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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

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.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

TechCrunch LA

.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. Deal of the week. Take bike share.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. And it’s not just the movement from Palo Alto to San Francisco. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

When you’re on Fund I or Fund II it is often a founding team that all started together, knew each other before and went through the trenches together to get a fund raised. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London. So Silicon Valley massively shifted to San Francisco.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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So we supply that equipment to manufacturers, and to independent testing labs who are testing those cars and charging station, and to customers like the Department of Energy, Argonne National Labs, and others. We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe.

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