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Startup Boost Los Angeles Opens Apps For Fall Class

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Startup Boost Los Angeles has opened up applications for its Fall 2019 class, according to the group. The programs--which does not charge fees or take equity from companies in its program--says it is seeking nine early stage startups to take part in its eight-week program, designed to help early stage startups.

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EV subscription startup Canoo, co-founder sued for alleged harassment

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Just weeks after Canoo took the wraps off of its electric vehicle , the Los Angeles-based startup and co-founder Stefan Krause has been accused of gender and marital discrimination, harassment, breach of contract, and wrongful termination in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Stefan Krause filed for divorce from Christina Krause in July 2019.

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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. Modsy scores $37M to virtually design your home.

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Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner

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The Los Angeles and New York-based venture firm M13 has managed to nab former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner and the head of its internal venture studio, Launchpad. “ The EIRs will receive a small stipend and equity in the business, Barber said.

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Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watt’s next act

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“I love solving problems with design and entrepreneurship. Watt says Share Ventures will operate as a holding company with pooled equity shared across the employees at the company. based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base. ” Image Credit: Share Ventures.

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Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

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first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. Shares of the SPAC were off as far as 20% before recovering. News broke in May that Bird was looking at a SPAC-led debut on the public markets. So what?

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

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Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. making their way to Los Angeles. Stipop : a rich cross-platform chat sticker API. TRASH : an app for quickly editing social video cuts using machine learning. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop. ”

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