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Clutter Collects $200M More For On-Demand Storage

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Culver City-based Clutter , which offers up "on-demand" self storage of your extra stuff, has raised $200M in a Series D funding, the company announced on Wednesday morning. As part of the new investment round, it has added Justin Wilson of SoftBank Investment Advisors to the board. The company's co-founder and CEO is Ari Mir.

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LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs

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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.

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Planning 500,000 charging points for EVs by 2025, Shell becomes the latest company swept up in EV charging boom

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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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Hyundai taps EV startup Canoo to develop electric vehicles

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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 company recently opened the waitlist for its first vehicle. ”

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Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic

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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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Just raises $8M in its effort to beat Root at the car insurance game

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CrossCut Ventures, ManchesterStory and Western Technology Investments co-led the investment, which brings its total raised to $15.3 million since its January 2019 inception. Also, with so many people shifting to working from home over the last year, Just says it has seen increased demand this year.

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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

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Maven continued to operate in Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. A wave of other initiative and investments were announced in 2016 that showed GM’s shift in interest toward unconventional transportation businesses that were adjacent to its core business of producing, selling and financing cars, trucks and SUVs to consumers.