TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In an attempt to boost diversity and inclusion efforts and civic engagement between the growing technology industry in Los Angeles and the community that surrounds it, over 80 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs joined the city’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, and the non-profit Annenberg Foundation to announce PledgeLA. The landmark.

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MAY 28, 2019

Elon Musk , the technology mogul behind such Los Angeles technology firms as SpaceX and Boring Company , is officially the highest paid CEO in California, according to a report issued late last week. The report--which only considered Musk's pay as head of Tesla Motors--said Musk was paid $2.28

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 26, 2017

A SpaceX launch of 10 Iridium satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base lit up the Los Angeles sky on Dec. 22; WhatsApp is ending support for BlackBerry and Windows Phone 8.0 at the end of the year; and Fair.com is acquiring Uber’s Xchange Leasing and picking up 150 employees.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based megapixel camera developer Arecont Vision reported that its cameras are being used on the SpaceX Dragon. Arecont Vision said its cameras are being used in the non-pressurized cargo area of the SpaceX Dragon. arecont vision spacex dragon megapixel camera hardware pace nasa' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 11, 2017

Roofstock , a startup which operates an online marketplace that lets investors purchase homes online as investments, has launched in Los Angeles, the company said on Thursday. The company said Los Angeles is its 14th market. Roofstock called the Los Angeles metropolitan area an "increasingly important U.S. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

It appears the puff of marijuana inhaled by Elon Musk last night on a podcast has drawn in Los Angeles-based SpaceX and one of its big customers--the U.S. Air Force--according to reports on Friday. It's unclear how Musk's personal drug use will impact SpaceX, however, Musk serves as CEO of SpaceX.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 30, 2018

million; Los Angeles tech workers data released; SpaceX gets approval to build satellite-powered broadband network. Female-focused venture fund raises $10.4

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

In the latest Silicon Valley mogul to buy a house in Los Angeles, Google chairman Eric Schmidt has reportedly purchased a $22 million house in Los Angeles in the Holmby Hills. The report--from the New York Post--says that Schmidt bought the former Los Angeles estate of Veronique Peck, late wife of Gregory Peck.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Busy week for SpaceX – across funding, space tourism, and next-gen spacecraft. SpaceX plans to build Starships at a furious clip. SpaceX is serious about iteration – its strategy of building (and failing – and learning from its failures) fast is in full effect for its Starship development program.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The first, high tech test tunnel built by LA's The Boring Company , bored between the SpaceX parking lot and a home in Hawthorne, California, is almost complete, and will open to the public on December 10th, according to Boring Company and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Opens Dec 10 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 22, 2018.

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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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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 4, 2017

sold 150,000 Spectacles, Los Angeles pet device firm draws $3.7 million investment and senators concerned about space debris and proposed SpaceX satellites colliding.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Tesla Motors , one of the companies run by Los Angeles technology mogul Elon Musk, is reportedly being investigated in a criminal probe by the Department of Justice. According to report, the SEC was aready investigating possible "misleading pronouncements" on manufacturing goals and sales at Tesla. The stock now trades at around $282.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 19, 2018

Self-driving Uber car kills pedestrian; Tinder to sue Bumble; and SpaceX in expansion talks with Port of Los Angeles.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

According to HTT, Munich re created a "Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Risk Report" which assesses the feasibility and insurability of HTT's technology and system. The other companies are the similar named Virgin Hyperloop One in downtown Los Angeles, and SpaceX, in Hawthorne. READ MORE>>.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 18, 2016

Airbnb to pay hotel taxes to City of Los Angeles, Snapchat is in talks for Hollywood TV shows, SpaceX lands fifth rocket, and more.

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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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JANUARY 2, 2013

It looks like Elon Musk , the tech mogul behind Hawthorne-based SpaceX , is settling further into Los Angeles, and has purchased a $17M mansion in Bel Air. The buy was first report by the LA Times. Other tech moguls with homes here include Larry Ellison ( purchased a Malibu estate for $34.9M

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JULY 18, 2017

A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. SpaceX (www.spacex.com). SpaceX (www.spacex.com).

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APRIL 17, 2015

MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. More than half of this quarter''s investment due to a single, nearly $1 billion investment in Hawthorne-based SpaceX. Southern California saw a staggering $1.9 invested in SmartDrive Systems.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Three executives of Tesla Motors , the high profile electric car firm setting up operations in Los Angeles, apparently have died in a plane crash in Palo Alto, as they were heading towards Hawthorne Municipal Airport in Los Angeles. Names and identities of the deceased have not yet been released by the FAA.

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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). Indeed, Gizmodo is reporting that Musk (reached via DM) said he never met Banks.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

Nationally, the MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Reuters, found that there was $4.8 in 32 deals, followed by Los Angeles with $172.3M billion invested in 637 deals in Q3, up 17 percent quarter-to-quarter, but down three percent in deals. in 25 deals.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Southern California venture capital investments total $497.8M, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, which were released this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. in investments for the Los Angeles area. in a funding round.

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JULY 10, 2019

billion in money returned to investors—that’s already topped all other full-year totals, according to the latest VentureMonitor, the quarterly report on venture capital investment complied by the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook. percent.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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JUNE 28, 2018

How could Bird really be worth the reported $2 billion valuation that I read about in this press? Does it surprise you that the fastest-growing “unicorn” was launched in Los Angeles and not San Francisco? Not at all. Bird is the natural evolution in billion-dollar++ outcomes in LA.

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