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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Los Angeles-based Envoy , which operates a service which makes on-demand electric vehicles available as an amenity at apartments, hotels, and workplaces, has raised $11M in a Series A funding round.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Los Angeles investors and startups, in conjunction with Mayor Eric Garcetti and the Annenberg Foundation, announced a new effort, PledgeLA , to help address the "work opportunity gap" in the industry by increasing equity, diversity, and inclusion in their firms and investments.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding service run by serial entrepeneur Howard Marks, has chalked up 25 companies raising money on its platform since the start of 2017, according to the company. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Just weeks after Canoo took the wraps off of its electric vehicle , the Los Angeles-based startup and co-founder Stefan Krause has been accused of gender and marital discrimination, harassment, breach of contract, and wrongful termination in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Canoo has never revealed the names of its primary investors.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

Watt says Share Ventures will operate as a holding company with pooled equity shared across the employees at the company. based incubator company that’s a few miles up the road from Share Ventures Los Angeles home base. The company has ten people on staff to help build its first slate of companies.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Los Angeles based startup incubator/studio Science --which is behind such local startups as Dollar Shave Club and DogVacay--has quietly raised $20M in a debt financing round, according to the companies. According to Fortune, the funding came from private equity investor Silver Lake Waterman. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses.

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APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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JUNE 19, 2015

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which was launched back in 2013 as a startup incubator, has pivoted its model, and has become an online equity crowdfunding platform called StartEngine Crowdfunding.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2018

Los Angeles is becoming one of the more interesting destinations for startups and the investors that provide money for venture capital firms to place bets on young companies are increasingly starting to take notice. New funds are launching in Los Angeles at a pretty feverish clip, and the latest to plant its flag in the […].

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Private equity investor Blackstone , through its nonprofit, charity arm--the Blackstone Charitable Foundation , and the University of California system are expanding their efforts to boost entrepreneurship at schools, based off of the success of the program's efforts in Los Angeles at the University of California Los Angeles.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Los Angeles investor Mark Suster, a general partner with Upfront Ventures , has been beating the drum for Los Angeles as a new tech hub for a while — and billion dollar exits for Ring and Dollar Shave Club, in addition to the public offering for Snap, lend credence to his position.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2018

Los Angeles is becoming one of the more interesting destinations for startups and the investors that provide money for venture capital firms to place bets on young companies are increasingly starting to take notice.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based Hello Music , an online marketplace aimed at musicians, said this week that it now has over 225,000 members. The firm offers up deals aimed at musicians and is backed by Elevator Labs, the business incubator headed by ex-Virgin Digital execs Brendon Cassidy and Zack Zalon. Hello Music is led by Rick Camino.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Snap invests $150,000 in each Yellow startup for an equity stake, and while the program does not require batch participants to integrate with Snap’s services, the company has used the program to invest in strategic areas that it has also pushed on the product side. making their way to Los Angeles. ”

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JANUARY 11, 2016

Los Angeles-based StartEngine has raised $5M in funding, according to the company, from SE Agoura Investment LLC (Aubrey Chernick). StartEngine, the onetime startup accelerator, has remade itself as an online, equity crowdfunding site, helping companies to raise money via crowdfunding.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

Startup accelerator operator Techstars has opened up a its second, startup accelerator in Los Angeles today, the Techstars Healthcare Accelerator. The new accelerator is being run alongside Cedars-Sinai , and will focus on health and healthcare delivery.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

But while these two metro areas offer the bulk of startups’ living spaces, they’re also operating in other cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle and Pittsburgh. Founded less than three years ago, the company now manages about 80 houses in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, matching up roommates and planning group events.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year. million Series A led by Puma Private Equity, a U.K.-focused The business has attracted about $4.5 million in funding to date, including a recent $3.6

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MARCH 21, 2012

If you're looking get your startup off the ground in Los Angeles, it always helps to have help from folks with connections to the venture and angel community. The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator.

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. The Los Angeles technology community is quickly growing, but it's still small.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It provides tools like the Equity Calculator and curates and vets vendors that service startups. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Every single person in the company has equity, and a lot of them see it as their long term retirement or long term financial security.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Last week, a group of four angel investors here announced their plans to create a new, accelerator program to spur the creation of an entrepreneurial community in the area around new startups. Are there specific kinds of companies you're hoping to see in the incubator? That's a business model and concept we need to change.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Dinesh earned his B.S. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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DECEMBER 30, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup.

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

Well, Los Angeles based Near Networks (www.nearnetworks.com) is looking to both reach customers online, and avoid the tacky, lousy production of typical small business ads, with a new service. We have a network of filmmakers who film for us, but all of the producing and editing is brought back to our base here in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles?

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Like any accelerator or incubator, companies and teams must be selected before being admitted to the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Precelerator, but in a unique twist, the firm will not take anything in return for their participation, including equity or a guarantee of legal representation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge.

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