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JANUARY 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based web hosting and WordPress services provider DreamHost and small business lending service Lendio said on Thursday that the two are partnered to provide Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) application guidance to Dreamhost customers. Financial details of the partnership were not announced.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The biggest news for BiasSync is having a successful beta, launching publicly and getting our first customers including a Fortune 50 multinational, several Fortune 500 companies and state and federal agencies within a few months of starting to sell. We'll be featuring contributions all through the holiday season. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based Xos, a relatively unknown, new electric truck startup, has agreed to go public at a $2 billion valuation, via a SPAC offering, according to reports. Xos claims its vehicles have already been deployed since 2019, with a customer base that includes UPS, Loomis, Lonestar, and Wiggins.

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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. Clio has more than 150,000 customers across 100 countries. Newton was tight-lipped about the company’s financials, saying only that since its 2019 raise, the company has seen “explosive” growth. Rowe Price Associates Inc.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based LiveXLive Media , which operates a livestreaming and on-demand audio, video, and podcasting service, says it has signed an agreement to acquire Custom Personalization Solutions, LLC , in a deal worth up to $6M. LiveXLive said that CPS had approximately $19M in revenue in 2019. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 14, 2020

The company estimates that it saves its customers roughly half the cost of deploying an in-house fleet for delivery. . ” After graduating from Y Combinator in the summer of 2019, the company tested its services in the Southern California region. . “ We provide a solution for them to flex up or down and save money.”

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The company launched two smaller appliances for its Outpost service , which originally brought AWS as a managed service and appliance right into its customers’ existing data centers in the form of a large rack. With Outpost, AWS launched a fully managed edge solution that can run AWS infrastructure in its customers’ data centers.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Los Angeles-based Glowpoint, the publicly traded firm which merged with Los Angeles-based Oblong earlier this year, has renamed itself as Oblong, as a complex merger transaction looks to be progressing for the two companies. effective today. READ MORE>>.

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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. Canoo said it will provide engineering services to develop the electric platform.

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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

JULY 15, 2021

Abodu has been active in the market, selling and building its ADUs since the fall of 2019. So far, it’s operating in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Seattle. The company claims it can deliver an ADU in as little as 30 days in San Jose and Los Angeles thanks to the cities’ pre-approval process. .

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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. Just has a similar model.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. The company was acquired by Platinum Equity in December 2019. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. for the domain name.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

The new moped is the latest effort by Bird to diversify its product offerings to capture more customers. Initially the mopeds were piloted in Los Angeles, according to Bird. Users of the Scoot Moped must be 18 years or older and have a valid driver’s license. . ”

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APRIL 29, 2020

with Las Vegas complementing Google Cloud’s existing data centers in Los Angeles, Calif.; In total, Google now offers its customers the option to host their applications in 23 regions globally; with the opening of this new region, it now has seven U.S. The company first announced the Vegas expansion in July 2019.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The company sent an email to customers Tuesday that after examining the business, the car-sharing industry and COVID-19, it decided to shutter the service permanently. Maven continued to operate in Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. Below is a screenshot of the email sent Tuesday morning to Maven customers.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Financial details of the four acquisition, which all closed in the first quarter of 2019, were not announced. j2 Global said the acquisition will help it grow its global customer base, provide it with access to new markets, and will expand its product lineup.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Los Angeles-based J2 Global , which owns a large portfolio of Internet services and publications, says it acquired two more companies during Q4 of 2019. J2 Global said the acquisition grew its global customer base, provide it with access to new markets, and expand its product lineup. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based company, Emburse , launched today, out of the acquisition of six different expense and accounts payable (AP) automation companies, including LA-based Chrome River. Chrome River acquired Emburse back in July of 2019. All of those companies had provided some aspect of expense management.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Back in 2019 the company acquired the Los Angeles-based company Greenlots , an EV charging developer. .” Shell already has electric vehicle charging infrastructure that it has deployed in some markets. And earlier this year Shell made another move into electric vehicle charging with the acquisition of Ubitricity in the UK.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . Especially since the round was led by the Los Angeles-based venture firm Upfront Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. Ultimately 1,000 customers signed up, and The Kelp Burger is now the “hero product,” Boyd Myers said.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Online education operator 2U , which has offices in Los Angeles, has added another degree program at the University of Southern California, the company said this week. The new degree programs include a Master of Planning program, expected to launch in January of 2019, and a Master of Public Policy, expected to launch in 2020.

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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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OCTOBER 28, 2020

The investment firms and executive teams behind the Los Angeles-based delivery liquor delivery company, Saucey , along with Inception Companies, the backer of marijuana distribution company, Emjay , have formed Pacific Consolidated to merge their two companies and build what’s likely the largest “vice” company in the world. .”

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Audi revealed Tuesday evening in Los Angeles the e-tron Sportback as the German automaker begins to chip away at its plan to launch more than 30 electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids by 2025. Audi has delivered 18,500 of its all-electric e-tron SUVs globally since March 2019 when the vehicle first came to market. in fall 2020.

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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. “We had to limit our daily delivery volume in some regions, and put new customers on waiting lists.”

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship raised $40 million Series A led by Morpheus Ventures back in 2019, and last January according to Pitchbook data also raised a further $17 million with strategic backers TDK Ventures (the investment arm of the Japanese electronics giant) and Goodyear Ventures among the investors. It has now made more than 2.5

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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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MARCH 30, 2021

The company, founded by ex-Google engineers and colleagues behind the unrequited Bookbot , was formed to develop market-ready tech in self-driving, AI-powered robotics and delivery operations in 2019, but the team has kept operations under wraps until now. This is Cartken’s first large deployment of self-driving robots on sidewalks.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 25, 2019

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. I almost skipped IPO corner this week because no big-name companies dropped or amended their S-1s or completed a highly anticipated IPO, as has been the case basically every week of 2019.

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APRIL 9, 2020

general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. Harley Davidson introduced its all electric $29K LiveWire in 2019, becoming the first of the big gas manufacturers to offer a street-legal e-moto for sale in the U.S.

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MAY 23, 2019

That’s still a steep price for customers to pay out of pocket. The company is currently working in nine centers across New York and intends to expand to San Francisco and Los Angeles later this year. The scans take about an hour and costs just $1,950, compared with the $5,000 to $10,000 that a full-body MRI scan can cost.

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MARCH 17, 2019

After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. VW also has a partnership with AV startup Aurora to integrate self-driving systems in custom-designed electric shuttles for VW’s new Moia brand. — Seleta Reynolds (@seletajewel) March 16, 2019.

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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” We could talk with customers, meet the entire management team, review financial plans, review customer purchasing cohorts, evaluate the competition, etc. In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal. By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m

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MARCH 24, 2020

Polestar will only sell its vehicles online and will offer customers subscriptions to the vehicle. It previously revealed plans to open “Polestar Spaces,” a showroom where customers can interact with the product and schedule test drives. COVID-19 has also affected Polestar’s timeline.

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