TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

first spotted the vote news ; Bird is based in the Los Angeles metropolitan agglomeration. That’s precisely what the company will be worth in light of Switchback II’s share price declines, but the number could be lower than the headline figure from early merger disclosures. billion for Bird when it began to trade.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.”

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. But what started in the gaming world quickly spun out as the company slashed prices to $500 per month for its services.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Online education operator 2U , which has offices in Los Angeles, has added another degree program at the University of Southern California, the company said this week. The new degree programs include a Master of Planning program, expected to launch in January of 2019, and a Master of Public Policy, expected to launch in 2020.

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MAY 10, 2019

Online real estate service Zillow is expanding its home buying service to both Los Angeles and San Diego, the company announced this week, in a move which will allow home buyers to get nearly instant offers on their homes--instead of going through a traditional broker and offering their home on the market. READ MORE>>.

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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. The Sportback will come to Europe first in spring 2020. in fall 2020. The base price of the Sportback is 71,350 ($79,000).

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2021

In all of 2020, it processed $53 billion in volume. Meanwhile, in 2020, Klara hit over a billion in revenue. in markets such as New York and Los Angeles. They can also do things like initiate refunds, track deliveries and get price-drop notifications. The company’s momentum can be seen in its impressive financial results.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

Before the health crisis shutdown most of Italy, Energica had already seen larger demand for its high-performance e-motos, with a price range of $17,000 to $23,000. general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Register for TC Sessions: Space 2020. Our very own dedicated space event is coming up on June 25 in Los Angeles, and you can get your tickets now. It’s sure to be a packed day of quality programming from the companies mentioned above and more, so go ahead and sign up while Early-Bird pricing applies.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2018, co-founders Schuyler Deerman and James Chan started selling healthy meals at WeWork offices around Los Angeles out of giant Yeti coolers, standing around the kitchens during lunch time. “At We gained sort of a cult following because we had healthy meals at an accessible price point.”. Positive Food Co.,

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 23, 2019

That’s still a steep price for customers to pay out of pocket. The company is in talks with some insurance companies and expects to have some pilot projects up in the last quarter of 2018 and first quarter of 2020. Insurance companies won’t pay for Ezra’s screens… yet.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

NASA could get significantly more funding than it did in 2020 for its fiscal 2021 operating year, with the bulk of a proposed $3 billion increase earmarked for development of human landers to be used in the Artemis program. Register for TC Sessions: Space 2020. Trump administration asks for $3B NASA budget boost.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 14, 2019

Tesla is scheduled to reveal the Model Y — the next electric vehicle in the electric automaker’s lineup — tonight at an event in Los Angeles after, not months, but years of teasers and hints from CEO Elon Musk. Price could be revealed as well. Tesla will live stream the Model Y unveiling event at 8 pm PT via its website.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Crosscut Ventures, Mubadala Capital, Next Play Capital and Owl Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the Los Angeles-based company’s total raised to $50 million since its 2010 inception. Welcome Tech, which has an office in San Antonio, Texas, raised an $8 million Series A in March of 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you first start your career as an investor (or when you first start writing angel checks) your main obsession is “getting into great deals.” At Upfront we often talk about these as “shots on goal” (a fitting soccer analogy given the EURO 2020 tournament is on right now). That’s return, not exit price of the company.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 30, 2022

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time. Image Credits: Genies.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 20, 2020

The Los Angeles-based company recently closed a $2 million seed round to develop assistive robots for the home. Early Bird tickets are now on sale for $275, but you better hurry, prices go up in less than a month by $100. Mike Dooley is the cofounder and CEO of Labrador Systems.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” (And for some context, the $1 billion+ valuation is more than double GrubMarket’s valuation in October 2020, when it raised $60 million at a $500 million post-money valuation.). We do a lot of heavyweight lifting around inventory management, pricing and customer relations, and even HR management for wholesales and distributors.”

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JUNE 20, 2014

For today''s Insights and Opinions section, we are featuring a post from Jonathan Handel , a Los Angeles entertainment/technology attorney, who imagines one day when driver''s licenses will be obsolete (thanks to Google and Uber). In other words, Google is engineering all of us right out of the driver''s seat.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

million round led by Los Angeles firm Upfront Ventures, with participation from Mucker Capital and Matchstick Ventures. A traveler pays Sun Country one fixed price to get them from the bus pick-up point to their final destination. Airbnb, for its part, filed a press release this week confirming its plans to go public in 2020.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. Wander is one-such service providing high speed wireless internet in Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. Like the other launch sites at Cape Canaveral, Launch Complex 16, where Relativity expects to be launching its first rockets by 2020, has a storied history in the U.S. 3D-printing the first rocket on Mars.

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MAY 15, 2020

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/29/2020.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The solution here is to never stop the fundraising cycle, moving quickly from friends and family, to angels, to venture capitalists. Don’t wait for that worst case scenario where the customers aren’t buying, and hope to fix it by cutting prices. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 01/22/2020.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The big attraction isn’t necessarily price either. Remember Canoo, the Los Angeles startup that revealed a minibus-type electric vehicle a few months back? At an event in Los Angeles, GM’s Chief Marketing Officer Deborah Wahl said the subscription service Book by Cadillac will return next year. We have an update.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. Based in Paris and Los Angeles, Snipfeed’s 15-person staff is particularly interested in the “long tail” of creators, which it says encompasses more than 46 million people.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 15, 2021

Then on January 1, 2020, the state of California made it dramatically easier to add extra housing units to single-family home sites. So far, it’s operating in the Bay Area, Los Angeles and Seattle. The company claims it can deliver an ADU in as little as 30 days in San Jose and Los Angeles thanks to the cities’ pre-approval process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Investors are showing an increased appetite for new stocks, with a good percentage of deals pricing above the marketed share price range. Last year 300,000+ American angels invested an estimated $25 billion in more than 70,000 startup deals. The median deal size is back over $100 million.

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