TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Dallas Mavericks basketball player Dirk Nowitzki also participated in the round along with other angel investors, making his first-ever institutional investment. . The Los Angeles-based company, which last raised in January 2020 , has amassed a total of $33.3 million since its launch in 2016.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Case in point, Holidu grabbed $98 million in new funding to keep growing its vacation rentals business in Europe, Natasha L writes. million in Series A funding, Christine reports. Not that NSA : Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari signs the Nigeria Startup Bill into law , reports Tage. Startups and VC. Sarah has more.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

And now, the startup has raised $20 million in Series A funding to continue expanding its platform. DST Global Partners and Atinum Investment led the latest funding along with its existing backers SoftBank Ventures, Bass Investment and Y Combinator. The company is not disclosing its valuation.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

However, since crimes aren’t equally reported everywhere, the readings it provides to law enforcement could simply copy the biases in reporting over each area. 23 of the 38 law enforcement agencies tracked are no longer PredPol customers. PredPol’s algorithm is supposed to make predictions based on existing crime reports.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

An easing of laws around the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) around the U.S. And it just closed on $15 million in a Series A funding round led by proptech-focused VC firm Fifth Wall to grow its business. Many Bay Area residents are turning to ADUs as rentals to bring in extra income since laws in the state have relaxed.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Ani Torosyan, co-founder and CEO, started the Los Angeles-based company three years ago with CTO Davit Avetisyan. I have a mother-in-law who is also a good cook, and I kept thinking about how to productize what she was doing, especially as I saw more and more of the people in my community open to paying for access to this.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

He followed up by launching another company helping startups find funding, write business plans, etc. He plans to start a search fund (a vehicle for entrepreneurs to raise funds from investors) to find businesses – and intellectual property – that have a social focus to help out developing countries, particularly South Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. Only a court of law can determine whether the purpose of the photography was fair use or not.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

At Nourish LA, we focus on the astounding amount of perfectly good food that gets thrown away every week, and we redirect it to our hungry Los Angeles communities. Lesson 2: Understand the laws. Beyond knowing about laws, the GSA (and other laws like it) is also a testament to the political power of nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

cities, including Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York, the goal is to bring Clipboard to “many more” locations by the end of the year, Deng says. Deng founded Clipboard six years ago, after stints as an associate at law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell and investment bank Moelis & Company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

PT, I’m hosting a Twitter Space with Arvin Gupta, a partner at Mayfield Fund. Many online communities are looking to decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) to raise funds so they can bring their ideas to life, but without tools and software to make it easier for people to participate, adoption has been slow.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Polymath didn’t disclose the total amount of funding). Ford released the law enforcement version of its all-electric F-150 Lightning truck. Uber originally launched the luxurious EV service in May in San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. He previously co-founded and led the now shuttered Starsky Robotics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Los Angeles Times was the first to report on the lawsuit). ” I reached out to a few experts to get their take and one of the more interesting ones was from Matthew Wansley, former general counsel of nuTonomy (which Aptiv acquired) and a law professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in New York.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world. She was trolling SOCAP looking for new ways to fund the good work they’re doing. I chatted with my old friend, Bennett Grassano. It was great to see him.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

OpenAI in Talks for New Funding at Up to $300 Billion Value Shirin Ghaffary, Rachel Metz, and Kate Clark | Bloomberg “The ChatGPT maker is in discussions to raise funds at a pre-money valuation of $260 billion, said one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private information. .”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Everybody’s looking at things being spun up quickly, getting funded quickly, and you exit quickly,” Boston said in an interview with TechCrunch last week. Regardless of whether you’re in Bakersfield, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago or Florida, it doesn’t matter.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

After a seed round and bootstrapped funding from Gjonbalic, Butler went on to raise $15 million in Series A contributions from The Kraft Group, &vest, Scopus Ventures and Mousse Partners. In a press release issued last October, Butler said that it wanted to more than double its presence to 12 markets in the U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

We shared that distinction with big players like American Honda Motor, Frito-Lay, Lockheed Martin, and the Los Angeles Zoo. Both of those laws passed and are now in effect. • Create a business plan. OBDC can also help you explore SBA loans or other funding opportunities. Secure financing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Governor Schwarzenegger signed the California State Divestment Bill into law, and from there Adam took the campaign nationally. This all started with one guy in Los Angeles thinking, "I have to do something.". When the Genocide Intervention Network was founded, it was originally called the Genocide Intervention Fund.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Proceeds benefit Heal the Bay, a nonprofit dedicated to making the coastal waters and watersheds of Greater Los Angeles safe, healthy, and clean.

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JULY 22, 2024

This year’s top auctioneers are driving impactful change, raising crucial funds and leveraging their expertise to make a difference for great causes worldwide. He also did stints in other markets including Los Angeles, Sacramento and Albuquerque. 25) Keith McLane Keith L.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

In May, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego, sued Uber and Lyft, arguing that their drivers were misclassified as independent contractors when they should be employees under the state’s AB5 law that went into effect on January 1st.

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Tableau

MAY 3, 2021

Their ongoing efforts focus on breaking down the direct line from school to prison that forms when students are referred to law enforcement from an early age, and investing funds in resources that improve students’ experience. White students are most likely to attend school in districts with no referrals to law enforcement or arrests.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Taur , for example, is a British company that has just launched operations in Los Angeles , in large part because the U.K. Populus is partnering with cities and operators like Bolt , Tier and Voi in a European Union-funded, data-sharing initiative that will measure carbon reductions of micromobility. In the U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. For a while, we were actually funding one story a week and trying to cycle through those.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

The Mojave Micro Mill just broke ground in the Mojave Desert about 85 miles from downtown Los Angeles. million tons of scrap metal is shipped out of state to other mills in the Southwest, and then trucked back to big markets like Los Angeles. Mojave Micro saves emissions in other ways, too. Most of Californias 4.3

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Recode by Vox

APRIL 24, 2025

Still private, OpenAI is currently valued at more than $300 billion after completing a record $40 billion funding round earlier this year.) If it was going to be possible to build extremely intelligent AIs, it was going to be possible even if it were accidental to build ones that had no interest in cooperating with human goals and laws.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Marc Santora at The New York Times explains: The new law, which is expected to go into effect Oct. Arizona is leading a multi-US state probe into whether Apple deliberate slowing older iPhones violated deceptive trade practice laws. Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times ). President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing A.K.P.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Edu breach : In what appears to be the largest education breach in a while, hackers released a cache of data stolen during a cyberattack against the Los Angeles Unified School District. Search in fashion : South Korean search company Naver said it plans to purchase apparel marketplace Poshmark for $1.2 billion in cash. audio roundup.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 5, 2024

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Webby Award for Email Newsletter : Assembly, a digital publication by Malala Fund. Webby Award for Law : Knight First Amendment Institute Website by Tierra Innovation. Webby People’s Voice Award for Law : Urban Justice Center by Superunion. Initiative by Forsman & Bodenfors; Tinder: Swipe Night by 72andSunny Los Angeles.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

Eva Rodriguez has earnedminimum wage at a Subway franchise in the Eagle Rock neighborhood of Los Angeles for more than a decade. Only last year did she learn that she didnt have to labor under those conditionsa revelation that led her to accuse the franchises owner of violating numerous labor laws.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In another move from the Trump administration aimed at disrupting climate science, the Commerce Department has ordered NOAA , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to search grants for climate-change-related terms , signaling that it may work to cancel that funding.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2020

Many are funded and operated by government officials, political candidates, PACs, and political party operatives. It’s coming first to Amazon’s grocery store in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. It’s basically a dream job now. Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg). Jessica Mahone and Philip Napoli / Neiman Lab ). Industry. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology. But they have vastly different reasons for why they think the law must change. Adi Robertson / The Verge ).

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Others, such as President Trump’s Muslim ban, took a few tries — but eventually became law. And after Hong Kong passed a new national security law giving vast new surveillance powers to the Chinese Communist Party, TikTok led all social networks in pulling the app from Hong Kong. TikTok is registered in the Cayman Islands, for example.

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