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Techstars Los Angeles Launches 2019 Class

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Techstars Los Angeles , one of the startup accelerators run by Techstars in Los Angeles, has announced its 2019 class. Techstars Los Angeles said that eight of the ten companies are based in the greater Los Angeles area; the effort in LA is led by Anna Barber.

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Google Maps gets improved Live View AR directions

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If you’re like me and perpetually disoriented after you exit a subway station in a new city (remember 2019, when we could still travel?), Now, Google promises to fix this by using a combination of machine learning and better topographical maps to place the pin exactly where it’s supposed to be. Image Credits: Google.

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Camino Financial Expands Exec Team

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Los Angeles-based fintech startup Camino Financial said today that it is expanding its management team, and has named Aram Gushchyan as Director of Growth and Roxane Herrera as Director of Corporate Development. Guschchyan previously was Director of Marketing and Analytics at Go.

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Theta Lake Takes $12.7M For Security, Compliance Software

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According to the company, the funding was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and also included Cisco Investments, angel investors, and prior investors Neotribe Ventures, Firebolt Ventures and WestWave Capital. The company's seed funding was in January of 2019. in a Series A funding. READ MORE>>.

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Miku Tackles Smart Baby Monitor Market

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A new, Los Angeles-based startup, a href="[link] , has launched its first product, a "smart" baby monitor which it says captures and analyzes a baby's breathing and sleeping patterns, the temperature and humidity levels in a baby's environment, as well as other data.

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Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women

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Ezra initially came to market with a single test to screen for prostate cancer using machine learning to diagnose the screens coming off of an abbreviated MRI scan that takes 20 minutes. The company is currently working in nine centers across New York and intends to expand to San Francisco and Los Angeles later this year.

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Elementary Robotics is making its quality assurance robots commercially available

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Two years and more than $17 million after it first began working on its robots for quality assurance, the Los Angeles-based Elementary Robotics has finally made its products commercially available. “Machine learning paired with humans always performs better,” says Barnehama. We’re not really a lights-out factory.”