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| Mar 15, 2024 | Can Lagos become Africa’s gaming hub? | Lagos, Nigeria, is setting its sights on becoming a major player in the African gaming industry, targeting a 30% share of the continent’s market projected to reach $4.28 billion by 2024. Governor Sanwo-Olu, at the recent Africa Gaming Expo ... |
| Aug 28, 2023 | Billionaire CEOs said working from home made them happier. Some now want to fire workers who don't show up to the office. | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Snap CEO Evan Spiegel both waxed lyrical during the pandemic about remote work improving work-life balance. Johannes Simon/Jerod Harris/Getty Images
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| Aug 27, 2023 | Better.com’s public market debut was Miserable.com | Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse than expected. Affirm, on the other hand, saw its shares... |
| Mar 27, 2023 | Ford lifts the hood on its EV business, Turo updates its IPO filing and Waymo releases a safety case for AVs | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| Feb 12, 2023 | AI comes to expense reports | Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll ... |
| Jan 24, 2023 | The 32 most important VCs in Los Angeles, according to other VCs | From left to right: M13's Anna Barber, Slauson's Austin Clements, BAM's Brian Lee, Fika Ventures' TX Zhuo, and TenOneTen Ventures' Minnie Ingersoll. M13; Slauson & Co; BAM Ventures; Fika Ventures; TenOneTen Ventures; Robyn Phelps/Inside... |
| Aug 16, 2022 |
LA Tech Week: NFT Cocktails, Sushi and Networking | Roughly 13 hours after venture capital kingmaker Andreessen Horowitz announced plans to invest $350 million into WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s new residential real estate company, a handful of fedoras are floating through a room of mostly 2... |
| Apr 21, 2022 | Afterparty Raises $4 Million to Launch NFT Ticketing Platform | Web3 startup Afterparty has raised $4 million to launch an NFT-based ticketing platform for live events, with plans to use its Utopian NFTs as event tickets after a trial run at a Las Vegas music festival last month.
Afterparty landed the n... |
| Mar 11, 2022 | Crowdfunding Platform StartEngine Targets $46 Million Raise To Grow Its Collectibles Exchange | Sign up for dot.LA’s daily newsletter for the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Crowdfunding platform StartEngine is aiming to raise $46 million to fund the growth of its collectibles trading exch... |
| Feb 17, 2022 | LA Is The Third-Largest Startup Ecosystem in the US | Los Angeles is now the third-largest startup market in the U.S.—with nearly 4,000 venture-backed startups calling the City of Angels home, according to a new report from venture capital firm Telstra Ventures.
On Wednesday, San Francisco-bas... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Daily funding roundup - August 25th, 2021 | Cribl raised $200M; Calibrate landed $100M; NoRedInk secured $50M; MakersPlace picks up $30M
Form Energy: Form Energy is a Somerville, Ma.-based company that’s developing and scaling the production of a new type of rechargeable battery that... |
| May 7, 2021 | LA VCs Hosted Their First Party in 14 Months. Here's What It Was Like Inside | After enduring nearly 14 months of Zoom meetings, phone calls and socially distant walks, Los Angeles venture capitalists held their first major in-person party Thursday night at an expansive estate in Beverly Hills.
The approximately 50 gu... |
| Apr 19, 2021 | LA's Top VCs Are Watching These 10 Female Founders | From helping save beehives to healing the human body, some of L.A.'s most innovative companies are helmed by female founders. Who stands above the pack? We asked the region's top VCs participating in our recent dot.LA sentiment survey to we... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | Connexity is Recognized Again as One of the Best Places to Work in Los Angeles | For a third consecutive year, Connexity has been ranked by Built In as one of the 100 best midsize companies to work for in Los Angeles. “We’re proud of this recognition and to be included among a list of other amazing Los Angeles area comp... |
| Jan 11, 2021 | Ranker is Honored To Receive Built In LA’s Esteemed 2021 Best Places To Work in Los Angeles Award | Once again, I’m thrilled and humbled to be honored for the company culture we’ve created, especially during a pandemic where most companies are struggling to maintain staff, let alone keep their doors open. -CEO Clark Benson
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| Dec 30, 2020 | LA Venture Podcast: 2020 Highlights | When we started this podcast, people asked if we'd run out of guests after a year of weekly episodes with Los Angeles VCs. Not even close. For this week's episode of L.A. Venture, we hope you enjoy a few highlights from the show.
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| Sep 21, 2020 | As Internships Fizzled, LA Bootstrapped a Startup Program for Disadvantaged Youth | For a lot of youth, 2020 was a lost summer. No internships, summer jobs looked bleak and graduation was dampened.
Joseph Hernandez Terrejon was one of them. Now, he runs a platform that connects barbers, hair stylists and makeup technicians... |
| Aug 24, 2020 | Как выйти на рынок США, находясь в России: выстраиваем b2b-продажи дистанционно | Всем привет! Меня зовут Артём, я основатель компании Signum.ai, американского стартапа с русско-украинскими корнями. Мы предоставляем бизнесам продвинутые инструменты для автоматизации маркетинга, продаж и исследования рынка. Иными словами,... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | FloQast Adds Its 1,000th Customer | LOS ANGELES, July 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FloQast, a provider of close management software created by accountants for accountants to close the books faster and more accurately, today announced it has signed its 1,000th customer, a key ... |
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| Jan 24, 2020 | UPDATE: Los Angeles-based CREXi raises $30 million for its online real estate marketplace | Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it’s little wonder that there’s something of a boom in investments in technology companies servicing the market coming from the region.
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| Jan 13, 2020 | MineralTree Recognized as a Leader in Built In Boston’s Prestigious Best Places to Work | Boston, MA, January 13, 2020 — MineralTree, a market-leading Accounts Payable and Payment Automation solution provider, today announced it was ranked 4th out of 100 in the Best Places to Work category and 3rd in the Best Midsize Companies t... |
| Jan 7, 2020 | Los Angeles-based Luxury Presence raised $5.4 million for its real estate marketing services | Real estate is a big business in the sprawling city of Los Angeles, and new technology tools to target the industry continue to attract investor attention.
The latest of these is Luxury Presence, which pitches digital marketing services to ... |
| Sep 20, 2019 | Daily funding roundup - September 20th, 2019 | Digi-Prex raised $5.5M; Plutoshift closedd $8M; Red Sift landedd $8.8M; VentriFlo picks up $10M
Digi-Prex: Digi-Prex is a chronic disease management platform that provides a holistic solution to assist in the care of patients with chronic d... |
| Jan 16, 2018 | tuition.io named a 2018 startup to watch | Built In LA’s 50 Startups to Watch in 2018
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While tech companies all over LA offer a list of impressive perks, it’s becoming more evident that as helpful a 401(k) might be, it’s the student loans that are really dragging millenn... |
| Jan 4, 2018 | Exclusive: Arena Ventures Is Taking a Hiatus | This article originally ran in Term Sheet, Fortune’s newsletter about deals and dealmakers. Sign up here.
Term Sheet has learned that Arena Ventures, the Los Angeles-based early-stage venture capital firm, is pausing seed investing “until t... |
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| Oct 10, 2015 | What Los Angeles Is Missing | Arteen Arabshahi Contributor
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| Sep 4, 2015 | On-Demand Startups: How To Conquer One City At A Time | Guest author Pablo Orlando is a serial entrepreneur and the cofounder and COO of Gone, an on-demand selling service that helps users rid unwanted items.
New on-demand services are springing up everywhere and changing business in nearly ever... |
| LATech.org Launches 1000 Internships Initiative | Internships can open many doors, but those in tech can be especially tough to land and not always the most welcoming environment for women and people of color.
The nonprofit LATech.org launched an initiative with county supervisor Holly Mit... |
| TikTok's CEO has quit after just 3 months. These are the 27 power players steering TikTok's US operations through uncharted waters. | From left to right: ByteDance founder & CEO Zhang Yiming; US general manager (and interim CEO) Vanessa Pappas; Kudzi Chikumbu, director of creator community; and Michael Beckerman, VP of US public policy. Visual China Group via Getty Im... |
| Venture Deals in LA Rebound Slightly in Q3, but VCs Remain Cautious | As the rest of the United States remains in a slowdown for venture capital investing, Los Angeles is slowly rebounding from a previous quarter slump but remains far off the record-breaking year it saw in 2021.
Analysts at PitchBook Data Inc... |
| Heela Yang on How an Uncomfortable Move Inspired Her Bodycare Brand Sol de Janerio | On this episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, Heela Yang, the co-founder and CEO of Sol de Janeiro, talks about how uprooting her life to move to another country helped inspire her award-winning body care line.
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| Ex-TikTok Employee Criticizes Company’s ‘996’ Workplace Culture | A former TikTok employee has criticized the social media firm’s workplace culture—claiming that managers would pressure employees to work long hours and weekends in a nod to China’s “996” culture.
Pabel Martinez, a former global account dir... |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo Raising New $450 Million Venture Fund | WndrCo, the venture capital firm founded by former DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, is looking to raise $450 million for its second fund, according to regulatory filings.
WndrCo co-founding partner and managing director Sujay Jaswa signed... |
| Rocket Lab Lands Contract to Launch Satellites for HawkEye 360 | Long Beach-based reusable rocket startup Rocket Lab has inked a contract with satellite company HawkEye 360 to launch three payloads into space beginning as soon as December.
Using its Electron rocket, Rocket Lab will send 15 of Virginia-ba... |
| Electric Vehicle Industry Heading Toward Major Battery Shortage, Rivian CEO Says | Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe has warned that the electric vehicle industry could face a dire shortage of materials needed to make batteries in the coming years—a problem that he said could be worse than the ongoing semiconductor chip shortage fac... |
| ‘Libs of TikTok’ Identity Reveal Sparks Conservative Backlash | Libs of TikTok, a series of social media accounts that have gained popularity among conservative groups, is in the spotlight after a Washington Post report revealed the identity of the person behind them.
The Post reported Tuesday that Chay... |
| The 20 best seed-stage investors outside of Silicon Valley and New York who specialize in consumer tech | Chris Sacca, Gale Wilkinson, and Brian Spaly are among the top seed-stage investors across America. LowerCarbon Capital; Gale Wilkinson; Brian Spaly This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start rea... |
| Stem Raises $20 Million To Help Music Artists Get Paid | Stem, a music tech startup focused on helping artists with distribution and payments, has raised $20 million in a new funding round.
Fintech-focused venture capital firm QED Investors led the funding and was joined by Block, the Jack Dorsey... |
| Angel Investor Jonathan Hung on His New Investing Platform, Trousdale Ventures | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Unicorn Ventures Managing Partner Jonathan Hung discusses his latest funds, manufacturing partners and investment mindset.
Hung first joined the business world through his father’s international cl... |
| Netflix To Launch ‘Exploding Kittens’ Video Game and Show, Based on West LA Card Game | Netflix will launch a mobile game and TV show based on “Exploding Kittens,” a popular card game created in Los Angeles.
The streaming giant, which has recently expanded into the realm of gaming, will release “Exploding Kittens - The Game'' ... |
| Chipotle's $50M Venture Fund Aims to Boost Early-Stage Food Tech Startups | Mexican fast food chain Chipotle has launched a new $50 million venture fund aimed at early-stage restaurant technology startups.
The Cultivate Next fund will focus on startups that “will enhance our employee and guest experience, and quite... |
| Snap Feels the Pain of a Disrupted Digital Ad Market | An admittedly “challenging” first quarter highlighted social media giant Snap’s exposure to ongoing disruptions in digital advertising.
The Santa Monica-based company, which generates virtually all of its revenue from ads, reported first-qu... |
| Sheryl Sandberg Reportedly Buried Stories About Bobby Kotick | Meta Platforms chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg extinguished two articles about her controversial ex-boyfriend, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Sandberg allegedly contacted MailOnline—... |
| Trust, a Digital Adtech Startup Founded by Snap Alums, Raises $5 Million | Adtech startup Trust, which provides emerging brands with digital advertising data insights, has raised $5 million in new equity funding from investors including Sapphire Sport and former Venmo executive Michael Vaughan.
Launched in August ... |
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Yesterday, we took a look at how venture capital culture become so homogenous. Today, reporter Rachel Uranga looks at how black VCs navigate the elite, ofte... |
| Flex Founder Lauren Wang on Overcoming Self Doubt | Lauren Wang tried period products from all over the globe. What she found was the same product in different packaging.
On this episode of Behind Her Empire, the founder and CEO of the sustainable period care brand The Flex Co. discusses how... |
| Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | Los Angeles city officials are considering a rule requiring residents over the age of 15 to show proof of vaccination before entering restaurants, bars or grocery stores. While it's not a mandate yet, more and more restaurants and bars are ... |
