TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

500 Startups is scrapping its cohort model for accelerating companies and moving to a rolling admissions process, the accelerator said during its latest demo day. One of the progenitors of the accelerator model in the US along with Techstars and Y Combinator , 500 has been a cornerstone of the early-stage company building platform.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

Even as NFT sales dip below their most speculative highs, startups aiming to tap into their potential are still scoring big funding rounds from investors who believe there’s much more to crypto collectibles than the past few months of hype. The startup has raised a whopping $120 million to date. The round was led by WestCap.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

Making money on livestreams has never been easier thanks to a suite of tools from the Los Angeles-based startup Maestro , which just nabbed $15 million in financing to grow its business. But what started in the gaming world quickly spun out as the company slashed prices to $500 per month for its services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

A question that I still hear debated often is whether a new online platform startup growth strategy should focus on user count or profits. Most startups and investors I know don’t have unlimited funds, so the first question they should ask and do ask today, is “When is your company going to be profitable (self-sustaining)?”

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S. Mogul Millennial — this Dallas-based company is a digital media platform for black entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. Nuggetverse — Los Angeles-based Nuggetverse is creating a children’s media business based on its marquee character, Tubby Nugget.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified angels and investment groups around the country. Register Internet and social media startup names.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 28, 2020

MarketerHire , a Los Angeles-based startup backed by a slew of executives from some of the city’s hottest startups, launched its new service matching freelance marketing experts with open jobs listed on its platform. .

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Los Angeles-based gaming startup Midnight announced this morning that it has raised $7.5M The funding came from Shima Capital, blockchain platform Forte, gaming community SNACKCLUB, guild and mod platform Overwolf, plus the founders of gaming companies Illuvium and investors Woodstock Fund, FJ Labs, Bixin Ventures, among others.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. www.sodahead.com).

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Gross and Barnehama met through a mutual friend in the robotics industry in Los Angeles, the chief executive of Embodied, Paolo Pirjanian, Barnehama wrote in an email.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

The Los Angeles-based app development shop, V/One , is giving away 50,000 free mobile app builds through the rest of April as the company officially launches its platform for would-be, LA-based mobile app moguls. Builds of the apps will be delivered around 60 days upon signing up,” said V One founder, Jeremy Redman.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A pitch to offer artists a way to give geo-fenced, live events to fans around the world has brought the new Los Angeles startup Moment House $1.5 The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 28, 2018

This week, both Microsoft and Google made moves to woo Hollywood to their cloud computing platforms in the latest act of the unfolding drama over who will win the multi-billion dollar business of the entertainment industry as it moves to the cloud. in Los Angeles. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? Los Angeles-based Workpop (www.workpop.com) thinks so.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based electric vehicle designer Fisker Inc. said on Thursday that it has reached a deal with auto supplier Magna International , where Magna will provide the vehicle platform and build Fisker's upcoming Ocean SUV. The deal values Fisker Automotive at approximately $3 billion.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 24, 2020

One entrepreneur who’s spent time on both sides of the business as a startup founder and an employee for one of the biggest brands in athletic wear has launched a new app to try build a bridge between the physical and virtual fashion worlds. View this post on Instagram. The future of fashion discovery could be in the metaverse.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

But at the same time, Los Angeles–based Boulevard got this funding infusion at a boosted valuation because it has been on a roll. to date, the company said that it saw an 188% growth in annual recurring revenue compared to a year ago, with more than 25,000 individuals in 2,000 salons and spas in the country now using its platform.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2020

Maven continued to operate in Detroit, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it has started to wind down Maven. ” Maven was designed to bring and expand several of GM’s existing test programs under one brand. and Toronto. Only a program directed at gig workers was still operational in that city.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

We''ve designed a system where we track your employees in real time. How did you start the company? George Collado: I worked in Hermosa Beach, with a restaurant group, and we had opened up several restaurants. They can use our platform to do the audit. So now, they can see exactly where people are at any time.

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JUNE 30, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Order For Me , says it has launched a new, mobile platform aimed at helping restaurant customers order from menus in a "completely touchless" way. The app also handles payments and splitting of bills between guests.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2020

The passage of the law has unlocked a wave of entrepreneurial energy as startups look to build things that can make money and solve a real problem for the state — and eventually — the nation. “Garage conversions were a new concept for us,” Martin McCauley told Curbed Los Angeles.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. The Case Foundation (Washington, DC).

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Venice-based Snap announced the third class of its Yellow startup accelerator class on Wednesday, naming ten companies to participate in its annual 14-week program in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Verishop , the Los Angeles online retailer founded by former Snap executive Imran Khan, launched a little over a year ago to change the way people shop online. Now the company is launching a new initiative called “Verified Shops” which looks to change the way that up-and-coming retail brands can sell their wares. .

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Because brick-and-mortar retail provides businesses with benefits an online shopping platform can’t , namely consumer experiences that create and sustain shopper’s relationships with brands. . Lerer Hippeau has led the round, with participation from CRV and SV Angels. million in venture capital funding.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based First Resonance, a startup developing what it calls a "factory operating system" designed for hardware companies for use in their manufacturing operations, says it has raised a new round of funding. The company said the new funding will go to expand its team and support continued development of its platform.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

raised (more on that later), and the A-list names they’ve signed up for their first batch of content, they’ve certainly raised a lot of expectations and more than a few opinions. We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.” Between the heavy hitters at the helm, the more than $1.4B

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

After operating in stealth mode for about two years, First Resonance , a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, is finally showing the world their software toolkit designed to let manufacturers make things using the processes employed by their former boss.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite. Watch this space.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

New platforms led by YouTube have emerged to change the dynamic of broadcast media — once dominated by the rigid programming of TV — while the internet has enabled new media stars to engage with their audiences in new, high-touch ways. In addition, there are incentives for referring others to the platform.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 6, 2020

I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. I will repeat my appeal from last week: Maybe you’re a startup founder, a safety driver at an autonomous vehicle developer, a venture capitalist, engineer or gig economy worker. The on-demand shuttle startup raised $400 million, TechCrunch learned.

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socalTECH

MAY 9, 2013

Los Angeles-based social promotions software developer PromoJam has rolled out a brand new tool today, a new visual social marketing product called Promotion Builder and DIY Visual Editor. PromoJam''s tools are aimed at helping users build social promotions without requiring coding or a graphic designer, via templates and easy-to-use tools.

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

Other Disney startups such as Atom Ticket , a new movie ticketing app, partnered with the next Star Wars movie and will continue to work with Walt Disney Studios on major film releases. This corporate partnership has proven well for these startups in helping them launch their products and services into another galaxy.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Los Angeles-based SUMA Wealth , a startup which operates an online platform designed to help U.S.-born, born, Millennial Latinos with financial literacy, has raised a round of funding, the company announced this week. According to the company, it received a pre-seed funding round from a number of female investors.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

in a venture capital funding, to launch its social platform for trading goods and services. The funding came from angel investors, including Chris Hameetman (Tech Coast Angels) and Joe Addiego (Alsop Louie Partners). The startup is led by Jared Krause. Santa Monica-based TradeYa said Wednesday that it has raised $1.1M

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

A new, Los Angeles-based content startup, Fiction Riot said this morning that it is plannig to launch a new mobile app, which developers short-form, video series for consumers. The first content on the platform is targeted for early 2019. The new startup is led by CEO and co-founder Mike Esola.

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