Clean Tech Startup Mote Unveils Plans for $100M Carbon Capture Plant
L.A. Business Journal
JANUARY 3, 2022
There’s a new local entrant in the global decarbonization race: Culver City-based cleantech startup Mote Inc.
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L.A. Business Journal
JANUARY 3, 2022
There’s a new local entrant in the global decarbonization race: Culver City-based cleantech startup Mote Inc.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 1, 2019
Culver City-based social networking startup Sgrouples Inc., doing business as MeWe, announced it raised $4.5 million in a venture round, bringing its total funding to $15 million since launching in 2012.
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socalTECH
DECEMBER 5, 2018
FactoryFour , a startup which developing software to enable custom production of industrial goods, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, and set up shop in Culver City. The startup's Series A funding was led by August Capital, and also included existing investor Refactor Capital.
L.A. Business Journal
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Culver City-based ecommerce software and data company Assembly has joined L.A.’s s tech startup unicorn club.
TechCrunch LA
AUGUST 27, 2020
Los Angeles was always more than a one-industry town, even when it comes to technology startups, as media and entertainment (and social networking) were always the big draws in Tinseltown. Fastly is also setting up a $50 million retention pool of restricted stock units to give out to Signal Sciences employees.
L.A. Business Journal
MARCH 22, 2021
Culver City-based startup Openpath Security Inc. has been developing mobile-based door lock systems since 2016.
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 29, 2013
This month TechZulu is heading to NextSpace Coworking in Culver City! For those unfamiliar, held the last Friday of every month, TechZulu Final Fridays (#TZFF) are a creative blend between mentorship, networking event, startup showcase, and community celebration. Startups Apply FREE Here. When: August 23, 2013.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 17, 2012
Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. This is the list I would start with.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 22, 2019
celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, and the startup has quickly grown from a six-person operation in a Venice apartment to a 150-strong workforce rapidly outgrowing office space. Web security firm Signal Sciences Corp.
socalTECH
JULY 17, 2014
The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
Culver City- and Seattle-based Indi Molecular , a startup developing a synthetic replacement for antibodies, has raised $1.5M Caltech professor Jim Heath is a co-founder and board member of the startup, and the company has also licensed technology from the Scripps Research Institute. in a seed funding round. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 7, 2018
s MeWe, a Culver City social network startup that calls itself an alternative to Facebook Inc., Sgrouples Inc.’s announced July 5 it had raised $5.2 million in Series A fundraising.
socalTECH
JANUARY 17, 2013
The last few years in Los Angeles has been a heady one for the technology startup community, with hundreds of new startups, and a tangible enthusiasm in the air along Silicon Beach. They've also become a de-facto gathering place for the local community, hosting events, meetings, and more. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
MARCH 4, 2013
Ridesharing app SideCar is the latest, peer-to-peer, smartphone-driven, ridesharing app to debut in Los Angeles, letting people find drivers willing to give them a ride around the city. The company--which also has operations in San Francisco, Seattle, Austin and Philadelphia--is run locally by City Manager Drew Crofton.
socalTECH
MAY 30, 2013
Calacanis announced Thursday that he has started a new, co-working space called LAUNCH co-work , which will support a dozen startups in a 10,000+ square foot space in Culver City. The new coworking space will accept at most 6 employees at a startup, depending on category. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
JANUARY 17, 2013
NextSpace , the co-working space developer which has locations in Culver City and Venice, announced this morning that it has raised $825,000 more in a funding round, to go towards expansion in Northern California.
socalTECH
JULY 1, 2013
FIGS , a Culver City startup offering up fashionable medical scrubs, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The round came from Crocs, Mohr Davidow Ventures, 500 Startups, Karlin Ventures, as well as others.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 19, 2019
celebrates its fifth anniversary this year, and the startup has quickly grown from a six-person operation in a Venice apartment to a 150-strong workforce rapidly outgrowing office space. Web security firm Signal Sciences Corp.
socalTECH
JULY 26, 2011
Culver City-based ThinkNear , a new startup focused on helping local merchants reach consumers with mobile, location-based ads, said today that it has raised $1.6M in a seed funding round.
socalTECH
JULY 11, 2017
According to Soylent, it started offering up its "nutritionally complete, ready-to-drink meals" at 18 of 7-Eleven's stores in the Greater Los Angeles area on Monday, including a number of locations across Los Angeles, plus Santa Monica, Culver City, Venice, and elsewhere.
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
LA saw its first big enterprise exit in recent memory with the recent acquisition of Signal Sciences for $775 million, and less than a month later a hometown startup, Britive has raised $5.4 LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 12, 2012
The idea, according to the LACMII, is to use city-owned parcels to create community spaces and working environments to enable startups and businesses in those areas, using "tech-friendly amenties" to attract starutps to those locations. The group also said it plans to launch a new program called the Edge.LA
socalTECH
JANUARY 22, 2018
Culver City-based PacketFabric , a startup working on connecting major, carrier-neutral colocation facilities with terabit-scale network technology, has raised $25M in a Series B funding, according to the company. According to PacketFabric, it now has a presence at more than 150 Points of Presence (PoPs) in 17 metro markets.
socalTECH
AUGUST 16, 2012
The video, shot as a promotion for the firm's sedans, looks like it's one of several the firm started posting in the last month. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
APRIL 5, 2013
Culver City-based Fullscreen , which operates a multi-channel youTube network, and is led by George Strompolos (formerly of YouTube/Google), has raised $30M in a new round of funding, according to reports today. The funding round reportedly values the company at $110M pre-money. The funding comes from The Chernin Group and Comcast.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
A new, Culver City-based startup, theAmplify , said this morning that it has launched a new, Instgram video ad service, aimed at helping brands create video content to distribute through Instagram. theAmplify said its service and tool combines tools and technology with services as a "Instagram agency".
socalTECH
DECEMBER 10, 2013
Culver City-based Indi Molecular , a developer of synthetic replacements for antibodies, announced Tuesday that it has raised $300,000 more in its seed funding, bringing the total raised in the round to $1.8M. lifescience capital venture startup biology synthetic molecular indi indidx' READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
Chan, will fund a professor at the intersection of engineering and medicine, specifically focused on computer science, mobile vision, or robotics. Exact amount of the endowment was not announced. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
Two, Southern California startups -- whole home music system developer Sonos , and streaming music service Beats Music -- made their Super Bowl commercial debuts yesterday, an unusual occasion for the startup community here. turbotax startup hulu crackle seinfeld debut commercial bowl super superbowl sonos music beats'
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
To make it easier to find new people and connect with new friends, he thought he's start his own company to help solve that issue. I had been involved with a couple of startups in the past, mostly in the hard sciences, biotech, and hardware area. What is Hyphos? Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform.
socalTECH
MARCH 24, 2010
mobileStorm's effort--an attempt to spur company spirit--ranks with last year's effort by Culver City-based Fonality and its employee "Fight Club" in terms of non-conventional company spirit and morale efforts. Tags: mobilestorm tattoo tornado company spirit mobile marketing startup. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
The founders of Crackle , the online streaming video and movie site owned by Culver City-based Sony Pictures Entertainment , have announced a new venture capital fund. According to Josh Felser and Dave Samuel, the founders of Crackle, they have started a new venture fund called Freestyle Capital , with $27M in a Fund I close.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 3, 2013
The Bay Area startup said the funding was led by Sequoia Capital, and also included Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Kapor Capital, along with angels. Good Eggs , an online, local grocery delivery service which has been piloting its services in Los Angeles, has raised $8.5M READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
JULY 31, 2014
Los Angeles-based Privlo , a technology driven startup offering up mortgage loans to consumers, said this week that it has raised $350M in a debt financing round, along with $3.8M The company is in the midst of moving from Culver City to Pasadena. The company is led by Michael Slavin. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 26, 2017
Culver City-based Envoy Technologies a startup developing programs to help make electric vehicles available to disadvantaged communities, has received $1.5M in funding from the California Energy Commission, according to the company.
socalTECH
JULY 2, 2012
Culver City-based Maker Studios , the startup which is one of the biggest producers of content for YouTube, said Friday that it has inked a content development deal with hip-hop star Snoop Dogg. Maker said that the two will develop a slate of exclusive programming for Snoop Dog's YouTube channel, WestFestTV.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Two Southern California startups, Ortiva Wireless and Fonality , are among 18 companies which Intel said it has funded, to the tune of $77M in total venture investments. Fonality is based in Culver City. The investment in Ortiva is a new one for Intel, and the investment in Fonality is a follow-on investment.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
Culver City-based nonprofit XPRIZE announced the ten finalists for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE today, picking teams from across the world to compete for $10M for developing a handheld device to monitor patient vital signs--ala the Star Trek "tricorder". READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
AUGUST 21, 2015
Squeegy--which says it uses an eco-friendly method of washing cars, which saves around 40-100 gallons of water per car wash--lets users from Santa Monica to Westchester and East to Culver City order up an on-demand car wash, starting at $29.00--all requested via the company's iPhone app. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
APRIL 30, 2009
Most companies, when they're looking to raise company morale, might set up a company picnic, Friday night beer bash, or maybe go on a ski trip. Instead, the executives over at Culver City-based Fonality decided on something different: a full blown, mixed-martial arts (MMA) tournament between its employees.
socalTECH
AUGUST 7, 2014
Culver City-based ALL DEF DIGITAL , a startup which says it will be delivering comedy, music, news, poetry and innovative artistry to consumers, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company said late Wednesday. As part of the funding, Greycroft''s Mark Terbeek joins the company''s board of directors.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 7, 2010
The mobileStorm tattoo program joins other interesting, employee motivation programs at local companies such as the "Fight Club" set up last year by Culver City-based Fonality, where it put on a mixed martial arts (MMA) tournament between its employees. Tags: startup promotion logo tattoo mobilestorm. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 8, 2010
Santa Monica-based Factual , the open dataset and API provider started by Gil Elbaz, announced this evening that it has raised $25M in a first round of funding. Factual is the latest startup of Gil Elbaz, who co-founded Applied Semantics, the firm which developed Google's AdSense product.
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