TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out. According to data collected by Newzoo , mobile games revenue reached a record $63.2 That number could reach $81.3 Roughly half of the U.S.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tuesday, February 12, 2019 --.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The partnership with Canoo is the latest example of Hyundai Motor ramping up efforts and investments into electrification, autonomous technology and other futuristic mobility trends, including flying cars. The company rebranded as Canoo in spring 2019 and debuted its first vehicle last September. ”

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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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 5, 2020

” The Scoot Mopeds will join a bevy of shared mobility vehicles that are already on Austin’s city streets. The scooters upended bike share, and prompted companies to take some of their bikes off the streets due to lack of demand, according to several city officials who spoke to TechCrunch during SXSW 2019. ”

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The company says it the operator business is expected to report 2019 revenues of $4M. Circle Media Labs' operator business includes two key customers, T-Mobile USA and Sky, according to Smith Micro. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Scott Beechuk, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners , is one of the tech industry observers invited by Xconomy to look back at the technology developments of 2018, and also forecast some trends he expects to see in 2019. Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest weathers the uncertainties of technology and the economy with an investing strategy.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 13, 2021

Established in 2008 within Tencent, TiMi is behind popular mobile titles such as Honor of Kings and Call of Duty Mobile. The partnership could help TiMi build a name globally by converting its mobile titles into console plays for Microsoft’s Xbox. In 2020, Honor of Kings alone generated close to $2.5

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Earlier this month, GM CEO Mary Barra told the crowd at a financial conference that her company was on track to unveil a ridesharing service in 2019 that would be powered by autonomous vehicles.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

According to Inseego, it is launching a set of 5G NR products in 2019, which will provide high-performance 5G mmWave and sub-6GHz mobile and fixed wireless solutions for worldwide deployments. Financial details of the deal with Ericsson were not announced.

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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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Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2019

In a tech culture that looks toward self-driving cars as the pinnacle of mobility innovation, we’re still debating whether fully autonomous vehicles are an imminent reality for our roads or an ever-receding Shangri-La.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This service launched in Los Angeles in 2019 and starting today, it’s also available in preview in Boston, Houston and Miami. Google, it’s worth noting, is doing something similar with its Mobile Edge Cloud. Google Cloud goes after the telco business with Anthos for Telecom and its Global Mobile Edge Cloud.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Saturday, November 16, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Transportation. Emerging Opportunities in Urban Mobility and the Business Models It Will Enable. The ways that people and products move around cities worldwide are rapidly changing. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Los Angeles-based Aglet , which is developing a mobile game centered around "Sneakerhead" culture--the buying and trading of popular sneaker models--has raised $4.5M According to the company, it has now raised $7M since it was founded in late 2019. in a seed funding round.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2021

Viant's flagship software, Adelphic, is an enterprise software platform that is used by marketers and their advertising agencies to centralize the planning, buying and measurement of their advertising across desktop, mobile, connected TV, linear TV, streaming audio and digital billboards. The company reported $9.9M

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socalTECH

MAY 26, 2020

Turtle Beach makes gaming headsets which are aimed at the Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo market, and also work with PCs, Macs, and mobile and tablet devices. Turtle Beach is led by CEO Juergen Stark.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 15, 2019

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 -- SPAR 3D Conference and Expo. From sensing with drones, mobile rigs, and hand-held devices to using augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality visualization tools, everything 3D is here at the only vendor-neutral, industry-agnostic event in the market.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The truck, formerly known as the Esports Arena DRIVE , is an 80-foot long 18-wheeler which contains a "self-contained" mobile arena for e-sports. HyperX said the sponsorship is tied to its CES 2019 promotional effort, where it says it will be showing off new gaming headsets, mice, keyboards, RGB memory products, and a new USB microphone.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2020

San Diego-based artificial intelligence software developer Brain Corp says it is saw "record sales and revenue growth" in 2019, on strong retailer demand for autonomous, mobile robots.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

Cevolini highlighted greater awareness of the smog internal combustion mobility creates and scientific evidence that air pollution exacerbates viruses as factors that could swing more folks to electric. general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

In 2019, we will finally see commercial deployment of the much-anticipated 5G (fifth-generation) wireless network. 5G brings us closer to the possibility and promise of ubiquitous, un-tethered connection between every device and every entity. 5G, particularly when coupled with cloud computing and artificial intelligence (A.I.),

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Vulog announced Tuesday during Automobility LA that Hyundai will use its technology platform for a car-sharing pilot that will launch in Los Angeles at the end of 2019 and will eventually grow to 300 vehicles. MoceanLab will focus on piloting autonomous ridesharing, shuttling, multimodal transportation, and personal mobility in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 23, 2019

As part of a new pilot program, Blade has given 200 people in San Francisco and Silicon Valley exclusive access to its mobile app, allowing them to book helicopters, private jets and even seaplanes at a moments notice for $200 per seat, at least. — Tyler Babin (@Tyler_Babin) March 11, 2019.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“One of the reasons we find electrification of mobility so attractive is because it’s not if or how, it’s when,” said Robert Tichio, a partner at Riverstone in charge of the firm’s ESG efforts. Back in 2019 the company acquired the Los Angeles-based company Greenlots , an EV charging developer.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2020

in total; details on the timing and source of those funds were not outlined, however, the company said in 2019 that it had raised #8.35M in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Greycroft Partners, Vaizra Investments, Compound, FJ Labs, SMRK VC Fund, as well as angel Alexandr Chernyak.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Cupertino Mayor Steven Scharf views the Via on-demand service as the next generation of “what public transportation can be, allowing us to increase mobility while taking a step toward our larger goal of reducing traffic congestion.” in early 2019. ” The service, which will run from 6 a.m. weekdays and 9 a.m.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. However, Bird has shaken up its model in recent quarters, leveraging a partner network to handle scooter deployment, which has generated more attractive results. Other figures are looking up, too.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition , which offered the gamut of mobility news from Lyft and Bird to Waymo’s laser bears and cybersecurity. The city recently launched a one-year dockless on-demand personal mobility program. — Seleta Reynolds (@seletajewel) March 16, 2019.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

The car-sharing service has struggled for months, long before COVID-19 upended the “shared” mobility sector. The service’s demise seemed to begin after the company lost its CEO Julia Steyn in January 2019. The Verge was the first to report the story. Maven continued to operate in Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C.

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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. The event kicked off with a few words from CEO Evan Spiegel and soon transitioned into a succession of live-streamed pitches from the 10 startups in Yellow’s latest batch.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 5, 2020

In June 2019, banking start-up Monzo announced its plans to launch in the US. With a community forum, along with its aims to offer easily accessible and readable annual reports (you can view reports for 2017, 2018 and 2019 on its site), Monzo champions transparency. But what is Monzo, exactly? million users. Payments between people.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Roughly two years ago, in July 2019, Los Angeles set up an office of climate emergency and earlier this year Mayor Eric Garcetti launched the climate emergency mobilization office to coordinate activity between civic leaders, the mayor’s office, and the city council. .

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The year 2019 has been another dreadful period for cyberattacks. The most notorious lowlights include: —More than 40 municipalities , including Baltimore, Albany and 22 cities in Texas alone, have seen their computer systems crippled by ransomware attackers demanding millions of dollars.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 2, 2019

So, you might imagine that his outlook on data protection for 2019 would be more optimistic than in past years, because businesses now take advantage of a broad choice of security services to protect themselves. Bob Ackerman is one of the venture capitalists whose funding has long fed the growth of the burgeoning cybersecurity industry.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. Srinivasan (@balajis) March 8, 2019. “Decades ago, at the peak of Japanese growth as a technology competitor on the global stage, the US government sought to break up IBM. Often that barrier is licensing. In this case the barrier would be reduced access to capital. — Balaji S.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

According to Clutter, it plans to expand into Philadelphia, Portland and Sacramento, among other markets, in 2019, and also will "double down" on its efforts in its current service areas of New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Orange County and northern New Jersey.

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