LA-area hardware incubator MAKE IN LA presented their first round of portfolio companies at LA Clean Tech Incubator on Tuesday January 13. FITGUARD began the day by presenting their color light-coded mouthguard, which detects head injuries, and can track impacts over time — a smart solution to injury detection initially targeted towards the nation’s 38 million youth athletes, and addressable to a…
The City of Los Angeles has announced its intention to pitch the US Olympic Committee to host the 2024 Olympics. other US candidates include Boston, San Francisco, and Washington. LA is the only city in the batch with the pre-existing size & infrastructure to handle an event as large as the Olympics, which have run here in 1984 and 1932 prior. Among…
Wow, what a concept — SNAPCHAT announced DISCOVER, a human-curated storytelling feature, built in partnership with an array of media brands including Vice, National Geographic, Yahoo / Katie Couric, People, Cosmopolitan, the Daily Mail, CNN, Food Network, ESPN, Warner Bros records, and many more. Funny thing is, this human-curated editorial media push is something LA Tech Digest founder Scott Perry publicly suggested…
LA is gorgeous! And these three recent videos prove it. So if you need to brag to your friends back home, or need help recruiting talent from faraway lands, just use these in your pitch: Hyperlapse, with a techno / EDM soundtrack By Drone, with a bluesy soundtrack Shutterstock Video Sizzle Reel, with a piano soundtrack …and if you really need it,…
Mobile entertainment start-up SERIOUSLY today announced they have raised $18 million in a Series A round. Northzone led the round, and Korea Investment Partners also participated, along with previous investors Upfront Ventures, Sunstone Capital and Daher Capital. This brings Seriously’s total funding to date to $28 million. With Seriously launching a trilogy of Best Fiends games, the new funds will be used…
Mayor Eric Garcetti today joined Vice President Joe Biden and leaders in the clean-technology industry at LA Clean Tech Incubator’s La Kretz Campus for a roundtable discussion on renewable energy, green business, and public-private partnerships in Los Angeles. Said Vice President Biden, “This incubator brings together innovative minds with the courage to take a chance on a new idea. There is a…
LA-based HELLOTECH.com, which specializes in home-tech support and device sales, announced the launch of BUYYOURPARENTS.com, which enables adult children to easily purchase a variety of home technology services and products for their parents. Makes sense, right? How many times do your parents want to keep up with the newest technologies, but have no idea where to start? BuyYourParents.com will help seniors and…
The largest news site that you have never heard of is EXPLODING — OpposingViews.com, the independent news website focused on local stories that bring a fresh perspective to national issues, reported that its traffic has surged nine-fold over the past two years to average more than 23 million unique visitors per month through the first half of 2015. OpposingViews.com has grown from…
