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OCTOBER 22, 2019

Monday, October 28, 2019 -- Music Tectonics Conference. The first annual Music Tectonics Conference in Los Angeles October 28-29, 2019, is a destination event for innovators in music and technology. Explore the seismic shifts shaking up the music industry as a result of technology and innovation. See [link] (more)

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Conference Los Angeles Design Technology 100

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2019

Tesla , the electric car manufacturer led by Elon Musk, will unviel its new Model Y crossover vehicle in Los Angeles on March 14th, according to Musk, at Tesla's LA Design Studio. Model Y unveil event on March 14 at LA Design Studio — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019. READ MORE>>.

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Design Los Angeles Pricing Angel 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2019

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. Slice of Sauce is the only LA company venturing out to Texas for the program.

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Los Angeles Class Design Startup 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I fell in love again with the process of working with founders, designing systems, executing business ideas and driving to mass scale and audience. He is one of Los Angeles' most active angel investors, with more than $2.5B Mike Jones is an internet executive, investor, and strategic advisor and the CEO of Science, Inc.

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Dollar Shave Club Activity Organization News 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Los Angeles-based Lyre's Non-Alcoholic Spirit Co. Lyre's said it originally launched in July of 2019 in Australia. The startup says its drinks are designed to provide an alternative for those who don't wish to imbibe alcohol while still having the opportunity to enjoy the flavors of their favorite spirits.

Seed Funding 113

Seed Funding Los Angeles Funding Design 113

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. So what?

News 148

News Los Angeles Examples Pricing 148

TechCrunch LA

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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Startup Develop Development Platform 310

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Los Angeles-based nonprofit XPRIZE --which runs prize competitions to help advance technology and solutions to world problems--said on Tuesday that celebrity Pharrell Williams has won the top prize in its latest "Visioneering 2019" annual gathering.

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Competition Los Angeles Design Ideas 164

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2020

As worries about the spread of a new virus from China--which has resulted in the quarantine of Wuhan, China , a city of 11 million--a Los Angeles company, Dimer UVC Innovations , is offering up its technology to airports and officials, at no cost, to a number of airports.

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Company Companies Design Los Angeles 124

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Los Angeles and New York-based venture firm M13 has managed to nab former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner and the head of its internal venture studio, Launchpad. The starting gun for M13’s Launchpad program was in 2019 and the program currently has managed to spin up three startups.

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Startup Incubator Los Angeles IP 178

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. .

Artificial Inteligence 234

Artificial Inteligence Los Angeles Startup Customer 234

TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2020

SpaceX is said to be in talks with local government officials about setting up a new rocket factory in the Port of Los Angeles, a location that would give it easy access to the ocean for transporting its next-generation Starship and Super Heavy launch vehicles to its coastal launchpad sites in Florida.

SpaceX 206

SpaceX Report Hawthorne Los Angeles 206

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. The peer-to-peer car rental service was designed to operate in a similar fashion to how Turo and Getaround work. and Toronto.

Los Angeles 215

Los Angeles Technical Review Email Services 215

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.

Design 162

Design Los Angeles .Net Course 162

TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2019

The company’s new round was led by Cain International and was designed to take AllBright into three U.S. locations — Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC. The club’s first American location will be in West Hollywood, and is slated to open in September 2019. million to expand into the U.S.

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West Hollywood Networking Entertainment Coach 139

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

“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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Company Companies Idealab Tool 249

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2018

A new, Los Angeles-based content startup, Fiction Riot said this morning that it is plannig to launch a new mobile app, which developers short-form, video series for consumers. The first content on the platform is targeted for early 2019. The new startup is led by CEO and co-founder Mike Esola.

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Content Mobile Los Angeles Design 113

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle company under Alphabet, has started creating 3D maps in some heavily trafficked sections of Los Angeles to better understand congestion there and determine if its self-driving vehicles would be a good fit in the city. — Waymo (@Waymo) October 7, 2019. pic.twitter.com/REHfxrxqdL.

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Los Angeles Angel Google Design 37

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. Founder Alix Peabody designed a line of female-focused canned rosé. Modsy scores $37M to virtually design your home. Beverages are being disrupted, there's no stopping it. Fundraising.

Startup 223

Startup Venture Capital Newsletter Tips 223

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.

Outsource Development 218

Outsource Development Orange County Startup Los Angeles 218

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Investors from the latest Vision Fund first reached out to Canter shortly after the company announced its last round of funding in 2019. “The way that Ordermark’s technology is designed, not only can we aggregate online orders into the device, but we can aggregate multiple brands into the device.”

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Funding Los Angeles Technical Review Training 263

TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

Rather than having to do painful biopsies which often come with significant side effects, Gal’s software can now be used to slash the cost for a full-body MRI scan designed to screen for 11 different types of cancer in men and another 13 types of cancer in women (who have more organs that are likely to develop cancer).

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Artificial Inteligence Screening Startup Los Angeles 278

TechCrunch LA

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.

Technical Review 277

Technical Review Competition Demand Sales 277

TechCrunch LA

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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San Fernando Los Angeles Commerce News 217

TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. making their way to Los Angeles. 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. ”

Invest 237

Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

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. Relativity has also completed tests of its avionics architecture and hardware and conducted an analysis of the vehicle’s design and coupled loads. space industry.

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Chief Technology Officer SpaceX Los Angeles Venture Capital 168

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. Especially since the round was led by the Los Angeles-based venture firm Upfront Ventures. And, from that respect, the success of the MetaCX round speaks volumes. Midwest rising.

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Chief Technology Officer SaaS Metrics Customer 145

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. United Airlines, which has a major hub in Los Angeles, was one of the investors in the deal.

Los Angeles 309

Los Angeles Angel Networking Mobile 309

TechCrunch LA

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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Google Technology Artificial Inteligence Chief Technology Officer 189

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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Newsletter Startup Los Angeles Tips 135

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Joey is a longtime entrepreneur and friend, and we've almost worked together a number of times over the years, and it happened he was selling his adtech company while we were in Southern Arizona together in 2019, and he asked me what I was up to. I told him my idea, and after he sold his company, we started working on fundraising.

Startup 113

Startup Netflix Ideas Content 113

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. Why it is you were successful, where they weren't?

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Startup Content Demand Netflix 124

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Federa added that the entire Solana network is designed to keep fees low in the long term. One recent example of this phenomenon is Tamsyn Muir’s “Gideon the Ninth,” published in 2019, which the New York Times called “a devastating debut that deserves every ounce of hype it’s received.”

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Writing Outsource Development Technical Review Examples 196

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. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

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. Overwhelmingly, people told us that they didn’t truly believe their civic engagement made really any difference on their government.

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Platform Ideas Startup Statistics 40

TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio last raised in September of 2019 when it brought in $250 million in a Series D financing. Historically, legal practice management software was limited to server-based solutions designed for enterprise businesses — not small law firms, Newton said. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity. Image Credits: Clio.

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Platform Equity SaaS Los Angeles 244