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Weekly Tech Recap: Hydrogen Fuel in an Electric Vehicle World
California Is Getting New Fueling Stations for Hydrogen Cars, But Who Will Use Them?

In California, virtually the only state with hydrogen cars on the road, about 47 active fueling stations serve a trickle of early hydrogen adopters who mostly cruise around Los Angeles and the Bay Area today. These hydrogen-powered passenger vehicles arenโ€™t anywhere near as popular as electric cars, but that isnโ€™t stopping California from spending millions of dollars to support them. Read more >>

LA Startups To Watch ๐Ÿ‘€

๐Ÿ‘‰ Romeo Power. The electric battery maker has big plans for its new Cypress lab space: to electrify the pollution-emitting trucking industry, one fleet at a time.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Phoenix Motors. SPI Energy filed regulatory papers this week to spin out its electric vehicle unit with hopes of raising $150 million in the public market.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Tagger. Based in Santa Monica, the influencer marketing platform that helps companies search for creators to promote their services or products.

#TechLA's Movers & Shakers This Week ๐Ÿ“ข

โžก๏ธ Snap Inc. is expanding its startup accelerator program to two cohorts a year, offering a $150,000 investment.

โžก๏ธ United Talent Agency launched its first SPAC on the Nasdaq exchange on Thursday as it moves into gaming and the creator economy business.

โžก๏ธ After serving four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Jake Wood built a nonprofit that sent military veterans to disaster relief. The CEO is calling on corporate America to give back, too.

LA Tech and Venture Capital News ๐Ÿ—ž

๐Ÿ—ž Tinder's co-founders settled their lawsuit against Match after claiming in court that the company cheated them out of billions of dollars worth of stock options.

๐Ÿ—ž Qai Qai, a character co-created by Invisible Universe, is the focus of tennis star Serena Williams' first book for children. The L.A.-based startup hopes to make it into the next hit cartoon character on social media and become โ€œthe Pixar of social media.โ€

๐ŸŽ™ Listen Up ๐Ÿ’ฌ

Need a podcast recommendation this weekend? Here are some new pods we have for you:

๐ŸŽ™ At one time, it was crazy to think a venture capital firm could survive outside of Silicon Valley, but Dana Settle moved to Los Angeles and tried it anyway. On this episode of Office Hours, Settle comes on to talk about the booming L.A. tech scene and her investment firm Greycroft.

๐ŸŽ™ On this episode of LA Venture, Kairos Venutreโ€™s Alex Andrianopoulos talks about why he believes in investing in research coming out of the nationโ€™s top universities. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

๐ŸŽ™On this weekโ€™s episode of Behind Her Empire, Dr. Mary Pardee has made gut health her lifeโ€™s work, culminating in the founding of her telemedicine and virtual wellness company, Modrn Med. Listen on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts.

๐Ÿšจ โ€‹EXTRA EXTRA ๐Ÿšจ

๐Ÿ—ž Cyber Monday sales were down this year as retailers offered fewer discounts and out of stock items.

๐Ÿ—ž Metroโ€™s answer to Uber, Lyft will be coming to Westwood/UCLA on Dec. 12 with the expansion of its rideshare service Metro Micro.

๐Ÿ—ž This week, L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced he would not use L.A.-based Fulgent Genetics to test his employees, saying he fears the information would be shared with the Chinese government.

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