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JULY 17, 2014

The latest venture capital totals from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association''s MoneyTree Report was released this evening, tallying up $761.12M in investments in Q2 of 2014 in Southern California, up from Q2 of 2013, when $616.83M was invested in the region.

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APRIL 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, The National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters have tallied up just under a billion dollars in venture capital investments in the Southern California region in Q1 of this year, a very significant uptick from Q2 of 2011.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Avalon 221

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This is our second year of creating our list of the top 50 people to watch in Southern California''s technology industry, and it was NOT an easy task. As we found last year, it''s a tough, unforgiving task to narrow down a list of the folks in Southern California''s technology industry to just fifty to watch.

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Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review USC 279

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MARCH 21, 2019

Despite the slowdown, Southern California managed to produce three IPOs in the first three months of 2019, including the $317.0M The report--which examined IPOs in Q1--said that ongoing geopolitical uncertainties and trade issues continue to dampen investor enthusiasm for the public offerings.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M The MoneyTree report--which is compiled with data from Thomson Reuters--found that so far in 2012, $2.5 New York followed Southern California with $512.8M

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 210

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

K5Launch , which was announced yesterday, is headed up by Amir Banafatemi, Ray Chan, David Cheng, and Kai Tao, four Southern California angel investors. Similarly, the firm is using a Y-Combinator/TechStars model to startups, and covers Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

Southern California 216

Southern California Orange County Incubator Tech Coast Angels 216

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M The MoneyTree report--which is compiled with data from Thomson Reuters--found that so far in 2012, $2.5 New York followed Southern California with $512.8M

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 180

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JANUARY 19, 2016

That's definitely not the case in Southern California, which saw a massive, $1.3 Southern California bucked the national trend, where venture investing dollars were down 32 percent in Q4 compared with Q3. Think there is a technology investment slowdown? billion invested in Q4 matched the $1.3 in San Diego.

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Southern California Invest Orange County San Diego 100

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Southern California technology companies raised $709.8M The most active local investors for the quarter were the Tech Coast Angels , with 12 investments in the quarter; Correlation Ventures , with 10 investments; and Upfront Ventures , which made 9 investments. The amount raised in the region was up from Q2, when $627.4M

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Southern California Orange County Tech Coast Angels Company 234

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APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M Clean technology in Southern California represented $230.0M

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Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2009

In a recent conversation with a fellow CTO, we lamented about the fact that while there's very active software development and web development going on in Southern California and West Los Angeles, yet there didn't seem to be as much of a community around it. Yes, there are some events around particular technologies.

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Southern California Software Development Software Develop 150

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JULY 18, 2013

in venture capital investments in Q2 2013 across Southern California, spread across 80 deals. However, venture dollars invested were above Q1, when Southern California saw $569.1M Southern California dropped to fourth in terms of investments in the region versus other high tech centers, behind Silicon Valley ($2.6

Southern California 187

Southern California Venture Capital Tech Coast Angels Capital 187

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture capital Association MoneyTree survey, which is based on data from Thomson Reuters, tallies $738.34M invested in Southern California in Q4 of 2011. Southern California fundraising matched a similar increase nationally, where $28.4 in venture funding.

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Southern California Orange County San Diego GRP Partners 157

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APRIL 19, 2013

Venture capital investments saw a sharp drop in Q1 in Southern California, according to the latest venture numbers from the MoneyTree report. invested in 81 deals in the Southern California region in Q1 of 2013, down from Q4, when there was $674.2M

Southern California 140

Southern California Invest Orange County Venture Capital 140

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APRIL 14, 2011

The latest venture capital numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters, was released tonight, showing that Southern California had $493.2M The most active investors for Q1 in Southern California were DFJ.

Southern California 186

Southern California Invest Orange County Tech Coast Angels 186

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Search engine giant Google says that its hiring surge this year will affect its Southern California offices, despite a lack of an increase in its listed positions on its jobs pages for its Santa Monica and Irvine locations. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Google Santa Monica Activity 187

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MAY 18, 2012

As Mountain View-based social networking site Facebook hits the market today, in what is the largest tech initial public offering in history, one question is if it will spur what has, so far, been a lackluster IPO market for Southern California technology firms. last night, at the very high range of an already raised $34.00

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Southern California Activity Legalzoom Marketing 159

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Southern California has seen another, big venture capital investment quarter, with companies raising $1.46 According to the report, which was released this evening, there were 97 deals totaling $1.467 billion across the Southern California region, a rise, dollarwise, over Q3 of 2014, when there was $797.0M in 108 deals.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Flipagram 100

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The latest MoneyTree report from the three find that $603.2M

Southern California 212

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Capital 212

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Tags: venture capital southern california angeles orange county diego moneytree nvca. in investments.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.

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Los Angeles Southern California Angel Enterprise Forum 198

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JANUARY 16, 2015

billion in Southern California startup, according to the latest MoneyTree Report issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association last night, based on data from Thomson Reuters. The numbers in Southern California were significantly helped by two, mega-funding deals in Los Angeles, including $485.6M

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Southern California Invest Orange County San Diego 100

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APRIL 17, 2015

Southern California saw a staggering $1.9 MoneyTree report, which was released this evening, The quarter was the biggest, investment quarter for Southern California since the dot com era. New England was right behind Southern California, with $1.4 billion in investment deals for the quarter. Nationally, $13.42

Southern California 100

Southern California Orange County SpaceX San Diego 100

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MAY 18, 2010

Anyone looking for signs that the economy is turning around, might want to look at what appears to be happening in Southern California's technology jobs market. more balanced with understanding the company's business model and management team's track-record, before making the decision to move.".

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Southern California Technical Review Playa Del Rey Technology 246

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APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been?

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Southern California Incubator Report Startup 222

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APRIL 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. Biopharmaceuticals continues to drive the investment totals in Southern California, with $222M in investments; followed by Medical Devices, with $120M in investments, and Software, with $119M. Other big funding deals included a big, $115.3M

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Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

in clean technology investments in Southern California for the quarter, a significant chunk of an overall $1.6 Southern California even beat Silicon Valley in terms of clean tech activity, with the $363.5M invested across Southern California beating $255.6M billion in fundings.

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Southern California Activity Funding Santa Monica 100

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JULY 30, 2014

Brock Pierce , the Southern California angel investor who is one of the most active proponents and investors in Bitcoin and its startups, has made another investment in the space, leading an AngelList syndicate funding of ZipZap.

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Southern California Invest SoCal Angel 259

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total.

Southern California 140

Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

A very healthy list of Southern California companies made the list, with a total of 64 companies in the region ranked in the list. Ashour 328 ACTIVE Network 231% San Diego Matt Landa 330 (mt) Media Temple 230% Culver City Demian Sellfors 346 MyLife.com 219% Los Angeles Jeffrey Tinsley 369 Endologix, Inc. 6225% San Diego Kevin C.

Southern California 242

Southern California Marina Del Rey El Segundo San Diego 242

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JUNE 17, 2010

The long list of Southern California high tech companies lined up for the public markets just got a little longer this morning, with the addition of Inphi Corp. The high level of IPO activity--if those firms manage to make it to market--would make this year one of the most active IPO years here since the dot com bust.

Southern California 178

Southern California Woodland Hills Thousand Oaks Marketing 178

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JULY 20, 2012

According to the report, which tracks venture capital activity nationwide, there were 89 deals in the quarter, the same as in Q1, but less than the 97 deals in the same quarter of last year. In terms of the venture capital industry in the area, the most active Southern California venture capitalists -- not necessarily the.

Southern California 145

Southern California Orange County GRP Partners Funding 145

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JUNE 28, 2019

For our Insights and Opinions section today, where we share contributed articles from the Southern California technology community, we have Eric Eide , of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation , a nonprofit that recently has been working on trying to help support the local entrepreneurial community across the region.

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Southern California SoCal Activity Startup 113

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APRIL 20, 2011

10 of the 44 venture-backed companies currently filed to go public are from Southern California, according to an analysis today from the Wall Street Journal. venture-backed companies currently filed for an IPO, with 10 from Southern California and 13 from Silicon Valley. According to the report, there are 44 U.S.,

Southern California 167

Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand NewEgg SoCal 167

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JULY 19, 2011

Southern California companies raised $739M in venture capital in Q2 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) based on data from Thomson Reuters. Southern California's biggest investment sectors in the quarter were. raised for the quarter.

Southern California 167

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 167

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

One of the most active areas of interest and growth in the technology industry today is cloud computing--the use of computing resources on the Internet, to accomplish tasks that normally would have taken a server farm or local systems. Eucalyptus Systems.

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Cloud Computing Southern California Manhattan Beach Startup 182

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OCTOBER 10, 2014

Think it''s tough to attract talent from the Bay Area to Southern California? For our Insights and Opinions section, executive recruiter Eric Larsen gives some hints on tips on how he attracts candidates to relocate here to Southern California. Here''s how to get them in the door: Start with a comparable salary.

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Southern California SoCal Tips Entertainment 180