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Published on April 03, 2025

Membership-Based Surf Air Raises $7M Series B

For business travelers, airline fees can pile up in no time. Regional airline Surf Air hopes to ease that pain. For $1,650 per month, members (not passengers) can fly anywhere in the network, as many times as they want.

Updated on April 03, 2025

Learning Ruby on Rails in Los Angeles

Ashley Bowden Ashley Bowden
Updated on April 03, 2025

Mattel Will Mint NFTs for Kids Through Partnership With Toekenz Collectibles

Toy manufacturing giant Mattel is deepening its metaverse presence in a new partnership with Web3 platform Toekenz.

Updated on April 03, 2025

Startup UCLA participants talk about what it's like to participate in a college accelerator

Startup UCLA celebrated its fifth demo day this week, so we asked a few of the participants what it's really like to be a part of a college accelerator.

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.

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