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Reflections on 2018: Clinton Foy, CrossCut Ventures

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be 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? You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Mobile messaging financial advisory service, Stackin, adds banking features and raises cash

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According to Grimes, the company made the switch from video to text in March 2018 and built a custom messaging platform on Twilio to service the company’s 500,000 users. Having financial institutions like Experian come on board as an investor is a testament that this model is working,” Grimes wrote in an email.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

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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. The car-sharing service has struggled for months, long before COVID-19 upended the “shared” mobility sector. Image Credits: Screenshot/Maven email.

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Interview with David Wood, Eventene

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We also put a mobile app in all of the people's hands so they know where they need to go, where they are sitting, and those types of things. David Wood: It's been about a year and a half now, we launched it in 2018. How long has the app been available? The company is almost three years old. How are you backed and funded?

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

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Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. An email subscription is coming! Email me or send a direct message to @kirstenkorosec. billion investment in 2018.

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Monzo: What do you need to know?

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With a community forum, along with its aims to offer easily accessible and readable annual reports (you can view reports for 2017, 2018 and 2019 on its site), Monzo champions transparency. Without physical branches, it’s a digital-only service, with assistance and support available via live chat, as well as phone and email.

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Interview with Daniel Scalisi, MobileCause

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Daniel Scalisi is the CEO of Los Angeles-based MobileCause (www.mobilecause.com), a startup focused on the mobile, nonprofit fundraising area. We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What is mobile fundraising? Those donations are mobile initiated.

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