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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.

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

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Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a newsletter published every Saturday that dives into the week’s most noteworthy venture deals, fundraises, M&A transactions and trends. Let’s take a quick moment to catch up. Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation.

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Reflections On 2019: Mike Jones, Science Inc.

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What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? I fell in love again with the process of working with founders, designing systems, executing business ideas and driving to mass scale and audience.

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Fiction Riot Plans Short Form Video App

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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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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven

TechCrunch LA

GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it has started to wind down Maven. ” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. It also started Maven Gig in hopes of tapping into a growing demand from rideshare and delivery app drivers.

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Matt Knox and Joey Lane, Bingie

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We chatted with Matt and Joey on what they're up to. How did you come up with the idea for the company? Matt Knox: The idea came up, because most people have their own method of figuring out what they want to watch next. I started protyping an idea of how to do this, across all platforms.

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