TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

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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JULY 15, 2015

On-demand ridesharing service Uber > said late Tuesday that it is launching a new service, uberAssist , in Los Angeles, to help provide an extra hand specifically for seniors and the disabled. Uber said the new program will offer up the same pricing as its uberX service. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

Representatives from the government and the utility managing the power of Los Angeles are proposing a sweeping infrastructure package worth roughly $150 billion centered on the broad electrification of transportation and industry.

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MARCH 29, 2021

Los Angeles-based ChargerHelp, a new startup focused on offering up repair to electric vehicle charging stations, has raised $2.75M in a funding round, the company disclosed on Monday. ChargerHelp said it offers up on-demand repair of EV charging stations, using a local workforce which has been trained on EVSE maintenance.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 17, 2020

DroneBase , a Los Angeles-based provider of drone pilots for industrial services companies, has raised $7.5 While chief executive Dan Burton acknowledged that the company was fundraising prior to the pandemic, the industrial lockdown actually accelerated demand for the company’s services.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

On demand valet parking service ZIRX said today that it has expanded into the Los Angeles area, and will begin offering up its on-demand, valet parking downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica. The startup has previously been offering up its on-demand, valet service in San Francisco and Seattle.

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JULY 17, 2019

Thinkful , a New York company, says it has started accepting applications from people in Los Angeles for its "living stipend" program, which pays students $1500 a month to pay for things like rent, gas, and food while they take the company's technology training--in exchange for a portion of their salaries when they graduate.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

There's a large number of on-demand services which have been appearing recently, to help people deal with almost every aspect of their life. One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. What is Helpr?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Los Angeles-based software company QualityWorks said this week that it is offering up a free, bootcamp for people in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) community, to learn about software testing.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2015

Los Angeles-based health startup Heal (www.getheal.com") has come up with its solution to that problem--a smartphone app driven service, which lets you schedule an on-demand, in-home visit with a doctor, who makes a housecall in less than 60 minutes. I see you're in the Los Angeles area, and now expanding.

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socalTECH

MAY 28, 2015

Los Angeles-based HelloTech (www.hellotech.com) wants to be the service that you refer all of your friends and family to, instead--by offering up low cost, on-demand, in-home technical support. First and foremost, it's an on-demand, in -home technical support service. How does HelloTech work?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

There could be more demand for electric vehicles post COVID-19 crisis, believes Energica founder Livia Cevolini. One of those is greater demand for EVs after the pandemic. Before the health crisis shutdown most of Italy, Energica had already seen larger demand for its high-performance e-motos, with a price range of $17,000 to $23,000.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015

In the latest, "Uber-for-X" startup to emerge in the Los Angeles market, online marketplace Zingy said Wednesday that it has officially launched its on-demand, dog walking service. The startup--led by Tobi Skovron--said its service allows owners to request and book a trained and educated dog walker, to walk their dogs on demand.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For the teams with NSF funding who perform well, there's also regional and national I-Corp training, including a pretty selective training program which goes over 7 weeks, where teams end up interviewing 100 customers to really identify who their customers are. What's the link between the NSF I-Corp and the Viterbi Startup Garage?

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MAY 26, 2015

Los Angeles-based on-demand, in-home tech support and sales service HelloTech , which was founded by AmplifyLA/RealNetworks veteran Richard Wolpert, has raised another $2M, and officially launched its service in Los Aneles.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. One of those areas that combines LA's passion for on-demand apps, and its active lifestyle, is Fitspot (www.fitspotapp.com), which brings athletic trainers to you or your local fitness center. What is Fitspot? How did you start the company?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 9, 2015

A new, Los Angeles-based startup, Zingy , is looking to create a new, online marketplace to connect dog owners with other dog lovers to help walk their dogs. According to Zingy, it has created a new, on-demand pet service which provides dog owners with access to a community of trusted dog walkers. Do you love walking dogs?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

ZUM is already operational in seven counties in California (Bay Area and Orange County) and will be coming soon to Los Angeles. An integral part of why this service makes so much sense is the additional service Zum provides: should a driver arrive at the home and the parents are not there yet, ZUM drivers are also trained nannies.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 6, 2015

Straight outta Austin, MakerSquare has teamed up with coding school collective, Hack Reactor , to open a new campus in LA to help fill the tech talent gap and to provide the area with the necessary talent pool to continue the Los Angeles tech expansion (as a call to action for President Obama’s TechHire initiative).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This morning's interview with an entrepreneur is with Bertrand Patriarca , the CEO of Los Angeles-based startup WashOS (www.washos.com). WashOS runs an on-demand, car washing service. We send our service directly to your place, at home, within 90 minutes, in Los Angeles and Orange County. What does WashOS do?

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DECEMBER 11, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). Think Glendale.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

. “President Biden is calling on Congress to make smart investments in research and development, manufacturing and regional economic development, and in workforce development to give our workers and companies the tools and training they need to compete on the global stage.” Sick of your ISP?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Los Angeles-based Workpop (www.workpop.com) thinks so. There''s a huge demand for a limited supply of employees, in particularly, there a large demand for product developers, and there''s a shortage of experienced people. Reed Shafnner: I think the next step is really focusing on making the product great, in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. We all went to Oakwood High School, in North Hollywood in Los Angeles. The company has raised $1.9M in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I did basic training in San Antonio followed by my technical school in Biloxi, Mississippi. So by July of 2002 I was enlisted and shipping out for basic training. DB: Initially, it was just getting through basic training. Clear communication is a hallmark of a well-trained member of the military. Mostly Skype.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. What we found, if people wanted help finding a job right away, and didn't want to be trained in how to look for a job.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

Oblend is an at-home, on-demand dispensary that gives people the ability to make their own aromatherapies, oils, vapes and more from legal herbal extracts and essential oils within minutes through their app. Bautiful Box will keep your pet entertained while at home and will train it too! We.Stream (Los Angeles, CA).

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. Aaron Robin: Essentially, iExhale is an online, on-demand, wellness and mental health platform. My goal is to help people, but I am not a trained therapist. What's iExhale all about?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2009

However, those trainers usually cost $60 an hour or more--here in Los Angeles, it's $80 plus--and it's structurally very difficult. With FitOrbit, we bring real, one-to-one, human-based personal training and meal planning to the Internet for the first time. It takes an expert to demystify how to get fit and lose weight.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) Anne Fulton: I've always been a technology lover, although I'm an organizational psychologist by training. Plus, we're really ramping up our client success team and sales team to meet the demand in the U.S. How did you start the company? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Hollywood and Silicon Valley converged over coffee at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in West Los Angeles for the Digital Hollywood conference to find out what studios and techies are all buzzing about. To train the audience to understand that watching digital is the same as watching through your DVD player.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Last night I co-hosted a dinner at Soho House in Los Angeles with some of the most senior people in the media industry with executives from Disney, Fox, Warner, media agencies and many promising tech & media startup CEO’s. He created demand. But he was street smart and hustled. On African American Youth?

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socalTECH

JUNE 9, 2014

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? When our Youtube views are driven up, that drives more licensing demand for the video, with other shows interested. The nice thing about those two businesses, is they feed each other nicely.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based HitFix (www.hitfix.com) an online news site focused on entertainment, announced it had raised $2M in a funding round. However, 18-34 year olds have been in high demand by marketers, TV advertisers, and consumer companies as an audience. Investment banking was a great training ground.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

It's a comprehensive program with national sales training, HTML emails, a very cool interactive Flash landing page about the 8 ways to save, brochure and presentation for the sales people, extending reach via social media, etc. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? It launches November 16.

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