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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

After five days in Austin for SXSW, I headed to Los Angeles, actually Hawthorne, for Tesla’s Model Y unveiling. Freight railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming is considering a sale of all or part of itself, Bloomberg reported. Meanwhile, Los Angeles is getting ready for a widespread deployment of scooters.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe. Neal Roche: I worked the trail of angel investors around Southern California. Because you're in an emerging market, your funding initially for sales and marketing is very small.

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