Everything you need to need to know about the largest Los Angeles startup funding rounds of April 2021; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…
Mark Pincus
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 5/3/21
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 5/1/21 featuring funding details for Automox, Honorlock, and twenty-seven other rounds that you must know about.
LA Tech Week in Review: 4/18/21-4/24/21
$120M+ raised in LA during the week! LA Tech news for the week ending 4/24 featuring news for Welcome Technology, Moving Analytics, and much, much more.
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 4/22/2021
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 4/22/2021 featuring funding details for Universal Hydrogen, Welcome Technologies, and much more.
LA Tech Week in Review: 2/14/21-2/20/21
LA Tech news for the week ending 2/20 featuring news for Artie, Pex, and much, much more…
The LA TechWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 2/18/2021
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for LA startups for 2/18/2021 featuring funding details for Artie, Basil Street Cafe, and much more.
ForeVR Raises $1.5M to Bring Popular Real Life Games to VR
The virtual reality gaming market is expected to reach $45B/yr by 2027. The increased affordability of VR sets like Oculus’s Quest 2 will contribute to this massive growth. ForeVR, founded by two ex-Zynga employees, is seeking to capitalize on this trend with its VR-focused gaming studio. Emerging recently from stealth, the company’s first title, launching in early 2021, is focused on bowling and ForeVR plans to build new games that are based on popular games in real life. LA TechWatch caught up with CEO and Cofounder Marcus Segal to learn more about the genesis of the company, its future product pipeline, first institutional round of funding from investors that include Galaxy Interactive Fund, Presence Capital, Emmett Shear, Justin Kan, Mark Pincus, and Justin Waldron.
LA Tech Week in Review: 9/13/20-9/19/20
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 7/20/20
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup fundings for the week ending 7/18/20 featuring funding details for Homee, Crisp, Skydio, and much much more.
Whatifi Raises $10M to Bring Interactive Movies to Your Phone
Through what it calls “storyhacking”, Whatifi offers numerous plotlines, character arcs, and endings, and even critical points where the watch party is faced with a problem and the movie cannot continue until everyone unanimously decides what decision to make. Using methodology from interactive theater, Cofounders Hardi Meybaum and Jaanus Juss are putting social audiences in the Director’s seat from their phones. The duo shared some insight into the company’s engaging platform for developing movies, future plans, and recent funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
