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SpaceX alumni are helping build LA’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Instead, several former SpaceX employees have launched a raft of new companies, capturing the imagination and dollars of some of the biggest names in venture capital. Perhaps the most successful SpaceX offshoot is Relativity Space , founded by Jordan Noone and Tim Ellis. ” . .

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Silicon Beach Report Dec. 30: Core Innovation Capital Raises $71.5M for Financial Tech Investments

L.A. Business Journal

Core Innovation Capital raises $71.5 million for financial tech investments, SpaceX loads Falcon 9 for launch, and DirecTV to end $35 a month streaming service.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t. What Has Changed in Financing? dot-com bonanza.

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

TechCrunch LA

PledgeLA initiative grew out of a series of problem-solving sessions within the Los Angeles venture capital community. Neither Snap, SpaceX, nor Tesla appear on the list of companies willing to participate in the diversity pledge. Nonetheless, diverse talent remains vastly underrepresented in the workforce of the local tech sector.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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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7 Technology Entrepreneur Examples You Should Emulate

Startup Professionals Musings

By most definitions of the term, an entrepreneur is someone who starts a new business, incorporating innovative changes to existing products, services, business models, and creating new markets. All of them have created massive new capital, be it financial or technological, social or spiritual. What does it take to get to that level?

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