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MAY 25, 2012

In a resounding success for Southern California spaceflight firm SpaceX , the firm's Dragon capsule successfully docked and was bolted to the International Space Station at 12:02 p.m. SpaceX is now well on its way towards it goal of delivering both cargo and astronauts on a regular basis to space for NASA.

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APRIL 26, 2016

A new, microsatellite launch firm--founded by veterans of SpaceX--said today that it has raised more than $1M to launch the startup. Vector Space Systems led by former SpaceX executive Jim Cantrell, said it raised $1M in an angel funding to develop a mirosatellite launch company.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. Busy week for SpaceX – across funding, space tourism, and next-gen spacecraft. Lots of other news, too, including our own: We announced this week that NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is going to be our guest on stage at TC Sessions: Space coming up in June.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket firm run by Elon Musk, has landed a contract to deliver a payload to the moon. According to a Pittsburgh-based aerospace startup, Astrobotic Technology , it has signed a contract with SpaceX to deliver a robotic payload to the moon on the SpaceX Falcon 9. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

At the time they were working from a WeWork in Seattle, during the darkest winter in Seattle history, where Ellis was wrapping up a stint at Blue Origin. “Rockets are the business model now,” Ellis told me last year at the company’s offices at the time, a few hundred feet from SpaceX. Not only can we make rockets.

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 28, 2017

Mobile game hardware startup Wonder raises $14 million, SpaceX to launch final Falcon 9 upgrade this year and Snapchat users can create custom filters in the app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2022

Steve Jobs of Apple may have been the most visible example of this ability to “see around the corner,” but others often mentioned include Richard Branson (Virgin Group), and Elon Musk (SpaceX). People Development Magazine recently listed inspirational leadership (trust) as one of the top three characteristics business leaders must have today.

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MAY 17, 2017

Rocket Lab , a Huntington Beach-based startup developing launch rockets, is hoping to join SpaceX as the second, venture-backed rocket developer in Southern California to reach space with a launch on May 22nd. Rocket Lab, which is led by Peter Beck, started developing its rockets in 2006.

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Culver City-based Parallel Systems, a startup developing autonomous train and transportation technology, said today that it has raised $49.55M in a Series A funding round. The company's founders are engineers from SpaceX, Google, and Tesla. The company's founders are engineers from SpaceX, Google, and Tesla.

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JULY 2, 2021

El Segundo-based Phase Four, which is developing thrusters for satellite propulsion, says it has launched one of its Maxwell engines into space. According to the startup, the engine was launched onboard a Capella Space SAR satellite which went into space on June 30th on a SpaceX launch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 7, 2023

Mauri offers some practical, actionable advice for entrepreneurs who want to develop a leader’s mindset, on how to spread the right message to potential customers, as well as investors. Take a hard look at SpaceX or HyperLoop. Develop a learn-fast mindset to seek the latest and the future.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Elon Musk , the technology mogul behind SpaceX and Tesla Motors , is gearing up to develop a new startup, to launch its own constellation of satellites to deliver Internet access. Photo of an earlier SpaceX satellite launch. elon musk spacex satellite launch communications constellation' READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 13, 2020

Every radical turn in technology history has its great entrepreneur, and for space that person is SpaceX founder Elon Musk. In 2018 alone, venture investments in space topped $2 billion for the first time, and 187 investors wrote checks to 90 startups, according to Bryce Space and Technology. Air Force and, of course, SpaceX. .

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DECEMBER 19, 2008

Hawthorne-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the commercial spaceflight startup headed by ex-PayPal founder Elon Musk, has named a new president the firm said this week. SpaceX said that Gwynne Shotwell has been named as President, reporting to Musk. The firm is venture backed by The Founders Fund and Elon Musk.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Elon Musk , the technology mogul behind SpaceX and Tesla Motors, has posted the first photo of the secret tunnel system he's digging under Los Angeles. Musk posted the photo of the tunnel--under construction by one of his startups, The Boring Company --which currently is being dug underneath SpaceX's headquarters.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Los Angeles-based First Resonance, a startup developing what it calls a "factory operating system" designed for hardware companies for use in their manufacturing operations, says it has raised a new round of funding. The company said the new funding will go to expand its team and support continued development of its platform.

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MARCH 4, 2009

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the space launch vehicle startup funded by PayPal founder Elon Musk, said Wednesday afternoon that it has hired on a new Vice President of Business Development. According to SpaceX, it has appointed Rob Peckham, former President and General Manager of Sea Launch, to the position. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Already a major hub for the space and aerospace startup industry, with companies like SpaceX, Relativity Space, Virgin Orbit, Rocket Lab, Phase Four, and others calling Los Angeles home, the new accelerator will provide another booster for LA’s growing startup scene. billion over the last year.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 25, 2022

Now it’s picking up some funding along with an endorsement Europe to further its growth. The startup has received €50 million (just under $57 million at today’s rates) from the European Investment Bank, the funding arm of the European Union. People order Starship deliveries via the startup’s iOS and Android apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. By definition?—?I’m two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Vector Launch , a startup which was developing rockets for small satellite launches which had its engineering headquarters in Huntington Beach, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and will sell some of its assets to Lockheed Martin, according to legal filings from the firm on Friday. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2009

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the commercial rocket startup funded and headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk, racked up its first commercial satellite launch late Monday evening, and delivered a Maylasian satellite into orbit. SpaceX launched its Falcom 1 rocket at 8:35 pm from the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Los Angeles-based Relativity , a space launch startup which is developing automation technology designed to automate construction of rockets, said on Thursday that it has signed a deal for a launch site at Cape Canaveral. Relativity is venture backed by Playground Global, Y Combinator, Social Capital, Phillip Spector, and Mark Cuban.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based startup Emotive, which develops conversational text messaging software, said this morning that it has raised $50M in its Series B funding round. Wald was previously at SalesLoft and Salesforce, and Pylnev was formerly at Honest Company and SpaceX. The company said the funding brings its valuation to $400M.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

Southern California's spaceflight industry has come together to enable a new startup, Stratolaunch , backed by Paul G. That vehicle will use a multi-stage booster, developed by SpaceX, the commercial rocket firm of tech mogul Elon Musk, to launch large payloads into space. Allen, the Microsoft billionaire.

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MARCH 10, 2016

HTT, like similarly named Los Angeles startup Hyperloop Technologies, is also working on developing similar technology, as is a team from SpaceX, which is building a Hyperloop test track in Hawthorne , although SpaceX says it is not developing a commercial Hyperloop itself. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

As an angel investor in startups, I always look for this self-confidence, no matter how innovative the solution. You must always stick up for yourself, just like you would for your best friend. Use acceptance, forgiveness, and compassion, to keep up your confidence. Always be your own best (and most honest) friend.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Vernon-based Romeo Power , a new startup focused on developing battery-based, energy storage, has raised $30M in a seed funding round. The company is developing cylindrical, Lithium-ion battery packs for use both in electric cars, trucks, buses, and forklifts, as well as for energy storage. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 25, 2017

Huntington Beach-basd Rocket Lab , a startup developing small satellite launch vehicles, says it successfully launched its first Electron rocket into space. Rocket Lab is now officially the second, private space rocket startup in the Los Angeles area to reach space, joining space rocket veteran SpaceX.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Demographics at funds and startups will also be under the microscope, since signatories have agreed to report on their composition by race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability status, immigration status, veteran status, educational attainment, socioeconomic origin, tenure at a firm. for technology investment and corporate development.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

Startups across the nation and around the world are looking for ways to relieve shortages of much-needed personal protective equipment and sanitizers used to halt the spread of COVID-19. ” Against this backdrop local startups and maker spaces are stepping up to do what they can to fill the gap.

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MAY 30, 2012

In another, big step this week for Southern California's startup space vehicle industry, Virgin Galactic , the Sir Richard Branson-backed effort to commercialize sub-orbital flight vehicles for space tourism, said Wednesday that it has been granted an experimental launch permit from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Thursday morning.

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JULY 18, 2017

The list of technology startups in Southern California who are "unicorns"--valued at more than $1 billion--surprisingly, might not be who you think, and in the sectors you might expect. SpaceX (www.spacex.com). SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, is now worth between $12 billion and $15 billion, according to multiple reports.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

The thesis is that before investing in an early-stage startup it is close to impossible to know which of the deals you did will break out to the upside. In the current market it’s not that hard to find executives leaving: Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Snap, Salesforce.com, SpaceX … you name it?—?to to start their next company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The best and most successful entrepreneurs, such as Elon Musk , known for PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors, routinely work hundred-hour weeks, but never complain about the hours, and don’t even think of their activities as work. Everyone develops a sense of what activities build their energy, and which ones drain energy from them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Whether you are a business professional in a big company, or an entrepreneur with a startup, innovation is a key strategy. Developing the ideal product the first time around is unlikely, high risk, and very expensive in today’s chaotic market. Everyone has ideas, but only a few can make them happen.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Using its proprietary printing technology, Relativity says it can slash the time it takes to develop a rocket from design to launch by up to two years. It also doesn’t hurt that the company has developed sophisticated manufacturing technologies that have terrestrial applications, if the rocket business fails to take off.

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