Tag: Weekly recap

The third quarter of 2021 has been a particularly good one for L.A. startups. That’s the conclusion reached in two reports released this week — one that says startups closed a record 261 funding deals and another that recorded a growing trend in “mega…

The marriage between tech and public health played a big role in the return to in-person schooling in Los Angeles this week. As a step to prevent COVID outbreaks at its schools, the Los Angeles Unified School District deployed its Daily Pass web porta…

Venture capitalists have poured $384 million into ecommerce startups so far this year. But which are most favored by VCs in Los Angeles?Our most recent survey of the top venture capitalists in the region laid out their picks as part of our sentiment s…

Smaller, niche competitors to Netflix are slowly gobbling up its marketshare, according to new data. In the last two years, Netflix and Hulu’s combined share of streaming video subscriptions in the U.S. has dropped from nearly 75% to below 50%. Subscr…

Top L.A. venture capitalists are benefitting from a white hot market.This week, dot.LA published the first of several findings out of its quarterly poll of top Los Angeles venture capitalists. In short, those surveyed remain optimistic about the econo…

Activision Blizzard, the maker of “World of Warcraft” and “Diablo,” is facing accusations of fostering a pervasive “frat boy” culture where women employees were subjected to constant sexual harassment, lower pay and retaliation.Here’s the gist:The Cal…

After months of speculation, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti officially accepted last week President Joe Biden’s nomination as his pick to be the next ambassador to India. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, it will the closing chapter to an eight-year t…

Welcome to the weekend! The big news of the week landed Friday with President Joe Biden’s signing of a sweeping executive order aimed at Big Tech, business mergers and prescription drugs. …. should #techLA be worried, thrilled, cautious? Join our conv…

This week in L.A. tech and startup news: Xponential Fitness filed for an IPO. Torrid and Evgo debuted on Wall Street. Relativity Space expanded into a new Long Beach facility. Genies has a new headquarters in Marina del Rey. Accelerator Plug and Pla…

This week in L.A. tech and startup news: Sweetgreen filed for an IPO. Snapchat partnered with UMG. Hedge fund giant Bill Ackerman’s SPAC bought a piece of UMG. Bionaut got a special drug designation from the FDA, and SoCal startups Songtradr, Mapped…