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Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi
TechCrunch LA
JUNE 11, 2019
The future of rocket manufacturing has touched down in Mississippi. At NASA’s John C. Stennis Space Center , nestled in Hancock County, Miss.,
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Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women
TechCrunch LA
MAY 23, 2019
When Ezra first launched about six months ago, the company was using magnetic resonance imaging machines to test for prostate cancer in men. But the company’s founder, Emi Gal, always had a larger goal.
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A new Tesla Model S can now drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco on a single charge
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 23, 2019
Tesla has announced that it has extended the range of its Model S vehicle to 370 miles and Model X to 325 miles on a single charge — extending the range of its flagship car to make the trip from Los Angeles to San Francisco on a single charge. .
Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups
TechCrunch LA
MAY 25, 2019
Hello and welcome back to Startups Weekly, a newsletter published every Saturday that dives into the week’s most noteworthy venture deals, fundraises, M&A transactions and trends. Let’s take a quick moment to catch up.
Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 23, 2019
One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s elite.
Delane Parnell’s plan to conquer amateur esports
TechCrunch LA
MAY 29, 2019
Most of the buzz about esports focuses on high-profile professional teams and audiences watching live streams of those professionals. What gets ignored is the entire base of amateurs wanting to compete in esports below the professional tier.
Fika Ventures raises $76M to fund the growing LA tech ecosystem
TechCrunch LA
MAY 23, 2019
The Los Angeles ecosystem is $76 million stronger today as Fika Ventures , a seed-stage venture capital firm, announces its sophomore investment fund.
Elon Musk says Tesla Model Y will be revealed at its LA design studio on March 14
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. Model Y unveil event on March 14 at LA Design Studio. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 3, 2019.
The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 7, 2019
The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.
Fifty years of the internet
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 18, 2019
Leonard Kleinrock. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.
Techstars and Starburst Aerospace are launching a space industry accelerator in Los Angeles
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
With the help of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, the U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Maxar Technologies, SAIC and the Israel Aerospace Industries company, Techstars and Starburst Aerospace are launching an accelerator focused on the space industry in Los Angeles.
Tesla Model Y orders are now open
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 14, 2019
Customers can already place an order for the Tesla Model Y, a mid-sized crossover SUV that won’t go into production until 2020. Tesla requires a $2,500 deposit to complete the order for the all-electric vehicle, according to information posted on its website.
Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 24, 2019
Google today announced that it has partnered with Sony Pictures Imageworks , Sony’s visual effects and animation studio, to launch OpenCue , an open source render manager.
Rumpus, the collaborative toolkit from Oblong Industries, is now available on Webex
TechCrunch LA
MAY 30, 2019
In a previous life, John Underkoffler spent his days in Los Angeles dreaming up all of the possible ways men and machines would interact as a science adviser on films like Minority Report.
Pearl, the healthcare spinout from LA-based AI startup, GumGum, raises $11 million
TechCrunch LA
MAY 8, 2019
GumGum , the Los Angeles-based startup that’s spent the past decade applying machine learning technologies to advertising and sports, has spun out a new healthcare startup focused on the dental industry called Pearl.
Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 17, 2019
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. We love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly?
Beyond Meat prices its public offering
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 22, 2019
Beyond Meat , the meat replacement company whose packages of Beyond Burgers line grocery store aisles across America, has priced its initial public offering.
Consolidation is coming to gaming, and Jam City raises $145 million to capitalize on it
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 16, 2019
A slew of banks are coming together to back a new roll-up strategy for the Los Angeles-based mobile gaming studio, Jam City and giving the company $145 million in new funding to carry that out.
Freeletics raises $45M for its AI-powered mobile fitness coach
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 4, 2018
One of Europe’s most popular fitness applications is poised to flourish in the U.S. market with the help of several Los Angeles-based investors. Freeletics , headquartered in Munich, Germany, is today announcing its first round of private capital after bootstrapping since 2013.
Going long on LA, India, AI and tech infrastructure March Capital raises $300 million
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 24, 2019
March Capital Partners , the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has raised $300 million for its latest fund.
Virtual reality gaming and the pursuit of “flow state”
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 16, 2018
Maggie Lane. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Maggie Lane is a writer and producer of virtual reality experiences and covers the industry for various publications. More posts by this contributor. Inside Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles VR Interview Experience.
Ford CTO Ken Washington at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10
TechCrunch LA
MAY 20, 2019
A conference dedicated to transportation and mobility wouldn’t be complete without hearing from Ford, the U.S. automaker with a storied 116-year history.
Former Snap employees are launching Forge Platform for Ethereum devs
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 13, 2019
Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow may have spent their days over the past few years working at Snap, but on nights and weekends Anderson and Lorenz were laboring on a different project — improving Ethereum development tools. .
Snap is channeling Asia’s messaging giants with its move into gaming
TechCrunch LA
APRIL 5, 2019
Snap is taking a leaf out of the Asian messaging app playbook as its social messaging service enters a new era. The company unveiled a series of new strategies that are aimed at breathing fresh life into the service which has been ruthlessly cloned by Facebook across Instagram, WhatsApp, and even its primary social network. The result? Snap has consistently lost users since going public in 2017.
Apple plans major US expansion including a new $1 billion campus in Austin
TechCrunch LA
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Apple has announced a major expansion that will see it open a new campus in North Austin and open new offices in Seattle, San Diego and Los Angeles as it bids to increase its workforce in the U.S.
Meet Lumi, the Los Angeles startup that just raised $9 million for a packaging business
TechCrunch LA
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Alongside co-founder and longtime partner Stephan Ango, Jesse Genet has built a business with Lumi that’s already been profitable, and has just raised $9 million in venture funding to boost its growth. Read More.
The next big restaurant chain may not own any kitchens
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 7, 2018
If investors at some of the biggest technology companies are right, the next big restaurant chain could have no kitchens of its own.
As Quibi reportedly seeks another $1 billion, Fiction Riot fills the programming slate for its rival service
TechCrunch LA
MAY 17, 2019
Even as Quibi , the short form video platform from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo , reportedly looks to raise another $1 billion , rival service Fiction Riot continues to steadily build out its pipeline of short form serials.
More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 14, 2019
Brud , the company behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela , is now worth at least $125 million thanks to a new round of financing the company is currently closing.
VCs say Silicon Valley isn’t the gold mine it used to be
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
In the days leading up to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, The Economist published the cover story, ‘Why Startups Are Leaving Silicon Valley.’ ’ The author outlined reasons why the Valley has “peaked.”
Uber adds LA to flying taxi test cities, demo flights slated for 2020
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Uber has inked a partnership with Nasa over its flying taxi plans and says now it’s aiming to get demo flights up and running in Los Angeles by 2020. Read More. Apps TC Transportation Uber VTOLs flying taxis ride hailing Los Angeles
Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program
TechCrunch LA
OCTOBER 22, 2018
With its Greenlots acquisition, Shell is moving from gas stations to charging stations
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 30, 2019
In a bid to show that it’s getting ready for the electrification of American roads, Royal Dutch Shell is buying Greenlots , a Los Angeles-based developer of electric vehicle charging and energy management technologies.
How to watch Elon Musk unveil the Tesla Model Y
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. Tesla will live stream the Model Y unveiling event at 8 pm PT via its website.
Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth
TechCrunch LA
JANUARY 17, 2019
3D-printing the first rocket on Mars. That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015.
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