socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Los Angeles- and New York-based 3L Capital , a new venture capital investment fund co-founded by former Demand Media CEO Shawn Colo, has raised $217M in a new investment round, the firm said today. The startup investor has already been busy making investments in Los Angeles area startups, and already has investments ChowNow , TYT , SnackNation , along with TheRealReal, 101 Commerce, Wheels, and others.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 8, 2019
Westwood-based growth equity investment firm 3L Capital announced July 8 it raised a $217 million equity fund to continue investing in local companies.
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socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Mojave-based Virgin Galactic , the space tourism venture led by Richard Branson, is looking to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), called Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp. , according to the WSJ. The paper, citing "people familiar with the matter", says Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings would invest roughly $800M in Virgin Galactic for a 49 percent stake in the company, and create what will be the first, publicly traded space tourism company.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 8, 2019
NASA awarded Hawthorne-based SpaceX a $50.3 million contract to launch three space telescopes in 2021.
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socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has scored a $50.3M contract to launch a NASA probe to study black holes and neutron stars. According to NASA, the award covers both launch services and other mission-related costs for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). NASA explained the IXPE will measure polarized X-rays from objects, such as black holes and neutron stars to better understand these types of cosmic phenomena and extreme environments.
Xconomy
JULY 8, 2019
[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] Bob Metcalfe co-invented Ethernet, the communications standard still used for most local on-site networking, but Radia Perlman made it work.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 8, 2019
Most people agree that entrepreneurs have to think differently and take risks to have much chance of building a successful business. Yet I have found that serious entrepreneurs usually go way beyond these platitudes in their actions and thinking, and often won’t volunteer their real views, for fear of alienating “regular” people, and being branded a fanatic.
socalTECH
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. It's unclear how much damage Bird incurred in the severe weather; the cost of keeping Bird's scooters on the road has emerged as a major problem for Bird.
L.A. Business Journal
JULY 8, 2019
3L Capital gains $217 million; SpaceX Starlink rivaled by Amazon; BBC invests in Quibi
socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Los Angeles-based health messaging startup Curogram , a new startup developing a web-based, SMS app for the healthcare market, has been selected as a finalist for the Publicis Health Media Disruption Garage Competition, according to the company. Curogram says it has developed an all in one texting and HIPAA-secure messaging platform for independent practices, physician groups, and radiologists, which allows for communications between doctors and patients.
Xconomy
JULY 8, 2019
[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] Right alongside Moore’s Law, which describes the exponential growth in computing power since the 1960s, there’s Metcalfe’s Law, which describes what we’ve done with all that power: namely, use it to connect the world.
socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Los Angeles-based Hawke Media , which provides social marketing and other services, says it has named a "Preferred Agency Partner" for Facebook. Hawke says the partnership gives it access "advanced tools, resources, training and support" among other resources. The company said it had to "demonstrate consistent success in driving results and scaling campaigns for clients over several years" to be named to the program.
StartUp Beat
JULY 8, 2019
Headlines will have you believe the Silicon Valley of tomorrow is blossoming in the Midwest , Los Angeles or even Medellin , Colombia. It is exciting to speculate where the next tech center of the world could be, however, as companies rely more on distributed teams, the next Silicon Valley might be less tangible than we think. According to a Twitter conversation between Andreas Klinger , Head of Remote at Angle List and a recent speaker at Running Remote , and Angle List co-founder Naval Ravikan
socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Perforce Software , a developer of software used by developers to manage their software source control and DevOps--which is backed by Santa Monica-based Clearlake Capital Group--has scored a new round of funding, the company announced this morning. The company, based in Minneapolis, said the funding came from private equity investor Francisco Partners, and also included Clearlake Capital Group.
socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Los Angeles-based Wana Family Network , which operates a service which lets familys "swap" babysitting services with each other, has acquired Komae , an Ohio-based competitor. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Wana Family Network, led by founder and CEO Erin Beck, says that the acquisition adds over 19,000 families to its community, plus a set of mobile apps.
socalTECH
JULY 8, 2019
Amazon is quickly moving forward on its plans to challenge Hawthorne-based SpaceX in the race to providing high speed Internet across the globe, saying in an FCC filing last week that it hopes to launch 3,236 satellites as part of its own satellite network. According to Amazon, its "Project Kuiper" project would connect tens of millions of people throughout the world.
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