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Snap accelerator names its latest cohort

TechCrunch LA

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. Wabisabi Design, Inc.

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Silicon Beach Report Feb. 9: Snap Is Trying to Lure Instagram Advertisers by Offering Them Free Ads on Snapchat

L.A. Business Journal

Snap is trying to lure Instagram advertisers by offering them free ads on Snapchat; Elon Musk explains why SpaceX prefers clusters of small engines for the Falcon Heavy; and digital media drives entertainment employment growth in Los Angeles

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Disney Accelerator Shows Off First Class Of Startups

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The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars' in its seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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MakerSquare Opens Coding School In LA

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MakerSquare , which operates coding camps and classes to help students get software jobs, is setting up a new location in Los Angeles, according to the Hack Reactor collective. angeles camp code software education school hackreactor reactor hack makersquare' The two said that MakerSquare will launch its first class on June 29th.

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Be Great Fest | Celebrating Los Angeles’ Startup Ecosystem

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Meet the next generation of startup success stories at Be Great Fest in Los Angeles. Their mission: to support a charity, savor the hot SoCal nightlife, and transform Los Angeles into the startup capital of the world. Although the Startup Genome Project named Los Angeles the No. 3 startup ecosystem in the world, with L.A.

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Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace

TechCrunch LA

The Los Angeles-based company partnered with NBA Top Shot NFT creator Dapper Labs to develop the storefront on Dapper’s Flow blockchain and debuted it to a group of invite-only beta users in December last year, TechCrunch reported at the time. .

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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

TechCrunch LA

” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at version of this new breed of entertainer, the collective behind the account is far from the only one. “ In 2019 and 2020 we’re going to see a lot of these… we’re going to see a lot of people putting out a lot of stuff.”