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Techstars LA Draws International Companies For 2021 Class

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Techstars LA, the startup accelerator headed up by Matt Kozlov, announced its 2021 class this week, drawing an international group of twelve new companies to its startup accelerator in Culver City. Companies this year in the program come from as far as Canada, India, and Ukraine.

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Buy Now, Pay Later Service Affirm Is Teaming Up With Stripe

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The buy now, pay later service Affirm has just landed a new partnership with popular payments company Stripe. Just this month, the payment network deepened a partnership with WooCommerce (and the ecommerce service's 3.7 How the Service Works. Not all BNPL services are sailing to success, however. In early 2022, 55.8%

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Apple Expands Testflight To MacOS

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Apple announced on Monday at WWDC 2021 that it will be extending its Testflight beta testing service to the Mac and the MacOS platform. The software--which was previously only available on iOS--was originally developed in Southern California. Burstly, the developer behind Testflight, was acquired by Apple back in 2014.

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Shopify Reveals Generous New Scheme for App Developers

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This scheme starts on August 1st of 2021. Before this scheme, Shopify used to charge 20% on every sale made through its service, but now, smaller businesses will take the whole value of the sale, with Shopify's cut of 15% only kicking in once the annual $1 million threshold has been passed. Harley Finkelstein (@harleyf) June 29, 2021.

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Hyundai taps EV startup Canoo to develop electric vehicles

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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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Trade Desk Chief Strategy Officer Steps Down

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HThe company said Stempeck will continue in an advisory role through January 31, 2021. Trade Desk develops a self-service, cloud-based platform, ad buyers can create, manage, and optimize digital advertising campaigns. Stempeck was employee number eight at the company, and has been at the company for more than ten years.

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LA’s Replicated looks to increase R&D and hiring for its operations management software after raising $25 million

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The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. ” Replicated now counts 85 customers who pay for access to the platform and for every on-premise deployment that customers develop through the platform.

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