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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Snap investment Hardworkers. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Yellow investment SketchAR. making their way to Los Angeles.

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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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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.”

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London and SF have become Impact Tech hubs, with 280% increase in VC in 5 years

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New research has found that San Francisco and London have become two of the world’s leading hubs for VC investment into tech solutions that address one or more of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), more commonly referred to as “Impact Tech” They are followed by Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Shanghai and Beijing.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

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Liquid Death has attracted nearly $2 million in funding from angel investors like Away co-founder Jen Rubio and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. pic.twitter.com/DMEg88t4iO. Fundraising.

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Ford CTO Ken Washington at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10

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We’re excited to announce that Ford CTO Ken Washington will participate in TechCrunch’s inaugural TC Sessions: Mobility , a one-day event on July 10, 2019 in San Jose, Calif., A conference dedicated to transportation and mobility wouldn’t be complete without hearing from Ford, the U.S. automaker with a storied 116-year history.

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