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L.A.'s Pet Startup Utopia1345
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Today, we look at an industry that's booming across the city: pet tech. Reporter Rachel Uranga takes us beyond the dog-friendly workspaces, influencer canines, and dog-walking services, and into a growing wave of startups focused on leveraging technology to make the world better for our best friends. Meanwhile, Spotify announces it has bought The Ringer's podcast network, Santa Monica startup Retina gets a boost, and things get murkier in the Bezos' trial.
Today's stories
Scratchpay, a Pasadena-based company that offers financing for veterinary care. PrettyLitter, mail-order litter that changes color when your kitty is sick. Modern Animal, a Playa Vista-based startup that wants to revamp veterinary clinics for the digital age with telemedicine and other services. They're all part of a trend powered by Americans' changing relationship with their pets — and a $75 billion industry with a booming market in L.A. >>
He was let go by ESPN in 2015 in a bitter separation, but he may have just made a huge payday selling his The Ringer podcast network to Spotify. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but there have been numerous reports this year that Simmons was shopping the company with a $200 million asking price. >>
Retina, a Santa Monica startup that provides e-commerce companies like Dollar Shave Club and Madison Reed predictions of consumer behavior based on algorithms, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $2.5 million in funding led by Crosscut Ventures. >>
Jeff Bezos' legal team said a defamation suit brought by his girlfriend's brother represents an attempt to extort the Amazon CEO. Michael Sanchez accused Bezos and his security chief Gavin de Becker in the lawsuit filed earlier this week of spreading false rumors that he leaked nude photos of the tech leader to the National Enquirer. Sanchez said in the suit he "never had possession of the graphic photographs in question." >>