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Kicking Off the 2021 dot.LA Summit
Kicking Off the 2021 dot.LA Summit
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The dot.LA Summit is here! For the first time, the summit will be held in-person at the Fairmont Miramar hotel in Santa Monica. The event features 45 speakers covering cryptocurrency, telehealth, urban mobility and women in tech, among others. You can find a full schedule of this year's summit here.
Here's what else we're reading in the news:
Involve.ai, an L.A.-based AI platform, has named Mary Poppen as its chief strategy and customer officer.
Genies, the L.A.-based avatar company, says it will commit 80% of its micro-fund toward NFT projects and is tapping Jonathan Weems to lead those endeavors.
The U.S. economy had a bit of a slow growth in Q3 this year partly due to bottlenecks in the supply chain and the ongoing pandemic.
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating Visa's relationships with fintech companies like Square, Stripe and Paypal.
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says Facebook has a "negative impact on society."
Facebook rebrands its name to Meta.
The two-day conference will begin with a pitch showcase competition for early-stage startup companies that have raised less than $1 million in funding.
Judges for the event include Boba Guys and Tea People USA co-founder and CEO Andrew Chau, Worklife Venture Capital founder Brianne Kimmel and Plug and Play Ventures Associate Kiswana Browne. The winner will receive a prize package from Fenwick, Coda Search and TriNet.
While new sensor companies have long been working on ways to track the elderly, a fast-growing movement in remote patient monitoring that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the technology's growth. Now, investments in the space have reached more than $3 billion, according to Pitchbook.
In this episode of the PCH Driven podcast, Spencer Rascoff shares what drives him as the co-founder and former CEO of Zillow, and co-founder of Hotwire, dot.LA, Recon and his VC firm 75 & Sunny. Rascoff talks about the future of real estate, how having a diverse staff can help companies make smarter decisions, how he chooses which startups he invests in and offers advice on recruiting talent and building out teams for startups.