TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

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. “Our investors are getting founders takes in all the companies that we build,” Watt says. .

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

The effort is being driven by a very long list of investors in Los Angeles, although the group says that around 20 companies have signed on to be involved; PledgeLA says it expects to expand to other tech entrepreneurs and CEOs/foudners of LA-based tech companies in Q1 of 2019.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Energy Vault , a startup created by Pasadena-based startup incubator Idealab , announced this morning that it has launched its utility-scale energy storage technology into commercial availability. According to Energy Vault, it already has signed a deal with the Tata Power Company to deploy a 35 MWh system in 2019.

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JUNE 9, 2020

San Diego-based venture investor Versant Ventures has launched a brand new company out of its Inception Discovery Engine incubator in San Diego, saying this morning it has invested $50M in Lycia Therapeutics. Versant said it started Lycia in 2019 within its Inception Labs effort in San Diego, in a collaboration with Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D.,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 -- Sharing Ownership. CSULB Beach Incubator. Attorney Rick Citron. Mr. Citron is an attorney and entrepreneur specializing in business law, real estate, and succession planning.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 -- Start-Up Options for Rapid Development, Funding, and Commercialization. Have you heard of accelerators, incubators, angles, and other resources for rapid development, funding, and growth of your start-up? Is VC funding the only way to develop and grow your company?

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Twenty-two years later, the tech presence here has not only grown, but the city is now home to dozens of accelerators and incubators for startups. When I started my first company in 1997 during the middle of the dot com Gold Rush, there were 8-10 meaningful companies in the LA ecosystem. The LA technology scene has officially arrived!

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 -- Start-Up Options for Rapid Development, Funding, and Commercialization. Have you heard of accelerators, incubators, angles, and other resources for rapid development, funding, and growth of your start-up? LAVA Healthcare. Is VC funding the only way to develop and grow your company?

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Startup LAVA Develop Development 100

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The company was acquired by Platinum Equity in December 2019. domain and business was acquired by Purch back in 2016, having had a long history starting in 1999 in Santa Monica, when then startup incubator eCompanies paid $7.5M The acquisition of Business.com is just the latest saga in the business and domain name; the.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. Over 600,000 new businesses were created in the last year, or over one per minute of every day. Measuring progress with big data and analytics.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Startup Boost Los Angeles , the early stage startup program which is led in LA by Matt Stoddard, says it has opened up applications for its Spring 2019 program. According to Stoddard, it is looking for nine early stage startups to participate in its eight-week program.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Snap invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake, and while the program does not require batch participants to integrate with Snap’s services, the company has used the program to invest in strategic areas that it has also pushed on the product side.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

According to the USC Viterbi Startup Garage, its new Fall 2019 cohor will now host startups focused on voice technology, as part of a joint effort between Amazon's Alexa Fund and the University of Southern California's Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Slice of Sauce becomes part of the Techstars Austin 2019 class, which is held in Austin for the next three months, with a Demo Day on April 10th. Techstars also has a similar, general startup accelerator effort in Los Angeles, Techstars Los Angeles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to a classic article on Thrinacia , there were over 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence then, estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to today. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

According to a recent article on Thrinacia , there are now aver 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to 2022. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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JANUARY 11, 2017

You also asked about our labs, and we have been fortunate to be part of the UCLA Incubator, which you may know houses the California Nanosystems Institute. So this would have been a lot more difficult if those labs weren't available to you as a company in the incubator? So those resources have been fantastic. Thanks, and good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This doesn’t mean randomly attending every networking event you can find, but it does mean joining and actively participating in a couple of entrepreneur groups in your area, such as a local business incubator, Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), or The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/20/2019.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

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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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

CEO of Patreon Jack Conte attends VidCon 2019 at Anaheim Convention Center on July 12, 2019 in Anaheim, California (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images). The program, called The EduCator Incubator, planned to seed 25 to 40 “emerging video creators” with $25,000 to $75,000 in seed funding. invests exclusively in the space.

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