LA Tech Week in Review: 2/17/19-2/23/19

With so much going on in the thriving LA tech and startup ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the news in the space. We keep you abreast of a few of things that you may have missed in LA Tech news for the week ending 2/23 including the LA startup fundings , exits, and events including news for Clutter, Brainbase, Wander, and much, much more… USE THE ARROWS BELOW TO SEE THE FULL LA TECH WEEK IN REVIEW

Clutter is the tech- storage company that allows people to store their extra belonging through an automated platform, thus people never have to leave their house. Founded by Ari Mir and Brian Thomas , this six-year-old startup raised $200M in Series D funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund and including participation from GV , Atomico , Four Rivers Group , Sequoia Capital , and Fifth Wall . Clutter has now raised a total of $296.3M across seven rounds.

Sports content and analytics platform The Action Network has raised $17.5M in funding from investors that include The Chernin Group and Fertitta Capital .

According to a recent SEC filing, Suprize has raised $3.8M in funding. The filing lists media executive Filip Diarra and Courtne Smith , who is Drake's former personal assistant, as Executives. The filing also indicates that there were fourteen participants in the round.

WeGet is the social e-commerce site and its CEO is Edison Xu . It recently raised $3M in Series A funding led by BV Investment Partners and K2VC .

According to recent SEC filing, Wander , the company trying to reimagine the internet, has raised $1.3M in funding in what appears to be a convertible note. The filing indicates that there were ten participants in this round. Culver City-based Wander was founded by David Fields and Dan Rahmel in 2018.

IP licensing platform and marketplace Brainbase has raised $1M in Pre – Seed funding from investors that include Tera Ventures , Sterling Road , Severin Hacker , Andrew Rabin , and Hamid Barkhordar . Brainbase was founded by Nate Cavanaugh , Karl Johan Vallner , and Nikolai Tolkatshjov in 2016.

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