TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

“I love solving problems with design and entrepreneurship. For Watt, the studio model represents the next iteration of startup investing. based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base. I wasn’t fully scratching the itch as an investor by itself.”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

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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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 30, 2020

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. million in financing that Elementary closed at the end of 2019. “ At the end of the day the human is running the factory. .

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Maven continued to operate in Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. ” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. 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.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. “Our entire investment strategy is to invest at the inflection points where things cross over from froniter to mainstream investments,” says Knauf.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Behind the quick turnaround time is a pre-approval process that was first rolled out in Santa Fe and came to Los Angeles in recent weeks. In Los Angeles, La Mas , IT House, Design, B **s, Connect Homes, Welcome Projects and First Office have all had homes pre-approved for construction. trillion-dollar industry. Photo via Abodu.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. billion investment in 2018.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in a $120 million round for that the company announced today. “Nextbite is a portfolio of delivery-only restaurant brands that exist only on UberEats, DoorDash, and Postmates.”

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The first offerings will be launching in the beginning of 2019, but the company has dozens of customers already using its pilot, McCorkle said. As one of a crop of venture investment firms and studios cropping up in the Midwest, High Alpha is something of a bellwether for the viability of the venture model in emerging ecosystems.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024. Archer Aviation reached an agreement in early February to merge with special purpose acquisition company Atlas Crest Investment Corp.,

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Remember Canoo, the Los Angeles startup that revealed a minibus-type electric vehicle a few months back? Evelozcity rebranded as Canoo in spring 2019 and unveiled its prototype electric vehicle several months later. The big attraction isn’t necessarily price either. Subscriptions are so hot right now. We have an update.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Many companies don’t reach the next phase either because their leadership doesn’t adapt as an organization or because they don’t design processes that lead to scaled outcomes. Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day.

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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. I started a web design company, and ended up going to college in Florida, but kept on running the company on the side. So are you now looking at new projects and investments?

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StartUp Beat

JUNE 22, 2018

Amit Thakkar: During the process of designing and building LawMaker, we spend two years talking to and surveying thousands of Americans about their civic habits and feeling about political engagement. People who claim to be invested in politics are either screaming at each other or beginning to check out mentally and emotionally.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio last raised in September of 2019 when it brought in $250 million in a Series D financing. The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. Newton was tight-lipped about the company’s financials, saying only that since its 2019 raise, the company has seen “explosive” growth.

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