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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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billion in investments in 681 deals in the first quarter of 2010. Media and Entertainment was at $55.5M Southern California's investment totals bucked the national trend, which found that there was a 9 percent drop in dollars to $4.7 Nationally, Q4 of 2009 brought in $5.2 billion in venture deals in 832 deals. across 31 days.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.