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🤖 CyberFilm AI: The Filmmaking Assistant Hollywood Didn't Know It Needed
We’re kicking off the new year with a profile of an early stage startup right at the intersection of Hollywood and Silicon Valley: CyberFilm AI. Read on to learn about how Russell Palmer (an AI engineer and product manager) and his brother Andrew (a computer science major turned filmmaker) are building a company to lead Hollywood into the AI era.
🛰 Apex Opens a New Satellite Factory; LA's Active Raises; and AI LA Supports Tech + Community
As most people are winding down for the holidays, LA’s tech scene keeps on ripping! Read on for a new local satellite factory, LA startups raising capital, and more. Apex founders Max Benassi (left) and Ian Cinnamon outside Factory One. As most of you, our loyal readers, know, LA...
⭐️ Founders shine at Techstars LA & Space demo day and celebration
This Wednesday, Techstars hosted a fantastic in-person expo for the Fall 2023 Los Angeles cohort and the Fall 2023 Space cohort at the Peterson Automotive Museum. 💼🤝💡. The in-person expo followed the virtual demo days for both cohorts, letting founders mix with mentors, investors, and community members. It was a celebration after three months of hard work, marking a significant step forward for the companies.
🧬 XPRIZE's $100M+ Competition to Revolutionize Human Aging
Culver City-based XPRIZE, an organization known for orchestrating large-scale incentive competitions aimed at resolving humanity's most significant challenges, just launched a new 7-year global competition, XPRIZE Healthspan. The prize comprises a total of $111 million, including both the prize purse ($101M) and a bonus award. 🕰️🧬🏆. Image...
🚙 DotLA's Experience in Waymo's Self-Driving Car
Waymo: Independent self-driving cars, that don’t need no (hu)man! We took a ride in one of Waymo’s self-driving cars and want to let you know what it was like. 🤖🚦🚗. Image Source: Waymo. Waymo One, is an autonomous ride-hailing service owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company....
💻 Want the inside scoop on founders and VCs' favorite LA co-working spots?
Here’s your monthly dose of LA gems, which this week happens to be co-working spots frequented by VCs, entrepreneurs, and everyone in-between. Help us as we shine a spotlight on Los Angeles' unique establishments that contribute to the city's charm and indirectly enrich its thriving tech ecosystem. This week we are featuring six of the best co-working spaces on the Westside voted on by influential VCs and founders alike. Our list flows least expensive and exclusive to… well, aspirational. Let us know if we’ve missed any of your favorites!
Revolutionizing Job Hunting: How WeApply Puts You Ahead of the Pack
If you've been job hunting recently, you've likely experienced the soul crushing challenge of navigating numerous job application platforms, often competing with hundreds of other applicants for a single position. WeApply’s data-driven, user-centric approach is seeking to change that. 😓💼🔍. WeApply, an LA-based job application automation platform,...
⛳️ Weather Guarantee for Golfers
After announcing its partnership with the PGA of America earlier this year, LA-based Sensible Weather, a climate finance platform, has now introduced its Weather Guarantee program in collaboration with 23 distinguished golf facilities in Myrtle Beach, managed by Founders Group International, Caledonia Golf & Fish Club, and True Blue Golf Club. ⛈️⛳️
🏛️ Brilliant Designs or Billion-Dollar Liabilities? How This LA Ruling May Disrupt Big Tech!
Ever suspected your go-to black hole of time, I mean social media app, might have a secret plan to keep you hooked? Well, a judge in Los Angeles seems to think so! 📱👀⚖️. A Los Angeles judge has rejected the dismissal of significant lawsuits against Meta, TikTok,...
☕️ Top Cafes For Running into LA's Tech Leaders
We’re are releasing a new edition – a heartfelt homage to Los Angeles. In the hustle and bustle of work and family life, its easy to forget what makes this city truly magical. Take these 2 minutes to pause with us and explore the LA gems in this vibrant, diverse, and utterly unique parking lot we call home. Every other week we will release a list of some type of establishments loved by Los Angeles VCs, entrepreneurs, your best friend’s cousin and everyone in-between.
Daniel Broukhim: Building a Thriving Ecommerce Business
If you want to be featured or know folks who want to be featured, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn. This week, we talked to entrepreneur Daniel Broukhim about his ecommerce subscription service, FabFitFun. 🏃♀️ Quick hits. Cofounder Brothers: Daniel co-founded FabFitFun with his brother Michael...
🏦 Stifel Bank: Helping Others Succeed
Excited to share another LA startup profile. This week’s profile covers not a founder or investor, but rather an ecosystem partner without whom, LA’s entrepreneurship scene would not be possible. If you’re a startup founder or VC in Los Angeles, I can almost guarantee you’re at most two...
✍️ WGA strike ends: 'Houston, we have a deal.'
Happy Friday Los Angeles! And an EXTRA happy Friday to Russell Palmer at CyberFilm AI for referring new subscribers to dot.la. Unless you are Patrick Star and have been living under a rock for the past week, you are aware that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and Hollywood studios have reached a tentative agreement. As this is a tech newsletter, we will concentrate on two key deal points: streaming topics and artificial intelligence protections, although it's important to note that the main deal points also encompass minimum staffing requirements and pay increases. ✍️🎬🌟
💡 Creative Synergy Between Hollywood and Artificial Intelligence
Executives in the media and entertainment industry are betting that AI can be a positive force by augmenting human creativity in addition to increasing efficiency. These companies range from brand new startups like Strada, an AI-enabled cloud platform with tools for production and postproduction to more established AI-powered companies including Invisible Universe, developing family friendly franchises on social media, and Toonstar, developing irreverent adult franchises on web3. This is not to mention the incumbent Hollywood studios who are snapping up AI talent while their hands are full with a striking workforce worried about AI.
ExpertDojo: Investing in Startups from LA to the World
My name is Minh Do, and I’m helping out interviewing and writing articles about founders, investors, and builders in LA. If you want to be featured or know folks who want to be featured, feel free to contact me on LinkedIn. This week, we talked to Brian Mac Mahon from ExpertDojo. It’s a really fun interview, digging into Brian’s thinking and what ExpertDojo is up to. Keep an eye out on their newsletter for more updates coming from them soon!
✨Diverse, Impact-Driven Founders Shine at Plug In South LA's Demo Day
Plug In South LA, a Los Angeles accelerator program, hosted their 2023 Founder Showcase at Blackbird House in Culver City on Thursday night. Founders made their pitches and then participated in a short Q&A session with Plug In South LA’s founder Derek Smith. 🎬🚀🌟. Half of Plug...
📦 Crate: Get Your (Online) Life in Order
We have another founder profile for you this week. It’s a fascinating early stage consumer business with just about the strongest LA ties possible. Read on below for more!. The Founder: Anna Bofa is an LA native and Dartmouth graduate (go Big Green 🌲🌲), who has worked for some of the most successful consumer internet companies in Silicon Valley, including both Google and Facebook (pre-Meta shift).
🌴 Just Dropped: Techstars LA's Fall 2023 Cohort
Our friends at Techstars LA are welcoming 12 new companies to their Fall 2023 accelerator program, and they were kind enough to give dot.LA a first look. Read on for more!. For anyone not familiar with Techstars, it is one of the largest accelerator programs in the world, having made over 3,700 investments since inception in 2006.
📺 'Charter'ing a Course Towards a Post-Cable Era?
The ongoing dispute between Burbank-based Walt Disney Co. and Charter Communications (parent of Spectrum cable/internet) regarding the distribution of Disney's channels, particularly ESPN, could potentially unravel the cable TV business as we know it. 🖥️🤺📺. Image Source: Los Angeles Times. The dispute between Walt Disney Co. and...
🎮 Riot Games' Valorant Finals Are Another Jewel In LA's Gaming Crown
🎮💥🔫 “USA, USA, USA!” If you wandered into the Kia Forum this past Saturday and listened to the cheers, you might have thought you had stumbled into a secret Olympic Games, and honestly you’d kind of be right. Photo courtesy of Riot Games. That...
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