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

TechCrunch LA

The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court makes a number of allegations against Stefan Krause and Canoo, including that Christina Krause was paid less than other founding members and not given the co-founder designation or the equity stake that often comes with that title despite being a founding employee.

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

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Designed to be a collaborative startup company incubator alongside corporate partners, Launchpad focuses on developing new consumer tech businesses focused on M13’s main investment areas: health, food, transportation, and housing. Anna Barber, partner, M13. Image Credit: Raif Strathmann. .

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

TechCrunch LA

“I love solving problems with design and entrepreneurship. based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base. Watt began talking to investors in 2018 about the idea and spent the bulk of 2019 trying to build out its first few companies. ”

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LA's Slice Of Sauce Picked For Techstars Austin Program

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Los Angeles-based food startup Slice of Sauce , which makes unique "slices" of ketchup designed to make it easier to put sauce on burgers and other foods, has joined Techstars Austin , one of Techstars' many accelerator programs around the world.

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How Valence Aims to Provide Better Access and Funding for Black Founders & Executives

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At Upfront we believe in improving access for founders and entrepreneurs to networking, professional development, and economic opportunities, and that’s what Kobie set out to do with Valence , which he incubated in our offices.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. 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. Yesterday, I got the opportunity to chat with Mike Su, who leads the Yellow program at Snap.

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