program a decade ahead of schedule.

Southern California

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 7, 2019

Along with several of Raven’s core members, Lyu left Baidu in 2018 to start rct. The startup is about to close its Series A funding round just months after banking seed money from Y Combinator and Chinese venture capital firm Skysaga , the startup told TechCrunch. Investors are buying into rct’s offering.

Startup

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time. “At We gained sort of a cult following because we had healthy meals at an accessible price point.”. Positive Food Co.,

Invest

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2020

The price of entry can be less than $10,000, so the competition is huge and growing rapidly. According to Tim Cook at Apple, there were over 20 million registered developers in 2018. If you want to drive up the demand for your core product, one smart tactic is to drive down the price of all complementary products.

Mobile

Xconomy

APRIL 9, 2018

View the Slideshow With the first quarter in the books, it’s time to step back and lay out Xconomy’s editorial map for the rest of the year.

News

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. As you know, Silicon Valley has a locker grip on the venture capital community. I think our board is agreement for the need for more venture capital. Our focus in 2018 will be on the entrepreneurs.

Southern California

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2020

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2022

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Capital One (2019), Marriott/Starwood (2018), and Yahoo (2014) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

Social Media

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Rather than enhancing the offering you have, develop and offer new products that capitalize on the customers that you already know well. Competitors tend to focus on price and other variations to existing offerings. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/18/2018.

Examples

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Meanwhile, TechCrunch reporter Manish Singh learned from two sources familiar with the deal that Bangalore-based startup Bounce has raised about $150 million as part of an ongoing financing round led by existing investors Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital and Accel Partners India. The big attraction isn’t necessarily price either.

Newsletter

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Make sure your whole team is willing to take risks and explore new options on pricing, marketing, and manufacturing. New technologies often allow innovative marketplace entrants to eliminate whole stages of the value chain, for example dramatically reducing capital and infrastructure costs.

Marketing

InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2019

She also priced her products and franchise fees to ensure that her franchisees generated adequate income to live independently and financially secure. franchises generated $757 billion of revenue in 2018. Martha’s Legacy Lives On. According to the Labor Department, U.S.

Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2018

I’ll paraphrase her key recommendations for capitalizing on this potential, for use on yourself and members of your team: Incent people to challenge norms and accepted constraints. They just need the inspiration, time, and training to capitalize on these tools, and the new devices that arrive every day.

Training

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

It was only a year ago that many in the Venture Capital industry were predicting that “winter was coming” and to be fair the author of this post was chief amongst them. But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

For example, you may think that buying a commodity like bottled water is still all about price, yet buyers today check their smartphones first for positive brand reviews, environmentally friendly bottles, positive buzz from social media, and the nearest outlet for purchasing. Capitalize on key value drivers that motivate your buyer.

Customer

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2018

These days, customers remember the total experience with a company longer than they remember the price they paid. This approach to growth, usually called “coopetition,” capitalizes on the unique strengths of close competitors for a win-win situation for both. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/16/2018.

Examples

Xconomy

JULY 31, 2020

Bain Capital and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE ) launched it in 2018 with neuroscience compounds from the pharma giant’s labs. If you’ve never heard of Arya (NASDAQ: ARYBU ), it’s a shell company that Perceptive Advisors formed specifically to serve as a vehicle to take a private company public. Cerevel is young, but it’s pretty far along.

Pricing

Xconomy

JULY 19, 2019

Soaring prices of Bitcoin and other so-called digital tokens were attracting investments from speculators hoping to get rich quick—but these virtual coin values were also known to drop just as suddenly, the US Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council noted.

Pricing

Xconomy

JANUARY 4, 2019

In 2018, my Exome colleagues and I published hundreds of stories about health, medicine, the biopharma industry, government policy, and more. Topics ranged from the worries over CRISPR genome editing and Wild West biohacking, to Nobel Prize-fueled drug approvals and the headaches around drug prices (even for drugs meant to cure headaches).

Pricing