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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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2019

Sweep is in a very competitive market--there's already cutthroat competition among independent contractors who go "Bird hunting", being paid to charge scooters and return them to designated spot in the morning. Sweep says it already has operations in Long Beach, Denver, Detroit, Washinton, D.C., Dallas, and Charlotte, NC.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2021

Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2022

Long Beach-based Rocket Lab said Tuesday afternoon that it has completed its acquisition of SolAero Holdings. Rocket Lab says SolAero's space solar cells are used in civil space exploration, science, defense and intelligence, and commercial markets. The deal was worth $80M in cash.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2021

Long Beach-based free conference calling service FreeConferenceCall.com says it is launching itself into the video conferencing market, with a new service called Huddle. The new Huddle service competes against market leader Zoom. The new Huddle service competes against market leader Zoom.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2019

Long Beach-based investor Sunstone Management is one of the investors in Emeryville, California-based Lucira Health , as part of a Series B funding rounding, the company said on Monday morning. Sunstone Management is led by John Shen. Lucira Health's president and CEO is Erik Engelson. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Long Beach-based Rocket Lab announced late Monday that it has acquired SolAero Holdings, a supplier of solar power products and precision aerospace structures for the global aerospace market. The company said it paid $80M in cash for SolAero.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 29, 2021

It was here that she spotted a gap in the EV charging market. It was here that she met Ellis, a career coach at LACI who also worked at the Long Beach Job Corp Center. During her time there, she worked with 12 manufacturers, which gave her knowledge into inner workings and common problems with the chargers.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2021

Long Beach-based rocket developer Rocket Lab is joining the very long list of local technology companies, which is heading towards the public market through a merger with a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC).

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 1, 2013

The conference once was held in Monterey, California, then lately Long Beach and in 2014 it’s moving to Vancouver, Canada. It is a crowdsourced marketing plan that has been executed smashingly. The organizers have full authority to choose what is deemed acceptable and judge the quality without TED’s direct influence.

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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. Trucking logistics company NEXT Trucking takes in a $21 million haul. The company has raised $3.5

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long Beach-based Momentum IoT , a developer of telematics products for tracking trucks, trailers, heavy equipment, and other assets, has raised $3.1M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Howard Edmund Capital, and also included Thompson Aerospace. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Long Beach-based Digital Performance, which develops technology for online sales efforts in the after market automotive parts sector, is announcing Monday that it has raised $3.2M Digital Performance has a database and technology which matches buyers of after market automotive parts with manufacturers.

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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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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2018

Long Beach-based Cargomatic , which develops technology to connect shippers and carriers, said this week that it has raised $35M in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Warburg Pincus, and also included Canaan, Genesee & Wyoming, Xplorer Capital and Muse Family Enterprises.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2019

A new company, Apex Innovation Sciences --with headquarters in Long Beach, California and Marlton, New Jersey--has formed out of a corporate merger of CNS Network and Hassman Research Insitute , along with the Clinical Trial Centers Alliance , three companies in the clinical trial studies industry, the companies said this morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. 43% of all goods arriving into American ports come through LA and Long Beach ports in Los Angeles.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 1, 2013

The conference once was held in Monterey, California, then lately Long Beach and in 2014 it’s moving to Vancouver, Canada. It is a crowdsourced marketing plan that has been executed smashingly. The organizers have full authority to choose what is deemed acceptable and judge the quality without TED’s direct influence.

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Long Beach Conference Organization Content 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2013

And, because there are many companies in Long Beach and sourcing operations here, it really made sense to open up operations in Southern California. We opened up an office in Shanghai, and we have marketing in Hangzhou. The cost of business is not so bad. Tech costs are cheaper, though it''s rising.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: I'm actually a Kiwi, a New Zealander, and all of our product and marketing is done out of New Zealand. It wasn't long after that I ended up in the U.S., We're working from Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and we've found that Southern California is really friendly.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

FreeConferenceCall.com is a Long Beach company which was founded by David Erickson. Toll free numbers don''t make any sense anymore, particularly when fifty to sixty percent of people are on cell phones with unlimited long distance, and it really makes no difference to them or not if it''s toll free or not. How is that?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2019

For us, in the long term, we want to bring accountability to local governments in this space, but we're not there ate the moment. We're handling logistics, and run markets where we take on full operations, warehouses, and hire teams. We want to provide accountability for cities when vendors come in and want to play ball.

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LATechDigest

JANUARY 27, 2020

And as Rico looks to streamline the event in order to magnify its impact, he sees Innovate LA as, A marketing opportunity for something thats hard for people to quantify or get a handle on theres so much happening here right now, just an explosion of whats happening here at one time.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I ended up doing a lot of different things, and was an executive at Sony, and had lots of software and marketing roles over time. I went to college at K-State, and then I started with a little Internet development company, W3 Design, which became USWeb Los Angeles. We're on year two now. How far along are you now with the product?

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