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Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. Andrew spoke to us about TrackStreet's brand protection software and artificial intelligence efforts.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Jakob vanZyl , the founder and CEO of Hydrosat , one of the companies to emerge out of the 2019 Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator, died last Wednesday , after suffering from a heart attack on August 24th. VanZyl previously had served at NASA's Jet Propulation Laboratory, and was involved in the Juno, Dawn, Cassini, InSight Mars lander, Mars 2020 Perserverance, and other missions.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Huntington Beach-based Rocket Lab has returned to flight, successfully launching a new payload into space on Sunday. The company's "I Can't Believe It's Not Optical" flight launched from Rocket Lab's New Zealand launchpad at 8:05PM PDT, placing a satellite payload for Capella Space into orbit. The launch is the first for the company after a failure caused the loss of a payload on July 4th.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Santa Monica-based Graze , a new startup backed by Wavemaker Partners, said this morning that it has launched a new, robotic lawn mower targeted at the commercial market. According to the company, it is aiming at launching its fully autonomous, electric lawn mower by 2021. The company says its product is aimed at mowing large sized commercial lawns, and includes such features as GPS based mapping, computer vision, and machine learning capabilities.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Los Angeles-based The Skills , a new startup offering up subscription-based "life lessons" from celebrity athletes, launched today, saying that it is backed by Maveron, Global Founders Capital, and 8VC. The company--which did not disclose how much funding it has received--offers up subscriptions to "life lessons" from such athletes as Maria Sharapova, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Dashawn Jordan, Rachel Adams, Michael Phelps, Shaun White, and many others.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Redlands, California-based GIS giant Esri --well known for powering many of the dashboards tracking the global COVID-19 pandemic--has rolled out a new tool to help people in the United States figure out how they are doing, compared with the rest of the nation. The new Esri CovidPulse tool allows the public, as well as decision makers, to track county-by-county data on COVID-19 pandemic trends.

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