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AUGUST 30, 2016

The Tech Coast Angels , Southern California's biggest angel investment group, says its performance record and returns on its investments are higher than the average angel, in nearly all categories, based on a new academic study. average of all angels. According to the TCA, it had a 3.3x in active investments.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Maverick Angels , an angel investment group investing in Southern California companies, said today that it has named Patrick Henry as its newly elected Southern California Chapter President. Henry replaces Bill Barber, who continues as a member. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 8, 2011

A new study released by the Kauffman Foundation this week shows that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has the highest number of entrepreneurs per 100,000 people, of the top fifteen largest MSAs.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2016

A new study, released today by the Pew Research Center , says that more American adults are using online dating sites or mobile apps than ever before. The study said 15% of adults have used online dating sites or apps; with 9% having used dating apps. The Pew study called the move to mobile dating apps "dramatic".

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MARCH 8, 2012

The Tech Coast Angels , the organized Southern California angel investment group, helped boost California into the top states for angel investment deals, according to a new study released today. percent of angel investments in the state. percent of angel investments in the state. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 29, 2016

Los Angeles-based Memorang , the developer of a flash-card based, study tool to help people study for such things as the MCAT, GRE, NBME, and a host of other tests, has raised $500,000 in a funding round, the company is announcing this morning.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 22, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011 -- Power of Angel Investing. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals. It will also go into depth on how to develop angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success.

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APRIL 6, 2012

Thursday, April 12, 2012 -- Power of Angel Investing Seminar. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals. It will also go into depth on how to develop angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success. See [link] (more)

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Ford Motor Credit Company , the auto financing arm of Ford, will implement machine learning in its credit approval models, has run a study on the effectiveness of machine learning with Los Angeles-based ZestFinance , the two said on Friday.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

A study--from company PropTechOS--has ranked Los Angeles as among the top U.S. According to the company, Los Angeles finished second behind Austin for US cities, based on "11 indicators of how adapted a city is to emerging technologies". cities "prepared for the future".

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

A new study of social media activity and e-commerce, compiled from Los Angeles social tools developer Social Annex , shows that social media is--not surprisingly--playing a far bigger role in online shopping this year.

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DECEMBER 9, 2011

A new study compiled by the University of Southern California tallies up $380M raised in capital by USC spinouts in the last three years, and a 15 year total of $800M raised by 39 startups with roots at the school.

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DECEMBER 12, 2016

Ridesharing service Lyft said this morning that it has calculated that it has created $130M to the Los Angeles economy, as a result of its ride service. According to Lyft, a study conducted by the company by Land Econ Group finds that there was an increase in economic activity in Los Angeles due to its service, as a result of its rides.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Los Angeles-based advanced transportation technology developer Virgin Hyperloop One has inked a partnership with the Government of Maharashtra, India, to identify potential high-speed transportation routes in the Pune area, the company said Thursday.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010 -- Power of Angel Investing. San Diego Tech Coast Angels. This full-day seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals and developing angel-entrepreneur relationships that lead to success.

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Los Angeles’ technology sector is growing, according to a recent study from real estate brokerage firm CBRE Group Inc.

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JULY 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based online education site Cram.com has launched a new, premium membership tier, and also launched a new text-to-speech tool for its online studying and flashcard site. cram membership education school studying student flashcard studymode' Cram.com is now owned by StudyMode. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2013

A new study released earlier this month has ranked the Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta metropolitan area, as well as the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area among the top ten markets for venture capital activity. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ranked further down on the list, at number 16, at $13.1M in deals and 3.3

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015.

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APRIL 6, 2012

Thursday, April 12, 2012 -- Power of Angel Investing Seminar. Tech Coast Angels. This full-day definitive seminar provides an overview of the angel investing process including the details of finding, evaluating, and structuring deals.

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JULY 22, 2011

A study released this morning by the Californians for Clean Energy and Jobs Network says that Los Angeles leads the nation in green jobs. According to the CCEJ, Los Angeles had 178,500 green jobs, out of roughly 4.5 million workers in the LA region. Green jobs represented about 3.9 percent of total employment in the region.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

The report, based on data from January 2008 to 2009, found the Los Angeles Area had 23 percent of green employment in the state, and 22 percent of green businesses. According to data released by the group, job employment in the green sector grew three times faster than total employment in California, accounting for 174,000 jobs.

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MARCH 30, 2018

A new report, published this week by the nonprofit CompTIA group, says that Los Angeles is the number two metropolitan area in the nation for technology employment. The CompTIA's study includes not just workers in the technology industry itself, but those working IT support, network engineering, software development and related roles.

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JUNE 4, 2012

For this morning's Insights and Opinions , section, where we feature the voices of Southern California's technology industry, we have an article from Howard Marks , the co-founder of Los Angeles startup accelerator StartEngine and co-founder of gaming giant Activision.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

A new, Los Angeles startup, HotOutlines.com has debuted its service, which lets students and colleges and universities upload their class notes, outlines, and study guides, and sell them for a commission.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles-based content publisher BUZZMEDIA said this morning that it has tied with a research firm, to help mine its network of properties to help brands understand influencers and consumers. The company said it will debut the study in Q4.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

In fact, a recent study released by Ernst & Young found that there were eight companies in Southern California, out of 22 total in California, who were lined up for an IPO in Q4.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

The numerous other accelerators in Southern California, including many in Los Angeles, were not included in the ranking project, based on the list released by Tech Cocktail. The group said its study's goal is to help startups choose an accelerator and generate discussion about what makes a good accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Open Raven , the Los Angeles-based security startup founded by a team of cybersecurity veterans from CrowdStrike and SourceClear, has closed on $15 million in new financing only four months after emerging from stealth and in the middle of a pandemic. .

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

A new report, from AngelList, says that angel investors at the see stage would increase their expected return by broadly indexing into every credible deal they see. AngelList's service is aimed at promoting seed investment.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 19, 2021

Earlier this month, Los Angeles became the latest city to task its various departments with prepping a feasibility study for deploying new software and monitoring technologies to better account for its carbon footprint. Los Angeles has tried to address its carbon footprint in the past, but the efforts weren’t very successful.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 3, 2018

Postie , a new Los Angeles-based startup, has a vision for the future of advertising and marketing — and it’s direct mail. According to study from the Direct Marketing Association, direct mail campaigns rang up $46 billion from advertisers and companies in 2014, and Fink and his co-founder are hoping that number will climb.

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MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company’s public offering should be a nice windfall for the Chicago-based investors DNS Capital, an investment firm managing the private wealth of the Pritzker family, and Cleveland Avenue, founded by former McDonald’s executive Don Thompson; as well as the venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins and Obvious Ventures.

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JULY 5, 2016

Los Angeles-based technology developer Hyperloop One , which is developing technology to bring Elon Musk's concept of a giant, pneumatic tube to transport people and cargo from city-to-city to life, says it has just released a new study. hour flight between the cities. hour flight between the cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. He studied the errors that other people had made and tried to improve on them.

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APRIL 24, 2013

Los Angeles-based Focus@will , the operator of the music streaming service aimed at helping users become more productive, said today that it has is launching its paid subscription service to consumer tomorrow. The company claims its service helps increase attention span up to 400 percent while working, studying, writing and reading.

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