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Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3

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Media and Entertainment came in second, with $70.1M--but only because San Diego's SkinIt boosted totals by $60M. In terms of industries funded, Biotechnology by far led the funding, with $162.2M raised by companies in the sector. The other large sector for investments was Software, with $54.8M in total funding for the quarter.

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

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Media and Entertainment was at $55.5M The most active firms investing in Southern California, according to the Pwc/NVCA report, were GRP Partners , Domain Associates , and TPG Growth --all with 4 investments each--followed by Allegis Capital , Benchmark Capital , and Sanderling Ventures , all with three investments each.

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Looking At LA's Technology Future with Derek Norton

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We also put together the Series B with Redpoint for Machinima. That's a byproduct of the entertainment industry. I'm not suggesting that it's content, I'm suggesting it is the journey and the experience related to consumer activity. We have been fortunate to be part of a number of exiting Los Angeles companies.

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah’s most popular application is social LBS game is MyTown; users engage in a mobile game centered around real world locations and activities, including check-ins, virtual purchases of real-life locations, collecting rent on properties, virtual goods. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game. I would also note that they claim 2.1