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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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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.

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Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin

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BMW i Ventures invested in Bright Machines, a San Francisco-based company that has combined software and robotics to help automotive, computer and electronic brands improve product quality, throughput, and factory optimization. Drivezy, India’s vehicle-sharing startup is raising more than $100 million.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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What are GridTest's products used for? We manufacturer our equipment here in the San Fernando Valley, but we're also shipping our equipment to Asia and Europe. Our product has gone to China, Taiwan, Australia, and Europe. Neal Roche: I was Senior Director of Product at Spirent, and at Ixia as VP of Product Management.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

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For today's thoughts, we have Lief Morin , founder and CEO of KeyInfo (www.keyinfo.com), a regional systems integrator which provides compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for advanced software-defined data centers. In 2004, Lief was recognized by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal's �40 Under 40� list.

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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And post production. In LA companies used to be concentrated near Pasadena or in the San Fernando Valley. For those that aren’t aware of the broader technology shifts of cloud computing, the trend is described in a post I did about changes in the software industry. And make-up artists. And sound engineers.