TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

There could be more demand for electric vehicles post COVID-19 crisis, believes Energica founder Livia Cevolini. One of those is greater demand for EVs after the pandemic. Before the health crisis shutdown most of Italy, Energica had already seen larger demand for its high-performance e-motos, with a price range of $17,000 to $23,000.

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JULY 9, 2019

On-demand, ride sharing service Lyft said on Tuesday that it has rolled out a new fleet of wheelchair accessible vehicles, in Los Angeles, as well as San Francisco. Lyft did not say how many of the wheelchair accessible vehicles it will operate in Los Angeles County.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based on-demand scooter startup Bird is pulling its scooters from the streets of a number of Florida cities, as the state faces its first major hurricane in the "on-demand scooter" era. HurricaneDorian #scooternado — Ken Russell Miami (@kenrussellmiami) August 29, 2019. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

Initially the mopeds were piloted in Los Angeles, according to Bird. The scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets due to lack of demand, according to several city officials who spoke to TechCrunch during SXSW 2019. But then scooters came en masse. ”

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; The company first announced the Vegas expansion in July 2019. Both of these capabilities allow us to flex our technology to fully support the demands of our customers and our business. The Dalles, Ore.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Shell’s plan to roll out 500,000 electric charging station in just four years is the latest sign of an EV charging infrastructure boom that has prompted investors to pour cash into the industry and inspired a few companies to become public companies in search of the capital needed to meet demand.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

Los Angeles-based Fandango , the movie ticketing and movie information provider, has inked a new deal to stream films from IMAX , as part of its video-on-demand service, FandangoNOW , the company said on Monday. Financial details of the deal were not announced. The IMAX Enhanced film program provider 4K HDR content and DTS audio films.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. The company rebranded as Canoo in spring 2019 and debuted its first vehicle last September.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite. The goal is to shorten trips made excruciatingly long due to bad traffic in major cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 8, 2020

He did note that in the four markets where the company has gone live since launching its business in January 2019 — San Diego, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire , and Sacramento — has yielded an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million in gross merchandise value (the total value of home sales transacted on its platform).

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

After raising $15 million in financing from one of technology’s most successful global investment firms, the Los Angeles-based consumer goods rental company Joymode is selling itself to an early-stage retail investment firm out of New York, XRC Labs. “All the accessories that made the event even better,” said Fernandez.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Maven continued to operate in Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. For instance, the company launched in 2017 Maven Reserve in Los Angeles and San Francisco to allow customers to rent its GM-branded vehicles for a month at a time. The service’s demise seemed to begin after the company lost its CEO Julia Steyn in January 2019.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

While Los Angeles city officials way back in 2003 asked its manufacturers and suppliers to stop using the terminology, they did not require it. Meanwhile, we’re seeing ads for Yes on 22 inside on-demand apps. What’s wild is that these terms ever existed in the first place and are just now being addressed.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

million since its January 2019 inception. Los Angeles-based Just says it uses telematics “to reward safe drivers and reduce insurer bias” by looking at factors such as how, when and where customers drive, rather than factors such as ZIP code or marital status as most traditional insurers do.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Nonetheless, I expect that in 2019 the VC market will shift toward demanding profit. Rob Freelen is the Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com), where he leads SVBs technology practice.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The financiers funding the company’s plans are a mix of Silicon Valley venture capital firms and members of Hollywood’s elite, which is only fitting for a company whose headquarters are in Los Angeles, but whose business takes it to the far flung research centers and launch facilities which support the U.S. space industry.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. City officials and one dockless mobility executive told me that scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets do to lack of demand. VW already has other partnerships.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 23, 2020

Despite being one of the most popular apps of 2019 , monetisation has largely eluded the company up to now. And just yesterday, the company opened an office in Los Angeles, the heart of the music industry. One reason why monetising can’t happen is because of the lack of deals at the other end of the chain.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Past investors also included Y Combinator, where GrubMarket was part of the Winter 2015 cohort), and for some more context, GrubMarket last raised money in April 2019 , $28 million at a $228 million valuation, a source says. ” I don’t doubt that he means it.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Polestar had planned to have 60 of these spaces open by 2020, including in Oslo, Los Angeles and Shanghai. Those numbers will also depend on demand for the Polestar 2 and other models that are built in the same factory. These spaces will be standalone facilities and not within existing Volvo retailer showrooms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

Yet, as an angel investor, I still see too many new business owners who are convinced that their biggest challenge is to get money to start, and once launched with some initial success, they can relax. Demand continuous innovation to keep up with change. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/23/2019.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2019

In January, Los Angeles-based Pluto TV (www.pluto.tv) was acquired by Viacom for $340M, one of the largest acquisition deals so far in the region this year. That's when it clicked for me, realizing that for some reason, everything online is on-demand. Ilya also founded Coplex, a startup development studio. That just doesn't happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

According to a recent Ernst & Young global report , the first half 2019 global IPO activity slowdown continued, following an unusually quiet Q1 2019 as ongoing geopolitical tensions and trade issues dampened IPO sentiment. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2022

Yet the 2019 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. Some people find that they have much in common in workplace duties and perspectives, but have nothing in common outside of work.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We have many really good IPOs on the Horizon such as Uber and Lyft and Slack, most of which will probably try and get out in Q1, but the big question will be can the technology sector, and the market as a whole for that matter, keep up its bull run long beyond the normal cycle or will we see more than just a correction in 2019? On Demand).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2019

As an advisor to business owners, and an occasional angel investor, my job is to separate the actual challenges from the common misconceptions that distract many promising entrepreneurs while building the leadership team required for your solution, marketing, and finance success. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If you haven’t raised any money or if you raised a small round from angels or friends & family I would suggest you avoid setting up a formal board unless the people who would join your board are deeply experienced at sitting on startup boards. Bad board members can make business very unpleasant.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. They are very few and far between, partially because the demand is not out there. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Yet the 2019 Office Romance Survey by Vault, Inc. All relationships bring increased demands for your time, and bring expectations and pressures during any changes in your life, or at work. Some people find that they have much in common in workplace duties and perspectives, but have nothing in common outside of work.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

and we were met with weak demand, slow growth and high costs. Throughout the first year we made many fixes and saw our revenue base in these markets accelerate so we felt we were ready to attack Los Angeles, amongst the most important storage markets in the country.

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