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LA's Olympic Effort Seeks To Tap Into City's Technology Sector To Reach Youth

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Is the key to winning the spot as host of the 2024 Summer Olympics the company's growing technology sector? In a panel on Thursday, LA 2024's Gene Sykes , the head of LA's efforts to win the Olympic Games, says that tapping into LA's growing technology sector is key to helping the Olympics reach the youth market.

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Catasys Finds $45M In Debt Financing For Mental Health Efforts

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Los Angeles-based Catasys , a provider of technology that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict, identify, and treat mental issues among health plans members, has raised $45M in a debt financing round, the company said on Tuesday. The financing came from Goldman Sachs.

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XPRIZE Launches $15 Million Prize For Food Competition

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Los Angeles-based XPRIZE said today that it has launched a new competition, the XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion competition. The effort was launched in partnership with ASPIRE, a part of Abu Dhabi's Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC) which funds research and runs global tech competitions. XPRIZE founder Peter H.

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Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi

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right on the border of Louisiana, the Los Angeles-based 3D-printed spacecraft manufacturer, Relativity Space , is planning a massive $59 million expansion to make a permanent manufacturing hub in this bucolic corner of the southeast. . The future of rocket manufacturing has touched down in Mississippi. At NASA’s John C.

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Archer Aviation aims to launch network of urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024

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Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024. United Airlines, which has a major hub in Los Angeles, was one of the investors in the deal.

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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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As part of the program, up to 30-minute rides will be free for members of critical workforces through April 30 in Austin, Denver, Los Angeles, the Washington D.C. Spin, which began offering this on April 1, is making this available in Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, Tampa and Washington, D.C.

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