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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program

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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.

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Los Angeles-based BuildOps, subcontracting software for real estate, raises $5.8 million

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Software development companies tackling services for niche industries, like commercial real estate subcontracting, continue to find Los Angeles to be fertile ground for development. million in seed financing from some big names in the Los Angeles tech ecosystem.

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India’s Haptik acqui-hires Los Angeles startup Convrg in international expansion push

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Now the five-year-old firm, with newly found significant capital in the bank , is attempting to replicate its success in international markets. On Tuesday, Haptik announced it has acqui-hired Convrg, a Los Angeles-based startup that develops chatbots, to serve customers in North America. You can’t expand in the U.S.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

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Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. TGIF, am I right? You can sign up here. GitHub to sunset master/slave terminology .

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Elementary Robotics raises cash to expand in Los Angeles’ growing robotics hub

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million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6 That was around 2017, when the two first began brainstorming how they would build their company.

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Beyond Meat Expands Footprint In Los Angeles

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El Segundo-based Beyond Meat , which develops plant-based foods which look and taste exactly like real meat, says is in a major expansion in Los Angeles. According to Beyond Meat, it is creating a new 26,000 square foot Innovation Center in Los Angeles, with enough room for more than 100 employees. READ MORE>>.

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Lone View Capital Backs Trend Health Partners

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Los Angeles-based private equity investor Lone View Capital said this morning that it has made an investment in Trend Health Partners, a developer of products in the credit balance management and payment accuracy market. Fnancial details of that investment were not announced.

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