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Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing

TechCrunch LA

Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion, the unveiling was simply the latest in a string of demonstrations for new technologies commercialized by his nearly three-decade old startup company incubator.

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Mate Fertility is aiming to create a franchise of fertility clinics open to everyone

TechCrunch LA

Founded by serial entrepreneur Oliver Bogner and his brother Gabriel, Mate was born from both brothers’ struggles with trying to start a family. Lancaster, Pa., Mate Fertility , the new Los Angeles startup launching today with $2.8 Its first locations will be clinics in Oklahoma City, Anchorage, Ark., Bakersfield, Calif.

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