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Updated on April 03, 2025

On the move: 5 new leaders join SoCal tech companies

May is upon us and as things heat up in the Southland — or cool down, because LA makes no sense — several local businesses decided to share substantial leadership changes. Here are the tech execs on the move.

Quinten Dol Quinten Dol
Updated on April 03, 2025

How Smarkets empowers engineers to be their own boss — and choose their own projects

The Smarkets engineering team takes advantage of their company’s self management philosophy to choose projects based on interest, curiosity or expertise. The betting and prediction markets company operates with a relatively flat structure, and employees get to vote for their team leaders. We spoke to four of Smarkets’ software engineers to learn what their day-to-day looks like.

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Ashley Bowden Ashley Bowden
Updated on April 03, 2025

New Unicorn Genies Raises $150M to Create Avatar Ecosystems for Web3

Led by Silver Lake, the company’s latest round values it at $1 billion.

Jeremy Porr Jeremy Porr
Updated on April 03, 2025

Day-J Raises $2.1M in Pre-Seed Funding, Launches Private Beta Waitlist

In addition to videos, text chat and one-on-one coaching sessions, the AI-driven app offers users location-based recommendations on where and what to eat.

Updated on April 03, 2025

11 LA-based real estate tech companies changing the way people buy houses

LA's booming real estate tech scene has people wondering how we'll be buying houses in the near future.

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