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AUGUST 21, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy has recently launched into the market, with an on-demand, car wash service--currently serving the west side. The startup is led by Andrew Davis. The company is currently self funded. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media announced this morning that it will be pursuing 26, new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs), as the ICANN opens up expansion of the Internet domain name space. The group has decided to open up new gTLDs, beyond the common.com and.net and other extensions, to practically dot-anything.

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MARCH 26, 2015

Santa Monica-based HONK , the on-demand, roadside assistance app startup led by Corey Brundage, said this morning that it has raised $12M in a Series A funding round. Honk offers up guaranteed upfront pricing on those services, and does not require a membership.

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JULY 25, 2019

In a battle that pits a small, San Diego startup against a fleet of on-demand scooter companies--including Santa Monica-based B‏ird , Lime, Lyft, LA's Wheels , and many others-- ScootScoop is causing major headaches by impounding thousands of scooters around San Diego.

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OCTOBER 18, 2016

Santa Monica-based Heal , the on-demand doctor's house call startup, said this morningg that it has raised $26.9M Heal lets users request in-home, on demand visits from doctors, who the startup says can do anything a patient might require in a traditional doctor's visit. in a Series A funding.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Venice, California-based Vetted , a new startup offering up on-demand, veterinary services at your home, has raised $3.47M in seed funding, the company disclosed this week. The company--which is currently headquartered at Amplify LA--currently only offers up its services in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based Squeegy , an on-demand, car wash service, said Wednesday that it has officially launched its service in Los Angeles. The startup, led by Andrew Davis, let users request a car wash from their mobile app, anywhere within Squeegy's service area. Squeegy's on-demand app currently runs only on iOS.

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AUGUST 8, 2010

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the online media firm run by Richard Rosenblatt, has finally filed for its long awaited IPO. According to the firm's filing, filed late Friday, the firm is looking to raised up to $125M in its IPO. According to Demand's IPO filing, the firm had a net loss of $6.00M on revenues of $114.0M

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JUNE 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based Heal , an on-demand startup offering up access to house calls from doctors via smartphone, has raised $5M in a seed funding round, the company announced this morning.

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JANUARY 23, 2015

Luxe Valet , a new, on-demand valet parking app startup, has expanded into Los Angeles, saying that it will offer up its valet parking service to users in Santa Monica, Downtown LA and Venice. a day for the service. a day for the service. Luxe says its team comes from companies such as Groupon, Tesla, Yahoo!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

A new, Santa Monica-based startup, Future Acres, is announcing this morning that it is targeting the agriculture industry with a new robot. The startup--which is crowdfunding its efforts--claims it is developing an agricultural robot which will "optimize workforce efficiency and safety".

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APRIL 15, 2020

According to Wavemaker 360, the fund focuses on healthcare start-ups seeking seed-stage investment, and importantly avoids biotech. According to Wavemaker 360, the launch of Fund II is ahead of schedule as a result of a "surge in demand for all-things-healthcare-innovation". Size of the new fund was not announced.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

Santa Monica-based Vet On Demand announced a new, on-demand pet health app for iOS and Android this morning, which lets pet owners get remote, consultations from veterinarians.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. What is Demand Media doing nowadays? Our whole goal is to create content for real life.

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JULY 11, 2019

Despite public pronouncements about big expansion plans today , Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter startup Bird is reportedly burning through cash, and is now seeking $300M more in funding, according to a report published on Thursday.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based on-demand, scooter startup Bird has rolled out an upgrade to its scooters, saying last week that it has launched the Bird Two , a new scooter that includes 50 percent more battery, self-reporting damage sensors, and other new features.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental startup Bird has backed off on legal threats against a local, LA journalist, Cory Doctorow, after widespread outroar over what was perceived as a censorship threat , saying that the company's legal team "overreached" in issuing a takedown letter.

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JUNE 6, 2019

According to an unconfirmed report on Wednesday, Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental startup Bird is in the midst of talks to acquire another, on-demand scooter company, Scoot. The deal has not yet closed, and financial details of the potential effort were unclear.

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JULY 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based Demand Media , the well funded Internet content startup headed by Richard Rosenblatt, the former chairman of MySpace, has acquired the domain name Demand.com. Demand Media acquired the domain name from Phoenix-based inter123, a firm owned by Jeffrey Peterson, former founder of Quepasa.com.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Santa Monica-based Sweep , a startup which is focused on cleanup and maintenance of the many scooters from Bird, Lime, Spin, and others, said this week it's looking to create a nationwide network of e-scooter logistics hubs.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Santa Monica-based on-demand scooter rental startup Bird is in the midst of raising $300M more in a funding round, according to a report on Wednesday. The report said the funding, led by Fidelity, is an extension to Bird's latest funding, and will be at a $2 bilion pre-money valuation.

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JULY 31, 2013

Santa Monica-based online advertising firm YieldMetrics has renamed itself Adomic , as part of a rebranding effort, the firm said today. The startup, which is backed by Upfront Ventures (which also just went through a renaming effort, from GRP Partners), did not say exactly why it decided to rename itself. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Santa Monica-based Tuition.io , the startup which helps employers offer up student loan repayment assistance as part of their employee benefits, has named Bobby Wall as Vice President of Engineering at the company. Wall was previously co-founder and CTO of on-demand laundry startup Washio. Tuition.io

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. It's unclear. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Santa Monica-based Heal , the startup which provides on-demand, doctor house calls to patients, has raised $14.8M Heal lets users schedule an on-demand, house call visit, where most of a typical visit to the doctor's office can be accomplished. Presidential Candidate, Richard Gephardt, to its board of directors.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Lyft's app--which works with both iPhone and Android--lets users offer rides to people on-demand, at what it says is a "fraction of the cost" of a cab. The service has been only available previously in San Francisco, but said it will now start serving trips in Santa Monica, Venice and West L.A.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Santa Monica-based scooter startup Bird has gone back to the well once more, and has raised a big, $275M Series D funding round, the company said on Thursday. Bird--which offers a smartphone-driven, on-demand scooter service which is now ubiquitous among U.S. billion pre-money valuation.

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The number of Southern California related initial public offerings is growing steadily upwards, as Gevo --originally started in Pasadena, and based on technology out of Caltech and UCLA--hit the market this morning. Gevo is just the latest in a surge of companies hitting the public markets which have Southern California links.

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JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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JULY 8, 2019

Scooters from Santa Monica-based Bird are among the many on-demand, last mile scooters which have been trashed by a sudden flash flood in Washington, DC this morning. The sudden flash flood emergency dropped more than 4 inches of rain in less than an hour, resulted in a snarled commute and multiple water rescues.

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MARCH 26, 2015

Santa Monica-based WhipClip , the content discovery startup which was co-founded by former Demand Media founder Richard Rosenblatt, debuted its mobile app today , looking to help users create, share, and find music and television video clips. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2015

Santa Monica-based TaskUs , the startup led by Bryce Maddock which is the secret weapon behind the rising tide of on-demand and Internet startups, has raised $15M in a funding round, the company disclosed today. The funding came from Phillipnes-based private equity investor Navegar.

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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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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

One of the on-demand, parking services that serves Los Angeles Zirx , said this morning that it is specifically looking to solve those issues for companies, with the launch of a new service. In fact, at least two of ZIRX's initial customers for the on-demand parking--Live Nation and Insomiac--are in the LA area.

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JULY 6, 2011

In a sign that demand for employees from Southern California technology firms is on the rise, two, separate announcements Wednesday from local companies indicates that hiring demand at local companies is up, and companies are again scrambling to fill positions.

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