The next wave: Meet the 10 startups participating in Techstars LA
Summary
The programs first class, composed of companies in industries like aerospace, influencer marketing, and fintech, has already raised more than $13 million and created upwards of 50 local jobs upon graduation. Netcloak offers users a web app that mimics cyber attacker behavior to help spur the removal of publicly-available employee data before it can be leveraged by actual hackers. Marina Del Rey-based Trellis Research offers attorneys a platform powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning to unlock decades worth of court records. To date, the company has added more than a decade worth of California Superior Court records to its platform, offering law firms a new way to analyze information that would normally take dozens of hours to sift through. While interning in California as a software engineer, founder Kush Patel was inspired to start the company after having to shave his head completely following an experience with a barber in the Bay Area.