Los Angeles Platform Raise 
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The deadly Los Angeles wildfires had just begun when Comic Relief U.S.’s The six weeks since Los Angeles’ most destructive wildfires have proven no different. FireAid raised an estimated $100 million with performances from dozens of popular musical acts. And now its our turn to show up for L.A.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
The company recently partnered with online grocery platform Self Point to provide neighborhood stores and specialty brand shops with electric carts that — with help from remote teleoperators — deliver goods to local consumers. The companies have launched the product offering in Los Angeles with three customers.
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Fast Company Tech
MARCH 13, 2025
Little surprise, then, that the YouTube star has spent the past few years leveraging his fame to build businesses that have nothing to do with the social media platforms he started out on. Recouping such extravagant production budgets is no easy task, especially with only a few videos released per month.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 11, 2021
Linktree leads the space, securing a recent $45 million Series B raise to build out e-commerce features, but Beacons boasts competitive creator monetization tools with just a $6 million seed round in May. If a creator or celebrity were to sell personalized videos on Cameo , they’d lose 25% to the platform.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
By Talia Walsh , Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at Heal the Bay – an environmental nonprofit that protects the coastal waters and watersheds of Greater Los Angeles, California. Nonprofits with online shops can tap into these trends on social media to reach mindful shoppers and raise revenue in support of their mission.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Boulevard , a spa management and payment platform, has raised $27 million in a new round of funding despite a business slowdown caused by the COVID0-19 pandemic. The two spent months pounding the pavement in Los Angeles pretending to be college students doing research on the industry.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Founded in 2015, Getaway builds “Outposts” — collections of tiny cabins in rustic locations within a two-hour drive of major cities like Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles and New York. He recalled talking to tech-focused venture capitalists who would ask, “Why isn’t this a platform?
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