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The robotic fry cook Flippy is getting a new look
Miso Robotics, the designers of the world’s most popular robotic fry cook “Flippy,” is giving their burger-flipping, french fry-prepping robot a new look. The company has designed a
With Tony Fadell’s help, Advano is building battery components to power an electric future
Using scrap silicon as its feedstock, a New Orleans-based company called Advano has raised $18.5 million to manufacture battery components to enable more powerful, smaller and longer-lasting batteries
H1 Insights is giving the healthcare industry the ultimate professional database
“I want to build a business which profiles every single researcher and healthcare professional in the world and I want to sell it to industry,” says Ariel Katz, the co-founder and chief ex
With $5 million from international backers, Mexico’s Moons brings its Invisalign killer to YC
Moons, a Mexico City-based startup that’s angling to be the Invisalign for the Latin American market, has joined the ranks of Y Combinator as part of the accelerator’s latest cohort. The c
PrimaHealth Credit will now lend to borrowers looking to pay for addiction treatment
PrimaHealth Credit, which offers loans to borrowers to pay for medical treatment, is expanding its pitch to cover addiction treatment centers. Currently, PrimaHealth offers loans for elective healthca
Los Angeles’ AmazeVR raises more cash, heads to Incheon for first location-based VR installation
AmazeVR, the Los Angeles-based virtual reality entertainment distribution service, is taking its first steps into the world of location-based virtual reality experiences with an installation in Seoul&
LA tech industry mourns Kobe Bryant
The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBA superstar, entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Cali
Google backtracks on search results design
Earlier today, Google announced that it would be redesigning the redesign of its search results as a response to withering criticism from politicians, consumers and the press over the way in which sea
UPDATE: Los Angeles-based CREXi raises $30 million for its online real estate marketplace
Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it’s little wonder that there’s something of a boom in investments in technology comp
Playing traffic cop for drones in cities and towns nets Airspace Link $4 million
As the number of drones proliferates in cities and towns across America, government agencies are scrambling to find ways to manage the oncoming traffic that’s expected to clog up their airspace.
Memphis Meats raised $161 million from SoftBank Group, Norwest and Temasek
Memphis Meats, a developer of technologies to manufacture meat, seafood and poultry from animal cells, has raised $161 million in financing from investors, including Softbank Group, Norwest and Temase
Two Sigma Ventures raises $288M, complementing its $60B hedge fund parent
Eight years ago, Two Sigma Investments began an experiment in early-stage investing. The hedge fund, focused on data-driven quantitative investing, was well on its way to amassing the $60 billion in a
Industrial technologies get a big backer with Anzu Partners’ new $190 million fund
Advances in biology, biochemistry, sensors and automation have the potential to reshape the ways manufacturing in America is done, and a relatively new firm called Anzu Partners has just raised $190 m
Cann, the cannabis-infused drink company, moves 150,000 units and raises $5 million
Since its launch in May of last year, the cannabis-infused drink company Cann has sold 150,000 cans of its THC and CBD-infused, alcohol-free intoxicants, in a sign of success that’s bucking curr
In Los Angeles, the Women’s March embraces technology to organize and inspire
The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high
Where FaZe Clan sees the future of gaming and entertainment
Lee Trink has spent nearly his entire career in the entertainment business. The former president of Capitol Records is now the head of FaZe Clan, an esports juggernaut that is one of the most recogniz
23andMe co-founder’s new startup, Precise.ly, brings genomics to India through Narayana partnership
Precise.ly, the new genomics startup launched by 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey and Aneil Mallavarapu, is taking its spin on direct to consumer personalized genomics to India through a partnership with
Plant-based milk substitute market gets frothy with $225 million for Califia Farms
The market for companies developing dairy substitutes is really getting frothy. In December, the startup Perfect Day Foods announced it had raised $140 million in financing for its dairy replacement a
Yac is reinventing voicemail for the Slack generation
With distributed workforces all the rage in the tech community these days, startups are trying to build new tools to keep those teams connected and communicating in the ways that make folks most comfo
Austin-based FlashParking raises $60 million for parking management technology
FlashParking, an Austin-based developer of parking management software and services, has raised $60 million in new financing from the private equity investment firm L Catterton. The company’s so