![]() ![]() Chief operating officer Justin Briggs said Antora’s goal is to modernize and popularize thermal energy storage using ultra-hot carbon. Backed by investors including the National Science Foundation and Los Angeles-based Overture VC, Antora has raised roughly $57 million to date, most recently a $50 million round last February. Hartwig is an alumni of SpaceX he was a manufacturing engineer on the Crew Dragon engines from 2016-2018 and later a flight test engineer at Kitty Hawk.Īntora: Sunnyvale-based Antora Energy was founded in 2017, making it one of the oldest companies on the pitching block during the event. At the Tech Week event Thursday, Arbor CEO Brad Hartwig told a stunned crowd that Arbor aims to remove about five billion tons of organic waste from landfills and turn that into about 6 PWh, or a quarter of the global electricity need, each year. At the same time, it also uses biomass carbon removal and storage to remove carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in an attempt to avoid further damaging the earth’s ozone layer. Here’s a look at the greentech startups that pitched during the Tech Week event, and how they think what they’re building could help solve the climate crisis.Īrbor: Based in El Segundo, this year-old startup is working to convert organic waste into energy and fresh water. “One thing we realize is accessibility is a huge thing.” “Particularly the woman's side, I'd like to think we do a better job of making sure that there's spaces for everyone,” Fleischauer told the audience. She noted, though, that roughly 46% of Angel City fans are “straight white dudes hanging out with their bros.” She noted community is key, and that fostering a sense of engagement and safety at the team’s home venue, BMO stadium (formerly Banc of California Stadium), is one reason fans keep coming back.Īdding free metro rides to BMO stadium and private rooms for nursing fans to breastfeed or fans on the spectrum to avoid sensory overload, were just some of the ways ACFC tried to include its community in the concept of its stadium, Fleischauer said. At an LA Tech Week panel hosted by Athlete Strategies about investing in sports, Angel City head of strategy and chief of staff Kari Fleischauer said that years before launching the women’s National Women’s Soccer League team, Angel City FC was pounding the pavement letting people know about the excitement ladies soccer can bring. ![]() In the soccer world, Los Angeles-based women’s soccer team Angel City FC has put in the work to become a household name, not just in LA County but across the nation. “There's an untapped revenue opportunity,” she noted. Storck added that in heterosexual households, women generally manage most of the family’s money, giving them huge purchasing power, a potential advantage for female-run leagues. Women make up half the population, but “also 50% of the folks that are walking into the stadium at Dodger Stadium, or your NFL fans are just about 50% women,” noted Erin Storck, a panelist and senior analyst at Los Angeles-based Elysian Park Ventures. In 2023, the average size of an LA Sparks crowd swelled to 10,396 people, up from 4,701 people. WNBA openers this year saw a 21% spike in attendance, with some teams including the LA Sparks reporting triple-digit ticket sales growth, about 121% over 2022’s total. In 2022, the first 32 games of the NCAA tournament had record attendance levels, breaking records set back in 2004, and largely driven by the new and rapidly growing women’s NCAA tournament. Representatives for TikTok declined a request for comment by dot.LA. ![]() “At TikTok, no conversation started with ‘How are you?’ It was like, ‘How’s the revenue? What are we doing to drive more growth?'” “I was made to feel like I was never doing enough,” Martinez told Business Insider. While ByteDance has reportedly made attempts to counteract that culture, Martinez said he and other colleagues were pressured to attend weekend meetings-and that when he objected, he was told by a manager: “That’s not how we do business here.” The “996 policy” in question stems from China, where companies are known to demand that employees work from 9 a.m. “I do think that the culture of working too much or not having as much of the work-life balance does permeate throughout the organization, and it is often encouraged you work ‘after hours’,” Martinez said. Pabel Martinez, a former global account director at TikTok, told Business Insider that managers at the Culver City-based company-which is owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance-would encourage employees to work into the evening and ask them to attend meetings during the weekend. A former TikTok employee has criticized the social media firm’s workplace culture-claiming that managers would pressure employees to work long hours and weekends in a nod to China’s “996” culture. ![]()
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