TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

But Backdrop is not unlike other global social media platforms that allow users to take ephemeral photos, flex their lifestyle on disappearing stories or discover millions of personalized short videos. Same with Pinterest,” he said to TechCrunch in an interview. Building a global product.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch, Klarna CEO and founder Sebastian Siemiatkowski said the company has seen explosive growth in the U.S. and plans to use its new capital in part to continue to grow there and globally. March 2021 also represented a record month for global shopping volume with $6.9

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

The new round of funding gives Los Angeles-based Talkshoplive $10.5 We were not looking to fundraise, but when Raine reached out, what they had to offer was so strategic to our business,” Moore said in an interview. million raised to date and enables it to scale its product management and technical teams.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Gates’ call is being met by startups and public companies hailing from everywhere from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, London to Los Angeles, and Berkeley to… um… Chicago. Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founder and chief executive officer Khaled Zaatarah launched VUZ, formerly 360VUZ, as a platform to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds by offering premium immersive content to a global audience. The investment will also see VUZ scale its Los Angeles office and scale with creators and content in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

“When the stations went down we really couldn’t get anyone on site because most of the issues were communication issues, vandalism, firmware updates or swapping out a part — all things that were not electrical,” Terry said in an interview with TechCrunch earlier this year. After Terry quit her job to start ChargerHelp!,

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The equity round welcomed participation from existing and new shareholders, including Rivonia Road Capital; the Los Angeles-based global alternative asset manager provided a $75 million credit facility. Planet42 also received $10 million in debt funding from private investors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Social media used to engage local supporters to act globally.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. “We start interviewing different talent, speaking with their agents and their managers. We create an entity that we spin out.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

“Early on in the pandemic, hospitals and senior living communities reached out to us and asked us to help them set up Alexa and voice in their communities,” Liron Torres, global leader for Alexa Smart Properties, said in an interview with The Verge. Hospitals can also send information and announcements to patients through Alexa.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It was the landlords who needed convincing, but it helped that we already had a network of landlords,” said CEO Adesanmi in an interview with TechCrunch on the company’s takeoff. “So million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital. “Our solution on the tenant side was a no-brainer.

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The Verge

AUGUST 23, 2021

Disney’s lawyers filed the motion Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court on the grounds that Periwinkle Entertainment, which negotiated her deal, agreed that any claims related to her role in the Marvel film would be handled in confidential arbitration.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The startup — based in Oslo but with a significant presence also in Los Angeles — plans to use the funding to continue building out its platform and operations en route to its first commercial launch: PortalOne Arcade, a journey into a retro “arcade” featuring multiple games.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

The startup has raised a $72 million (85 billion won) Series C round from a single backer STIC Investments , JohnWoo Lee, CEO of Rsquare , said in an interview with TechCrunch. UPDATE: Los Angeles-based CREXi raises $30 million for its online real estate marketplace.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I jacked into The Matrix Awakens today after watching our exclusive interview with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss — they play Neo and Trinity, I’m sure you know — and hearing breathless praise around its Game Awards debut. And it’s free to download on those consoles right now, so you should really give it a go. The city surface is 15.79

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

. “Remember that your application should be good enough to get an interview, not win a prize,” says Morton. In an interview with reporter Anna Heim, Romania-based marketer Robert Katai discussed some of the methods he uses to help clients refine their content and branding strategies. I hope you have a fantastic weekend.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

In 2020, the size of the global cargo airline industry was $110.8 “Merlin was founded to define what’s possible in the next 100 years of aviation,” CEO Matt George told TechCrunch in an email interview. Autonomous flight is a grand challenge in aviation — and a gold mine. and New Zealand.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In keeping with that, to sharpen up their business focus, alongside the funding news, the Tel-Aviv/Los Angeles-based company is also announcing some significant executive changes. “The pandemic had a massive impact on our business,” Hirsch said in an emailed interview with me.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Greg Leung had worked at Apple for years and was coming off a stint at the smart lock company Otto when he got the call to interview with Connect Homes. “That’s how you reach global scale and create the VW and Audi of housing,” he said. “It costs $1 million to $1.5 “A house is the most expensive purchase.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Anyway…speaking of Disrupt and Brex, I will be interviewing co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras and Anu Hariharan, managing director of YC’s growth fund, YC Continuity, live in a Fireside Chat on October 19! And lastly, I’ll be chatting with Rippling CEO and co-founder Parker Conrad about his company’s plans to “go global.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The Los Angeles-based company has set its sights on the satellite bus — the part of the spacecraft that hosts the payload — which it says is the “new bottleneck” hitting the space industry. ” In addition to a6z, the round also saw participation from XYZ Venture Capital, J2 Ventures, Lux Capital and Village Global.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. Early registration deadline is Nov. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 27, 2007

Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. I just finished listening to your podcast interview of Van Jones. This guy is a genius. in Lansing, MI. economy.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2014

TechSoup Global and Tech Impact are teaming up to do a series of free one-day events for charities and libraries in September called Office 365 Roadshows. Monday, September 15 th in Los Angeles. Meet the Experts: Interview with Tech Impact’s Sam Chenkin. The Office 365 Roadshows Come To America.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2008

I was in a very dark period in my life dealing with a chronic illness (multiple sclerosis) as well as a major move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I signed up for the Challenge today and decided to celebrate Day 1 by donating to the BlogHers Act' "Donate Now to Save Women's Lives" campaign on Global Giving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 21, 2008

Our members envision a world in which the global community is willing and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. This all started with one guy in Los Angeles thinking, "I have to do something.". this past Sunday was the Global Day for Darfur.

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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. And then, a global pandemic wreaks havoc, meaning that for a while there, people couldn’t safely go into the DMV to get their admin done.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 14, 2022

Nigel Morris , the firm’s co-founder and managing partner, in an interview with TechCrunch, said Africa was the final piece of the puzzle for transforming QED into a global fintech-specialist VC firm.”. I thought this was so interesting, I asked Tage if he could elaborate on the significance of this news.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Then there’s the engagement side: the majority of people who are using Tinder in any given day, the majority of the community globally, is not paying for it. Ashley Carman: Tinder is a huge global brand, and different parts of the world are in different stages of the pandemic. AC: What’s the difference between Global Mode and Passport?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. In the interview, Cami mentions that she is writing a book about the 29 Day Giving Challenge. We practice gratitude. We feel like our lives are full no matter what we have."

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The session starts with networking and pitch practice submissions and then moves onto an interview with Holt and Bennett at noon, followed by the TCL Pitch Practice at 12:30 pm PT. Taur , for example, is a British company that has just launched operations in Los Angeles , in large part because the U.K. Register here for free.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The next-generation operating system that will provide those upgrades, codenamed “Briggs,” will be uploaded to its global fleet of LINK e-scooters. At the time, I was impressed by the idea and the van, which I drove with co-host Alex Roy around downtown Los Angeles. You can check out their investor presentation here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve also happens to be the fiancé of Mei-ying Ho, who I interviewed last month. You can also find transcripts of past interviews on that blog as well.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

He made the news by selling an image hed created using AI to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, where it will be included in an upcoming exhibit called Queer Lens: A History of Photography. Youve been reading Plugged In, Fast Company s weekly tech newsletter from me, global technology editor Harry McCracken.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

30 years after Beverly Hills Cop III , this sensational sequel sees Foley returning to Los Angeles to fight a new foe, reunite with old friends, and reconnect with his estranged daughter. Credit: Netflix Eddie Murphy returns as wise-cracking Detroit police officer Axel Foley.

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