TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

A proliferation of startups is now trying to devise applications for this new class of language model , where the machine is capable of creating new text, images and videos based on simple human input. The platform is going after marketers with a Canva-style drag-and-drop interface. “We are doing what Jasper and Copy.ai

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 29, 2019

When ProGuides pulled the covers off of its service earlier this year, the young Los Angeles-based startup intended to give gamers a way to train with professional and semi-pro esports players from around the world. “After we launched the beta, we found some interesting user behavior,” says Sam Wang.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

We believe Ordermark’s leading technology platform and innovative virtual restaurant concepts are transforming the restaurant industry,” said Jeff Housenbold, Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers, in a statement. There’s a whole bunch of training that happens. Canter is no stranger to the restaurant business.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

When Arianna Huffington stepped down from her role at the Huffington Post to start Thrive Global, she said the goal of her new business was to help a generation “avoid the burnout that all too often comes with success today.”

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Shuttle startup Via and the city of Cupertino are launching an on-demand public transportation network, the latest example of municipalities trying out alternatives to traditional buses. Via also partners with cities and transportation authorities, giving clients access to their platform to deploy their own shuttles.

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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. Here in LA we continue to be excited about the growth of the startup ecosystem and the quality of the companies here.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 21, 2019

Propelled by new technologies, new businessmen have been landing in Los Angeles since the invention of the nickelodeon to create a studio that would dominate popular entertainment. So far, they’ve got more than 1,000 subscribers and expect to add more as consumers start opening their wallets to pick up more devices.

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MARCH 22, 2018

The Grubhubs of the world have spent hundreds of millions of dollars acquiring users, so that when someone is hungry, the first thing they do is open up the Grubhub app to find something to eat. Lots of restaurants have started to invest in building their own apps, but realistically, it's not moving the needle for them.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Los Angeles-based MediaPlatform , a startup developing enterprise video and webcasting software aimed at corporate customers, has raised $12M in a growth equity funding. The funding was led by TVC Capital, and also included Barshop Ventures and the company's CEO. MediaPlatform is led by Jim McGovern. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Los Angeles-based Super Hi-Fi (www.superhifi.com) has created what co-founder and CEO Zach Zalon says is an artificial intelligence driven service which brings a sense of personalization and connection to those services, to help them retain and attract customers. So, we've ended up doing that for the past 20 years.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. We spoke with Jonathan Kohn , the founder and CEO of Fitspot, on what the startup is all about. We have about 350, nationally certified, trainers on the platform, all vetted internally by us, and by our mentor network.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Los Angeles-based Super Hi-Fi (www.superhifi.com) has created what co-founder and CEO Zack Zalon says is an artificial intelligence driven service which brings a sense of personalization and connection to those services, to help them retain and attract customers. So, we've ended up doing that for the past 20 years.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Smith , the founder of Croquet (www.croquet.io), a new Los Angeles startup which actually has its roots at the very beginning of the modern computing era. You can spin a coin, pick up an object. In the real world, you pick up an object, and you can hand it to seomeone else. That means we can run with only 3.5

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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OCTOBER 21, 2014

Nanxi Liu: We started the company in the summer of 2012, with five totally random people. Explain how five strangers all ended up starting a company together, exactly? I met with david after he flew up to meet me from Los Angeles. He had gone to MIT, was a trained, professional poker player.

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MARCH 12, 2019

Two of the hottest sectors in the market today for investments and startups are in the area of machine learning/big data and advancements in automotive technology. At the intersection of those two is Los Angeles-based Connected Travel (www.connectedtravel.com), the startup which is behind Honda's Drive Drive platform.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? We caught up with Michele and Dan to better understand why they founded the company, and why this market was such an interest to them. Once we decided to do this, we started looking for a Dan.

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AUGUST 20, 2013

There''s been a war brewing in Los Angeles, between a trio of ride services-- Lyft , Uber , Sidecar -- and the city''s taxi drivers--over a new generation of Internet-enabled and smartphone-friendly, connected rideshare services, versus what has been an old, opaque, and phone-driven taxi establishment. We''re focused on taxis.

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JULY 10, 2019

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction.

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JUNE 9, 2014

And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? We caught up with Lee Essner , the President of Jukin Media, to learn more about how the company thinks it has figured out how to make a business round viral videos. What is Jukin Media? Can you talk about those businesses?

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MARCH 30, 2017

Transparency, fraud, and a lot of other problems--all of which can be fixed, says Ken Brook , the CEO of Los Angeles-based MetaX (www.metaxchain.com), which is using Blockchain--the protocol behind Bitcoin--and applying it to the ad industry. We like to call it a coordination platform. We just started the conversation.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Last week, Los Angeles-based iExhale (www.iexhale.com) announced a seed funding round, to bring its mobile, mental health service to life. We spoke with founder and CEO Aaron Robin to learn more about the app and how it started, and how the company is hoping to reduce the stigma associated with seeking mental health support.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The company started here in 2002, and we were basically an agency. We started looking to see if we could use technology disrupt the agency business, for companies serving the performance marketing area, the cost-per-sale area. Starting in 2010, we started focusing on that. Who we are today, is an ad technology company.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. SocialEngine is four years old, and that's the startup we applied to TechStars with.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) We caught up with Fuel50 founder and CEO Anne Fulton to learn more about the startup. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. How did you start the company? It wasn't long after that I ended up in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite. Team Pip.io

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APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. Becka Klauber Richter is co-founder of the startup, and spoke to us about the company, which she co-founded with Kasey Edwards. What's your background, how did you start the company?

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? Los Angeles-based Workpop (www.workpop.com) thinks so. Starting on the employer side first, we put a big emphasis on design. So that''s a big emphasis for us.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

For today's youth, it's often hard to figure out what they want to do in life--according to Deborah Ramo , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Amavitae (www.amavitae.com). How did this start? Deborah Ramo: The group of us who started the company are all very interested in solving problems.

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JULY 16, 2012

Los Angeles-based Fliptu (www.fliptu.com), headed by Jeremy Gocke , thinks it has this figured out, by providing a central place to access a brand's content, across social networks. What's your background and how did you come up with this? It reduces a lot of the friction between the consumer and the brand.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

500 Startups officially announced their Batch 15. We were stoked when we partnered with 500 startup for REACH NeXT and now are over the moon that they selected one of our winners. Also, 500 startups officially open their applications for Batch 16 on AngelList. Learn to code by cloning real-life startups. Code4Startup.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Los Angeles-based Enrou (www.enrou.co) thinks it has a way--by connecting people with products that also help support international development and causes, via its own online marketplace. That''s where we entered the scene, as a platform for that particular type of organization. How do you work with those organizations?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

How did you start Happy Returns? We ended up being acquired by Nordstrom. That was an insider round, where ssetnailly, Upfront led and angel Brian Spaly, the former co-founder of Bonobos and the CEO of Trunk Club ended up investing. We approached them, and said we could train their teams and make it very easy.

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. What we found, if people wanted help finding a job right away, and didn't want to be trained in how to look for a job.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2015

For our interview today, we sat down with Kevin Anderson , one of the co-founders of Los Angeles-based Appetize (www.appetizeapp.com), the developer of a cloud based enterprise point of sale solutions for venues and events. How'd you end up creating your products? What does Appetize do?

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