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| 10.12.2025 | Xsolla Celebrates a Week of Industry Programming at The Game Awards With a New Brand Launch, Day of the Devs Participation, and GamesBeat Hollywood & Games 2025 Partnership | Xsolla, a leading global video game commerce company that helps developers launch, grow, and monetize their games, today announced a unified lineup of programming during The Game Awards week in Los Angeles. Together, these initiatives showc... |
| 22.06.2023 | Avatar startup Genies launches $1M fund for developers building AR experiences | Genies, the Bob Iger-backed avatar tech company, announced Thursday the launch of its Developer Engagement Fund to reward developers that build AR experiences via Genies’ recently announced developer kit. The total fund size is $1 million.
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| 28.05.2023 | Avatar Genies Secures $150 Million in Series C Financing | Don't miss out on the latest trend in 3D avatars and fashion! Genies, the leading provider of a fun-filled “avatar ecosystem”, has raised a staggering $150 million in Series C funding. Want to learn more about this innovative platform? Keep... |
| 26.05.2023 | Genies Releases AR Developer Kit For Interoperable Avatar Social Network | Developers That Gain Access to Genies’ Avatar Tools Will Be Among The First to Develop Their Own Avatar Experiences in AR, Providing an Interoperable Avatar Social Network for Users The Developer Kit provides three key tech stacks that deve... |
| 30.08.2022 | Star-studded digital avatar startup Genies launches NFT fashion marketplace | Digital avatar startup Genies, known its for high-profile partnerships with celebrities such as Justin Bieber, Migos and Cardi B, has just released its long-anticipated NFT storefront, “The Warehouse.” Genies last earned a $1 billion valuat... |
| 13.04.2022 | NFT avatar startup Genies valued at $1B following Series C funding round | - |
| 12.04.2022 | Web3 Avatar Tech Firm Genies Charges Into Unicorn Territory With $150M Series C | Genies, an avatar technology company, today announced it has raised a $150 million Series C round led by Silver Lake. The investment values the company at $1 billion and includes participation from existing investors BOND, NEA, and Tamarack... |
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| 12.04.2022 | Avatar startup Genies hits $1 billion valuation in latest raise | Only in the current market can one wonder how a celebrity avatar startup that sells NFT accessories took so long to hit a unicorn valuation.
Genies, an LA-based digital avatar startup, announced Tuesday that it had raised $150 million in fu... |
| 24.03.2022 | The Ultimate LA Guide To The Metaverse | Sly Lee, Isaac Castro and Mauricio Teran have spent the last seven years building a machine that can fuse the virtual world with the real one.
Long before the “metaverse” became a buzzword, the co-founders of Marina del Rey-based Emerge env... |
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Genies Gets Investment From Disney's Iger
| Los Angeles-based NFT avatar company Genies has scored an investment from former Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger, Iger said on Monday. According to Iger, he has joined the board of Genies as part of the move. Financial details of the investment we... |
| 14.03.2022 | Robert Iger, Previous Head of Walt Disney, Takes Board Seat at Metaverse Startup Genies Inc | Ryan Epps, Tech Times 14 March 2022, 07:03 pm
From 2005 to 2020, Robert Iger, better known as Bob Iger, worked as the CEO of Walt Disney, pushing boundaries with Disney+ and accelerating the brand, including billion-dollar acquisitions like... |
| 14.03.2022 | Former Disney CEO Bob Iger joins the metaverse | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
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| 28.12.2021 | Multiple Metaverses, One Avatar: ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Make It Happen | In a bid to become the go-to avatar company of the metaverse, Ready Player Me has raised a $13 million funding round led by venture capital firm Taavet+Sten.
The company creates tools for developers to sell in-game wearable items expressed ... |
| 23.12.2021 | Snapchat knows you want to see what you’d look like in the metaverse | Snapchat released an Avatar lens AR filter today, which makes you look like a Sims character. Or, in more modern parlance, it makes you look like what you’d look like in the metaverse. To use the lens, open your camera in the Snapchat app t... |
| 13.12.2021 | Crypto gaming giant Dapper Labs takes its next shot with Genies NFT platform ‘The Warehouse’ | As they near the end of a blockbuster year for NFTs that saw more than $10 billion in transaction volume, today’s NFT project developers are finding themselves facing a dilemma — whether to chase today’s dollars or tomorrow’s users.
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| 28.09.2021 | Former Snapchat Employees Move to Genies Engineering Team | Virtual avatar company Genies wants to be the go-to option for online personas and it's targeting the wealth of talent and seasoned executives from the area's biggest tech firm, Snap Inc., to help make that goal a reality.
Genies' latest hi... |
| 28.09.2021 | Inside Genies' Push to Build an Engineering Powerhouse With Ex-Snap Employees | Virtual avatar company Genies wants to be the go-to option for online personas and it's targeting the wealth of talent and seasoned executives from the area's biggest tech firm, Snap Inc., to help make that goal a reality.
Genies' latest hi... |
| 28.06.2021 | Fresh Off a Big Raise, Genies Moves From Venice to Marina Del Rey | Genies, a startup that makes virtual avatars out of musicians, celebrities and, very soon, everyone else, is moving from Venice to a 20,000-square-foot converted warehouse in Marina Del Rey.
The move comes on the heels of Genies' $65 millio... |
| 04.05.2021 |
Genies Finds $65M For NFT Avatars
| Los Angeles-based Genies, a startup that helps people create their own avatars--which they can decorate by buying special NFTs (non-fungible tokens)--has raised $65M in a Series B funding, the company said this week. The funding was led by ... |
| 03.05.2021 | Digital avatar startup Genies raises $65M from Bond, Dapper Laps and Coinbase
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| 03.05.2021 | Avatar Creation App Genies Gets $65M and Plans a Slew of New Offerings and Integrations | L.A.-based digital avatar company Genies has a plan to monetize the metaverse.
The startup announced Monday it has closed a $65 million Series B fundraise. Genies, which got its start building cartoon-like online avatars for celebrities, re... |
| 03.05.2021 | Avatar startup Genies scores $65 million in funding round led by Mary Meeker’s Bond | Over the past several years I’ve covered my fair share of upstart avatar companies that were all chasing the same dream — building out a customizable platform for a digital persona that gained wide adoption across games and digital spaces. ... |
| 03.05.2021 | Digital avatar startup Genies raises $65M from Bond, Dapper Labs and Coinbase
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| 03.05.2021 | Genies raises $65M to boost avatars for virtual identity and wearable digital goods | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| 03.05.2021 | Genies raises $65M to boost avatars for virtual identity and wearable digital goods | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 26.04.2021 | Genies' New Head of Talent Will Borrow Lessons Learned at Snap to Grow the Avatar Startup | Matt Skiba helped to build Snap Inc.'s executive team in 2018 and 2019, a period that proved to be the beginning of the Santa Monica-based company's remarkable ascendancy in the public markets. He is now charged with a similar task at L.A.-... |
| 07.04.2021 | Genies brings customizable 3D avatars to Giphy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Genies has partnered with Giphy to bring its custom 3D avatars to the animated GIF search engine.
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| 07.04.2021 | Genies brings customizable 3D avatars to Giphy | Did you miss a session from the Future of Work Summit? Head over to our Future of Work Summit on-demand library to stream.
Genies has partnered with Giphy to bring its custom 3D avatars to the animated GIF search engine.
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| 25.02.2021 | Paving The Way For The Metaverse: Exclusive Interview With The CEO Of Genies About The 3D Avatar Company’s Present And Future | Genies worked with soccer star, Mesut Ozil, on creating this 3D avatar of him. Genies |
| 25.02.2021 | Genies will sell one-of-a-kind digital goods for Shawn Mendes | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Genies plans to sell some one-of-a-kind digital goods for musician Shawn Mendes. It comes on the heels of Genies‘ sold-out sale of digi... |
| 25.02.2021 | Genies will sell one-of-a-kind digital goods for Shawn Mendes | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 20.11.2020 | Genies raises $3 million from Bandai Namco for Asia expansion | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Genies has raised $3 million from Bandai Namco and is opening an office in Tokyo as part of an Asia expansion for its 3D avatar busines... |
| 20.11.2020 | Genies raises $3 million from Bandai Namco for Asia expansion | Genies has raised $3 million from Bandai Namco and is opening an office in Tokyo as part of an Asia expansion for its 3D avatar business.
The investment and expansion comes just a month after the company launched a product expansion, extend... |
| 20.10.2020 | Genies will let consumers create their own 3D avatars with Giphy and Gucci | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Genies is expanding its focus from celebrities to everyday consumers with its 3D avatars for social apps from the likes of Giphy and Gu... |
| 20.10.2020 | You Can Now Create Your Own Avatar Using Genies' SDK | L.A.-based Genies is expanding beyond creating and managing avatars for celebrities; consumers can now create their own avatars on partner platforms that use Genies' software development kit.
Initial partners are Gucci and Giphy, with more ... |
| 20.10.2020 | Genies will let consumers create their own 3D avatars with Giphy and Gucci | Genies is expanding its focus from celebrities to everyday consumers with its 3D avatars for social apps from the likes of Giphy and Gucci.
The company already creates cartoon-like 2D avatars that allow celebrities to make online social med... |
| 03.07.2020 | Genies creates an investment arm for companies using its digital avatars | Genies has built technology for creating expressive digital avatars for everyone from rockstars who want to give online concerts to influencers who can’t go to in-person meet-and-greets anymore. Now the company is launching Humans, an inves... |
| 03.07.2020 | Genies creates an investment arm for companies using its digital avatars | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Genies has built technology for creating expressive digital avatars for everyone from rockstars who want to give online concerts to inf... |
| 04.11.2019 | Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers | Danielle Bernstein is just 27 years old, but she’s been running her own business for 10 years. First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Next she took to Instagram, a new social medi... |
| 11.06.2019 | Billionaires Jim Breyer and Thomas Tull Lead $15 Million Bet That Genies’ Avatars Will Be Next Big Thing In Social | Celebrities from DJ Khaled to Steve Aoki have used Genies.Genies |
| 13.02.2019 | Genies Launches Verified Program to Help Celebrities, Influencers and Brands Increase Engagement on Social Media Platforms via Digital Avatars | Genies Celebrates 2 million Total Genies Created From 200,000 Accounts
To Date, Genies Has Worked With Celebrities Such as Zedd, Shawn Mendes, Russell Westbrook, Rihanna, Jared Goff, La La Anthony, Andre Drummond, and Offset
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| 31.01.2019 | Digital influencers and the dollars that follow them | Sunny Dhillon Contributor
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| 19.11.2018 | Genies brings lifelike avatars to other apps with $10M from celebrities | Genies is emerging as the top competitor to Snapchat’s wildly popular Bitmoji as Facebook, Apple and Google have been slow to get serious about personalized avatars. More than one million people have customized dozens of traits to build a r... |
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Everytable Raises $55M to Expand Healthy Fast-Food Alternative Brand | Los Angeles-based Everytable, the casual restaurant startup that bills itself as a “mission-driven food company,” has raised $55 million in new funding.
The Series C round was led by Paris investment firm Creadev, New York-based Desert Bloo... |
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Meet the LA Startup That Lets People Talk to the Dead | A month after she died at the age of 87, Marina Helen Smith spoke at her own funeral.
Smith, the co-founder of the U.K.’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum, addressed her friends and family last week through a prerecorded video. Yet Smit... |
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A New Design Out of UCLA Aims to Revolutionize Batteries | Faster charging, longer life, cooler temperatures.
For batteries, it’s usually a “choose one of the above” scenario.
But Battery Streak, a fledgling startup based in an unassuming business park in Camarillo, CA, says it has all three, and t... |
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Report: TikTok Is Hiring to Help Crack Down on Leaks | Recent leaks to the media have raised fresh questions about how TikTok handles U.S. data, with some in Washington worried that Americans’ information could fall into the hands of China.
TikTok says it is beefing up security to protect U.S. ... |
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This West Hollywood Startup Uses AI to Track Fashion Counterfeiters | Any Angeleno who’s been duped by a false designer item in the Fashion District understands the value of knowing exactly what is on sale – especially since to the average untrained eye, it’s hard to tell the difference between an authentic a... |
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Nikola Acquires Romeo Power for $144 Million | Two of the Southwest’s most embattled electric vehicle companies have joined forces in a deal worth $144 million. In an all-stock transaction, EV truck maker Nikola has acquired battery assembly company Romeo Power.
Both companies have face... |
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Revival of Climate Legislation Upends Electric Vehicle Pricing | Like a zombie from the grave, the husk of President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation is on the table again thanks to an abrupt about face from Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV).
The bill, which is now being called the Inflation Reduction Act,... |
| - | Genies Raises $150 Million To Make Avatars for the Metaverse | Virtual avatar startup Genies has parlayed its designs on the metaverse into unicorn status.
On Tuesday, the Marina del Rey-based company announced a $150 million Series C funding round led by Silicon Valley private equity firm Silver Lake.... |
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This Week in ‘Raises’: Everytable Scoops $55M, L’Attitude Gains $100M | A Los Angeles-based food service startup raised fresh funding to expand its subscription delivery service, while a San Diego-based firm closed its second fund to invest into Latino entrepreneurs in the U.S.Venture Capital
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L’Attitude Ventures Closes $100M Fund Aimed At US-based Latino Founders | Fewer than 1% of Latino-owned businesses received funding from the top 500 venture capital and private equity firms in 2020, according to a report by the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative, even though 19% of Latino-owned businesse... |
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‘TikTok Music’ App Would Extend Social Media’s Music Dominance | TikTok’s fingerprints have been all over the music business lately, with the video sharing app catapulting artists to the top of the charts.
The Culver City-based company’s influence over the industry could soon grow larger. Parent company ... |
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Slingshot Aerospace Acquires Numerica and Seradata | El Segundo-based space simulation company Slingshot Aerospace just added two software companies to its portfolio as it continues it aims to become the go-to provider for space intelligence.
Slingshot announced Wednesday that it acquired the... |
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Why FaZe Clan is Expanding its Partnership With the NFL | FaZe Clan, the esports team owner and content powerhouse known for its gaming content, is looking to dominate a new arena – football.
The gaming company is taking its popular YouTube series “1ON1” – a show hosted by FaZe clan member Donald ... |
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MTV Introduces VMAs Metaverse Performance Category | If video killed the radio star, maybe the metaverse can create a new kind of star.
MTV’s Video Music Awards, airing in August, will introduce the new Best Metaverse Performance category. Nominees include Ariana Grande, Blackpink, BTS, Charl... |
| - | Jump Capital’s Yelena Shkolnik on the Convergence of Fintech, Content and Commerce | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Jump Capital’s Yelena Shkolnik talks about her work with crypto and the sometimes surprising ways in which commerce, content and fintech are converging.
The firm operates a $350 million fund focuse... |
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Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg Is Out As the Dating App Pivots Away from Crypto | Renate Nyborg is out as CEO of Tinder, less than a year after taking the helm of the popular dating app. Nyborg's exit is one of several management changes at Tinder announced by the parent company Match Group.
Tinder's plans to adopt new t... |
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Genies Wants To Help Creators Build ‘Avatar Ecosystems’ | When avatar startup Genies raised $150 million in April, the company released an unusual message to the public: “Farewell.”
The Marina del Rey-based unicorn, which makes cartoon-like avatars for celebrities and aims to “build an avatar for ... |
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Thrive Market’s Nick Green on Making Healthy Options Accessible | On this episode of Office Hours, host Spencer Rascoff talks with Thrive Market co-founder and CEO Nick Green about his company’s mission to make healthy groceries more accessible.
Most people in his middle-class, Midwest neighborhood where ... |
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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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Long Beach’s NFT-Themed Restaurant Still Accepts Crypto For Now | The “crypto winter” might be rolling in, but the founders of Food Fighters Universe are staring the storm in the face and boldly claiming now is actually the time to double down on digital assets.
Food Fighters Universe, which bills itself ... |
| - | StockX insiders say the resale platform is planning for a 2021 IPO. Here are 6 other marketplace platform that experts predict could go public soon. | Experts say StockX, a sneaker and streetwear resale platform, could be heading towards an IPO in the near future. Jeff Kowalsky/Getty This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Niche Launches Web3 Social Platform, Raises $1.8M | Niche wants to bring Web3 communities together.
After raising $1.8 million in a pre-seed round led by MetaWeb, the Los Angeles and New York-based platform launched the beta version of its decentralized, user-owned social media site. Alumni ... |
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This Week in ‘Raises’: Kitchen United Grabs $100M, Upfront Ventures Land $650M | A local ghost kitchen company secured fresh funding to increase the company’s physical locations from 15 to 500 over the next five years, while a Santa Monica-based venture capital firm raised over $600 million that will be spread across th... |
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Blockchain-Powered Museum Arkive Launches Out of Stealth In Santa Monica | Historical documents, records and important artifacts are sometimes locked away in vaults (until a museum or library wants to showcase them), and under restricted access. Thomas Mcleod believes that these artifacts hold great value and have... |
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NASA’s JPL to Launch Two More Mars Helicopters | NASA’s Mars helicopter experiment worked so nicely they had to do it twice.
When NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Caltech in Pasadena landed its rover nicknamed Perseverance on the surface of Mars one year ago, it carried a prototype sol... |
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Why the Broadway Trade Center Isn’t Turning into a ‘Tech Hub’ After All | Six months after announcing bold plans to renovate the derelict Broadway Trade Center building, it appears metaverse startup Emcee won’t turn the aging 1.1 million square-foot property into a “tech hub” any time soon.
The building is now he... |
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Super73 Co-Founder and CEO Turned His Biking Passion Into a Business | LeGrand Crewse has been biking for his entire life — but it wasn’t until he made his own bike that he knew he would “change the world.”
On this episode of the PCH Driven podcast, Super73 founder LeGrand Crewse talks about his journey from e... |
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The Los Angeles Kings Embraced the Metaverse, and the NHL Is Ready to Follow | Fans attending the Stanley Cup playoff at Crypto.com Arena in May 2022 might have noticed that the Los Angeles Kings went the extra mile with in-arena videos. Vibrant, 3D images of players plus Kings mascot Bailey the Lion flashed across th... |
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How To Startup Part 8: Exits | Welcome to the last installment in the “How To Startup” series and an often overlooked step when creating a business: exiting. In short, an exit strategy is exactly what it sounds like - a way out, sort of. I say sort of because frequently ... |
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Netflix Sues Over TikTok-Originated “Bridgerton” Musical | Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear won a Grammy for their “Bridgerton” inspired musical. Now, the pair face a lawsuit from Netflix.
The streaming platform is suing the creators of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” over copyright and trademark ... |
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Jadu Launches NFT Avatars for Upcoming Gaming Platform | With plans to sell thousands of NFT avatars, augmented reality (AR) startup Jadu is betting gamers will want to own and invest in personal video game characters.
At the end of August, the Los Angeles-based company will sell 11,111 robot ava... |
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LA Tech ‘Moves’: MeWe Taps Apple Co-founder, Aspiration Swipes Tesla Director | “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... |
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LA Tech ‘Moves’: Luxury Presence Taps Autodesk Execs | “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... |
