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Long Beach To Gain New, 400MWh Energy Storage System

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The City of Long Beach will be the site of a new, 400 megawatt-hour battery-based energy storage system , as part of Southern California Edison's (SCE) support of California's clean energy efforts, according to power plant operator AES Alamitos.

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SpinLaunch Finds $35M For Orbital Launch Systems, Expansion In Long Beach

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Long Beach-based SpinLaumch , a space startup working on oribal launch systems which use a kinetic launch system to deliver payloads into space from the ground using a mass acceleration system, has raised $35M more, the company said on Thursday afternoon. The company is targeting the small satellite launch industry with its products.

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Startups Win $25,000 In CSULB Challenge

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Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach. According to Sunstone Management, four teams from the colleges of health and human services, business and engineering participated in the finals.

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Dray Alliance Finds $3.5M For Short Haul Logistics

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Los Angeles-based Dray Alliance , a startup focused on on-demand, short haul container delivery, has raised $3.5M The company says it provides AI enabled rate quoted for intermodal and drayage for freight forwarders and import/export shipper, and has thousands of drivers or drayage trucking companies in Los Angeles & Long Beach.

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Sweep Eyes Nationalwide Electric Scooter Maintenance, Logistics

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The startup, led by CEO Rich Banning, is harnessing an "on-demand" workforce to sweep up scooters from the streets, for inventory checks, and also says it has specialized mechanics working on maintenance of the scooers. Sweep says it already has operations in Long Beach, Denver, Detroit, Washinton, D.C., READ MORE>>.

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ChargerHelp raises $2.75M to keep EV chargers working

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an on-demand repair app for electric vehicle charging stations, has seen these issues firsthand. Demand for ChargerHelp’s service has attracted customers and investors. While ChargerHelp is couched as an on-demand repair app, it is also acts as a preventative maintenance service for its customers. Powering up.

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Postmates’ newest feature is like Uber POOL for food delivery

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The feature is now available in Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Calif., Postmates Party is the latest innovation in on-demand delivery that will help us deliver on this vision,” Postmates CEO and co-founder Bastian Lehmann said in a statement. cities in which it currently operates. and Philadelphia.