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LA TECH INDUSTRY MOURNS KOBE BRYANT Jonathan Shieber @jshieber / 3:22 am GMT • January 27, 2020comment Comment
The Los Angeles startup community is joining the rest of the world in mourning the death of NBAsuperstar,
entrepreneur and investor Kobe Bryant who was killed in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif., shortly before 10 a.m. on Sunday.Reports indicate
that
Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna Maria-Onore Bryant, and seven other passengers were on board a helicopter traveling to Bryant’s basketball training facility Mamba Academy. There were no survivors. The 41 year-old NBA All-Star, Olympic medalist, Oscar winnerand
father of four was most famous for his achievements on the basketball court, but had established himself as an entrepreneur and investor whose reach extended far beyond the Los Angeles area that he calledhome.
“Kobe was loved in Los Angeles,” wrote Mark Suster,
managing partner of the Los Angeles-based venture capital firm Upfront Ventures , in a private message to TechCrunch. “He not only played at the peak of his sport but everything he did was quality from film, to books to philanthropy. It’s truly a sadday in LA.”
Bryant launched his venture career with partner and serial entrepreneur Jeff Stibel back in 2013, according to Crunchbase.
The pair made a mix of early- and late-stage investments in Los Angeles-based companies like LegalZoom, Scopely, Art of Sport, The Honest Company, RingDNA, FocusMotion, DyshApp and Represent. Last year, the investment firm expanded with a $1.7 billion investment vehicle that was launched in partnership with the private equity fund, Permira, according to a report in USA Today.
“At my firm we have a saying, the greats study the greats. So I read about many captains of industry to learn about their journeys. However Kobe was more than a great. He aspired to be and worked relentlessly to be the best at whatever ‘game’ he decided to focus on. In basketball he was the best player of his generation. In writing, he won an Oscar right out the gate, in tech and investing he stood up an investment firm and quickly generated significant returns — a $6 million investment in BodyArmor became $200 million,” wrote Marlon Nichols, of MAC Venture Capital . “He was one of those rare talented humans whose effort matched his talent. I personally learned so much about focus and dedicating yourself to a goal from him. Kobe was beyond great, he was legend, he was a generational leader. Scratch generation leader. He was the kind of talent and leader that you see once in a lifetime.” Jessica Alba, the co-founder of The Honest Company, took to Twitterearlier in the day
to
share her own reaction to the news. And Scopely’s official Twitter account shared a reaction, as well. During his time with the Los Angeles Lakers, the MVP and 18-time All-Star set records and helped architect runs to five national championships. Together with Shaquille O’Neal, Bryant helped make the Lakers the dominant team in the NBA in the early 2000s. “Kobe was the rare combination of God-given talent on-and-off the court with a competitive athlete mindset that was unrivaled to the point it was called the ‘mamba mentality’. Whatever he put his focus turned into excellence, whether it was an NBA championship, an Oscar, entering the VC game or — most importantly — fatherhood,” wrote Upfront Venturesgeneral partner
Kobie Fuller. “This loss is shocking and puts into perspective how precious our moments on this earth really are. My heart goes out to the Bryant family during this incredibly difficult time.” While Bryant’s sports career was storied, and his post-sports career in media and investing successful, his legacy is complicated by a sexual assault allegation in 2003,
which was later settled and for which Bryant apologized, but did
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Did we really have to throw in the sexual assault thing right at the end? Good lord. Cant we let the man rest in peace for at least a day without reminding the world, "Well its "problematic" that he was accused of sexual assault, 16 years ago!, in our newly woke society". This is why we cant have nice things. RIP Kobe.Reply
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This is a terrible news. May God grant his family the fortitude tobear the loss.
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This is going to be a big hit to the NBA family. May the surviving family of Bryant have every reason to bear this bi loss. I hope hewill rest on well.
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3:14 pm GMT • January 27, 2020 WholyMe, a London startup that makes and markets ‘natural relief’ products to manage chronic pain, has closed a £500,000 Seed round from investors Financière Saint James, V1 Capital, Gu... BERLIN VENTURE STUDIO MERANTIX RAISES $27M FUND TO CONCENTRATE ON AISTARTUPS
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2:51 pm GMT • January 27, 2020 Berlin-based Merantix, a venture studio which specifically concentrates on building ‘AI companies’, says it has raised a new €25M fund ($27M). Anchor investors include Trusted Insight, theRobert W...
EQUITY MONDAY: A GLOBAL SELLOFF, MURAL SNAGS $23M, AND TWO UNICORNSTHAT CAN’T RAISE
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2:44 pm GMT • January 27, 2020 Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the ... TELLER RAISES $4M TO TAKE ON PLAID IN THE US BY PROVIDING API ACCESSTO BANK ACCOUNTS
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1:05 pm GMT • January 27, 2020 “They’re idiots, they’re really naive,” is how Stevie Graham, the co-founder of fintech Teller, once described Open Banking Limited, the body charged with delivering open ba... N26 REACHES 5 MILLION CUSTOMERS INCLUDING 250,000 IN THE USRomain Dillet
1:00 pm GMT • January 27, 2020 Challenger bank N26 has reached 5 million customers. In 2019 alone, N26 managed to add over 2.5 million customers. And the company’s growth rate seems to be accelerating as N26 reached 3.5 million ... WATCH SPACEX LAUNCH ANOTHER BATCH OF ITS STARLINK SATELLITES LIVE (UPDATE: SCRUBBED DUE TO WEATHER)Darrell Etherington
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10:15 am GMT • January 27, 2020 Bizongo, one of the largest business-to-business online marketplaces for packaging needs in India, has raised $30 million in fresh funding round as it looks to widen its footprint in the nation and... CURRENCYCLOUD NABS $80M FROM VISA, WORLD BANK GROUP AND MORE FOR CROSS-BORDER PAYMENT APISIngrid Lunden
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11:00 pm GMT • January 26, 2020 The interesting thing about the technology business is that, most of the time, it’s not the technology that matters. What matters is how people react to it, and what new social norms they for...extra-crunch-e
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GAUGING EMAIL SUCCESS, INVITE-ONLY APP LAUNCHES AND OTHER GROWTHTACTICS
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10:00 pm GMT • January 26, 2020 We’ve aggregated many of the world’s best growth marketers into one community. Twice a month, we ask them to share their most effective growth tactics, and we compile them into this growthreport.<...
ORIGINAL CONTENT PODCAST: APPLE’S ‘LITTLE AMERICA’ CHOOSESUPLIFT OVER ANGER
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