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SoftBank bets big on a ‘digital Ellis Island’

TechCrunch LA

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s In particular, Hemmat and co-founder Raul Lomeli-Azoubel recognized that access to financial services was crucial to immigrants’ success.

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Down bad

TechCrunch LA

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. Three Arrows Capital, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital.

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Relativity, a new star in the space race, raises $140 million for its 3-D printed rockets

TechCrunch LA

Tagging along for the ride are a motley assortment of millionaires and billionaires, movie stars and media moguls that are providing the money the rocket launch services provider and manufacturer of large-scale, 3-D printers needs to achieve its goals. space industry.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Investors back Pacific Consolidated Holdings to merge leading LA-based liquor and weed delivery companies

TechCrunch LA

Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ” Both Vaughn and his Saucey co-founder Daniel Leeb will take management positions at PCH, and Blumberg Capital and Bullpen will have a large equity stake in the newly formed holding company, Vaughn said. Mangalji said in a statement.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill. We are in phase three of the influencer economy,” Bain Capital Ventures senior principal Jamison Hill, who led the firm’s investment in the influencer shoutout marketplace Cameo , tells TechCrunch. In fact, new funds have launched there with expertise in the category.

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Mark Suster: New, $200M Fund, and GRP's New Name, Upfront Ventures

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Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. Those are all categories we know well. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind. READ MORE>>.

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