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JUNE 16, 2020

But in the face of a global pandemic, every company has had to improvise and in the few months since its launch in 2019, that’s just what Bümo did. Based in Los Angeles, Bümo had already managed to lock in a $2.4 Based in Los Angeles, Bümo had already managed to lock in a $2.4

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APRIL 22, 2019

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 -- Start-up World Cup - Los Angeles Regional Pitch Competition. See [link] (more)

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MARCH 22, 2019

Thursday, March 28, 2019 -- Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? Register for the FundingPost event on Thursday, March 28th, 2019. FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years. See [link] (more)

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital has acquired Sargent and Greenleaf , a maker of a wide range of both electric and traditional mechanical locks, from Stanley Black & Decker. According to OpenGate Capital, it expects the acquisition to be complete in Q1 of 2019.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

We are working hard to improve the Preccelerator, but it is really a testament to how strong the start-up ecosystem has become in Los Angeles. In 2019 we have begun to see it actually affecting us, with voice assistants, and navigational devices, calendaring assisting, suggestive actions, etc. AI, hands down.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

Los Angeles-based digital performance advertising firm Ad.net announced on Wednesday morning that it has acquired IntentX. IntentX was founded in 2019 by Mom Chan and Vamsu Putrevu. Ad.net is backed by private equity investor Clarion Capital, and is led by CEO Jon Waterman.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. The data and analytics firm suggests that mobile gaming will capture some 60% of the overall gaming market in 2019 as well.

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

Los Angeles-based Orca Security, a cloud-based security provider, has raised a big, $550M Series C funding round, with a valuation of $1.8 Orca Security was founded in 2019. billion, the company said this morning. The company--led by CEO Avi Shua--said the new funding was led by Temasek.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2019

Upfront Ventures , a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has filed paperwork with the U.S. Though the firm typically invests at the seed and Series A, capital from Upfront Growth III will be used for follow-on or late-stage deals. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise its third growth-stage investment fund.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based commercial real estate marketplace operator Crexi said this week that it has added both a new CFO, Tim Laehy, and a new Chief Legal Officer, Kris Cheh Beck. Beck was most recently Chief Legal Officer at United Capital, which was acquired by Goldman Sachs in 2019 for $750M.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

” After graduating from Y Combinator in the summer of 2019, the company tested its services in the Southern California region. Now, as construction looks ready to return to a more normal schedule in the aftermath of the COVID-19 epidemic, the company is capitalizing on increased demand to offer its services nationwide.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 15, 2020

As coronavirus keeps offices closed, wealthy venture capitalists are moving out of apartments in San Francisco and New York and decamping to other vacation-friendly zip codes. In San Francisco, a city known for high housing costs, rates for a one-bedroom apartment have dropped 9% from a year ago.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. Dynamic entrepreneurs attract talent and outside capital, both vital resources to every startup. If the music can stop for WeWork, it can stop for anyone.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

billion in VC investment from January to October, already matching 2019 levels. capital has produced 241 impact startups since 2006, with 95 companies founded in San Francisco. Arrival is now operating in Los Angeles, while Octopus Energy launched in the U.S. times) since 2015, compared to 3.1 times in Europe as a whole.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Pipe Technologies , which is developing a subscription financing platform to help software companies finance their businesses without debt or dilution, has raised $60M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. Pipe was founded in September 2019 by Harry Hurst, Josh Mangel, and Zain Allarakhia.

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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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DECEMBER 30, 2019

He is one of Los Angeles' most active angel investors, with more than $2.5B Systems that are beyond just donating proceeds to efforts, but companies where the operational success is tied to actual positive environmental impact. Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor and the CEO of Science, Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 24, 2019

Cann , a Los Angeles-based purveyor of CBD and THC-infused intoxicants, is rolling out its first major distribution through the venture-backed delivery service Eaze as it begins to hit the streets in California. Cann, did a soft launch in June with a limited release across four MedMen stores in Los Angeles. ”

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Los Angeles-based Signal Sciences , a developer of web application security software, has been acquired for $775M by San Francisco-based Fastly , Fastly annoucned this morning. According to Fastly, the cash and stock deal will expand its security portfolio, and form the basis of a new, upcoming security offering called Secure@Edge.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Los Angeles-based uBeam , the controversial wireless charging startup backed by Upfront Ventures, says its is about to unveil its "ultrasonic wireless power system" at the CES 2019 show in Las Vegas next week, the first demonstration of the company's technology.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The total funds include backing from a Republic campaign, pre-seed investors and capital from the co-founders. In 2019, the company came out with its first product, Kelp Jerky, which comes in four flavors, and was a product Boyd Myers thought would be a good trial run to help people see ocean-farmed kelp in a new way.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based Upfront Ventures has just kicked off an effort to raise a new, $280M venture capital fund, Upfront VII, L.P. Upfront Ventures started raising $250M in a growth fund, Upfront Growth II, back in June of 2019, and raised its last core fund, Upfront VI, back in June of 2017.

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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. ” Behind the new commercialization push is a fresh $12.7

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Los Angeles-based live shopping streaming marketplace operator Whatnot said on Thursday that it has raised $150M in a Series C funding. The funding came from Andreessen Horowitz, YC Continuity, and new investor CapitalG, along with angel investors Andre Iguodala, Logan Paul, Gokul Rajaram, and Nilam Ganenthiran.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

The goal is to shorten trips made excruciatingly long due to bad traffic in major cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. — Tyler Babin (@Tyler_Babin) March 11, 2019. New work with @flybladenow pic.twitter.com/eONvKU3rhM.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Last week, I wrote about an alternative to venture capital called revenue-based financing and before that, I jotted down some notes on one of VCs’ favorite spaces: cannabis tech. Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. Fundraising.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 15, 2021

Saltbox opened its first facility — a 27,000-square-foot location — in its home base of Atlanta in late 2019, filling it within two months. The company plans to end 2021 with eight locations, in particular eyeing the Denver, Seattle and Los Angeles markets. Now, Saltbox has completed a $10.6

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Bleich was a partner during two stints for a collective 19 years at Los Angeles-based law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson. Bleich left Dentons in March 2019 and was named board chair of PG&E a month later. But it’s his legal career that Cruise is tapping into. Cruise has raised upwards of $7.25

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 21, 2020

Now the two women are co-founders of Angel City, leading a gaggle of venture capital, sports, and celebrity investors, alongside Angel City co-founder and President Julie Uhrman, in bringing a National Women’s Soccer League team to Los Angeles by the Spring of 2022. “We’re venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 20, 2021

So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. For now, Eano is operating in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with plans to expand to Seattle and Houston this year.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Los Angeles-based Podcorn , a venture-backed startup offering up native podcast advertising and matching, has launched its platform, saying that its platform will help advertisers discover and run native ads on podcasts. Podcorn recently raised $2.2M, in an August 2019 funding round. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. My biggest takeaway this year was truly understanding the strength and cohesion of the Los Angeles startup community.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Los Angeles-based Lyre's Non-Alcoholic Spirit Co. Lyre's said it originally launched in July of 2019 in Australia. which develops non-alcoholic drinks which have the flavor--but not the alcohol--of popular spirits, has raised $11.5M in a seed funding round.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based Allset , a startup which allows users to book a table and pre-order food at restaurants, said it has launched a new app and website. The company said the upgraded app and website will make it easier for its users to find and gte food they want from local restaurants. The new app works on both iOS and Android.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Westlake Village BioPartners , a brand new venture capital fund focused on the life sciences, said on Wednesday that it has launched a new, $320 investment fund aimed at early stage companies. According to the new venture fund, it was founded by Beth Seidenberg, M.D., executive vice president and head of R&D at Amgen.

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