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Unagi Launches LA E-Scooter Subscription in Bird's Backyard
Betting city dwellers will not want to risk taking public transportation in the age of COViD-19 or touch a shared e-scooter, Unagi announced Wednesday it will launch a $39 a month subscription service...
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Ridesharing App HopSkipDrive Announces Layoffs
HopSkipDrive, the ridesharing company for kids and one of Los Angeles' most visible startups, laid off staff Tuesday as the pandemic ravaged growth plans.Co-founder and CEO Joanna McFarland would not...
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Stop! Go! After Back and Forth, Lyft and Uber Win Stay in California
An appeals court granted Uber and Lyft a reprieve on Thursday, hours before the California rideshare giants were poised to make good on their threats to suspend operations in their home state.The move...
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As Uber and Lyft Battle California Law, Texas Ride-Hailing Startups See...
Over the last three years, L.A. Lyft driver Nicole Moore has watched her paychecks shrink as her hours have grown. Frustrated, she's ready to leave her part-time gig, but until now there have been few...
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Surf Air Gets a $200 Million Lift, Plans to Go Public
Subscription commuter airline Surf Air has always been favored by wealthy tech executives; now it wants to bring its service to the masses and it's secured a $200 million investment to do it, with an...
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Lyft Launches E-Bikes in Santa Monica as Micro-Mobility Surges After the...
As Santa Monica prepares to shutdown its five-year-old, city-run shared bike service, Lyft will roll out a fleet of hundreds of electric bikes, beginning Tuesday. The new e-bikes will be docked at the...
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LA New Mobility Challenge Is Taking Applications
Think you have what it takes to change how people get around? Then you should apply to the fourth annual L.A. New Mobility Challenge, a joint initiative of CoMotion, the Los Angeles Cleantech...
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'We Created a Priceline for Trucking': Zuum Freight-Tech Platform Raises $8.5M
In an Amazon-driven ecommerce world, it's hard to fathom just how time-consuming it can be for retailers like Lay-Z-Boy to ship their inventory across the country. Even though one-click ordering and...
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Bird Seeks to Unload Santa Monica HQ as Fund Marks Down Shares
After completing a costly renovation less than a year ago, the once high-flying e-scooter unicorn Bird Rides has put its airy and sleek Santa Monica offices up for sublease, dot.LA has learned. Prior...
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Uber and Lyft Hit a Stretch of Pre-Election Bumps
Less than two weeks ahead of the election, Uber and Lyft are hitting new roadblocks after pouring money into a ballot measure intended to protect their business model. On Thursday, a California...
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Bird Reportedly Explores Going Public via SPAC
Bird Rides is looking to go public via a blank-check company, Bloomberg reported Monday. The Santa Monica-based e-scooter unicorn is working with Credit Suisse Group and is in early-stage discussion...
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LA Tech Updates: Fidelity Reportedly Seeks to Unload Bird Shares at a Loss;...
Here are the latest updates on news affecting Los Angeles' startup and tech communities. Sign up for our newsletter and follow dot.LA on Twitter for more.Today: Fidelity Seeking to Unload Bird Shares...
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Ride-Hailing Service Alto Debuts in Los Angeles, Going After Uber and Lyft
The Texas ride-hailing startup Alto hopes to give tech giants like Uber and Lyft some stiff competition in Southern California with an employee model and a slew of safety measures — from masks to HEPA...
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Her Highflying LA Startup Changed How Students Got to School. Then Came the...
When Joanna McFarland co-founded HopSkipDrive in 2014, she thought she had discovered the perfect low-risk business model – contracting with school districts to provide safe and reliable ridesharing...
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Virgin Hyperloop Aims to Get Angelenos to San Francisco in 45 Minutes —...
Forty-five minutes in traffic won't get you very far in Los Angeles. But Virgin Hyperloop estimates it will be able to get you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in that time. The Richard Branson-owned...
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Santa Monica Will Test Surveillance Tools to Monitor Its New Drop-Off Zone
The street lamps lining Santa Monica's busy, shop-lined downtown streets will soon display tiny video cameras operated by a local software startup. The cameras will watch delivery vehicles that stop...
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Unagi Expands E-Scooter Subscription in Los Angeles
Unagi, the trendy Oakland e-scooter startup that has drawn fawning comparisons to Apple and Tesla, is expanding its subscription service to a broader swath of Los Angeles and New York, along with six...
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E-Bike Manufacturers Are Rethinking Los Angeles. Here's What They See
In January 2020, just before the pandemic hit, Irvine-based electric bike manufacturer Super73 had just launched its newest bike models — the S2, R, and RX — and business was surging.Then the pandemic...
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LA-Based Retrospec Launches a Line of E-Bikes
Retrospec, a Los Angeles-based ecommerce brand that sells outdoor recreation and fitness gear, is among the latest companies to enter the e-bike market. It will launch its first line on April 21st....
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Exclusive: Bird Plans to Go Public via SPAC at $2.3 Billion Valuation
Bird Rides, the Santa-Monica e-scooter company that was once a startup darling but saw ridership plunge during the pandemic, is planning to go public through a so-called blank-check company, dot.LA...
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