socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2018

Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content. the team also includes Sadaf Amouzegar (SpaceX, Caltech) and Nathan Crockett (astrophysicist from the University of Michigan and postdoc, Caltech).

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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. “Rockets are the business model now,” Ellis told me last year at the company’s offices at the time, a few hundred feet from SpaceX. “That’s why we created the printing tech.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based startup Emotive, which develops conversational text messaging software, said this morning that it has raised $50M in its Series B funding round. Wald was previously at SalesLoft and Salesforce, and Pylnev was formerly at Honest Company and SpaceX. The company said the funding brings its valuation to $400M.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2017

In the first product you can actually buy from Elon Musk's new tunnel-digging startup, The Boring Company , the company is now selling a hat with the company's name/logo on it. Musk's company--which has been digging tunnels beneath SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne--says the hat costs $20, including shipping and tax. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Elon Musk and Tesla unveiled a new electric vehicle--the Cybertruck --last night in a big event, showing off an highly unusual design, made of the same stainless style used on the SpaceX Starship. No date was given for when the new vehicle might reach production. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 24, 2020

Rocket Lab also notes that despite pausing its production of new launch vehicles, it has taken an approach of readying rockets and launch pads ahead of time in order to meet rapid-response requirements from its customers, so it has a stock of vehicles ready even with a production stoppage.

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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. Endless West announced this morning that it would shift production away from its distillery to begin making hand sanitizers.

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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. Relativity is building a 3D-printing rocket manufacturing hub in Mississippi.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. Snap, Riot Games, Tinder, SpaceX and on and on — these are great things for LA as is every new VC fund launching in LA to create the next big innovation. And this is true.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2009

According to Tesla, it will use $365M of the low interest loans from the DOE for production engineering and assembly of the company's Model S all-electric family sedan, which the company has said will be built at a yet-to-be-determined Southern California assembly plant. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Matt Kozlov , the Managing Director of the new Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator , which just got started in Los Angeles. Right now, we're in the beginning of the mentorship phase, where our companies have moved here from all over the world to spend three months in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2017

Ring is now arguably the fastest growing consumer product in the country and is now in a staggering 1 million homes in America and growing at an unbelievable clip. In all of the usual chatter about LA’s great ascendency people love to mention Snap, Tinder, Riot Games, SpaceX and other well-know startup success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As an angel investor in startups, I always look for this self-confidence, no matter how innovative the solution. Elon Musk, in his drive to put people on Mars through SpaceX , has already created new reusable spaceship technologies and many other new products. Gather more knowledge and consistently apply it.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Based out of Los Angeles, Starship initially made its name, back in 2017, running pilots with delivery companies in the U.S. Starship’s delivery robots are already proving their worth, and we are glad to support the company so that they can continue to develop their technology and scale-up their production.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2016

As a startup advisor and aspiring angel investor, I’ve long been wary of startups trying to create new markets out of problems people didn’t know they have, or problems generally accepted as unsolvable. You can sell vision before you have a product, and the vision will make you the category king, and keep you there.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

Their next stop is UnCubed Los Angeles on January 31, 2013. A full day of exploring career opportunities, discovering new products and interacting with the most influential folks in the L.A Companies like Fullscreen, Honest Company, Subblime, Daqri, Factual and SpaceX will be attendance amongst others. What can you expect?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. When we ship product. But would you expect Apple to reveal its product details before launching?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Most Angelenos don't realize Los Angeles is the largest manufacturing center in the country. (We 2017 was the year SpaceX demonstrated their premise of reusability to bring down the cost of satellite launches and space travel, with multiple Falcon rockets and a reused capsule giving repeat performances.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2018

Selecting and nurturing people who are likely to help you in this regard is an even more elusive capability, and one that every angel investor, like myself, wishes he could get a lock on. Breakthrough innovation is the dream of every entrepreneur, but it’s still a scarce commodity. Give people time alone to ponder ideas without judgment.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Using advice about curriculum from the startup accelerator Y-Combinator and attracting superstar speakers like Elon Musk , Zhang has created an organization that is inspiring students to build great companies in Los Angeles. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. What is LavaLab/what is the vision?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category. Does it surprise you that the fastest-growing “unicorn” was launched in Los Angeles and not San Francisco? You don’t “Bing” information or “Hulu and chill.” Brand matters. Not at all.

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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. 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. Post navigation.

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