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| 25.03.2022 | LA Tech ‘Moves’: Stratolaunch Has a New CEO, Former Apple TV Exec Joins NRG | 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 here... |
| 17.05.2021 | Who are the Top LA Investors Under 30? We Asked Their Peers | There is a common credo in tech that one should work 20 years as an operator before switching over to the VC side. The young investors you are about to meet flip that assumption on its head as they bet big on everything from livestream shop... |
| 08.03.2021 | This Poet Turned Financier Is Raising Millions of Dollars to Fund Black and Latino Investors and Entrepreneurs | The 46-year-old poet-turned-financer Taj Eldridge is raising $250 million to support Black and brown entrepreneurs and investors.
The fund will be split in two buckets, $125 million will go toward direct investments in clean tech, healthcar... |
| 25.02.2021 | LA Venture Podcast: TenOneTen Ventures Co-Founder David Waxman on 'The Nice And Nerdy' LA Fund | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, meet the one, the only, David Waxman! He's the co-founder and managing partner at the fund I work for, TenOneTen Ventures. There are few L.A. funds that have as much operational experience... |
| 24.02.2021 | LA Venture Podcast: TenOneTen Ventures Co-Founder David Waxman on 'The Nice And Nerdy' LA Fund | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, meet the one, the only, David Waxman! He's the co-founder and managing partner at the fund I work for, TenOneTen Ventures. There are few L.A. funds that have as much operational experience... |
| 09.02.2021 | Behind Her Empire Podcast: Minnie Ingersoll on Building a Business on Maternity Leave | On this episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, hear from Minnie Ingersoll, partner at TenOneTen Ventures. She's also the co-founder and former COO of Shift, an online marketplace for used cars.
Key Takeaways:
Minnie co-founded Shift in 2... |
| 02.02.2021 |
TenOneTen Ventures Kicks Off Fundraising Effort For Fund III
| Los Angeles-based TenOnTen Ventures, the venture capital investment fund run by David Waxman, Gil Elbaz, and Minnie Ingersoll, has kicked off efforts to raise a third fund, TenOneTen Ventures III, with a goal of raising $60M in the fund, pe... |
| 04.05.2020 | Daily.co raises $4.6M video chat API service | API-powered startups are having a good year, with Plaid’s mega-exit to Visa still fresh in mind. And digital video-powered startups are also having a good year, as the world stays home more than before and work shifts to a more remote-frien... |
| 30.07.2019 |
TenOneTen Launches New Podcast, LA Venture
| Los Angeles-based venture capital investment firm TenOneTen Ventures has launched a new podcast, to highlight Los Angeles area venture capital funds, the fir is announcing today. The new podcast is run by Minnie Ingersoll and David Waxman, ... |
| 05.03.2019 | Minnie Ingersoll, co-founder of the fast-growing car marketplace Shift, just became a VC in LA | Minnie Ingersoll has already had an enviable career. After 12 years at Google, working as product manager and later principal with Google.org, she co-founded the venture-backed online car marketplace Shift in 2013, then she left to join the... |
| 05.09.2018 | Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5 million for Ordermark, a takeout order management service | Alex Canter knows the restaurant business.
The scion of Los Angeles’ famous first family of the deli business — the owners of the eponymous Canters restaurant — Canter has been in the food business longer than many seasoned restauranteurs t... |
| 27.07.2017 | TenOneTen Ventures to Raise $50M for Second Venture Capital Fund | TenOneTen Ventures, a Los Angeles, CA-based venture capital firm, is seeking to raise $50m for its second fund.
Per an SEC filing, TenOneTen Ventures II, L.P. has not raised funds, yet. The doc lists David Waxman and Gil Elbaz as people rel... |
| 25.08.2016 | DroneDeploy Adds to 2016’s Drone Funding Total with $20m Series B | Software for drones provider DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by tech investment firm Scale Venture Partners and ExactTarget co-founder Scott Dorsey’s fund. Venture studio developers High Alpha Capital also partici... |
| 02.08.2016 | Pluot raises $2.5 million to bring video conferencing to the masses | For those who think that Google Hangouts, Slack or Skype aren’t enough to meet their business needs, please allow me to introduce you to Pluot.
The company just raised $2.5 million from a slew of investors, including TenOneTen Ventures, Roo... |
| 08.04.2016 | Daily funding roundup - April 8, 2016 | Getui bagged $180M; Twiggle secured $12.5M; KiteDesk completed $6M funding round
RiskRecon landed seed-round financing led by General Catalyst Partners and several private investors. The funding will enable RiskRecon to expand its product d... |
| 26.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 26, 2016 | AppCard raised $20M; Vicampo closed third financing round; CREXi secured $4.3M Seed funding
An online store for party supplies, Funcart, raised $70,000 in its first round of funding from a group of HNIs. Launched in March 2015 by Funcart is... |
| 19.11.2015 | Descartes Labs Raises $5m Series A for A.I. Analysis of Ag Imagery Data | Descartes Labs, a software startup using artificial intelligence to process satellite imagery, has raised $5 million in Series A funding in a round led by Cultivian Sandbox, the veteran agtech venture capital fund.
Through a form of artific... |
| 13.08.2014 |
TenOneTen Ventures Eyes $25M Fund
| Los Angeles-based venture capital investor TenOneTen Ventures, which is run by David Waxman and Gil Elbaz, is looking to raise a $25M fund, according to a regulatory filing from the company this week. The investment firm--which already has ... |
| 31.05.2013 |
TenOneTen Invests In Weotta
| Weotta, a Silicon Valley developer of an application to help users discover and find events and things happening locally, has raised a funding round from newly formed Los Angeles investment firm TenOneTen, which was founded by David Waxman ... |
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Concrete Rose’s Will Bumpus on Mission-Driven Investments | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Concrete Rose Capital Partner Will Bumpus discusses how the firm hopes to support a virtuous cycle of wealth and opportunity for underrepresented communities of color.
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| - | Kroma Wellness Founder Lisa Odenweller on Breaking Into the Nutrition Industry | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Lisa Odenweller opens up about her superfood nutrition company, Kroma Wellness, and the difficulties of breaking into the wellness industry.
Odenweller began her career in the wellness space in 2011 whe... |
| - | Why Bored Ape NFTs Are Showing Up in Movies, TV Shows and Novels | On a Zoom call last week, Gene Nubla was explaining the name and origin story he gave “Nicky Nickels,” his Bored Ape NFT who will be a character in a forthcoming novel.
Nubla’s Bored Ape Yacht Club #6717 wears a leather vest and orange bean... |
| - | 💡 Creative Synergy Between Hollywood and Artificial Intelligence
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Executives in the media and entertainment industry are betting that AI can be a positive force by augmenting human creativity in addition to increasing efficiency. These companies range from brand new startups like Strada, an AI... |
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Lightspeed Partner Faraz Fatemi on the Future of Consumer and Community-Focused Startups | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, Lightspeed Partner Faraz Fatemi discusses a trend toward vertical-specific, authentic social platforms, as well as the shifting ecommerce and influencer economy.
As Lightspeed’s first L.A.-based ... |
| - | Outlander VC’s Paige Craig on Investing Early and Identifying Intelligent Leaders | On this episode of the LA Venture Podcast, Outlander VC founder and Managing Partner Paige Craig discusses how he pivoted from working in the defense industry to investing early in major companies like Wish, Scale and Gusto.
Craig’s entrepr... |
| - | Vamstar Raises $9.5M To Boost Its Medical Supply Chain Platform | In early March 2020, as the world stood on the precipice of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization warned countries around the globe of a pending medical equipment shortage. Sure enough, in a matter of weeks—as coronavirus cas... |
| - | TSM Suspends Partnership With FTX — The Latest in a String of Departures | Esports team owner Team SoloMid (TSM) announced Wednesday that it suspended its partnership with embattled cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The $210 million naming rights agreement was set last July. It was the biggest in esports history.
In a ... |
| - | Greater Good Health Raises $10 Million To Fix America’s Doctor Shortage | The pandemic highlighted what’s been a growing trend for years: Medical students are prioritizing high-paying specialty fields over primary care, leading to a shortage of primary care doctors who take care of a patient’s day-to-day health c... |
| - | TikTok Is Forcing Digital Agencies To Reconsider Their Content Approval and Scheduling Processes | Last year, TikTok made $4 billion in ad revenue. In 2022, that number is expected to jump to $11 billion. As companies like YouTube see their advertising earnings dwindle, TikTok’s ad revenue will account for 2.4% of this year’s total digit... |
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LA Venture: Marcy Venture Partners’ Charlie Hanna on Culture-Informed Investment | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, Marcy Venture Partners (MVP) investor Charlie Hanna talks about celebrity investments and how cultural trends inform the group’s investment strategies.
Jay-Z, Jay Brown and Larry Marcus founded M... |
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‘We Know Just Saying ‘Trust Us’ Is Not Enough’: TikTok Promises Transparency to Researchers | TikTok on Wednesday pledged to give “selected researchers” more transparency into the video-sharing platform and its content moderation systems, a decision that comes amid fresh concerns that the Chinese-owned app could pose national securi... |
| - | Snap Says It Will Miss Earnings Targets, Slow Down Hiring | Snap warned on Monday that it will likely report lower-than-expected revenues and profits this quarter—a revelation that sent the social media firm’s stock price plunging by 30%.
“The macroeconomic environment has deteriorated further and f... |
| - | 🏛️ Brilliant Designs or Billion-Dollar Liabilities? How This LA Ruling May Disrupt Big Tech!
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Ever suspected your go-to black hole of time, I mean social media app, might have a secret plan to keep you hooked? Well, a judge in Los Angeles seems to think so! 📱👀⚖️
Photo by Adem AY on Unsplash
A Los Angeles judge has reject... |
| - | How Ice Cream and Celebrity Branding Got Regeneration.VC’s Dan Fishman to Focus on Climate Startups | Regeneration.VC’s Dan Fishman joined LA Venture host Minnie Ingersoll to talk about learning to scale businesses, from fashion and ice cream to climate innovation.
Fishman got his start putting together brand deals for major artists, includ... |
| - | How Caltech’s Fred Farina Is Creating a Haven for Research-Driven Startups on Campus | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Caltech’s Chief Innovation and Partnerships Officer Fred Farina discusses how the university converts fundamental research into new technology and supports developing startups.
Farina has been at C... |
| - | Triller Abandons Reverse Merger, Plans To Go Public via Direct Listing | Los Angeles-based Trillerverz, the company that operates social video platform Triller, has ditched plans to go public through a reverse merger with digital advertising firm SeaChange, the companies announced Tuesday.
Instead of merging wit... |
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Sandbox Studios’ Jackie Fast on the New Ways Celebrities Are Partnering With Startups | Jackie Fast doesn’t think celebrities make good entrepreneurs. Instead, they make great assets for young companies.
On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, the Sandbox Studios managing partner discusses why many celebrities are exploring... |
| - | From Hollywood Investors to Crypto Fraud — Happy International NFT Day | The first International NFT Day is celebrating the digital assets sweeping the Internet.
The day is meant to highlight the nonfungible tokens that have quickly gained popularity by bringing together companies like a16z, Dapper Labs and Meta... |
| - | Invoca Hits Unicorn Status With $83M Silver Lake-Led Funding Round | Invoca, a Santa Barbara-based AI software platform that analyzes customer service calls for sales and marketing teams, is now a unicorn.
The startup announced an $83 million Series F funding round on Tuesday that values it at $1.1 billion. ... |
| - | Meet the Culver City Startup Looking to 3D-Print ADUs in Under 24 Hours | In the wake of the pandemic, remote work forced many people to convert their living and dining rooms into home offices, something that could be problematic in more cramped living situations. Enter Azure Printed Homes—a 3D-printing construct... |
| - | Foundation Capital's Zach Noorani on How Fintech Is Reinventing Finance’s Infrastructure | Foundation Capital's Zach Noorani joins this episode of the LA Venture podcast to talk about how traditional banking will change in the future and why he's excited for the rise of neobanks.
As a partner at Foundation, Noorani leads the firm... |
| - | 🍔MrBeast Legal Spat Over Sizzle and Slander
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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... |
| - | Meet the LA Startup Using NFTs To Auction Off Restaurant Reservations | People are back to dining out after a steep drop-off in reservations during the pandemic. According to data from OpenTable, the number of reservations made on the app in August and September was higher than the same period of time in 2019.
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| - | LA Venture: Touchdown Ventures Partner Beth Kearns on ‘Corporate Innovation’ | In the early days of the internet, Beth Kearns jokes that she was the only person in her organization with an AOL account.
“They were like, ‘Oh, well, you know, you just graduated college. So you'll be the one who can access the internet. Y... |
| - | Jumpstart Nova’s Kathryne Cooper on Funding More Diverse Health Care Startups | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Kathryne Cooper introduces Jumpstart Nova, a new $55 million fund investing in seed and Series A companies led by Black founders who are focused on healthcare innovation.
Cooper, an L.A.-native, pr... |
| - | Office Hours: Hello Sunshine’s Liz Jenkins on How Young Studios Are Disrupting Hollywood | On this episode of Office Hours, Hello Sunshine Chief Operating Office Liz Jenkins joins the show to talk about how she aims to disrupt the way storytelling is produced, in Hollywood and beyond.
Hello Sunshine is a media brand and content c... |
| - | 🚗 Parking Startup Metropolis Shells Out $1.5B for Public Parking Operator SP Plus
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🎉 We are launching a BRAND NEW referral contest this month! Legendary Zillow, Hotwire, Pacaso, and dot.LA co-founder Spencer Rascoff is looking to get coffee with a dot.la reader, so we’re going to help him ... |
| - | Review: LAX's Self-Bag Drop and CAT Machine Will Help You Breeze Through The Airport | Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is notorious for its long Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lines and major traffic jams. Now LAX has technology in place to help decrease delays and wait times and has implemented technolo... |
| - | Plus Capital Partner Amanda Groves on Celebrity Equity Investments | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, Amanda Groves talks about how PLUS Capital advises celebrity investors and why more high-profile individuals are choosing to invest instead of endorse.
As a partner at PLUS, Groves works with ove... |
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Waymo: Independent self-driving cars, that don’t need no (hu)man! We took a ride in one of Waymo’s self-driving cars and want to let you know what it was like. 🤖🚦🚗
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Waymo One, is an autonomous ride-hailing ser... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: TenOneTen Venture's Gil Elbaz on Why Founders Need a 10-Year Vision | On this episode of L.A. Venture, we talk to Gil Elbaz, one of my partners and the co-founder of TenOneTen Ventures.
Gil is one of the most iconic founders in L.A. He talks about his years building what would eventually become Google's AdSen... |
| - | Women Are Still Underrepresented in Entertainment. These LA Startups Want to Change That. | Shira Yevin’s lifelong crusade against a male-dominated music industry began with a pink RV.
After attending the Vans Warped Tour in 2004 and seeing far too few women on the bill, the punk rocker decided to take matters into her own hands: ... |
| - | The Battle for Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric in the Long-Range Trucking Industry | When experts talk about the future of the energy economy, technologies are often described as winners or losers.
“Solar will beat nuclear.”
“Lithium iron phosphate will dominate lithium nickel manganese cobalt.”
“Geothermal is a better bet ... |
| - | Cedars Sinai Health Ventures’ Maureen Klewicki on How Tech Is Changing Health Care | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Cedars Sinai Health Ventures’ Maureen Klewicki talks about price transparency for health care, the labor shortage crisis and emerging models of health care.
Klewicki got her start working in the ve... |
| - | Performio Raises $75M for Its Sales Commission Software | Performio, an Irvine-based provider of sales commission software, has raised $75 million in new funding.
The company announced Tuesday that growth equity firm JMI Equity led the funding, with JMI chairman Paul Barber and vice president Jack... |
| - | Bling Capital’s Kyle Lui On How Small Funds Can Better Support Young Founders | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Bling Capital’s Kyle Lui talks about why he moved earlier stage in his investing and how investors can best support founders.
Lui joined his friend—and first angel investor—Ben Ling as a general pa... |
| - | LA Venture: Mantis VC’s Jeffrey Evans on How Influencers Can Boost Young Companies | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Mantis Venture Capital co-founder and partner Jeffrey Evans discusses how celebrities can benefit venture capital firms and what makes a good founder.
Evans co-founded Mantis VC alongside electroni... |
| - | Activision Buys Game Studio Proletariat To Expand ‘World of Warcraft’ Staff | Activision Blizzard intends to acquire Proletariat, a Boston-based game studio that developed the wizard-themed battle royale game “Spellbreak.”
VentureBeat first reported that the Santa Monica-based publisher was exploring a purchase, noti... |
| - | 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... |
| - | How Farmgirl Flowers CEO Christina Stembel Built Her Startup Without an Academic Pedigree or Institutional Funding | From her one-bedroom apartment, Christina Stembel grew her local flower delivery service to a company that delivers nationwide.
On this episode of Behind Her Empire, the founder and CEO of Farmgirl Flowers discusses growing up in rural Indi... |
| - | Rivian Delays SUV Deliveries Yet Again | Rivian pre-order holders took to the forums over the weekend to share news of the latest, delayed delivery windows for the electric automaker’s R1S sports utility vehicle.
After already pushing back its original January 2022 delivery date f... |
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How To Startup Part 6: How to Find Product-Market Fit | For any business to survive, there must be consumers who will buy what it sells. As a startup founder, it’s crucial to assess the market’s demand for your product or service. Knowing whether your product satisfies market needs is the differ... |
| - | Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | It’s been an up and down year for tech. Between a looming recession, mounting layoffs and the rollercoaster that is market volatility, 2023 isn’t looking any calmer.
Amid the chaos, Los Angeles VCs are trying to read the tea leaves on where... |
| - | Xos Unveils New EV Trucks to Boost its Electric Fleet | Xos Trucks revealed two new EVs on Tuesday aimed at shifting everything from local delivery vehicles to long-distance haulers away from internal combustion engines. The new models come as the race to get more truck fleets and delivery servi... |
| - | Bird Is Laying Off 23% of Its Staff | Santa Monica-based electric scooter firm Bird is laying off 23% of its staff in an effort to cut costs.
A Bird spokesperson confirmed the layoffs in an emailed statement to dot.LA—noting that "while the need for and access to micro-ele... |
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LA Tech Week: ADUs, Legacy Roadblocks and the Landscape for LA's Booming Proptech Startups | Los Angeles has seen a rise in property technology (proptech) startups emerging over the last few years and the smaller players are beginning to take shape.
On Monday, at its home base in Culver City, 3D printing construction company Azure ... |
| - | Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Talks Snapchat’s ‘Super App’ Aspirations | Snap co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel said that Elon Musk’s plan to build Twitter into a “super app” mirrors his own social media company’s ambitions.
Super apps, which integrate multiple services into one platform, allow companies like Sant... |
| - | Faraday Future Reveals Only 401 Pre-Orders For Its First Electric Car | Electric vehicle hopeful Faraday Future has had no shortage of drama—from alleged securities law violations to boardroom shake-ups—on its long and circuitous path to actually producing a car. And though the Gardena-based company looked to h... |
| - | Meet CropSafe, the Agtech Startup Helping Farmers Monitor Their Fields | This January, John McElhone moved to Santa Monica from, as he described it, “a tiny farm in the absolute middle of nowhere” in his native Northern Ireland, with the goal of growing the crop-monitoring tech startup he founded.
It looks like ... |
| - | ‘Stranger Things’ Gives Netflix a Much-Needed Boost | “Stranger Things” just gave Netflix a sorely-needed win, drawing record viewership over the holiday weekend.
Based on Netflix’s internal metrics, viewers watched a combined 287 million hours of season 4, volume 1 of the coming-of-age sci-fi... |
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University of Southern California has long been known for big spending parents, but the university is now also attracting big investment in the form of research grants from agencies and institutions.
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| - | Family of Former Activision Employee Drops Wrongful Death Lawsuit | The family of Kerri Moynihan, an Activision Blizzard employee who died by suicide during a company retreat in 2017, have reportedly dropped their wrongful death lawsuit against the Santa Monica-based video game publisher.
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Culver City-based XPRIZE, an organization known for orchestrating large-scale incentive competitions aimed at resolving humanity's most significant challenges, just launched a new 7-year global competition, XPRIZE Healthspan. Th... |
| - | Halsey Blasts Record Label for ‘Fake Viral’ TikTok Requirement | The singer Halsey has claimed that their record label is requiring TikTok momentum before letting them release new music, in comments that draw attention to the video-sharing app’s growing influence over the music industry.
In a TikTok vide... |
| - | LA Venture: Anthemis Group’s Vinay Singh On How Creative Workers Are Pioneering a New Economy | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Anthemis Group Managing Director Vinay Singh talks about empowering creators, payments in media and how being a VC is similar to being a producer.
Anthemis is a platform for broad financial change ... |
| - | Amateur Sleuths Take to CrimeDoor’s App To Examine Hae Min Lee’s Murder Scene | After a Baltimore judge ordered the release of Adnan Syed—Syed was convicted for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee—augmented reality app CrimeDoor made sure to let people know they could walk around the blood-splattered cri... |
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Pitbull Ventures’ Brad Zions Is a Seed-Stage Investor and a Web3 Skeptic | Brad Zions saw Web 1.0 flourish—and he doesn’t think Web3 has the same lasting power.
On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, the founder of Pitbull Ventures discusses his career, from his early work at AOL to founding Lemonade restauran... |
| - | Valence, a Network for Black Professionals, Acquired by Fintech Firm Greenwood | Valence, a Los Angeles-based networking platform for Black professionals, has been bought by digital banking platform Greenwood, the company announced Wednesday.
Atlanta-based Greenwood—which provides services intended to boost financial op... |
| - | While Netflix Reels, Disney Plus Adds Another 7.9 Million Subscribers | Disney Plus just showed up Netflix.
After Netflix stunned Wall Street by losing subscribers for the first time in a decade, Disney said Wednesday that its flagship streaming service is still chugging along nicely. Disney Plus added 7.9 mill... |
| - | LA Venture: Arrowroot Capital’s Kareem El Sawy On Navigating Structured Equity | In this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Arrowroot Capital’s founding General Partner Kareem El Sawy discusses how to navigate structured equity.
Founded in 2014, Arrowroot helps enterprise software companies “that are past the VC stage n... |
| - | TikTok’s Latest Ad Strategy: Let Brands Crowdsource Creators | TikTok’s newest advertising program will allow brands to crowdsource content from creators.
Branded Mission, which the Culver City-based video-sharing app announced Wednesday, is currently being beta-tested. The program lets brands release ... |
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After announcing its partnership with the PGA of America earlier this year, LA-based Sensible Weather, a climate finance platform, has now introduced its Weather Guarantee program in collaboration with 23 distinguished golf faci... |
| - | Netflix’s Password Sharing Crackdown Causes Confusion: Report | Netflix’s first attempt at curbing password sharing is not garnering the company goodwill among international users.
The streaming giant has been experimenting with ways to prevent password sharing among extended friends and family networks... |
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A16z’s Megan Holston-Alexander on Building Generational Wealth in the Black Community Through Tech | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, A16z Partner Megan Holston-Alexander, who heads the company’s Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF), discusses how she uses her network to bring Black leaders to the tech space, as part of an effort to ... |
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GrayMatter Robotics Raises $20M To Make Industrial Bots Smarter | Gardena-based GrayMatter Robotics, an industrial robotics firm, raised a $20 million Series A round to accelerate hiring engineering and development staff for its mission of training robots to do menial factory work currently done by humans... |
| - | LA Venture: R-Squared Ventures’ Roy Rubin on the Evolution of Ecommerce | On the episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, R-Squared Ventures’ co-founder Roy Rubin talks about investing, ecommerce and how he got started in tech at UCLA.
R-Squared, the venture firm Rubin co-founded with his partner and former Loop Comm... |
| - | Investments By LA Venture Firms to Women and Founders of Color Dropped in 2021 | According to PledgeLA’s annual report, the Los Angeles venture capital and tech scene is still very much an all-boys club.
From an analysis of more than 6,300 investment transactions made in 2021 the L.A. venture capital report found that t... |
| - | E-Bike Startup Wheels Agrees To Sell Business to Micromobility Firm Helbiz | West Hollywood-based electric bicycle-sharing startup Wheels has agreed to sell its business to micromobility firm Helbiz, the companies announced Tuesday.
Helbiz said it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Wheels for an undisclosed su... |
| - | A Look Inside eBay’s Wear ‘Em Out Fairfax Sneaker Pop-Up | When you first move to Los Angeles, one of the strangest sights is the blocks-long queues of people waiting patiently to get into a handful of micro-boutiques on Fairfax Avenue, where four doors down from the Supreme store you could go for ... |
| - | Celebrities Are Facing Legal Ramifications From NFT Endorsements | Celebs, like everyone else, just want to be in on what’s cool and new. In the last five to six years, that’s been cryptocurrency and NFTs. It’s a new frontier in celebrity shilling for products, but it’s not as straightforward as just holdi... |
| - | Gaming Will Keep Growing Despite Economic Woes, Netflix Exec Says | The economic headwinds that are hurting tech companies these days won’t halt gaming’s growing popularity, according to Netflix Vice President of Games Mike Verdu.
During a panel discussion Tuesday at the Montgomery Summit conference in Sant... |
| - | Casa Verde Capital’s Karan Wadhera on Investing in Cannabis and Emerging Markets | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Casa Verde Capital’s Karan Wadhera talks about the cannabis industry, investing in risky environments and working with music legend Snoop Dogg.
Wadhera grew up playing music and had always wanted t... |
| - | Evoke Advisors' Michael Carney on Why the 60-40 Investment Strategy Needs an Update | Michael Carney grew up as an athlete. That may be why he views venture capital as a team sport.
On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, the senior vice president of Evoke Advisors discusses the guidance he gives to entrepreneurs and his ... |
| - | Snap Launches Travel Ad Product Amid Digital Marketing Headwinds | Social media giant Snap is launching a new advertising product for the travel industry as the company navigates an increasingly challenging digital ad market.
On Wednesday, the Santa Monica-based company announced Dynamic Travel Ads, which ... |
| - | Halsey Finally Releasing New Song After Getting Their TikTok ‘Viral Moment’ | Halsey finally got their viral TikTok moment—and with it, the release of their new single.
After the singer claimed earlier this month that their record label was holding their new single hostage until they created a “fake viral” moment, Ha... |
| - | Lime Piloting New Electric Motorbike in Long Beach | Lime is piloting a new electric motorbike in Long Beach.
The San Francisco-based micromobility company is testing its latest lightweight electric vehicle, known as the Citra, on the streets of Long Beach, The Verge reported Tuesday. Lime pl... |
| - | Did TikTok Disinformation Just Decide the Next President of the Philippines? | Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is set to become the Philippines’ next president—a victory likely resulting from misinformation spread on TikTok, Business Insider reported ahead of Monday’s election.
Since Marcos Jr.’s father, former dictator Ferdinan... |
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Overture VC’s Shomik Dutta on Investing in Climate Change Technology | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Shomik Dutta, co-founder and managing partner of Overture VC, talks about how his firm is tackling climate change.
Before moving into the venture capital world, Dutta was invested in politics. Much... |
| - | Have a Look Inside Amazon's New Store in Glendale | Starting today, Glendale’s most meme-able outdoor mall, The Americana at Brand, will be home to the Amazon Style store—the ecommerce giant’s first foray into brick-and-mortar apparel retail. We got an early sneak peak inside the new digs (l... |
| - | Ludis Capital Founder Matilda Sung on How NFTs Could Change the NFL | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Ludis Capital founder Matilda Sung talks about the future of sports and technology, including sports betting, streaming and digital assets like NFTs.
At Ludis, Sung invests in companies at the inte... |
