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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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Exits Down in 2011 - One of the most popular stories to be read on the site--perhaps. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. site in Texas, garnering some of the highest traffic this year on an article. venture capital exits in. We have no idea. We have no idea.

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX. million site visits in October alone. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5 Gumroad homepage.

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Relativity, a new star in the space race, raises $140 million for its 3-D printed rockets

TechCrunch LA

Manufacturing can be done within 60 days, according to the company’s claims, and its vehicles have a payload capacity of up to 1250 kilograms ( SpaceX’s largest rockets will have roughly 100 times that payload capacity). The company expects to secure a polar and Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) capable launch site by the end of 2019.

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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

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Pasadena has a long history as a center of the technology and innovation world�all the way back to first American experiments with rocket launches in 1936�Southern California's first foray into the rocket business (sorry, SpaceX)--through the Internet boom with Idealab, to today. But, most successful ecosystems have good diversity.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla Motors, PayPal. magazine and the LA Business Journal. billion in shares.