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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. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Add another, Southern California company to the exclusive list of billion-dollar plus startups here. Auction.com said this morning that it has raised $50M in a funding from Google Capital, at a $1.2 Auction.com joins SpaceX, Snapchat, and Beats Electronics in the short list of $1 billion plus valuation, venture backed startups here.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully touched down at 12:22 p.m. The successful return of the SpaceX Dragon is the first time since the retirement of the Space Shuttle that NASA has been able to return significant amounts of samples and cargo from the ISS.

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Tech.Co

JULY 13, 2023

Initially pinned as a generative AI startup for Twitter when it first hit the headlines back in April, the xAI website seems to suggest that the new startup will remain separate from the social media platform, as well as Musk's collection of other technology companies. The post What Is xAI?

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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 11, 2015

A new, Los Angeles startup, Hyperloop Technologies has emerged-- with $8.5M in funding --to bring those dreams to life. Hyperloop Technologies is led by former SpaceX engineer Brogan BamBrogan. spacex funding capital venture musk elon hyperloop startup' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

[link] Playa Vista-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), the startup founded by Dirk Ahlborn and Bibop Gresta which is one of a number in the LA area focused on bringing the Hyperloop technology to market, says it has received funding worth $1.2 READ MORE>>.

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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. It has now made more than 2.5

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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 funding was led by Anthos Capital, and also included Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures and Embark Ventures. The company is led by CEO Matt Soule.

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JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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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. of the fund. By definition?—?I’m

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AUGUST 28, 2017

Elon Musk , the CEO and founder of Los Angeles-based SpaceX , has a new company, Neuralink , which is looking to create a brain-computer interface--and now has $26.96M in the bank. Elon Musk, in a Tweet, said that the startup is not raising additional money, despite indications otherwise in the firm's regulatory filings.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Santa Monica-based Troy Capital Partners , a new venture investment firm led by Josh Berman, Brian Sullivan, and Samit Varma, has backed a veteran of TrueCar for a new startup called Rollick Outdoor. Rollick Outdoor is based in Austin, where Brenner was based while at Santa Moinca-based TrueCar. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 24, 2020

To accomplish those, and other launches like them, the company is also setting up a new launch site at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. We’ve actually pre-sold more launches than any other company in the industry since SpaceX.” funded, staffed, operated, and launched,” Ellis said.

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JULY 2, 2021

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. The company recently raised $26M in a funding round. The company says the engine is its fourth delivered to space.

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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. The funding was led by CRV, and also included Mucker Capital, TenOneTen Ventures, plus new investors, Stripes and Vulcan Capital.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles chapter of the Founder Insitute , the startup incubation program run locally by Ken Rutkowski, is gearing up for its Spring Semester, saying that it has added a number of new mentors for the semester. Other mentors to the effort include Elon Musk (Tesla/SpaceX), Kelly Perdew (Fastpoint Games), Michael Robertson (MP3.com),

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Hawthorne-based SpaceX , the space rocket startup headed by former PayPal founder Elon Musk, and backed by Founders Fund and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, disclosed Wednesday that it has completed two successful test firings of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Tags: spacex space aerospace flight rocket moon nasa. READ MORE>>.

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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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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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APRIL 30, 2018

Los Angeles-based NI0 , a new startup in the sports and nutrition vertical, is gearing up for launch, backed by $500,000 in seed funding from a number of tech investors. The startup is aiming at the athletic training and recovery market, with a new sports tape which incorporates supplements. Riot Games). READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Upfront Ventures was created 20 years ago as one of the original VC funds in Los Angeles. And I constantly have to remind people that the largest tech startup employer in LA is actually SpaceX and that, yes, Elon Musk does live in LA.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Kozlov, a longtime Techstars network fixture, has previously served as the head of the organization’s healthcare accelerator through a partnership with Cedars-Sinai and as the head of the Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator, which was focused on space and aerospace startups. and Los Angeles angel investor.

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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. Graze says it is using equity crowdfunding through SeedInvest for its funding efforts. 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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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. Soure of the funding was not announced. The company says its founders previously worked at such companies as SpaceX, Tesla, Apple, Amazon and Samsung. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Even bigger is the desire to stick one’s middle finger up at all of the people who doubted you all along. ” When Elon Musk set out to build SpaceX he wasn’t greeted with enthusiasm from the space community not used to having a private enterprise challenge the government funded space exploration of NASA.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. We now have $250 million under management, are investing out of our fourth fund and have made more than 80 investments. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 10, 2016

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) is led by Dirk Ahlborn, and was originally funded by crowdfunding site JumpStarter. HTT said the deal will make it the first company to work on plans for a Hyperloop system in Europe. READ MORE>>.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

The partners at MaC Venture Capital , the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent the bulk of their careers breaking barriers. We’re going to show them a set of companies that they would not have seen from any [other] VC fund,” said Fenty.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Everyone who starts or owns a business expects to be the best of breed, but only a few achieve that status. As a startup mentor and advisor, I often contemplate what makes the difference between winners and losers. Stop dreaming about your passion and start acting on it. I believe the best make their own luck.

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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.

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MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. Snap, Riot Games, Tinder, SpaceX and on and on — these are great things for LA as is every new VC fund launching in LA to create the next big innovation.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. It is different. More substantive.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

From the conversation gathered around the pool from the movers and shakers of the industry, it seems that--despite the buzz, energy, and activity in the region around startups, there's still some wariness by investors that the industry not over-hype and over-promote what's happening in the area.

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MAY 17, 2017

I’ve been involved with several startups where a giant incumbent attacks you and tries to sue you out of existence. You begin to think about how hard it will be to fund raise, sign customers, hire employees, etc. You begin to think about how hard it will be to fund raise, sign customers, hire employees, etc.

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