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| 23.07.2026 | Savano Capital Partners Closes Oversubscribed $252 Million Fund IV | Savano Capital Partners announced the final close of Savano Capital Partners IV, L.P., raising $252 million in capital commitments and exceeding its original target. Fund IV is the largest in the firm’s history, roughly 60 percent larger th... |
| 23.04.2026 | Steno Appoints Former Red Bull and Ontra Executives to Leadership Team | Anjelica Garcia, Chief People Officer
Jeff Herscott, SVP, Head of Sales
Anjelica Garcia (Red Bull) and Jeff Herscott (Ontra) join Steno, bringing world-class expertise to drive organizational culture and expansion into new markets. LOS ANGE... |
| 27.03.2026 | Steno's $49M Fuels AI Transformation in Legal Tech | Steno secured $49 million in Series C funding. This investment propels its AI-enabled court reporting and litigation support. Steno's "Transcript Genius" leverages generative AI. It transforms legal transcripts into interactive da... |
| 27.03.2026 | Steno: $49 Million Raised For Legal Tech And Court Reporting Platform Expansion | Steno, a Los Angeles-based provider of tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services, has raised $49 million in Series C funding. The round was led by Savano Capital Partners, with continued participation from First Round Cap... |
| 26.03.2026 | Steno Raises $49M in Series C Funding | Steno, a Los Angeles, CA-based provider of tech-enabled court reporting and litigation support services, raised $49M in Series C funding.
The round was led by Savano Capital Partners with continued participation from First Round Capital, Th... |
| 26.03.2026 | Steno raises $49M to change court reporting with AI-enabled transcript analysis
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| 08.12.2024 | Steno: $20 Million In Growth Capital Raised From Trinity Capital | Trinity Capital, a leading provider of diversified financial solutions to growth-oriented companies, announced the commitment of $20 million in growth capital to Steno, a provider of legal support and court reporting services.
Steno provide... |
| 05.12.2024 | Steno Receives $20M Financing From Trinity Capital | Steno, a Los Angeles, CA-based tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services, received $20M in funding from Trinity Capital.
This new growth capital formed part of Steno’s $46M fundraise in May of 2024, and will enable... |
| 29.10.2024 | Steno unveils Transcript Genuis, a legal research transcript analysis tool | Steno unveils Transcript Genuis, a legal research transcript analysis tool
Steno, a leading provider of tech-enabled legal support and court reporting services, is releasing the general availability of Transcript Genius, its AI-powered tran... |
| 24.10.2024 | Steno Revolutionizes Legal Research with Free Transcript Analysis Tool: Transcript Genius Now Available to All! | Los Angeles, California – Steno, the leading provider of tech-enabled legal support and court reporting services, today announced the general availability of Transcript Genius, its revolutionary AI-powered transcript analysis tool, which em... |
| 14.05.2024 | Steno Launches Transcript Genius, Aiming To ‘Revolutionize How Attorneys Interact With Transcripts’; Also Announces $46M In New Financing | - |
| 14.05.2024 | Steno Launches Transcript Genius, Aiming To ‘Revolutionize How Attorneys Interact With Transcripts’; Also Announces $46M In New Financing | - |
| 14.05.2024 | Steno Closes $46M in Funding | Steno, a Los Angeles, CA-based tech-enabled provider of legal support and court reporting services powered by AI, raised $46M in additional funding.
Backers were not disclosed.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and i... |
| 29.12.2023 | Покупай сейчас, плати потом: чем отличаются сервисы BNPL и SNPL от рассрочек и кредитов | Сервисы BNPL и SNPL: что это такое, чем отличаются друг от друга и зачем нужны
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| 05.06.2023 | Steno Closes $15 Million B Round | - |
| 23.05.2023 | Steno Secures $15M Series B Funding Led by Left Lane Capital to Expand National Presence | - |
| 23.05.2023 | Steno Raises $15M Series B Round |
LOS ANGELES, CA, Steno, the tech-enabled provider of legal support services, announces the close of a $15 million Series B funding round, led by Left Lane Capital.
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| 23.05.2023 | Steno Raises $15M in Series B Funding | Steno, a Los Angeles, CA-based tech-enabled provider of legal support services, raised $15M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Left Lane Capital with participation from Clio Ventures, the direct investment arm of Clio, a legal techno... |
| 23.05.2023 | Steno Secures $15M Series B Funding Led by Left Lane Capital to Expand National Presence | - |
| 27.11.2021 | Steno Agency Brings Deferred Payment Services For Lawyers | Turns out even well-paid lawyers want deferred payment services.
Dylan Ruga, an intellectual property attorney founded Steno Agency, along with two former executives at restaurant reservation platform Reserve, in 2018. Steno Agency gives la... |
| 18.11.2021 | Steno Agency Receives $20 Million in Financing From Rivonia Road Capital | Steno Agency Inc. received $20 million in debt financing from Rivonia Road Capital in addition to an equity investment in its most recent fundraise. |
| 31.08.2020 |
Steno Snags $3.5M For Remote Court Reporting
| Los Angeles-based Steno, a new startup which offers up remote court reporting services, has raised $3.5M in a seed funding, according to the company. The funding round was led by First Round Capital. Steno says it offers up a full suite of ... |
| 28.08.2020 | Steno raises $3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of law offices | The global legal services industry was worth $849 billion in 2017 and is expected to become a trillion-dollar industry by the end of next year. Little wonder that Steno, an LA-based startup, wants a piece.
Like most legal services outfits, ... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: How Afton Vechery Hopes to Make Fertility Testing Accessible | This week on Behind Her Empire, we hear from Afton Vechery, the co-founder and CEO of Modern Fertility, a startup that aims to make fertility testing more affordable and accessible.
Vechery drew on her personal experiences with reproductive... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Why Toothpaste Mogul Lindsay McCormick Focuses on Niche Customers | On this week's episode of Behind Her Empire, hear from Lindsay McCormick, CEO and founder of Bite Toothpaste Bits.
McCormick came up with the idea for Bite Toothpaste Bits when working as a producer at HGTV's "HouseHunters" show. ... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Hitha Palepu on Women Founders and the 'True' Failure | Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals CEO Hitha Palepu joins this week's Behind Her Empire to talk about how she became an angel investor focused on women-founded businesses and her latest book, "We're Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris.&qu... |
| - | LA Venture: Act One Ventures' Alejandro Guerrero on Bringing More Diversity to Venture Capital | On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Alejandro Guerrero talks about transitioning from running his own startup to entering the venture capital world.
Guerrero met his soon-to-be business partner, Michael Stilton, at UCLA. Soon after, ... |
| - | Gaming Content Creation Group FaZe Clan to Go Public With $1 Billion Valuation | FaZe Clan, the Los Angeles-based esports team owner and collective of gaming influencers, will go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company valued at $1 billion, as it expands its gaming brand and eyes original cont... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Lia Valencia Key on Going From Homeless Shelter to QVC Mogul | This week, I sat down with Lia Valencia Key, the founder of the jewelry brand Valencia Key.
Lia was born and raised in an impoverished part of Philadelphia, and grew up in a homeless shelter with her mom and siblings.
Lia's mother made it c... |
| - | Disney Readies for Talent Deal 'Reset' Following 'Black Widow' Lawsuit | Disney CEO Bob Chapek acknowledged the ongoing tensions developing among high-profile talent and studios that have put their blockbusters on streaming channels instead of releasing them first in theaters.
"The talent deals going forwar... |
| - | VidCon Is Back In Anaheim This Fall, and Partly Available Online | One of the largest conferences for video and digital creators, VidCon will return as an in-person event at the Anaheim Convention Center this fall, after the pandemic forced cancellation last year.
It's one of the early signs that as vaccin... |
| - | Brainbase’s New IP Tools Connect Directly to the US Patent Office | The legal services industry has long been seen as slow to innovate. Two new products that interface directly with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office aim to change that. Both are produced by intellectual property (IP) startup Brainbase.
Fi... |
| - | An 'Ecommerce Platform for Fentanyl'? Protesters and Aggrieved Parents Take to Snap's HQ | "Snapchat has given drug dealers an organic ecommerce platform," Amy Neville shouted into her megaphone.
Neville is one of dozens of parents who marched Friday to Snap's headquarters to protest the role they feel Snapchat played i... |
| - | Ex-Zillow CEO Takes Offerpad Public in $3B Deal Pitting Him Against Former Colleagues | Former Zillow Group CEO and dot.LA cofounder Spencer Rascoff is jumping back into the real estate game in a big way.
Rascoff, who left the CEO post at Zillow in February 2019, is part of a group of SPAC investors that's buying Offerpad, a 6... |
| - | Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Picked up by Kevin Mayer and Tom Stagg’s New Media Company | The women-focused media company run by Reese Witherspoon, Hello Sunshine, is being sold to former Disney executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs' media startup. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed but according to the Wall Street Journal, it'... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Meet Austin Clements and His New Fund for Black Entrepreneurs | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast meet Austin Clements, co-founder of Slauson & Co, a L.A.-based pre-seed and seed-stage venture firm focused on sustainable economic inclusion. The firm is backed by PayPal, Ashton Kutch... |
| - | Behind Her Empire Podcast: LIVELY's CEO on Recognizing Opportunity and Building a Brand | On today's episode of Behind Her Empire podcast, meet Michelle Cordeiro Grant, the founder and CEO of LIVELY, a direct-to-consumer company that makes lingerie and more with a focus on style and comfort.
Grant grew up with immigrant parents,... |
| - | dot.LA Explains: Trends To Watch As We Return to Work | Work has changed quite a bit in the past year. COVID-19 introduced a very large segment of employees in the U.S. to working remotely and challenged long-standing assumptions about what a company needs to be productive. As lockdowns lift and... |
| - | Behind Her Empire Podcast: Kelly Rutherford On Reclaiming Power in the Darkest of Times | Kelly Rutherford is an activist and actress who has impressed audiences with her roles in "Melrose Place," "Gossip Girl," and most recently, "Dynasty" and "Pretty Little Liars."
Rutherford is also kno... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Poo-Pourri Founder Suzy Batiz on the 'Luxury of Losing Everything' | Suzy Batiz is the founder, creator and CEO of Poo~Pourri and Supernatural cleaning supplies. She's created an enterprise that's worth over $500 million and made Forbes' America's Richest Self-Made Women list without borrowing a dime or rais... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: How Yumi CEO Angela Sutherland Overcame Self Doubt | In starting her baby food delivery company, Yumi, Angela Sutherland wondered what options parents have when it comes to food they can feed to their children. As a new mother herself, she sought to make her own fresh and organic baby food.
O... |
| - | LA Venture: Operate's Carey Ransom, from Hardware Store to Venture Capital | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture Podcast, hear from Carey Ransom, the founder and president of Operate, an Orange Country-based venture studio.
Ransom is well known for his commitment to Orange County businesses and community — &q... |
| - | LA Venture: TX Zhuo is the 'Accidental Entrepreneur' Behind Fika Ventures' $77M Fund | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, meet Fika Ventures co-founder TX Zhuo. Fika is a $77-million seed-stage investment fund managed by Zhuo and his partner Eva Ho. The two created the fund with the intention to foster and gi... |
| - | Digital Avatar and Influencer Lil Miquela Releases a NFT Collection | The virtual influencer Miquela Sousa, aka Lil Miquela, whose rise has garnered equal parts uproar and admiration, continued her foray into NFTs on Wednesday with part two of a five-part series that promises to "tell a special story ove... |
| - | Thrilling Rides a Wave of Vintage Interest to Get Mom-and-Pop Thrift Shops Online | Before Poshmark and the RealReal and ThredUp went public, Shilla Kim-Parker had a hard time convincing investors there was a market for buying used clothes online.
Those companies flourished in recent years and helped Kim-Parker make the ca... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: VamosVentures Invests In Underrepresented Founders | On this week's episode of LA Venture, hear from Marcos Gonzalez, the managing partner at VamosVentures, a seed-stage venture fund which invests in Latino and diverse founders. Over half of L.A. County is Latino. A relatively new fund, inves... |
| - | Behind Her Empire Podcast: Joan Rosenberg, Ph.D. on Building Confidence That Lasts | On this week's episode of Behind Her Empire, meet Joan Rosenberg, Ph.D., an expert psychologist, best selling author and founder of "Emotional Mastery" and "Emotional Mastery Training," a method for gaining and sustainin... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Loren Ridinger, Ecommerce Pioneer, Entrepreneur and Self-Love Guru | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, I spoke to Loren Ridinger, the co-founder behind e-commerce giants shop.com and Market America.
Ridinger is recognized as an internet pioneer— an industry leader who has had a serious impact on the worl... |
| - | LA Venture: Serial Entrepreneur Spencer Rascoff on the Future of Social Media and His Investing Strategy | Former Zillow executive and serial entrepreneur Spencer Rascoff loves Los Angeles.
So much that he named his venture capital fund, 75 & Sunny, as an ode to L.A.'s yearlong balmy weather. This week, he joins the LA Venture podcast to tal... |
| - | Dodgers Opening Day: Fans Finally Get to Experience $100 Million in Stadium Upgrades | In the past year, Dodger Stadium has been used as a presidential polling site, cooling center, a massive COVID testing site and as one of the country's largest vaccination sites.
Now, it will finally be open Friday for its intended purpose.... |
| - | Behind Her Empire Podcast: Sallie Krawcheck Wants Women To Feel Empowered To Invest | On today's episode of Behind Her Empire, meet Sallie Krawcheck, the CEO and co-founder of Ellevest. Her company is an investment platform focused on narrowing the gender gap and creating a space for women in finance.
Krawcheck wants to put ... |
| - | PCH Driven: What Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor Spencer Rascoff Looks for in a Founder | In this episode of the PCH Driven podcast, Spencer Rascoff shares what drives him as the co-founder and former CEO of Zillow; and co-founder of Hotwire, dot.LA, Recon and his VC firm 75 & Sunny.
Rascoff talks about the future of real es... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: JIGGY Founder Kaylin Marcotte on Scaling a Hobby to a Startup | It started out as a way to relax after work.
On the episode of Behind Her Empire, JIGGY founder and CEO Kaylin Marcotte talks about how she turned her fascination with jigsaw puzzles into a thriving business.
Marcotte worked at the digital ... |
| - | With a Billionaire’s Backing, SpaceX Sends Citizen Spacefliers Into Orbit for a Mission Like No Other | A tech billionaire and three other non-professional spacefliers blasted off today to begin the first non-governmental, philanthropic mission carrying a crew to orbit.
The founder and CEO of Shift4 Payments, Jared Isaacman, is paying what's ... |
| - | LA Venture: Meet Watertower Ventures' Jeremy Milken | This week, I sat down with Jeremy Milken, a partner at Watertower Ventures. Jeremy doesn't grant many interviews, so it was great to get to know him better on this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast.
Watertower Ventures is a well establish... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Journey To Launch Founder Jamila Souffrant On Quitting the Rat Race | This week, I sat down with Jamila Souffrant, the founder and CEO of Journey to Launch.
Journey to Launch started as a blog to document Souffrant's journey to financial independence. Now, she also produces a podcast by the same name that has... |
| - | LA Venture: Free Advice From The CEO Who Turned MySpace Around | This week on the L.A. Venture podcast, hear from Mike Jones, the founder and CEO of studio and venture firm Science Inc. Jones is considered an expert on scaling and robust business strategy. He runs Science Inc. with Peter Pham, Greg Gilma... |
| - | LA Venture: The Future of Media According to Waverly Capital Co-Founder Daniel Leff | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, sit down with Daniel Leff, the founder and managing partner of Luminari Capital, as well as the co-founder and managing partner of his latest fund, Waverley Capital.
Leff has spent 22 years inves... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Divya Gugnani's 'On-The-Go' Clean Beauty Empire | On this week's episode of Behind Her Empire, I sat down with Divya Gugnani, the CEO and co-founder of Wander Beauty. Her latest company is a cruelty-free, clean beauty brand, designed to be the ultimate on-the-go beauty essentials.
Gugnani ... |
| - | Behind Her Empire Podcast: Nyakio Grieco on Pivoting in Life and Business | Nyakio Grieco is the founder of Nyakio Beauty, an award-winning skin-care brand that has been leading the clean beauty movement since 2002. While moving up the ranks in the entertainment industry, Nyakio realized that many cultures were und... |
| - | Exclusive: Park Place Payments Raises a Seed Round to Make Payment Processing Less Caustic and More Flexible | Since her time at Harvard (undergrad and then MBA), Samantha Ettus has made a career out of motivating women to achieve a better work/life balance through her five bestselling books, hundreds of TV appearances and corporate speaking gigs.
B... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: How Dr. Iman Abuzeid Went From Doctor to Founder | On this week's episode of Behind Her Empire, hear from Dr. Iman Abuzeid, the co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a digital platform designed to streamline the hiring and recruitment process for nurses.
Abuzeid's career is marked by her... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Dr. Sara Gottfried on Keeping Hormones Balanced In Stressful Times | When Dr. Sara Gottfried speaks with her patients about stress and what it does to the body, she speaks from experience.
"I would park in my driveway, knowing that my precious daughter was inside with a nanny, and that I needed to get i... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Beyond Capital CEO Eva Yazhari on Investing With Purpose | This week, I sat down with Eva Yazhari, and CEO of Beyond Capital, an early-stage impact investment fund focused on education equity and global investments. Yazhari started her career on Wall Street, working alongside top investors. She lov... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Dreamers VC Partner Vik Sasi on the World of Celebrity and Influencer Investors | On this episode of L.A. Venture, meet Vik Sasi, a partner at Dreamers VC, a $55 million fund co-founded by actor and musician Will Smith. This is an especially relevant episode for startups who might be thinking of working with influencers.... |
| - | Office Hours Podcast: Immigrant Grit and Their Parents’ Experience Inspired ServiceTitan's Co-Founders | Shoeboxes full of invoices and receipts ignited the idea of ServiceTitan for Ara Mahdessian, the company's co-founder and CEO.
An Armenian kid from Iran, Ara immigrated with his family to the U.S. as a young boy. He watched his parents assi... |
| - | LA-Based StoryFile Raises Another Round to Expand Its Interactive Videos | In April, the two living survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre sat down for an interview designed to archive their stories using artificial intelligence.
StoryFile, a Los Angeles startup that creates AI-powered interactive videos, prepa... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Logan Hollowell on Forging Her Jewelry Company from Vision and Grit | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Logan Hollowell talks about her fascination with gemstones and crystals and how that took her to creating her own jewelry company.
Raised in the Outer Banks in North Carolina, Hollowell grew up used to ... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: LOLA Co-Founder Alex Friedman on Building a Better Tampon | On this week's episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, meet Alex Friedman, the co-founder of feminine care brand LOLA.
LOLA was created to address the need for more transparency in women's health. It was begun as a passion product to unde... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Product Launch Guru Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, hear from Ryan Hoover, founder of Product Hunt and investor at Weekend Fund.
Product Hunt began as a passion project email list and grew into a website. A self-described "nerd," ... |
| - | Clash App Takes on TikTok and YouTube | Before there was TikTok, the long since defunct Vine was the short social media platform. Now one of Vine's founders and one of its creators are pushing to build a new video app to help creators make money easier than they can on TikTok or ... |
| - | LA Venture: How M13's Anna Barber Puts Local Startups First | This week on L.A. Venture, hear from Anna Barber, who left her position as managing director at Techstars in December to become a one of five investing partners at M13. Barber is the first repeat guest on the L.A. Venture podcast.
M13 is a ... |
| - | Disney Shares Drop Sharply After Big Subscriber Miss | Anyone who thought Netflix's recent slowdown in subscriber growth could open up a path for Disney to make some headway in the streaming war should think again. All eyes were on Disney Plus during Thursday's earnings call, and the streaming ... |
| - | Watch: Three Gaming Startups Pitch Top Gaming VCs in Our 2nd Startup Pitch Showcase | Our second Virtual Pitch Showcase was devoted to startups in the gaming industry. Founding entrepreneurs from Artie, Squab Gaming and RCT Studio pitched to Peter Levin, managing director at Griffin Gaming Partners and Gregory Milken, managi... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: How Beatrice Dixon Scaled The Honey Pot Company From Her Kitchen | Beatrice Dixon is the founder of The Honey Pot Company, a plant-based feminine hygiene line created to provide women with healthy alternatives to feminine care.
The Honey Pot Company began with a dream — literally. In 2014, Dixon was strugg... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Chang Xu's Basis Set Ventures Focuses On AI and Automation | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, hear from Chang Xu, partner at Basis Set Ventures, a $140 million fund focused on AI and automation - technology that transforms the way people work.
Basis Set Ventures focuses on four pie... |
| - | LA Venture: UTA's Sam Wick On Building Celebrity Startups | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, hear from Sam Wick, head of United Talent Agency Ventures (UTA). Wick has served in senior positions at MySpace, AOL, mp3.com — and most recently as the executive vice president of Maker Studios.... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: King River Capital Co-Founder on the Future of Clean Tech Investment | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, meet Megan Guy, co-founder and partner at King River Capital, an L.A.-based fund investing in Series A, B and C Series companies. They're investing out of a $100M Fund II. Guy shares how t... |
| - | LA Venture: How WorkLife Ventures Founder Brianne Kimmel Became a Top Angel Investor | How do angel investors get in front of companies prior to investing? Brianne Kimmel, founder of WorkLife Ventures, might know a way or two.
On this episode of the LA Venture podcast, Kimmel discusses her work as an investor — how she gets i... |
| - | LA Venture: Marlon Nichols On His 'Glass-Half-Full' Mentality | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture Podcast, hear from Marlon Nichols, a founding Managing General Partner at MaC Venture Capital. MaC Ventures is seed-stage venture fund prioritizing investments in underrepresented founders.
Nichols... |
| - | Snap Unveils Its New AR Glasses and Innovation Lab | Snap unveiled its latest AR glasses, pushing deeper into the technology it considers its big bet.
Chief executive Evan Spiegel demonstrated the latest version of "Spectacles" that overlay computer graphics atop the wearer's field ... |
| - | LA Venture: 137 Ventures’ Justin Fishner-Wolfson on Investing via Secondary Shares | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture Podcast, hear from Justin Fishner-Wolfson, founder and managing partner at 137 Ventures — a provider of customized liquidity solutions for founders, investors and early private tech companies.
Fish... |
| - | DogVacay Founder Aaron Hirschhorn Dies in Miami Boating Accident | Aaron Hirschhorn, a well-known investor and entrepreneur in the Los Angeles tech scene who founded the pet sitting startup DogVacay died Sunday in a boating accident near Miami Beach, Fla. He was 42.
Hirschhorn started DogVacay with his wif... |
| - | LA Venture: As Competition Tightens, Threshold Ventures’ Chirag Chotalia Focuses on What Matters | On this episode of LA Venture, Chirag Chotalia talks about his journey from Pritzker Group to DFJ to Threshold Ventures.
Chotalia made a name for himself in L.A.'s tech community while working at Pritzker, where he led investments and worke... |
| - | Just Go Grind Podcast: Marlon Nichols Of MaC Ventures On Finding Trends First | On this week's episode of Just Go Grind, hear from Marlon Nichols, founding managing general partner at MaC Venture Capital, a seed-stage venture fund whose investments run from $1.5 million to about $2 million. Their focus is on emerging b... |
| - | Introducing dot.LA's Interchange.LA Jobs Platform | We live in a golden age for Los Angeles tech companies and startups.
Transformative organizations are emerging and blossoming here. And there's a world-class talent pool in their backyard. From ecommerce to biotech to social media to aerosp... |
| - | LA Venture: Investor Josh Jones on Bitcoin, Investing and the Future of Air Travel | Josh Jones is one of the managing partners of The Fund LA, but he's been part of so much more.
He was a co-founder of DreamHost, a bitcoin pioneer and, most recently, the owner of an airline that plans to launch in the spring. On this episo... |
| - | Backstage Capital Opens Fund to Everyday Investors | Backstage Capital, the Los Angeles venture firm founded in 2015 by Arlan Hamilton to focus on underrepresented founders, flung itself open to mom-and-pop investors and they quickly smashed down the doors. The firm launched a crowdfunding pa... |
| - | The Founders of Color Changing LA's Startup World | Even after the tech industry's reckoning after the killing of George Floyd last year, the startup world is still overwhelmingly dominated by white men.
Of the $150 billion in venture funding raised by U.S startups last year, just $1 billion... |
| - | A Former TikTok Employee Made an App To Help Creators Make Music | Designed with TikTok creators and amateur musicians in mind, Mayk.it wants to let you make music -- all on your phone.
The Los Angeles-based company is hoping to be part of the growing creator app space that is reshaping the relationship be... |
| - | At Its El Segundo Innovation Lab, EVgo Tries to Predict the Future of Car Charging | The fastest electric car charging stations can replenish a battery from empty in about an hour. As carmakers from Volvo to Tesla race to make charges speedier and more powerful, the next 10 years mean added pressure on charging stations, fr... |
| - | 'This is Critical': Two LA Funds Focusing on Diversity Get an Infusion from PayPal | PayPal Holdings, Inc. announced Thursday it will be transferring money to two L.A. firms as part of a $50 million commitment to eight early-stage, Black and Latinx-led venture capital funds.
Slauson & Co., the new fund from PledgeLA cha... |
| - | Event: Verizon 5G Is 'Changing the Game' for the Tech Industry | By now, everyone has heard about 5G but Verizon says the wireless network technology goes far beyond faster web surfing and streaming.
Tech industry leaders and venture capitalists gathered for a final dot.LA 2021 Summer Series event at the... |
| - | The Upcoming LA Auto Show Is Going to Be Electric | After two years away from the spotlight, the Los Angeles Auto Show is plotting a comeback — and a reinvention with the changing climate.
In the aftermath of pandemic restrictions that started 18 months ago, the upcoming Auto Show — one of L... |
| - | Snap's New Diversity Report Finds Its Workers Are Still Overwhelmingly White and Male | Like most tech companies, Snap Inc. employees are largely white and male and the company has been grappling with its lack of diversity.
On Wednesday, its CEO Evan Spiegel gathered an all-star group of influential leaders in Southern Califor... |
| - | Pear VC’s Pejman Nozad on Going from Carpet Salesman to Early-Stage VC | Pejman Nozad, a founding managing partner at Pear VC, joins this episode of LA Venture to discuss Pear VC's current initiatives, including its accelerator and fellowships. He's seen as one of the most successful angel investors in the area,... |
| - | How a Canter's Deli Scion Built a Restaurant Tech Revolution — and Stoked a Revolt | Alex Canter understood his role from the beginning. As a fourth-generation restaurateur and heir to beloved Canter's Deli in Los Angeles, he was set to continue the family legacy. But running a restaurant in 2021 is very different than runn... |
| - | FIGS Tops Off Banner Week for SoCal IPOs | In what is partly a reflection of the area's red-hot tech scene and also this year's sizzling IPO market, FIGS, seller of fashionable scrubs, became the latest Southern California company to do what is very much in fashion these days: go pu... |
| - | Office Hours: Jam City’s Josh Yguado and the Future of Gaming and the Blockchain | In this fireside chat with dot.LA and Pacaso co-founder and chair Spencer Rascoff, Jam City President and co-founder Josh Yguado explores what the acquisition of Ludia means for the future of Jam City and the future of mobile gaming.
Jam Ci... |
| - | 'They Built What We Stood Upon': How LA's Rock the Bells Plans to Grow from Hip Hop's History | More than 30 years ago, a young LL Cool J debuted the first single off his "Rock The Bells" album.
At the time, hip hop was still a new cultural force, and few young rappers were thinking about preserving its traditions. Now, many... |
