TechCrunch LA
APRIL 12, 2018
Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team for the real estate developer CBRE; the International House of Pancakes; Disney Consumer Products; DreamWorks Studios; Walt Disney Animation and Univision.
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 17, 2019
.” This historical look at Uber and its self-driving tech unit, Uber ATG, should be considered alongside more recent news, including that it’s in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. billion investment in 2018.
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socalTECH
OCTOBER 10, 2012
The clean technology sector is infamous for taking a big toll on startups--requiring large investments, risky technology propositions, steep international competition, and fickle government policies. We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2015
.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2012
I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. In LA companies used to be concentrated near Pasadena or in the San Fernando Valley.
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