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| 08.11.2024 | Tamarack Global: $72 Million Opportunities II Fund Closed | Tamarack Global, an early stage deep-tech venture capital fund, announced the closing of $72 million for its Opportunities II fund, which closed earlier this summer. And the Opportunities II fund is more than twice the size of its flagship ... |
| 21.10.2024 | Space Propulsion System Market Projected Expansion to $32.8 billion Market Value by 2031 with a 14.3% CAGR | Space Propulsion System Size, Share
By type, the non-chemical propulsion segment is expected to register significant growth during the forecast period. WILMINGTON, DE, UNITED STATES, October 21, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- According to a new... |
| 02.10.2024 | Impulse Space: In-Space Transportation Services Company Raises $150 Million (Series B) | Impulse Space, a leader in developing in-space transportation services, announced a $150 million Series B funding round led by Founders Fund. The round also included participation from other returning investors like Lux Capital and Spring T... |
| 01.10.2024 | Impulse Space Raises $150M In Series B Funding | Impulse Space, a Redondo Beach, CA-based innovator in the development of in-space transportation services, raised $150M in Series B funding.
The round, which brought the total amount to $225M, was led by Founders Fund and included participa... |
| 30.08.2024 | Чтение на выходные: «Старт: история успеха SpaceX. Илон Маск и его команда» Эрика Бергера | Эрик Бергер — старший космический редактор в Ars Technica, метеоролог и основатель Space City Weather и The Eyewall. Степень магистра журналистики получил в Университете Миссури, а степень по астрономии — в Техасском университете. В своих м... |
| 01.05.2024 | NASA orders studies from private space companies on Mars mission support roles | Mars exploration has always been the exclusive purview of national space agencies, but NASA is trying to change that, awarding a dozen research tasks to private companies as a prelude to commercial support for future missions to the Red Pla... |
| 17.01.2024 | Impulse Space wants to open up far away orbits with Helios kick stage | Impulse Space revealed more details today about its next product, a high-energy kick stage called Helios, that could make getting to geosynchronous orbit cheaper than ever before.
The vast majority of spacecraft are launched to low Earth or... |
| 07.08.2023 | Impulse Space Closes $45M Round | - |
| 26.07.2023 | Impulse Space Claims $45M Series A |
EL SEGUNDO, CA, Impulse Space, a leader in the development of in-space transportation services, announced a $45 million Series A funding round.
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| 24.07.2023 | Impulse Space Raises $45M in Series A Funding | Impulse Space, a Redondo Beach, CA-based company which specializes in the development of in-space transportation services for the inner solar system, raised $45M in Series A funding.
The round was led by RTX Ventures, the venture capital ar... |
| 15.05.2023 | Max Q: Space is vast | Hello and welcome back to Max Q!
In this issue:
Virgin Galactic aims for a triumphant return
Vast aims to launch space station in 2025
News from SpaceX, and more Virgin Galactic aims for triumphant return with crewed flight at the end of Ma... |
| 03.04.2023 | Relativity Space’s Terran 1 launches but falls short of reaching orbit but achieves structural viability | In a key test flight, the California-based aerospace startup Relativity Space attempted to launch the world’s first 3D-printed rocket, Terran 1. The rocket is known as “Good Luck, Have Fun” (GLHF).
In its third launch attempt, the Terran 1 ... |
| 27.03.2023 | Max Q: A lifeline | Hello and welcome back to Max Q!
In this issue:
Relativity Space’s Terran 1 reaches Max Q
NRO lines up hyperspectral imagery providers
News from Virgin Orbit and more Relativity Space’s first launch fails to reach orbit, but proves its 3D-p... |
| 09.01.2023 | Max Q: Hitting the ground running | Hello and welcome back to Max Q! We’re hitting the ground running at TC HQ, and it seems the space industry is, too — there was a lot of news, which means a lot to get to in this issue! Read on for more.
In this issue:
A catch-up with Impul... |
| 04.01.2023 | Impulse Space will hitch a ride on SpaceX’s Transporter-9 for first mission later this year | In-space transportation startup Impulse Space will head to orbit aboard a SpaceX rideshare mission later this year, as it seeks to prove out its orbital maneuvering and servicing technology for the first time.
While there’s always major pre... |
| 24.10.2022 | Relativity Space unveils new fourth-gen Stargate 3D printer: technical specifications and pricing | Nominations for the 2022 3D Printing Industry Awards are now open. Who do you think should make the shortlists for this year’s show? Let us know by casting your vote now.
Californian rocket manufacturer Relativity Space has introduced the l... |
| 01.08.2022 | Max Q: Off the bench | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Last week was the week of ambitious timelines. In this issue:
A modest profile of one of the foremost experts of space propulsion
Deep dive into the history of NASA’s Landsat
News from Masten Space, Swarm an... |
| 26.07.2022 | SpaceX’s CTO of propulsion retired. Now he wants to go to Mars. | Tom Mueller is a self-described race car guy. Upon retiring from his role as CTO of Propulsion at SpaceX in November 2020, he “mostly wanted to go racing and ride dirt bikes and travel,” he said in a recent interview. Mueller, who is 61, wa... |
| 20.07.2022 | Impulse and Relativity Space to launch 3D printed rocket to Mars in breakthrough mission | Space launch firms Impulse Space and Relativity Space have announced a joint mission to Mars to deliver what is thought to be the world’s first commercial payload to the red planet’s surface.
As part of the partnership, Relativity is set to... |
| 19.07.2022 | Relativity and Impulse want to go to Mars as early as 2024 | Relativity Space, a 3D-printed rocket startup that’s planning its first orbital test launch this year, said Tuesday that it is planning to send a Mars lander and rover vehicle made by Impulse Space to the red planet as early as 2024. With t... |
| 20.06.2022 | Impulse Space Raises $10M in Funding | Impulse Space, Inc., an El Segundo, Calif.-based developer of in-space transportation services for the inner solar system, raised $10m in funding.
The round was led by Lux Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to continue to expand ... |
| 17.06.2022 | Impulse Space raises an additional $10 million for orbital transfer vehicles | PASADENA, Calif. — In-space transportation company Impulse Space, which raised $20 million in a seed round earlier this year, announced June 17 it raised another $10 million to help accelerate work on orbital transfer vehicles.
Impulse Spac... |
| 04.04.2022 | Max Q: Space goes SPAC | Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Welcome to all our new subscribers. For those who are new here, my inbox is always open for feedback, comments and tips at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com. You also can catch me on Twitter at @breadfrom.
In this i... |
| 30.03.2022 | Impulse Space Propulsion Raises $20M in Seed Funding | Impulse Space Propulsion, an El Segundo, Calif.-based developer of in-space transportation services for the inner solar system, raised $20m in seed funding.
The round was led by Founders Fund.
The company intends to use the funds to further... |
| - | How Two Upcoming SCOTUS Rulings Could Reshape the Internet | Two cases before the Supreme Court this week will reconsider Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and could have a broad and far-reaching impact on internet content. What is section 230?
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 esta... |
| - | From TikTok to Trigonometry: Could ByteDance Corner the Market on Edtech? | The pandemic led to an explosion in startups trying to fix online learning. In 2019, funding in the space reached $5.4 billion. By 2021, that number more than tripled to $16.8 billion.
In Los Angeles, startups like Subject and Numerade beli... |
| - | Turning Pain Into Gain: How CoFoundersLab Is Helping Recently Laid Off Workers Become Entrepreneurs | The legions of layoffs across the technology industry are prompting workers to consider new career paths, and while some are opting to leave tech altogether, others are considering founding their own startups. Beverly Hills-based CoFounders... |
| - | B2U Storage Solutions Opens New Recycled EV Battery Facility | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
As the electric vehicle revolution continues to gather momentum, more and more lithium io... |
| - | We’re Talking About Autonomous Vehicles the Wrong Way | In 2013, one of my first assignments in graduate school was to read an article in The New Yorker about Google’s new autonomous car. Back then it sounded like autonomous vehicle (AV) technology was just around the corner—that we stood on the... |
| - | Auto troll: TikTok Responds to Media Addiction Concerns with Auto Scroll Feature | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
If you’re tired of using your thumb to scroll through TikTok’s never-ending oeuvre, don’t... |
| - | Impulse Space’s First Mission Will Hitch a Ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 | Building a spacecraft is no simple feat. Which is why historically, most manufacturers have opted to contract outside firms to handle constructing parts of their rockets, sacrificing in-house oversight for speed as they rush towards lucrati... |
| - | Inside JPL’s Mission To Study Massive Solar Flares Close-Up | In the fall of 1859, astronomers around the world were awed and terrified by what is still considered the largest and most well-documented solar storms ever. Dubbed the Carrington Event, the geomagnetic disturbance was only visible for seve... |
| - | Office Hours: Ford Foundation’s Roy Swan On The Value of Impact Investing | On this episode of Office Hours, Ford Foundation’s Director of Mission Investments Roy Swan talks about his journey into philanthropic investing.
The Ford Foundation is an independent private foundation dedicated to advancing social justice... |
| - | Inside The Creator Economy’s Middle Class | In 2021, seven years after she first started making content, Allison Florea quit her corporate job. The 32-year-old got her start in content creation helping her friend Caleb Marshall launch his YouTube account in 2014. Florea has since cre... |
| - | Snap Announces Its OpenAI Powered Chatbot. Is It Enough to Save the Company? | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Today Snap Inc. announced it would add artificial intelligence to its Snapchat app as it ... |
| - | This Week in ‘Raises’: Trust & Will Lands $15M, Health Data Vision Secures $14M | A local digital estate planning software company Trust & Will landed fresh funding to expand the company’s sales and marketing efforts and accelerate product development, while freight technology platform BlueCargo secured funding to ex... |
| - | This Week in ‘Raises’: ImmunityBio Snags $50M, Stelo Lands $6M | Local immunotherapy platform ImmunityBio raised equity financing to provide further working capital and support its business operations, while web3 security company landed fresh funding to expand the team and develop an embedded version of ... |
| - | Electrification Alone Won’t Save the Planet | In a sprawling new report, researchers from the University of California Davis asked what would would it take for the United States to electrify its entire passenger vehicle market by 2050. Their answer? The country would have to use three ... |
| - | Sire Design Founder Eilyn Jimenez on Building an All-Woman Company From the Ground Up | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Sire Design Founder and Director Eilyn Jimenez shares her secret to career success and how her immigrant parents inspired her to go after her dreams.
While Jimenez is also known for her hit Netflix seri... |
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Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | It’s no secret that SpaceX chief Elon Musk wants to go to Mars – but the self-proclaimed “technoking” might find himself taking a back seat to some former employees if two local aerospace startups can send a rover to Mars first.
This week, ... |
| - | The Never Ending Game: Super Nintendo World Offers an Amusement Park Experience You Can Take Home | During last year’s LA Tech Week, the word on every AR professional’s lips was “gamification” — the process of incorporating game elements into everyday experiences to help companies drive traffic and engagement, elevate in-person experience... |
| - | AI Had a Very Bad Week. What Does That Mean for Its Future? | The internet’s love affair with AI continued this week, whether it was Fake Joe Rogan talking about getting “Ratatouille’d” or America’s Presidents being reimagined as cartoon characters.
It’s not just viral memes either. New AI startups, i... |
| - | Five Tech Stories We’re Following Ahead of This Weekend’s Super Bowl LVII | The Philadelphia Eagles face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in this weekend’s Super Bowl LVII [Writer’s Note: GO BIRDS!!]. Yet again, the Big Game won’t be available to stream on any of the major subscription services. It’s airing on th... |
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YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. MrBeast, is embroiled in a legal battle with the company behind his virtual burger restaurant, MrBeast Burger. 🍔⚖️📜
After MrBeast's lawsuit against Virtual Dining Concepts (VDC), which manage... |
| - | Welcome To the World Of Ambient 'Sludge' Content | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
Scrolling through my TikTok feed in the past month or so, my usual content has been disru... |
| - | AI Chatbots Aren’t Sentient. Why Is the Media Trying to Convince Us Otherwise? | Last week, former Google and Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt, MIT computer science professor Daniel Huttenlocher, and retired political advisor and diplomat Henry Kissinger (yup, that one) co-authored an editorial for the Wall Stre... |
| - | How Redditors Convinced ChatGPT To Break All Its Rules | This is the web version of dot.LA’s daily newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
The internet continues to be dazzled by OpenAI’s ChatGPT, an “AI chatbot” capable of gene... |
| - | Impulse Space: In-Space Transportation Services Company Raises $45 Million | Impulse Space – a leader in developing in-space transportation services for the inner solar system – recently announced it secured $45 million in its Series A funding round. The funding round was led by RTX Ventures, the venture capital arm... |
| - | Content Creators Relieved by Susan Wojcicki's Departure From YouTube | When YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki announced her departure from the world’s largest video platform in a letter to its employees last week, she also issued a separate note to its millions of creators.
“Today, the YouTube community i... |
| - | The Empty Promise of TikTok’s New Creator Fund | In a TikTok video posted last month, @itsselahmichelle, a creator with over 30,000 followers revealed the amount of money she made from the company’s creator fund.
$14.32.
Her complaint is a common one: payouts as part of the company’s init... |
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| - | LA Venture: Technology Crossover Ventures’ David Zhang On His Approach to Investing | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Technology Crossover Venture (TCV) Partner David Zhang discusses his approach to investing.
TCV is a venture capital firm that invests in seed-stage, early-stage, later-stage and growth-stage compa... |
| - | How 'Open' Is OpenAI, Really? | This is the web version of dot.LA’s weekly newsletter. Sign up to get the latest news on Southern California’s tech, startup and venture capital scene.
On Friday morning, Elon Musk responded to a comment on his favorite website about OpenAI... |
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Rocket manufacturer Relativity Space just got closer to 3D-printing rockets on Mars.
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The ongoing dispute between Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. and Charter Communications (parent of Spectrum cable/internet) regarding the distribution of Disney's channels, particularly ESPN, could potentially unravel the cable TV ... |
| - | Impulse Space Propulsion | “Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery” |
| - | 'We’re Running Out of Ore on Earth': Astroforge Targets April for Test Asteroid Refining Mission | One of the most-used elements in industrial work on Earth is disappearing.
Popular for industrial use because of its resistance to corrosion and heat, platinum sells for over $1,000 an ounce and is in everything from wedding bands to medica... |
| - | Is the Globalization of Content a Good Thing? | This is a Streaming Plan’s World
The shift from cable and satellite TV over to streaming platforms has had a number of far-reaching impacts on technology, the global economy and pop culture, from changing the kinds of films people go see in... |
| - | ‘The Next Solution Is a Wearable’: These 3 Startups Are at the Forefront of Digitizing Health | The coronavirus outbreak cast fear across the nation, but the pandemic was extremely stress inducing for those who were medically at-risk. Coupled with the 200,000 health care workers who left the profession last year, there is a bigger nee... |
| - | LA Tech ‘Moves’: SUMA Wealth Welcomes Back Former CEO, PowerPlant Partners Gains New COO | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA profile he... |
| - | Despite the Critiques, Gen Z Swears by Influencer Marketing | After an influx of scandals, some reports suggest that beauty influencers have run their course. Just look at the de-influcing trend—people are outwardly expressing frustration with the sheer amount of sponsored content being pushed on ever... |
| - | Return to Office Policies Have Tech Workers Considering Their Options | In the last couple of weeks, a surge of tech companies have reversed their COVID-era policies regarding work from home, prompting backlash from employees who are vehemently opposed to returning to the office.
In practice, it’s difficult to ... |
| - | ‘Life Beyond Likes’: Isa Watson On Her Audio Social Platform Squad | On this episode of Office Hours, Founder and CEO Isa Watson shares the tragic, but inspirational story that led to the creation of her audio social platform, Squad, and the challenges she faces as a Black woman in tech.
“My journey to entre... |
| - | Key Takeaways From The State of Influencer Earnings Report | For anyone who thinks the creator economy was overblown—think again. Influencer marketing company IZEA’s second report on the state of influencer earnings found that payment averages continue to increase. The report breaks influencers into ... |
| - | Skybound Entertainment’s Crowdfunding Effort Raised $12 Million. Investors Wonder When They’ll Get Paid | Last month, fans of one of science fiction’s most popular franchises were offered an enticing proposition: the opportunity to invest directly in Skybound Entertainment, the owner of “The Walking Dead.”
Since the Jan. 23 announcement, the of... |
| - | LA Tech ‘Moves’: ByFusion Taps SpaceX Executive | MOCEAN, an advertising services company, promoted president Michael McIntyre to chief executive officer.
Jimmy Peters joined food service platform Galley Solutions as chief revenue officer. Prior to joining, Peters held leadership positions... |
| - | How One USC PhD Candidate Employs Robots To Evaluate Infants | Inside the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) multiple high definition digital cameras are set up in a fixed-rig around a 22-inch bipedal (humanoid) NAO robot and a similar-sized (human) infant, as part of a study by the Infant Neuromot... |
| - | LA Tech ‘Moves’: Birdy Grey Gains New COO, Procore Technologies Welcomes New CMO | “Moves,” our roundup of job changes in L.A. tech, is presented by Interchange.LA, dot.LA's recruiting and career platform connecting Southern California's most exciting companies with top tech talent. Create a free Interchange.LA profile he... |
