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| 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 to change court reporting with AI-enabled transcript analysis
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| 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... |
| 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 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... |
| 14.05.2024 | Steno Launches Transcript Genius, Aiming To ‘Revolutionize How Attorneys Interact With Transcripts’; Also Announces $46M In New Financing | - |
| 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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BNPL (Купи сейчас, заплати позже) — это то же самое... |
| 05.06.2023 | Steno Closes $15 Million B Round | - |
| 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 Secures $15M Series B Funding Led by Left Lane Capital to Expand National Presence | - |
| 23.05.2023 | Steno Secures $15M Series B Funding Led by Left Lane Capital to Expand National Presence | - |
| 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... |
| 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 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... |
| - | The Pandemic Left Offices Full of Unused Tech and Students Without Digital Access. Then reWerk Stepped In. | During the pandemic, California schools and nonprofits found themselves in desperate need of technical equipment to stay connected to their communities, clients and students.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of laptops, mo... |
| - | Office Hours Podcast: Keith Richman Of Boosted Commerce on Acquiring Ecommerce Companies | On today's episode of Office Hours, meet Keith Richman, co-founder of Boosted Commerce, which buys top-rated companies on Amazon and other ecommerce ecosystems and helps take them to their next level.
Boosted is one of many companies Keith ... |
| - | Behind Her Empire Podcast: How Fresh n’ Lean's Founder Grew Her Idea into a $100M Business | On today's episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, we hear from Laureen Asseo, founder and CEO of Fresh n' Lean, one of the largest organic prepared meal delivery service in the United States.
While studying at the Fashion Institute of De... |
| - | Steno | “Built by tech and legal experts, Steno provides a revolutionary approach to court reporting and litigation services. ” |
| - | Office Hours Podcast: Pacaso Aims to Make Second Home Ownership Possible for Millions | On today's episode of Office Hours, I'm excited for you to get to know Austin Allison, my co-founder and CEO of our company, Pacaso.
Birds were the first dwellers Austin served with his boyhood bird-house business. Now, with Pacaso, our goa... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Thin Line Capital's Founder on the Opportunity in Clean Tech | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, hear from serial entrepreneur Aaron Fyke, founder and managing partner of Thin Line Capital, a firm tackling the world's toughest problems in energy, water and food sustainability. We'll h... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Fashion Icon Jenna Lyons Opens Up About Her J.Crew Exit | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Jenna Lyons talks about struggling to find her passion to becoming a fashion icon and co-founder of the beauty brand, LoveSeen.
Lyons started her career as intern at Donna Karan then went on to join the... |
| - | LA Venture: Digitalis Ventures' Drew Taylor on How Investing in Pet Health Creates Opportunities for Humans | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture Podcast, hear from Drew Taylor, a partner at Digitalis Ventures.
The firm first launched in 2016 with a $100 million fund invested in companies that focus on improving human health. Two years later... |
| - | Immigrants Have Been Left Behind by America's Banks. Welcome Tech Aims to Change That. | The United States is a nation of immigrants, but traditional banks – along with the rest of corporate America – are doing a lousy job of catering to this rapidly growing demographic. They are leaving a lot of money on the table, according t... |
| - | Subscribe to our newsletter to catch every headline. | Adobe Analytics, which monitors holiday shopping, expects Americans to spend more on the digital holiday than even Black Friday. But they are likely to see many items out of stock. On the top of the list of items expected to be sold out: ap... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Rob Dyrdek's Adrenaline-Fueled Approach to Venture Capital | On this week's L.A. Venture podcast, I sat down with Rob Dyrdek, the founder and CEO of the Dyrdek Machine. Dyrdek is a pro-skateboarding legend, holder of multiple world records, an MTV star, adrenaline junkie, successful serial entreprene... |
| - | Jeff Bezos Says That He’s Excited, but Not Nervous, on the Eve of His Suborbital Spaceflight | AN HORN, Texas — It's T-minus 1 day for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' suborbital spaceflight, and he feels fine.
On Tuesday, the world's richest individual is due to take a ride on the New Shepard spaceship built by his Blue Origin space ventu... |
| - | Office Hours Podcast: ChowNow’s Software Empowers Restaurants To Save Money on Deliveries | College was not Chris Webb's thing, so at 18 he took an internship at Oppenheimer and launched his career in finance.
While working Wall Street at investment bank Bear Stearns and then Lehman Brothers, he continually found himself drawn to ... |
| - | LA Venture: Why Social Leverage’s Gary Benitt Invests Early | Meet Gary Benitt, managing partner at Social Leverage — a venture capital firm that invests in startups ranging from fintech to SaaS.
On this episode of LA Venture, Benitt discusses his role at Social Leverage, the fund's investments in Rob... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Touchdown Ventures' Scott Lenet Has Plans to Upend the 'Secretive' Venture Industry | On this week's episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, meet Scott Lenet, the co-founder and president of Touchdown Ventures — a firm that helps corporations run professional venture capital programs. Before creating Touchdown, Lenet was a mana... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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: How Tatcha Founder Vicky Tsai Quit Her Job and Built an Empire | Vicky Tsai, founder of Japanese beauty brand Tatcha, had a nontraditional path to eventually founding one of the top skincare companies today.
About 10 years ago, Tsai decided to leave her thriving career and travel the world in search of h... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Newsom Beat the Recall. That Means Big Tech Still Has a Friend in Power | Gov. Gavin Newsom will lead the state of California for another year after defeating the recall effort by a nearly 28-point margin.
While Newsom credited his win to a voter rejection of loosening mask and vaccine mandates, a tenet of G.O.P.... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Aishwarya Iyer Wants To Talk About Your Rancid Olive Oil | This week, hear from Aishwarya Iyer, the founder CEO of Brightland, an artisan oil and vinegar brand started in 2018.
Iyer began her entrepreneurial journey after doing some research on possible causes for her upset stomach—which led her to... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | dot.LA Summit: Grid110 Wins Social Justice Award | dot.La kicked off its inaugural in-person summit on Oct. 28-29 at the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica. This year's summit features over 45 speakers covering cryptocurrency, telehealth, urban mobility and women in tech, among others. ... |
| - | 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: Alexandra Carter On How to Negotiate Anything | This week, Behind Her Empire sat down with Alexandra Carter, J.D. Carter is a professor at Columbia Law School teaching mediation.
Since 2016, Carter has partnered with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research. Her career is f... |
| - | 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 ... |
| - | Office Hours Podcast: Why Legendary Real Estate Coach Tom Ferry Says a Legacy Is Better Built Than Inherited | I wasn't a believer until I saw him in action. At a Tom Ferry event at the Seattle Convention Center, I observed thousands of people worshipping Tom Ferry, then and now, a legendary real estate coach, as he doled out words of wisdom during ... |
| - | LA Venture: Shawn Colo on Ecommerce Trends and How 3L Makes Investment Decisions | Shawn Colo's rise as an investor has tracked the rise of the internet, from the early days when Google began to index websites and radically change how media was created and distributed, to the present day, as ecommerce has surged.
Colo joi... |
| - | 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.... |
| - | LA Venture: Meet Nick Grouf and His PhD-Powered Venture Fund | This week, I sat down with Nick Grouf, founder and managing partner at Alpha Edison, a knowledge-driven venture fund he runs with his partner, Nate Redmond. Grouf is an ardent believer that venture capitalism has become very reactive, and h... |
| - | Why Amazon's Former Consumer Boss is Obsessed With Bringing Back US Manufacturing | When Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon Consumer Worldwide, made the surprise announcement in August that he was leaving, he said he felt it was time to do something else.
"Time for me to take time to explore personal interests that have taken ... |
| - | 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... |
| - | It's Like Peloton but for Pilates. Frame Fitness Reinvents the Reformer | Frame Fitness co-founder Melissa Bentivoglio discovered reformer Pilates through her doctor while struggling to recover from a broken pelvic bone in 2006. Immediately, she fell in love with the low-impact form of exercise.
Just a few years ... |
| - | 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: 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: 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: 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... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: TenOneTen Venture's Gil Elbaz on Why Founders Need a 10-Year Vision | On this episode of L.A. Venture, we talk to Gil Elbaz, one of my partners and the co-founder of TenOneTen Ventures.
Gil is one of the most iconic founders in L.A. He talks about his years building what would eventually become Google's AdSen... |
| - | Behind Her Empire Podcast: barre3 Co-Founder Sadie Lincoln On Quitting Your Day Job To Build Your Dream | A self-identified "poor-hippy kid," Sadie Lincoln is the co-founder and CEO of barre3, a fitness company focused on teaching people to be balanced in body and empowered from within.
Sadie was climbing up the ranks, working alongsi... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Office Hours Podcast: For Beauty Counter Founder Gregg Renfrew, It’s Not Just Makeup, It’s a Movement | On this week's episode of Office Hours, you'll hear from Gregg Renfrew, serial entrepreneur and founder of clean beauty company, Beauty Counter. She also serves on the board of directors of Supernova, my special purpose acquisition company.... |
| - | Bono Backs Omaze, a Charity Fundraising Platform Used by Billionaire Richard Branson | Charity fundraising platform Omaze, which offers celebrity meet-and-greets and other fundraising experiences, landed its most high profile client this year: billionaire Richard Branson. Now it's hoping to take off.
Omaze announced on Thursd... |
| - | Insurtech Investor Martha Notaras on Making a Good Living from (Sometimes) Boring Companies | The insurance business is having a moment as new technology and big data disrupt the space. Martha Notaras is placing her bets in fintech and insurtech companies.
Notaras is a managing partner at Brewer Lane and an investor in Lemonade, Lad... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Rebecca Minkoff Isn't Seeking Balance, She's Looking For Fearless Authenticity | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, hear from Rebecca Minkoff, co-founder of her namesake lifestyle brand. Her company sells handbags, clothing, jewelry and footwear, and has expanded to include the podcast she hosts, titled "Superwo... |
| - | Anduril Industries Is Getting Hundreds of Millions to Build Border Surveillance Tech | Venture capitalists last month sunk nearly half a billion dollars into a Southern California defense technology startup whose surveillance towers track migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Anduril Industries, the Irvine-based maker of aut... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Luminary CEO Cate Luzio On Steering a Startup Through the Pandemic | On this week's episode of Behind Her Empire, hear from Cate Luzio, founder of Luminary, a membership-based career and personal growth platform and collaboration hub for female founders.
The daughter of two civil servants, Luzio said she pic... |
| - | Riding the NFT Hype Wave, Curio Sells Digital Collectibles. Credit Accepted. | Even Rikin Mantri, whose company launched an NFT exchange on Friday, admits the eye-popping sums being paid for digital artwork, NBA highlights and even Tweets are being fueled by hype.
Mantri, co-founder of Curio, which launched last month... |
| - | SpaceX's 'All-Civilian' Crew Represents the Dawn of a Second Space Age | Are they space tourists? Citizen spacefliers? All-civilian astronauts? Whatever you call them, the four teammates who are due to go into orbit today in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule require creating a new category.
"I know there's contr... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Noura Sakkijha on the Ups and Downs of Launching Mejuri | Launching a brand new business has its ups and downs, and Noura Sakkijha can tell you all about it.
In the early years of launching the fine jewelry brand Mejuri, Sakkijha hit burnout and learned some very difficult lessons that are now par... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Meet YouTuber, Founder, New Mother and Designer Desi Perkins | On this week's episode of Behind Her Empire hear from Desi Perkins, a digital content creator, influencer, as well as founder and CEO of her namesake eyewear brand Dezi and skincare line Dezi Skin.
Before she rose to internet fame, Perkins ... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Phil Sanderson Thinks Gaming Is In Its Golden Age | On this week's L.A. Venture podcast, we meet Phil Sanderson — one of the founders and managing director of the venture capital firm Griffin Gaming Partners. Griffin is a $250 million fund investing in the global expansion of gaming, and is ... |
| - | tags for topbar | 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... |
| - | VC Sentiment Survey: Valuations Reach Record Highs As Optimism For a Recovery Remains Solid | Venture capital dollars are flowing into Southern California startups at a record pace and it's paying off for top Los Angeles investors who are riding the wave.
Valuations jumped in the second quarter for more than half of the investors su... |
| - | Songtradr CEO Hints at New Products After Acquiring Creative Music Agency MassiveMusic | Songtradr's acquisition on Wednesday of creative music agency MassiveMusic marks the latest step in its quest to become the leading B2B music licensing marketplace.
MassiveMusic, which uses data analytics to help brands customize what sound... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: How Natalie Gordon Took Babylist from a Side Project to an Industry Leader | Two weeks before her first son was born, entrepreneur Natalie Gordon became frustrated with the limited options for baby registries. So she created her own — as a side project.
That side project is now a fast-growing, multimillion-dollar bu... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: AptDeco Co-Founder Reham Fagiri on Being Scrappy and Resourceful | On this episode of Behind Her Empire, Reham Fagiri talks about why she left Goldman Sachs to become the CEO and co-founder of AptDeco.
Fagiri said she was inspired by her family. At a very young age, she wanted to build something for hersel... |
| - | Ifeoma Ozoma, California's Silenced No More Act and the Value of Disclosing and Disparaging Toxic Tech Companies | Ifeoma Ozoma's first choice was not speaking out.
When she left her role as public policy manager at Pinterest in March 2020, she was presented with a non-disclosure agreement.
"I was pushed out of the company and presented with a non-... |
| - | LA Venture Podcast: Unlock Venture Partners' Sanjay Reddy Sees New Opportunities in Video | On this episode of L.A. Venture, Minnie Ingersoll talks to Unlock Venture Partners co-founder Sanjay Reddy about Unlock Fund II, his Southern California focus, and if he could offer any advice for startups trying to find good bankers — and ... |
| - | LA Venture: Pritzker’s Matt McCall Advice to VCs on Managing Crisis: ‘Put on Your Own Mask First’ | On this episode of the L.A. Venture podcast, hear Matt McCall discuss his journey into entrepreneurship and wearing life like "a loose sweater."
McCall is well-known to the L.A. venture community as a partner at the Pritzker Group... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: How Ariel Kaye Launched Parachute With Zero Experience | On this episode of the Behind Her Empire, Ariel Kaye discusses how she went from leaving her successful career to launching her own brand with zero experience.
Today, Kaye is the founder and CEO of Parachute, a direct-to-consumer home essen... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Morgan DeBaun, AfroTech and How Black Tech Innovators Can Take Advantage of the Moment | Seven years ago, Morgan DeBaun left her job in Silicon Valley to help create Blavity, a news and events company geared toward Black millennials.
The name comes from the concept of "Black gravity"— the force that pulls people of co... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
| - | Behind Her Empire: Dermalogica Founder Jane Wurwand on Developing a Skill | "Learn to do something."
Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand credits her mother's advice for motivating her and her sisters into higher education and independence. Two of her sisters became nurses. Another became a lab technician. Wu... |
| - | Eric Garcetti's Legacy as LA's First 'High Tech Mayor' | When Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti took office he pledged to be the city's first "high tech mayor," but did President Joe Biden's pick for the next ambassador to India make good on that?
Biden officially named Garcetti as his pi... |
| - | 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... |
| - | 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... |
