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Envoy Picks Up $11M For On Demand Electric Vehicle Access

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Los Angeles-based Envoy , which operates a service which makes on-demand electric vehicles available as an amenity at apartments, hotels, and workplaces, has raised $11M in a Series A funding round. Envoy was co-foudned and is led by CEO Aric Ohana.

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An LA-led, public-private partnership pitches a $150B green infrastructure package to Congress

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All of that charging infrastructure and grid upgrades are in part designed to help meet the increased power demands that the proposal expects to bring onto the grid through another $25 billion in government funding for electric vehicles of all types.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Melani Gordon , Taphunter (San Diego, mobile apps).

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Favor Plans Expansion Into San Diego, Gets $13M

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Favor , a on-demand, mobile delivery app developer, said today that it will be expanding into San Diego in the coming months, thanks to a new, $13M funding round. Favor was part of the SLO HotHouse incubator/accelerator. READ MORE>>. favor diego uber startup delivery hothouse'

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Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day

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StartEngine's Demo Day launched BedAbroad (international student housing marketplace); CARBON 38 (online luxury fitness destination for women; Smilu (cross-platform, multiplayer video games); WhereMyDogsAt (mobile social networking for dog owners); Ember (demand side, real-time bidding for online video advertising); Osurv (mobile research and surveys), (..)

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

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These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. Specifically, the proposal calls for funding for community-based small business incubators and innovation hubs to support growth in communities of color and underserved communites.

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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

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In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

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