TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Now the three men are finally ready to take the covers off of the labor of love they’ve been working on and launch Forge Platform , a new toolkit for distributed applications. “We wanted to pick a platform where the majority of developers are,” says Lorenz of the decision to work with Ethereum. ” . .

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TechEmpower

MAY 2, 2013

We’ve posted Round 4 of our ongoing project measuring the performance of many web application frameworks and platforms. You can filter by classification (full-stack, micro-framework, or platform); language; platform; front-end server; database server; ORM classification; and implementation approach.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.

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L.A. Business Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Growing up the son of a prominent local veterinarian, entrepreneur Brandon Werber never thought he would have to search for a vet for his two French bulldogs.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 19, 2021

Santa Monica-based Bespoke Financial Inc., has raised $8 million to expand its financial offerings for businesses in the cannabis industry.

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TechEmpower

MAY 28, 2020

This project measures the high-water mark performance of server side web application frameworks and platforms using predominantly community-contributed test implementations. We've selected and flagged frameworks that represent the project's diversity of technology platforms. We look forward to your feedback on this feature.

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 23, 2021

Bird Rides Inc. announced that it will launch an e-bike sharing service in the U.S. and Europe.

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. The new plaintext test demonstrates the extremely high request routing throughput possible on very high-performance platforms. This new chart type compares frameworks versus their underlying platform (e.g.,

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L.A. Business Journal

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Santa Monica real estate software developer HomeLister Inc. has raised $4.5 million in seed funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

And some of this can be attributed to the increased pressure on the available platforms not only to facilitate acquisition at scale but to do so in an increasingly “walled garden,” privacy-restricted world. eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. That’s where Trust comes in?—?it

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L.A. Business Journal

JANUARY 24, 2022

Westwood-based Concrete-AI Inc., a UCLA spinout with technology to enable more efficient use of concrete, announced January 13th that it has raised $2 million in a seed financing round led by Boston-based Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It also has a social platform built in with a chat feature, and members can invite friends to participate in programs and challenges. It also has a pro subscription model that includes music tracks on top of the workouts, connection to health monitoring devices, offline downloads, meal plans and recipes.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 27, 2022

Now, a gaming startup that’s building a new kind of platform that it thinks will be a — wait for it — game changer in the category is announcing some funding as to ride that wave of attention. Part of that is because of how PortalOne has built out its platform. “This is part of our secret sauce.”

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TechEmpower

MAY 1, 2014

Since the first round, we have known that the highest-performance frameworks and platforms have been network-limited by our gigabit Ethernet. Similarly, we expect that some application platforms are better suited for NUMA than others. We would be happy to receive input and advice from readers with NUMA database deployment expertise.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 12, 2021

has raised $8 million in Series A funding for its artificial intelligence platform for consumer insights. Santa Monica-based analytics company Retina AI Inc.

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TechEmpower

JUNE 6, 2018

Yes, that means that there are several frameworks and platforms that—when allowed to use HTTP pipelining—can completely saturate ten gigabit per second with ~140-byte response payloads using relatively cheap commodity servers. Expect to hear more about this as the plan develops during Round 17. Continuous benchmarking.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

And the perfect start is selecting high-performance platforms and frameworks. Among the many effects of this project, one of which we are especially proud is how it encourages platforms and frameworks to be fast—to elevate the high-water marks of performance potential.

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TechEmpower

APRIL 22, 2013

We''ve previously posted two rounds of results of benchmarking many web application platforms and frameworks. The community contributed numerous framework tests giving us coverage of several platforms we were missing in previous rounds. The community''s response remains strong!

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 21, 2021

Century City-based TrillerNet, the owner of short-form video platform Triller, is preparing to file a confidential direct listing with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July that values the company at more than $5 billion, according to a source familiar with the plans.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 17, 2013

What better way to celebrate the holidays than by cheering on your favorites as they race through a variety of application fundamentals in the biggest web platform grudge match of the season? Merry Christmas web framework performance aficionados! We certainly can''t think of anything more festive.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 15, 2021

AvantStay — which has built a platform where it decorates and then lists properties owned by others for people to rent out for vacations or other short-term stays — has raised $160 million in a Series B round of funding. “It has always lagged hotels by a wide margin.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 9, 2021

Mythical Games , an NFT games startup based out of Los Angeles, has banked a $75 million raise from new and existing investors betting on the startup’s aim to expand the ambitions of their first title and locate a substantial platform opportunity amid helping developers build blockchain-based gaming experiences.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 13, 2020

The platform's monthly active users grew 50% from February to March. Pray is among a fortunate handful of companies whose businesses have actually benefited from the statewide shutdown.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group said it will jointly develop an electric vehicle platform with Los Angeles-based startup Canoo, the latest startup tapped by the automaker as part of an $87 billion push to invest in electrification and other future technologies. Canoo said it will provide engineering services to develop the electric platform.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

Authors Note: Were using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. We aim to know the upper bound being set on an applications performance per unit of hardware by each platform and framework.

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L.A. Business Journal

JULY 15, 2020

Video-sharing platform Triller, which is owned by Century City-based Proxima Media, has completed the acquisition of Halogen Networks.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 2, 2021

. “ 2020 was a blowout year… People needed an interactive streaming platform that they could spin up quickly that they could launch on their website.” Since the launch of monetization tools in May of last year, Evans estimated that the platform has paid out at least $5 million to entertainers who used the service. “We

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TechEmpower

APRIL 30, 2013

Authors'' Note: We''re using the word "framework" loosely to refer to platforms, micro-frameworks, and full-stack frameworks. The high-performance Netty platform takes a commanding lead for JSON serialization on EC2. If the framework provides no JSON serializer, a best-of-breed for the platform is selected. Since Vert.x

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

is betting that its newly launched player can compete with established platforms like Spotify. There’s no shortage of audio streaming apps, but Santa Monica-based startup Vurbl Media Inc.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Mogul Millennial — this Dallas-based company is a digital media platform for black entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. Since launching the platform in 2018, startups from the Snap accelerator have gone on to acquisition (like Stop, Breathe, and Think, which was bought by Meredith Corp.) Hardworkers — a Cambridge, Mass.-based

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L.A. Business Journal

JUNE 14, 2021

Beverly Hills-based livestreaming platform LiveXLive Media Inc. will acquire New York-based artist development company Gramophone Media Inc. by the end of June.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 13, 2021

Tagger Media, the Santa Monica-based developer of a software platform for influencer-based marketing campaigns, has raised $8.5 million in Series A funding.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome Tech , which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s Today, Welcome’s platform is approaching 3 million active users, according to co-founder and CEO Amir Hemmat. s SB Opportunity Fund.

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L.A. Business Journal

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Social platforms and media content creators in Los Angeles are leveraging their influence to encourage voting by Gen Z and millennial audiences as registration deadlines approach.

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L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 19, 2021

Triller Network, the owner of the Triller social media app and several streaming businesses, announced April 14 that it had acquired live event and pay-per-view platform Fite and had reached an agreement to purchase software developer Truverse Inc., doing business as Amplify.ai.

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L.A. Business Journal

MARCH 15, 2021

which generates customer acquisition leads for insurance carriers through a digital platform, is far from a typical tech startup. MediaAlpha Inc.,

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L.A. Business Journal

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The “metaverse” is currently one of the hottest topics in tech — particularly since social media giant Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta Platforms Inc.

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