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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Delivery.com , which provides online ordering and delivery from restaurants, grocery stores, and other local stores, said Thursday that it has expanded into the Los Angeles area. The New York company said it will provide its delivery services in such areas as Central Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Beverly Hills.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Mobile taxi summoning app developer Flywheel is expanding its coverage area in Los Angeles today, saying that it will now provide coverage in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, and Culver City as well as the Westside and the South Bay. flywheel uber lyft sidecar smartphone taxi ride rideshare mobile launch losangeles angeles'

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The two spent months pounding the pavement in Los Angeles pretending to be college students doing research on the industry. They spoke with salon owners in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and other trendy neighborhoods trying to get a sense of where software and services were falling short. billion transaction by Vista Equity Partners.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Venice, California-based Vetted , a new startup offering up on-demand, veterinary services at your home, has raised $3.47M in seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The company--which is currently headquartered at Amplify LA--currently only offers up its services in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Beverly Hills-based Aviron Capital , a consortium of financiers with primary backing from by private equity investor BlackRock, said this morning that it has acquired a "substantial equity stake" in Kino Industries , the developer of an interactive movie technology called CtrlMovie. Kino's co-CEOs are Chady Eli Mattar and Tobias Weber.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

Postmates is now rolling out what could be the biggest update to the company’s service in a long time — adding a retail option for users to shop local stores and for local merchants to set up a virtual on-demand storefront in the app. “ Most of the LA metro area will have access to the tab. .

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JULY 27, 2016

Beverly Hills-based Influential , a developer of influencer marketing software, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The company says it has now raised a total of $9M. The company says its clients include Hershey's, Coca-Cola Company, NBC Universal, Nestle, General Mills and Sony Pictures.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

Los Angeles- and Berlin-based eKomi , a developer of software to solicit ratings and reviews from e-commerce customers, has added Anastassia Lauterbach to its board of directors. eKomi is led by Michael Ambros, and says it is headquartered in Berlin and Los Angeles with additional offices in London, Paris, and Madrid. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2014

One Kings Lane , the online, home furnishings flash sales site which splits its operations between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York, said today that it has snagged former Zappos.com CTO Arun Rajan as its new Chief Technology Officer. Rajan will be at the company''s San Francisco offices. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

Beverly Hills-based Kumba Health , a new healthcare startup, has recently launched a new online marketplace for healthcare services, which connects patients with physicians, labs, imaging centers, and other healthcare services.

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JULY 20, 2016

Los Angeles-based GIBLIB , a startup multi-channel-network (MCN) focused on surgery content, said it will be broadcasting a live, public stream of a hernia surgery in virtual reality next week. According to GIBLIB, it will broadcast a 360 degree virtual reality view of a surgery being conducted in Beverly Hills in 4K video.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy , an on-demand, car wash service, said Wednesday that it has officially launched its service in Los Angeles. The company then dispatches a mobile car wash to a customer's home, office, or other location for an on-site car wash. Squeegy's on-demand app currently runs only on iOS. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 11, 2012

Los Angeles-based Postcard on the Run , the mobile app startup which allows users to take a photo on their smartphone and turn that into a real, physical postcard, has inked a partnership with a hotel and resort operator. Financial details of the deals between the company were not announced.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Rinse , a San Francisco-based on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, said Thursday that it is expanding it service to Los Angeles, after raising a $3.5M The company offers up many features familiar to on-demand app users, including emailed photos of your items and SMS pick up and scheduling. The company is led by Ajay Prakash.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

One Kings Lane , an online, flash home furnishing retailer which has offices and one of its founders (Susan Feldman) in Los Angeles, disclosed that it has raised $112M in a Series E funding round. The funding comes on top of an earlier $117M raised by the company in prior rounds.

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JUNE 1, 2015

Los Angeles--which already has a long list of smartphone driven, ride summoning services like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar--can add another one to ths list, AsterRIDE. Los Angeles--which already has a long list of smartphone driven, ride summoning services like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar--can add another one to ths list, AsterRIDE.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Are you one of the companies in Los Angeles that just doesn't have enough parking for your employees? One of the on-demand, parking services that serves Los Angeles Zirx , said this morning that it is specifically looking to solve those issues for companies, with the launch of a new service. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links. In fact, a recent study released by Ernst & Young found that there were eight companies in Southern California, out of 22 total in California, who were lined up for an IPO in Q4.

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MAY 1, 2012

Beverly Hills-based Mobile Roadie , the developer of tools which make it easy for artists and brands to create their own mobile apps, said today that it has launched a new native iPad app platform, along with a self-service mobile website product. The new iPad service costs $499 per month or $4,999 per year. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 18, 2011

Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States. They also have a growing tech culture in Los Angeles and its adjacent cites like Santa Monica, West Hollywood and Beverly Hills as companies like Demand Media, MySpace and more recently Hulu, Mahalo, Callfire, DocStoc and BetterWorks have staked claim to the area.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The list of Southern California companies who have filed, have been rumored to file, or have successfully completed IPOs has gotten a little longer this morning, after Santa Monica-based Cornerstone OnDemand filed for an IPO. Other firms currently in registration include Santa Monica-based Demand Media ; San Diego-based Zogenix ; Inphi Corp.

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AUGUST 28, 2015

This time, the event is being held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, rather than Santa Monica, where the event had been held in prior years. According to Siemer & Associates, this year's conference, the Siemer Summit 2015, will be held from October 13th to 14th, and will feature Tim Draper as the keynote speaker.

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Snowball Factory , the startup behind awe.sm , the url shortener and analytics service, tweetpo.st , which updates Facebook from Twitter, and other tools, has raised $500,000 more, according to a recent regulatory filing by the firm. The filing indicates the funding is part of an ongoing $1.0M READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Beverly Hills-based Voomerang , a new daily local deals site, has entered into the crowded group and local deals market today, saying it has officially launched its daily deals service. The company said it has received seed financing from private investors. The firm is headed by Michael Silber. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2010

Southern California appears to be on a IPO roll this month, with the pricing of Monrovia-based Green Dot 's IPO last night and expected trading today, following the successful IPO of Beverly Hills-based RealD last Friday.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Earlier this week, Deloitte released its latest list of the top 500 growing technology companies, in its 2012 Technology Fast 500. A very healthy list of Southern California companies made the list, with a total of 64 companies in the region ranked in the list. 1449% Beverly Hills Michael V. Gregg 85 RealD Inc.

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OCTOBER 14, 2015

NewCo is your passport inside 80+ of LA’s most successful companies. ” Their next stop is Los Angeles – your chance to get an inside look into one of the largest and most diversified economies on the planet – from aerospace, entertainment, and fashion to biomedical services, consumer products, and tourism.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

Beverly Hills-based Hydra LLC , an Internet advertising company which has been seeing major growth in the last couple of years, has apparently hit a major snag, as the company has become embroiled in lawsuits associated with the departure of three of the four founding partners at the firm.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based BloomNation (www.bloomnation.com) is looking to change the model, and instead empower local florists to deliver their own, unique designs. You mention the big companies, like FTD, 1-800 Flowers, etc. If you type in flowers in Beverly Hills, you won''t see any organic results for the big businesses.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

This year's fest has expanded to included panels on how to grow your startup internationally, maintain your company culture, manage developers in multiple countries, and reach mainstream audiences using TV advertising combined with digital. In the first phase of many industries, you have an explosion of new ideas and companies.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2012

(www.science-inc.com), a new technology studio aimed at building new businesses in Los Angeles. This week, the firm launched two companies--EventUp (www.eventup.com) and MeUndies (www.meundies.com)--the first companies to come out of the group. Can you talk about the companies you launched this week? How about MeUndies?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. But the tech culture of Los Angeles is shifting real estate’s center of gravity. The Los Angeles Business Journal recently reported data compiled by SoCalTech.com showing that “L.A. YouTube is joined by the SoCal outpost for Facebook.

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MAY 19, 2015

Need something--anything--delivered in Los Angeles? Fetch and Schlep just raised a round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Fetch and Schlep just raised a round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. We're now the largest delivery service in Los Angeles.

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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. The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Here's the reason why. The second thing, is tools.

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MAY 4, 2016

Brian Tan: It all started, like most companies, with a problem. We're using technology in the same way other companies are solving hotel issues, taxi service, dating, and all of that, and using that same kind of technology to solve a big problem for the film industry. We spoke with co-founder Brian L. Tan ("BLT") about the business.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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