TechCrunch LA
APRIL 12, 2018
Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 17, 2019
Other quotable notables : With the rise of autonomous delivery bots — or at least news of all the capital they’re raising — it’s worth revisiting a white paper that KPMG put out in November called Autonomy Delivers: An oncoming revolution in the movement of goods. Volkswagen Group. Daimler-Bosch.
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socalTECH
JULY 30, 2015
We spoke with Dr. Renee Dua , founder of Heal, about the startup, which is venture backed by Slow Ventures, March Capital and Pritzker Capital, along with angels Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm); James Lassiter (Overbrook Entertainment); Stephen Rader (Clarity Partners); Jamie McCourt; Lionel Richie; and Mike Wortsman (Univision).
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Funds like First Round Capital, True Ventures, Foundry Group, HomeBrew, USV and many others are still run by the founders and are still on the mission they started.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 10, 2012
We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe. Big venture capital firms are only interesting in big plays. Our product has gone to China, Taiwan, Australia, and Europe. They all have slightly different connectors and standards.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2012
In LA companies used to be concentrated near Pasadena or in the San Fernando Valley. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. In San Fran you find more recently established VCs like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle, Kii Capital and others.
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