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DECEMBER 10, 2021

Los Angeles-based e-commerce logistics provider PARCLL said this week that it is expanding its network of facilities, and is opening up a new facility in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area. The company said its now has facilities in Long Beach, New York City, Chicago, and Miami.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 24, 2020

Relativity Space expands its rocket-printing operations into an enormous new Long Beach HQ. So the company has been working with Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Los Angeles, to establish a spot where polar and sun-synchronous orbits are possible. funded, staffed, operated, and launched,” Ellis said.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Volvo Trucks North America , the truck manufacturing arm of Volvo, says it plans on a major rollout of electric cars in the Los Angeles area, starting next year. A new, electric powertrain will be added to Volvo's existing, popular VNR truck--which currently runs on diesel power.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Los Angeles-based Dray Alliance , a startup focused on on-demand, short haul container delivery, has raised $3.5M The company says it provides AI enabled rate quoted for intermodal and drayage for freight forwarders and import/export shipper, and has thousands of drivers or drayage trucking companies in Los Angeles & Long Beach.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

According to the two, they have launched an online platform which will allow local community to independently curate, drive, and manage content and relationships in the region, with microsites already being developed for downtown Los Angeles, Long Beach, Ventura County/Thousand Oaks, and the Space Ventures Coalition.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

Terry said it could take as long as 30 days to get an electrical contractor on site to repair these non-electrical problems. Terry often took matters in her own hands if issues arose with stations located in Los Angeles, where she is based. Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator reboots its incubation program with 16-member cohort.

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JUNE 6, 2017

A new, startup accelerator, aimed at startups and small-and-medium-sized businesses looking to go global, says it is launching this summer in Los Angeles. The International Business Accelerator already has an existing program at Long Beach City College. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

With an angle on a long-neglected part of the shipping industry — the short-haul movement of cargo from docks to logistics centers — Dray Alliance is joining a growing startup scene for logistics businesses based in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Long Beach-based Way2H , a startup developing technology to convert waste into clean hydrogen fuel, has scored a strategic investment from Pacific6 Enterprises, the company announced this morning. Size of that investment were not announced. Pacific6 Enterprises is led by John C. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

The report did not break down Southern California as a single region, but reported $4.408 billion invested across 386 so far in the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA this year. The 3Q 2017 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report said the latest quarter worths of investment brings 2017's total to $61.4 READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 20, 2019

The feature is now available in Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Calif., Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Orange County, Calif. For now, the company’s party feature will only be offered in a handful of the nearly 3,000 U.S. cities in which it currently operates.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

XPRIZE , the Los Angeles nonprofit which promotes development of new technology to help solve world problems, has whittled down the number of teams competing in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE , focused on using AI to world's greatest challenges.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, launched into space by Los Angeles-based SpaceX in June, returned to earth on Friday afternoon, landing in the Pacific Ocean at 3:17 p.m. SpaceX retrieved the Dragon on Friday and brought it back to Long Beach, for return to NASA. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 20, 2018

Embark , a Silicon Valley, autonomous vehicle startup which is developing self driving, long haul trucks, said today that it has raised $30M in a Series B funding, to specifically build out its operations in the Los Angeles area. Embark did not say how many people it plans to hire in Ontario. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 20, 2017

SpaceX , the Los Angeles-based spacecraft and rocket developer led by Elon Musk, successfully returned a SpaceX Dragon capsule to earth on Sunday, full of 5,400 pounds of cargo from the International Space Station. SpaceX typically returns those capsules through Long Beach. The SpaceX Dragon departed the ISS at 5:11 a.m.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

SpaceX did not say when it expects the return of the Dragon to Los Angeles, but it typically returns the Dragon capsules through Long Beach. The return marks the end of the 12th mission to and from the International Space Station for SpaceX. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

1193% Santa Monica Scott Painter 116 Network Solutions Provider 1001% Long Beach Phillip Walker 119 BlackLine Systems Software 973% Los Angeles Therese Tucker 131 Kotura, Inc. 247% San Diego Lale White 319 IGNIFY 239% Long Beach Sandeep Walia 321 Identive Group Inc. 191% Los Angeles Thomas A.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 2, 2013

In the first PortTech Forum of 2013, representatives from both the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will focus on key environmental issues in the San Pedro Bay area. See [link] (more)

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Daimler Trucks North America said in July it would begin testing 20 fully electric heavy- and medium-duty Freightliner models at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach this year. The state has set aggressive targets to improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions, particularly those generated from tailpipes.

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JUNE 30, 2017

SpaceX typically returns those capsules to its headquarters via the Port of Los Angeles, in Long Beach. NASA says that SpaceX's dragon is currently its only, space station resupply spacecraft able to return to Earth intact. Image: view of the Dragon in space, courtesy NASA. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

A new study released by the Kauffman Foundation this week shows that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has the highest number of entrepreneurs per 100,000 people, of the top fifteen largest MSAs.

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JULY 15, 2013

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ranked further down on the list, at number 16, at $13.1M The report, from The Atlantic , found that Santa Barbara-Santa-Maria-Goleta was number five in the nation in terms of venture capital activity per 100,000 people, with $59.1M in deals in 2012 and 3.3 in deals and 3.3 in deals and 1.8

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AUGUST 26, 2016

The Dragon--which was launched to the ISS as part of the ninth, commercial resupply mission to the ISS--is expected to be delivered to a port near Los Angeles within the next 48 hours. NASA did not say exactly where in Los Angeles the Dragon will dock, although SpaceX has a facility near Long Beach.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based smartphone ride service Opoli says it now has over 250 drivers on its app in Los Angeles, since it launched last month, as it looks to attract professional, commercially licensed drivers to its smartphone app.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Los Angeles-based fiber optic and data center infrastructure provider Wilcon announced today that it has acquired dark fiber provider Freedom Dark Fiber Networks. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Freedom Dark Fiber Networks is also based in Southern California, and is a provider of dark fiber in the region.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

If you're in the Los Angeles area, NASA is flying the Space Shuttle Endeavour into LAX today, after doing a flyover of the state. The shuttle will then fly to Northern California, and then eventually circle back towards the Los Angeles area around 11:30 a.m. out of Edwards Air Force Base.

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MARCH 29, 2018

According to marine tracking of the ocean vessel from Long Beach Harbor on Thursday, the vessel is now sitting out in the Pacific near where the fairing for the SpaceX Falcon's payload is expected to land, if tomorrow's launch is successful. SpaceX is aiming to launch the Iridium-5 NEXT mission at 7:13 a.m.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Los angeles-based video site Hulu said this morning that it has inked a deal with the TED conference--which, not coincidentally, kicks off today in Long Beach--and will be featuring the 50 most popular TEDTalks from the last few years.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2015

On-demand taxi service Curb has put on a renewed push to capture some of the Los Angeles on-demand ride market, launching a new promotion today on Groupon offering up to 85 percent off on its services. READ MORE>>. curb taxi service uber ondemand marketplace transportation groupon'

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

A new study released by the Kauffman Foundation this week shows that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) has the highest number of entrepreneurs per 100,000 people, of the top fifteen largest MSAs.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2012

PortTechLA's monthly forum featuring reports on green technology, trade, logistics and transportation in and around the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and presentations from client entrepreneurs. Tuesday, June 12, 2012 -- PortTechLA Forum - June.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M According to the report, there were 71 deals worth a total of $663.2M in funding in Q3, down from the much larger, $2.5 billion in funding received in the region in Q2. billion funding round for Snapchat. for San Diego, then $189.0M

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Los Angeles’ bike share program, Metro Bike Share, will also offer free rides on Nov. This year, the Los Angeles Metro system, which serves more than 1.3 LADOT, Long Beach Transit, Baldwin Park Transit, Pasadena Transit and Santa Clarita Transit in the Los Angeles area are among those offering free rides.

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OCTOBER 26, 2011

It looks like the next two, Southern California markets being targeted by Google are Los Angeles and Long Beach; users signing up on the Google Offers beta site are now being given the choice of signing up for those two cities, in advance of the launch of the service there.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Long Beach-based Laserfiche , a developer of enterprise content management products, said Monday afternoon that it has sued SAP America , SAP AG , and SAP Global Marketing over the trademark Run Smarter. The firm said the lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court in Los Angeles (CV10-7843 JFW).

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APRIL 26, 2010

The monthly report, which tracks the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), said that overall employment declined by 150,800 people, or 2.9 The Bureau said that the decline was the 27th consecutive month of over-the-year decline in the Los Angeles area. percent gain.

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JULY 13, 2011

According to the latest Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment report, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area was among the areas with the largest amount of clean economy jobs, with 89,592 jobs--even more than the 51,811 clean economy jobs in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area.

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