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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based audio streaming service Vurbl , which is focused on building a platform for audio streaming, says it has raised $1.3M According to the company, it will use the funding to develop and launch its platform. in a "pre-seed" funding round, the company announced on Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 27, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Invoca , which develops call tracking and analytics tools, says it has released a new version of its software. According to the company, its summer 2020 product release includes simplified and automated call tracking for multi-location businesses, expanded technology integrations, and other features. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Foothill Ranch-based LoanDepot, a developer of a technology platform to automate and originate mortgage loans, has raised $54M in an IPO on the NYSE. billion of loans originated for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020. billion of loans originated for the twelve months ended September 30, 2020. The company sold 3.9

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Pasadena-based food services robot developer Miso Robotics says it is expanding its crowdfunding efforts, with a goal of reaching $30M in funding in its Series C crowdfunding effort this year.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Los Angeles-based e-commerce platform developer Boosted Commerce says it has hired Steve Oliver, the former CEO of e-commerce startup Hollar as its new President. Oliver was head of Hollar through its sale to Five Below in 2020. He previously also served as COO of Ticketfly, and also previously served at Amazon.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

PCH) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired both alcohol delivery and logistics platform Saucey , as well as cannabis delivery and retail software developer Emjay. Emjay was founded in 2019, with Vaughn and Leeb taking over operations of the company in January of 2020. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

This round values the startup, which was founded in January 2020, at $11 million post-money. The funds will be used to build out its platform, hire beyond its 27-person workforce and expand its service area. ” In January 2020, Terry quit her job and started ChargerHelp. The company said it has raised $2.75 Hiring approach.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 29, 2020

In Vegas, though, developers won’t be able to use relatively new services like Cloud Functions and Cloud Run yet. Earlier this year, Google also announced that it would open its regions in Jakarta, Seoul and Warsaw over the course of 2020. Some other features, including Cloud HSM and Secret Manager, are also not available yet.

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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. ” Genies CEO and founder Akash Nigam. Image Credits: Genies.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , which develops an online platform used by the wellness industry for managing appointments, payments, and more for businesses in the fitness, beauty, grooming, spa, and other related wellness businesses, has rolled out a new "MINDBODY Wellness Index" , to rank the healthiest cities in the nation.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

Los Angeles-based Labrador Systems , a new startup developing assistive robots for helping with home health and assistive living, has raised $2M in a pre-seed funding round. According to Labrador Systems, the new funding will go towards expansion of its platform and for pilot studies with partners in 2020.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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APRIL 17, 2019

Fast growing, Los Angeles-based mobile games and entertainment developer Scopely is in a big expansion, and has agreed to lease another 60,000 square feet of office space in Culver City, according to the company's broker, CBRE. The project is expected to be complete late next year.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

in 2020, the studio told TechCrunch this week, though it refused to reveal the exact size of its North American office. ” Breaking the wave, on the other hand, entails TiMi applying new development tools to building high-budget, high-quality AAA mobile games. “TiMi didn’t succeed in China because of WeChat and QQ.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2020? Their platform mimics human thought processes and provides explainable reasoning to aid human-like decision-making. It takes a community of supporters, connectors, mentors, and doers to make it happen. Im a huge fan of hardware as well.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The start-up has developed kinetic energy based, long-duration energy storage solutions. While all these players are eager to see our SoCal ecosystem develop, some are too heads-down (early stage start-ups) while others have highly diverse priorities (universities). Verizon, and Wells Fargo just to mention a few.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were 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.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. The financing will be used to help students finance their Entity Academy tuition, which typically costs $15,000.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 16, 2019

It also follows a new agreement with Disney to develop mobile games based on intellectual property coming from all corners of the mouse house — a sweet cache of intellectual property ranging from Pixar, to Marvel, to traditional Disney characters. billion by 2020, the Newzoo data suggests. That number could reach $81.3

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JANUARY 1, 2021

Since it’s January 1st and I know many people are scrambling to put together plans for what to eat I thought I’d just start with a question I know is on many people’s minds, “what should I eat in 2021 to make it healthier than 2020?” For me personally I developed a couple of ways to stop my implosions. That simple.

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JUNE 28, 2021

The many crowd funding platforms on the Internet, led still by Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , were expected by many to put regular people in charge of funding new opportunities, and kill the need for angel groups. This is called the “portfolio approach,” which counts on hitting only a couple of big winners, while the others return very little.

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MAY 15, 2020

Apple expanded their business exponentially with app developers, and Amazon found new ways to make their suppliers look and act like they are part of the business. Think of these as the future version of the old “computer clubs,” or today’s multi-player game platforms. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 04/29/2020.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 11, 2021

But for creators seeking to monetize their following, these newer platforms may be more attractive to some creators, since they already have built-in tools to help them monetize their followings. So, in February 2020, with little to no funding left, the company completely pivoted to its current link-in-bio business. With its $5.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

You alone will never find enough hours in a day to keep with all the challenges of sales, support, and scaling the business, in addition to developing and delivering your solution. Your leadership skills do not develop without effort. Start with a range of platforms, including social media, advertising, and a great website.

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APRIL 4, 2020

For example, I often hear proposals for new online social media or collaboration platforms, maybe more specifically tuned to inventors or artists, or easier to use, and populated by experts, to compete against Slack or Facebook. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/19/2020. Try that mindset next time!

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mark, a joint venture between the Danish game development firm Sybo and the Chinese mobile game publisher iDreamSky, uses augmented reality to permanent installations of digital street art. Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Today's interview is with Jo Webber , the CEO and founder of Pod.io , a startup which has developed an app to help people connect with others over shared interests. Jo Webber: We've done a seed round of $5M, which we raised earlier in 2020. Jo told us why, in a world full of social networking apps, why Pod.io What is Pod.io?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

AirCo, a New York-based startup that developed a process to use captured carbon dioxide to make liquor, shifted its efforts to making hand sanitizer for donations in communities in New York City. Alcohol brands are turning their attention to making hand sanitizer to distribute in communities experiencing shortages.

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JULY 17, 2019

For today's interview, we talked with Gina Callari , the COO of RelayCars (www.relaycars.com), a unit of a larger company called EVOX Images, which has developed virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) software which lets consumers view and experience automobiles using things like Magic Leap and even just smartphone.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

Greg Memo: I was most recently the general manager of the consumer business organization at Cisco, which developed the Linksys Router. We''ve now branched off to connecting service providers and utilities, providing a home to cloud platform. Greg Memo: What we have, is a platform which securely connects things to the Internet.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

Very likely, the next five years will witness some exciting new developments in programs designed to address Business Process Management (BPM). As cloud-based architecture continues to develop and evolve, very likely businesses will find additional uses for this helpful feature. Enhanced Platform Mobility.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. We started to dump money into sales and marketing and development so we could scale up. I could not be more happy to be working with him.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

With computer science jobs predicted to increase by 22 percent by 2020 according to the U.S. It is here that Arlington Economic Development (AED) has joined with CES 2018 and will host the Startup Arlington Lounge (booth #50463) at Eureka Park to showcase some of their top startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2021

Peloton lifted my mental spirits in 2019/2020 through what were two emotionally draining years in the world (fires, protests, politics, he who shall not be named, etc). With no platform to really help me with “food coaching” I had to be this coach for myself. I literally developed self talk. It was inspiring. Don’t give up now.”

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Southern California Edison Blog

JULY 31, 2020

By the end of 2020, an estimated 83% of company workloads will be hosted in the cloud, 1 and the average employee uses 36 cloud-based services daily, including file sharing and collaboration platforms 2. In addition, take note of the amount of software being used, which is normally detailed by the software developer.

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