Keiretsu Forum Los Angeles
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 19, 2019
Wednesday, March 20, 2019 -- Keiretsu Forum Los Angeles. Angel investment meeting. See [link] (more)
Tech Coast Angels Los Angeles Launches New Members Only Fund
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JUNE 15, 2020
The Tech Coast Angels says it has launched a new, annual fund, and is continuing to invest--despite the pandemic. The angel group, the largest in the nation, said it invested over $19M in 2019, in part due to a similar fund created by its San Diego chapter, the TCA-San Diego, last year. READ MORE>>.
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Los Angeles VC Panel and LAVA Annual Membership Meeting
SoCal Tech Calendar
AUGUST 14, 2019
Tuesday, August 20, 2019 -- Los Angeles VC Panel and LAVA Annual Membership Meeting. Come meet three of the most active Venture Capital funds in Los Angeles. Meet the top VCs who are investing in Southern California. Find out what they are looking to invest in.
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FundingPost Los Angeles VC and Angel Investor Event
SoCal Tech Calendar
OCTOBER 29, 2019
Monday, November 4, 2019 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VC and Angel Investor Event. Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? Register for the FundingPost event on Monday, November 4th, 2019. Interested in pitching?
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Start-up World Cup - Los Angeles Regional Pitch Competition
SoCal Tech Calendar
APRIL 22, 2019
Wednesday, April 24, 2019 -- Start-up World Cup - Los Angeles Regional Pitch Competition. Last year, Leuko Labs was the $1,000,000 USD winner from the U.S.
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Los Angeles-based childcare and co-working startup Bümo adds more virtual classes for kids at home
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 16, 2020
But in the face of a global pandemic, every company has had to improvise and in the few months since its launch in 2019, that’s just what Bümo did. Based in Los Angeles, Bümo had already managed to lock in a $2.4 Both Nguyen and Lim are serial entrepreneurs. As the pandemic began to spread across the U.S.
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Los Angeles Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference
SoCal Tech Calendar
MARCH 22, 2019
Thursday, March 28, 2019 -- Interested in meeting and pitching to early-stage Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists in Southern California? Register for the FundingPost event on Thursday, March 28th, 2019. FundingPost has hosted 400 sold-out venture events in 22 cities over the past 17 years.
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Reflections on 2019: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital
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DECEMBER 23, 2019
We have invested in 13 companies out of our Fund 1 so far and are more bullish than ever on the amazing entrepreneurs we are meeting and the companies we are helping them build. For my partner, Craig Cummings, and I - 2019 was our first full year as Venture Capitalists! We'll be featuring contributions all through the holiday season.
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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments
TechCrunch LA
MAY 12, 2020
The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Snap investment Hardworkers. Yellow investment SketchAR. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. ”
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237 Ways2H Gets Investment For Renewable Hydrogen Production
socalTECH
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Long Beach-based Way2H , a startup developing technology to convert waste into clean hydrogen fuel, has scored a strategic investment from Pacific6 Enterprises, the company announced this morning. Size of that investment were not announced. Pacific6 Enterprises is led by John C. READ MORE>>.
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Starship Technologies picks up €50M from the EU’s investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 25, 2022
The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. It is not disclosing its valuation with this investment, but Alastair Westgarth said that this doesn’t rule out raising further funding from investors.
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LA’s consumer goods rental service, Joymode, sells to the NYC retail investment firm, XRC Labs
TechCrunch LA
JULY 29, 2020
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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263 Reflections on 2019: Scott Alderton, Preccelerator
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DECEMBER 27, 2019
In late 2018 we shifted the model to include a cash investment in cohort companies. We are working hard to improve the Preccelerator, but it is really a testament to how strong the start-up ecosystem has become in Los Angeles. AI, hands down. Weve all been hearing for years about how AI is going to change our lives.
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London and SF have become Impact Tech hubs, with 280% increase in VC in 5 years
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
New research has found that San Francisco and London have become two of the world’s leading hubs for VC investment into tech solutions that address one or more of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), more commonly referred to as “Impact Tech” They are followed by Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Shanghai and Beijing.
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Investors based in San Francisco? That’s so 2019
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 15, 2020
If the wealthy are no longer a quick drive from San Francisco, are they more open to doing remote investments? Matchstick Ventures’ Natty Zola said most investors fall into two buckets: A crowd that only invests in their backyard, and those who are explicitly all-in on certain geographies outside their home base.
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Bird investor Upfront Ventures eyes $250M growth fund
TechCrunch LA
JULY 3, 2019
Upfront Ventures , a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise its third growth-stage investment fund. Though the firm typically invests at the seed and Series A, capital from Upfront Growth III will be used for follow-on or late-stage deals.
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Acquicent Adds Advisor, Investor
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JANUARY 22, 2020
Los Angeles-based Acquicent , the startup which is developing a marketplace that allows users to invest in "museum-grade" collectibles such as art and vintage automobiles, is announcing this morning that it has added Kevin Conroy, CEO of ConroyMedia and former director of Sotheby's, as both an advisor and ivnestor.
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Hyundai taps EV startup Canoo to develop electric vehicles
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 company recently opened the waitlist for its first vehicle.
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Orca Security Secures $550M
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OCTOBER 5, 2021
Los Angeles-based Orca Security, a cloud-based security provider, has raised a big, $550M Series C funding round, with a valuation of $1.8 According to the company, the new investment will help it with "rapid global deployment", including in APAC. Orca Security was founded in 2019. billion, the company said this morning.
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Camino Financial Expands Exec Team
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JUNE 15, 2021
Los Angeles-based fintech startup Camino Financial said today that it is expanding its management team, and has named Aram Gushchyan as Director of Growth and Roxane Herrera as Director of Corporate Development. Guschchyan previously was Director of Marketing and Analytics at Go.
Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner
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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J2 Global Sees Record Second Quarter
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AUGUST 11, 2020
Los Angeles-based J2 Global , which owns a large number of online brands--including IGN, Mashable, Offers.com, BabyCenter, eFax, and iContact--says it saw record, second quarter 2020 results. for Q2 of 2019. The company said it ended the quarter with approximately $711M in cash, cash equivalents, and investments.
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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures
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DECEMBER 26, 2019
This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.
Jam City Raises $350M, Acquires Ludia For $165M
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Los Angeles-based mobile games developer JamCity is continuing its growth, saying on Wednesday that it has raise $350M in new funding, and acquired mobile game studio Ludia. According to the company, it paid $165M to acquire Ludia from Fremantle.
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New THC and CBD infused beverage company, Cann, joins the race to replace booze
TechCrunch LA
JULY 24, 2019
Cann , a Los Angeles-based purveyor of CBD and THC-infused intoxicants, is rolling out its first major distribution through the venture-backed delivery service Eaze as it begins to hit the streets in California. Bullock initially worked at the investment bank, Allen & Co., ”
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Lyre's Picks Up $11.5M For Non Alcoholic Drinks
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Los Angeles-based Lyre's Non-Alcoholic Spirit Co. The funding came from VRD Investment, Doehler Ventures, DLF Venture, Maropost Ventures, and HNWI, along with a number of family offices. Lyre's said it originally launched in July of 2019 in Australia. in a seed funding round.
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Allset Launches New App, Website After $8.35M In Funding
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JUNE 17, 2020
Los Angeles-based Allset , a startup which allows users to book a table and pre-order food at restaurants, said it has launched a new app and website. The company said the upgraded app and website will make it easier for its users to find and gte food they want from local restaurants. The new app works on both iOS and Android.
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Share Ventures, an LA-based studio for company creation, is MoviePass co-founder Hamet Watt’s next act
TechCrunch LA
AUGUST 8, 2020
For Watt, the studio model represents the next iteration of startup investing. Rather than invest in companies and management teams that are unknown quantities, Watt thinks the studio will be able to create discrete companies much faster in the same way that companies today iterate on new products and services. ”
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249 Ford CTO Ken Washington at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10
TechCrunch LA
MAY 20, 2019
We’re excited to announce that Ford CTO Ken Washington will participate in TechCrunch’s inaugural TC Sessions: Mobility , a one-day event on July 10, 2019 in San Jose, Calif., A conference dedicated to transportation and mobility wouldn’t be complete without hearing from Ford, the U.S. automaker with a storied 116-year history.
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Elementary Robotics is making its quality assurance robots commercially available
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.
LA Investors, Startups Launch PledgeLA, Effort Around Diversity, Inclusion
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OCTOBER 23, 2018
Los Angeles investors and startups, in conjunction with Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Annenberg Foundation, announced a new effort, PledgeLA , to help address the "work opportunity gap" in the industry by increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion in their firms and investments.
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UK-based women’s networking and private club, AllBright, raises $18.8 million as it expands into the US
TechCrunch LA
JULY 15, 2019
AllBright , the London-based women’s membership club backed by private real estate investment firm Cain International , has raised $18.8 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.
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Just raises $8M in its effort to beat Root at the car insurance game
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
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. Just Insure , a pay-per-mile insurance technology company, has raised $8 million in a funding round. .
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Video Interview: Matt Kozlov, Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator
socalTECH
OCTOBER 17, 2019
For our video interview today, we talked with Matt Kozlov, the Managing Director of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator in Los Angeles, to hear about the program and its future plans. Interview at the 2019 Demo Day on Wednesday. READ MORE>>.
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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022
Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.
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416 NantCell Receives $30M More From Celgene, Now A $4 Billion Unicorn
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JANUARY 7, 2019
Los Angeles-based NantCell , one of the biotech companies run by billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has raissed another $30M from Celgene , according to the two companies. The new investment was made on December 19th. Celgene had invested $75M in NantCell back in May of 2017, and has been an investor in the company since 2015.
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113 Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups
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. I almost skipped IPO corner this week because no big-name companies dropped or amended their S-1s or completed a highly anticipated IPO, as has been the case basically every week of 2019.
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Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 23, 2019
The goal is to shorten trips made excruciatingly long due to bad traffic in major cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. — Tyler Babin (@Tyler_Babin) March 11, 2019. New work with @flybladenow pic.twitter.com/eONvKU3rhM.
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Now approved in LA, Abodu’s backyard homes can now go from contract to completion in as little as 30 days
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. trillion-dollar industry.
Eano’s Stella Wu is not your typical construction tech startup founder
TechCrunch LA
MAY 20, 2021
So in 2019 she founded Eano , a San Francisco-based startup that aims to walk a homeowner through a renovation and help connect individual contractors with new clients. For now, Eano is operating in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, with plans to expand to Seattle and Houston this year.
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Spying a pivot to ghost kitchens, Softbank’s second Vision Fund pours $120 million into Ordermark
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 27, 2020
The 29 year-old CEO has, indeed, built a decentralized ghost kitchen — and managed to convince Softbank’s latest Vision Fund to invest in a $120 million round for that the company announced today. “Nextbite is a portfolio of delivery-only restaurant brands that exist only on UberEats, DoorDash, and Postmates.”
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GM exits car-sharing business and shuts down Maven
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 21, 2020
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.
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VCs, celebrities, and athletes are writing a new LA story to bring women’s soccer to the city
TechCrunch LA
JULY 21, 2020
Now the two women are co-founders of Angel City, leading a gaggle of venture capital, sports, and celebrity investors, alongside Angel City co-founder and President Julie Uhrman, in bringing a National Women’s Soccer League team to Los Angeles by the Spring of 2022. “We’re venture capitalists.
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Investors back Pacific Consolidated Holdings to merge leading LA-based liquor and weed delivery companies
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 28, 2020
The investment firms and executive teams behind the Los Angeles-based delivery liquor delivery company, Saucey , along with Inception Companies, the backer of marijuana distribution company, Emjay , have formed Pacific Consolidated to merge their two companies and build what’s likely the largest “vice” company in the world.
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