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 said it will provide engineering services to develop the electric platform.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In addition to San Francisco, the company is now operating in Los Angeles. High school friends Jonathan Friedland and Chris Clark started Locale in 2020 and bootstrapped its way to hundreds of customers, and since being a part of Y Combinator’s three-month program, grew revenue by 100% year over year, Friedland said. “We

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 3, 2019

Tesla will pull back the curtains and unveil its Model Y crossover vehicle at an event in Los Angeles on March 14th, according to a tweet from chief executive Elon Musk. Musk has been teasing the car’s release since 2015, and in a January letter to shareholders said that high volume production would begin by the end of 2020.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

general manager ( Stefano Benatti ) — filled more orders in the first two months of 2020 than all its sales for 2019, according to Cevolini. The company reduced the weight of its 2020 production line by 5% and increased range by 60% based on adaptions it brought over from MotoE. In the U.S.,

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based Faraday Future and Chinese gaming products maker The9 Limited annoucned this morning that the two companies will enter into a new, joint venture, which will produce electric cars for sale in China. READ MORE>>.

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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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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 At the time, Positive Food had its meals in 70 coffee shops around Los Angeles. Positive Food Co.,

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

But at the same time, Los Angeles–based Boulevard got this funding infusion at a boosted valuation because it has been on a roll. It’s also a massive market — and by Danna’s estimates, still with a lot of untapped business — with Boulevard quoting figures that forecast personal care and beauty sales passing $1.4

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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

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. Without continued sales of the Model 3, Tesla will lack the necessary capital to produce the Model Y.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Initially established as part of a collaboration with Microsoft back in 2014 when the company first began work on its Hololens, the media giant is spinning out the team as it explores the broader sale of certain assets.

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2019

We have a studio here in Los Angeles with over 40,00 square feet of space, and we bring in several hundred vehicle every model year, shooting them the same way with the same consistent lighting and angles. Starting in 2020, that becomes millennials, whose shopping habits are much different. That's not the case anymore.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company was started originally in Los Angeles by Schwab on the back of her own experiences when she was an advisor at Ernst & Young early in her own career. Entity’s own story fits into both of those story lines. “My original goal was to change how women approach careers globally. .

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 30, 2019

Faraday said that it expects the JV to reach an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles and begin selling cars by 2020. The EV maker has had to sell its headquarters in Los Angeles for around $10 million to stay above water. It has also put its 900-acre, $40 million property in Las Vegas up for sale.

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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 are trying to consolidate the American food supply chain through software technologies, while also trying to find the best solutions in this space.”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2020? Brands where the solution is the product - be that removal of plastic through the sales of canned water or the encouragement of rental use products vs purchase. He is one of Los Angeles' most active angel investors, with more than $2.5B

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 17, 2019

After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. Freight railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming is considering a sale of all or part of itself, Bloomberg reported. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is getting ready for a widespread deployment of scooters.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

She created and launched an overall brand and a swim collection , then came the book deal ( “This is Not a Fashion Story: Taking Chances, Breaking Rules, and Being a Boss in the Big City” is expected out May 2020). Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2019

For this morning's interview with an entrepreneur, we spoke with Thomas Russell , the Ceo and co-founder of ETC Solar (www.etc-solar.com), a Los Angeles startup developing technology to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells. We expect our products to be ready in mid-2020, and are targeting the flat solar cell market.

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socalTECH

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. The second part, is our matching technology.

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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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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Hint: 60 million US Latinos driving US growth engine) I am beyond excited to announce the Herb Scannell has agreed to move from NYC to Los Angeles to take on the role of CEO at mitú, the fast growing Latino digital media company, serving more than 100 million monthly unique viewers. trillion in 2020 (U.S.

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