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Emotive Finds $50M In Series B

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Motive provides conversational text messaging used by e-commerce brands to simulate human interaction with customers, with the aim of preventing cart abandonment, promote new sales and product releases, and more. Wald was previously at SalesLoft and Salesforce, and Pylnev was formerly at Honest Company and SpaceX.

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RivetAI Targets Hollywood With AI Tools

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Los Angeles-based RivetAI hopes it can, saying Thursday that it has launched to apply artificial intelligence technology to help assist storytellers in planning and producing content. The startup's CEO is Debajyoti Ray, former CTO of End Cue and Caltech AI Ph.D.; READ MORE>>.

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

TechCrunch LA

The new financing will give Relativity the cash to fully build its “Stargate” factory, a semi-autonomous, full-scale production facility that will house the company’s massive 3-D printers and produce its first rocket, the Terran 1. “We’re really really truly focused on the rockets for now,” says Ellis.

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Free Yourself at the UnCubed Startup Job Festival

Tech Zulu Event

Chris Johnson and his partner Tarek Pertew were once startup guys who founded a software company in New York, but within one year they lost their CTO three times. 30+ of L.A’s most impressive emerging companies on display with interactive booths staffed by Founders, CEO’s, CTO’s and other key influencers. technology sector.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA. When we ship product. But would you expect Apple to reveal its product details before launching? We will do that.