TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

That’s the goal Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone set for themselves when they founded Los Angeles-based Relativity Space in 2015. Now, more than $35 million dollars later , the company has been awarded a multi-year contract to build and operate its own rocket launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

In an unusual effort to find a girlfriend, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has launched a complicated effort to attract a partner to ride around the world in a SpaceX rocket with him. SpaceX is based in Hawthorne, in the greater Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

There''s been a lot of buzz about tech mogul Elon Musks''s idea behind "Hyperloop"--a concept to make transit between Los Angeles and San Francisco in only minutes, using 800 mph, aluminum pods. jumpstartfund spacex hyperloop elon musk transportation project crowdfunding' Galloway was on the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 23, 2015

Fans of SpaceX , the Los Angeles area space flight company led by Elon Musk, will have a field day with a giant trove of photographs from the company, which SpaceX made free to the public late Friday. Rocket launch image courtesy SpaceX. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

While some of the largest privately held technology companies, like SpaceX and Tesla , have shifted to manufacturing ventilators, smaller companies are also trying to pitch in and relieve scarcity locally. 3D-printing companies are working on new ways to manufacture personal protective equipment and swabs for COVID-19 testing.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2016

Tesla Motors is getting set to launch its newest model--the mass market, Model 3--at an event on March 31st in Los Angeles, in what is expected to be watershed moment for the electric car company. Tesla maintains a small office in Hawthorne, right next to SpaceX, the space rocket company which is also headed by Elon Musk.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is led by Dirk Ahlborn, and was originally funded by crowdfunding site JumpStarter. HTT said the deal will make it the first company to work on plans for a Hyperloop system in Europe.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

So far, the COVID-19 crisis has impacted some launches but not others – SpaceX flew a Starlink mission last week, for instance, but will postpone a planned launch at end of March, while ULA appears to be on track to launch a sixth high-frequency defense communications satellite on behalf of the U.S. Space Force on Thursday.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The new financing will give Relativity the cash to fully build its “Stargate” factory, a semi-autonomous, full-scale production facility that will house the company’s massive 3-D printers and produce its first rocket, the Terran 1. space industry.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

in the company's efforts to start a commercial space tourism industry. Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. It looks like people either loved, or really hated, the companies we featured.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 13, 2018

Over a series of Instagram stories from the weekend, Banks (whose account should be taken with an entire salt shaker — more on that later) reported from the belly of the beast (which in this case is one of Elon Musk’s Los Angeles homes). Azealia Banks exposing Elon Musk for tweeting while on Acid.

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Tech.Co

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Since 2013, when Elon Musk released his white paper for an emerging mode of transportation using low air pressure within a tube, companies around the world have answered the call to build the next generation of futuristic transportation. This has caused much confusion both in the public and the media. Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

If a person from outside Los Angeles is a fan of the city, dig a little and you’ll probably find that they like it for the celebrities, Hollywood not LA. Well, they’re all wrong, and Los Angeles is about to prove it. Cornerstone has been recognized as one of the nation’s fastest growing companies by Deloitte, Inc.

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