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Details of a Mysterious LA Gaming Startup Emerge
Details of a Mysterious LA Gaming Startup Emerge
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The website for Artie is pretty colorful but it won't tell you much right now. But we can report to you that the L.A.-based startup is backed by, among some famous investors, NBA star Kevin Durant and Taylor Swift nemesis Scooter Braun, and this month it raised nearly $36 million to deliver "mobile games that hit different." It's posting updates on its Discord server. Read more...
Here's what else we're reading in the news:
McDonald's will begin selling Beyond Meat burgers in some locations, including El Segundo and Manhattan Beach, next month.
Triller, the L.A.-based social media and music discovery platform, will launch a virtual event series called Assembly for Black Creators.
DigitalUndivided is seeking Black and Latinx women entrepreneurs in Los Angeles to apply for its $5,000 Breakthrough funding program by October 25.
Netflix has fired a trans employee on suspicion that they leaked to the press internal data about the Dave Chappelle special, "The Closer."
BioTools Innovator has named Claremont-based Machine Bio as the winner of its inaugural competition for technology that can produce pure protein in hours.
Steam is banning the exchange of NFTs or cryptocurrencies on its platform.
Eight months ago, Artie revealed it was building three cross-platform titles and a software development kit (SDK) to help developers create mobile games that play automatically — without requiring a download through Apple or Google's app stores.
The three-year-old company's psychedelic website remains sparse on details to this day, teasing "the greatest party on your phone" and "rare digital collectibles (NFTs)." But a peek at Artie's Discord server offers a vivid look at its plans for the "Artieverse" — a name for a series of products that unmistakably taps into the hype of the metaverse (a.k.a. a giant digital or 3D space).
Grounded Foods, an L.A.-based food startup, is aiming for the larger vegan market with the launch of its variety cheese that doesn't come from cows. The startup said Wednesday they raised $2.5 million in funding from investors.
A new Etsy-like online store for Latinas has made its debut this month. Shop Latinx targets the millennial and Gen Z Latina in the U.S. And during the pandemic it saw a spike in sales.