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More investors are betting on virtual influencers like Lil Miquela

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Meanwhile, new venture-backed companies like the superstealthy Shadows, SuperPlastic and Toonstar are all developing virtual characters that will launch via social media channels like Snap and Instagram, or on their own platforms. ” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at

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How Eusoh Wants To Fix Insurance With Technology, With Allen Kamrava

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That's what Los Angeles-based Eusoh (www.eusoh.com) is hoping to do. We caught up with Allen Kamrava , the CEO and founder the startup, to learn about how the company is building a consumer platform that allows assembled and self-selected groups to form for the purpose of sharing unexpected costs of life. It's truly broken.

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Interview with Ruben Schultz, Swoop

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in a seed funding round. from Signia Venture Partners, South Park Commons, and angels. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. The company recently announced $3.2M What's Swoop all about?

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). Warby Parker produces modern eyewear at affordable prices, Apple produces elegant, premium technology products, Netflix offers an enormous library of binge-worthy, unique video. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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Blue-chip customers such as Intuit, Williams-Sonoma, Fox Sports/MSN, Ticketmaster, Glaxo Smith Kline, Clear Channel, WebEx and Netflix turn to StrongMail infrastructure to bring enterprise-class reliability to their email systems. Sequoia has a tremendous reputation, but it was also important to us to have a local (Los Angeles) VC as well.

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