In Los Angeles, the venture community has banded together, launching The LA Tech Community Cares Fund to support fire recovery efforts.
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The thunderstorm was an exhale, after weeks of raging fires and feverish news coverage. The fires are all but out now, and thousands of Angelenos are just starting to deal with the depths of the crisis as the outside world moves on.
“There are lots of people who go through something like this, natural disasters,” Josh Porter, the managing partner and cofounder at FirstLook Partners, told me as we had coffee in Venice Beach. “I keep thinking about Hurricane Katrina or the Camp Fire. That’s now so real to me, when people lose everything.”
