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JANUARY 17, 2013

was invested across Southern California in Q4 of 2012. The funding brings Southern California's total 2012 investments to $3.2 Nationally, venture capital was down 3 percent in terms of dollars for the quarter, but up five percent in terms of deal volume over Q3; venture investors put $6.4 in funding.

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Southern California Orange County GRP Partners Venture Capital 237

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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. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review USC 279

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APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M for the quarter, up from both Q4 of last year as well as the comparable Q1 quarter in 2009, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the NVCA. According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M

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Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

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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. Our analysis. Science Inc.

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Southern California Incubator Report Startup 222

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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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. The amount is up from $528.0M raised in Q4 of 2010, and up from the $652M invested in the region last quarter.

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Southern California Orange County San Diego GRP Partners 157

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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. RightScale.

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Cloud Computing Southern California Manhattan Beach Startup 182

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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

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Capital 212

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

One of the most interesting things about the Wall Street Journal's list of top startups in the U.S.? The number of IPOs of companies on the Journal's list from 2011 from Southern California matched the number of IPOs of Silicon Valley companies.

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Southern California Journal SoCal San Diego 223

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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. The funding included Pierce''s AngelList syndicate, 500 Startups, and Blumberg Capital.

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Southern California Invest SoCal Angel 259

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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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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. Mangers said that it appears that for companies that have survived the storm of 2009 and the economy, things are looking up.

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Southern California Technical Review Playa Del Rey Technology 246

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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 5, 2010

billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. Other big funding deals included a big, $115.3M

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Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

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NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A number of services have emerged in Southern California in the last few months, offering up free, or very inexpensive, 4G wireless connections. We've stacked up three of the services below for comparison. Basic plan: up to 500MB/data per month, free. FreedomPop. Access device: 4G iPod touch sleeve ($99.00).

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Southern California Sherman Oaks Woodland Hills Social Media 164

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JANUARY 18, 2013

If you're a Southern California startup, it's most likely you're going to find funding from local, Southern California startup funds, right? invested in Southern California in Q4, down from the $859.6M The report found that there was $683.7M READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Funding Startup Draper 198

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JULY 18, 2013

A new report today, from the Angel Resource Institute, Silicon Valley Bank, and CB Insights, has found that the Tech Coast Angels is again one of the most active angel investment groups in the country. startup investment investor angel cbinsights ranking report capital venture angels coast tech' Louis Arch Angels. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Activity Angel Southern California 168

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 25, 2017

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 -- Startup Demo Competition. 805 Startups is partnering with the City of Thousand Oaks to hold a startup demo competition at their beautiful Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

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Competition Thousand Oaks Startup Southern California 100

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. We made 7 investments in SoCal founders in our first year (out of 8 total), and even the 1 exception has deep SoCal ties and we hope to relocate her here in 2021. There are many.

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Southern California Technical Review SoCal High Tech 113

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

Earlier this week, Good Growth Capital (www.goodgrowthvc.com) announced it has started looking at investments in Southern California, adding Krisztina Holly as West Coast Venture Partner for the firm. Our Infinite Corridor Fund makes pre-seed to seed investments in transformative science startups, primarily MIT-related.

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Southern California Capital Technical Review Startup 124

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Stratolaunch is one of a number of aerospace-related startups which have ramped their activities in Southern California over the last few years, in part due to the huge success of SpaceX as well as continued strength in SoCal's aerospace industry. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California SoCal SpaceX Design 113

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APRIL 12, 2017

billion in venture capital dollars were invested in the Southern California region in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report , issued by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and CB Insights. The report tallied up $926.4M Investments in LA/OC were up slightly from the $898.3M Nationally, investors invested $13.9

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Venture Capital Southern California Orange County Invest 113

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Hamet Watt , a Partner at Upfront Ventures, and the co-founder of bLife, MoviePass, and NextMedium, is reportingly launching a new startup studio in Los Angeles. Details on the new startup studio--which came to light at Upfront's annual conference, the Upfront Summit--have yet to be formally announced.

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Southern California Startup Conference Los Angeles 113

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MAY 13, 2010

Dear readers: Like keeping up to date on Southern California's latest venture funding, high tech deals, and more? Information is key to understanding how to get funded, and socalTECH is the best source for this information in Southern California. Join socalTECH.com as a premium member! Interested in joining?

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Southern California High Tech SoCalTech News 113

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the in-home, technical support service started by Richard Wolpert, is providing the support for the launch of Samsung's new Galaxy Note 8 smartphone , in a major win for HelloTech. According to Samsung, it will offer up 60 days free Samsung Premium Care service to purchasers of its new smartphone.

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Technical Support Southern California Startup Los Angeles 124

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JULY 9, 2009

A recent analysis by socalTECH, of our detailed tracking of venture capital investment activity in Southern California, finds that there was around $932M in funding raised in the area in Q2, a rise from roughly $700M in Q1. Tags: venture capital investment southern california 2009.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Thursday, November 10, 2016 -- Recruiting Strategies to Grow Your Startup. The City of Burbank, in partnership with TechFire, oresents the third in a series of Burbank Tech Talks, featuring advice for recruiting technical and business talent to grow your startup. The City of Burbank, and TechFire.

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Burbank Southern California Startup Activity 100

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It looks like there's a new startup accelerator in town today: MediaCamp , an entertainment-focused startup acceleration program backed by Turner Broadcasting, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment. According to Warner Bros., According to Warner Bros., READ MORE>>.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Southern California 217

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the entertainment and sports agency which also is an active investor and partner of technology and media companies here, said this morning that it has received a an investment from Temasek , the $200 billion Singapore investment company. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Southern California Entertainment Activity 124

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APRIL 10, 2019

Procore appears to be one of the first Southern California companies to join the movement, which originated in Silicon Valley with such companies at Atlassian, Rally, Salesforce, and Tides. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Education Software Equity 133

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Jason Thanh La , the co-founder and CEO of payment processing company Merchant Services Group , said this week that he has committed to personally fund $1M to early stage companies in Southern California. La said he is specifically seeking early stage companies who are developing better payment processing technology. READ MORE>>.

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Orange County Southern California Venture Capital Startup 197

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Wavemaker, which is one of the Southern California's most active investors, already was active in Southeast Asia with an earlier investment fund. The company has been applying its experience investing in startups in Southern California in the more nascent Southeast Asian market.

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Invest Southern California Funding Draper 113

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2007

I generally am working as an acting CTO for about 3-4 start-ups or other companies at any one time. Most often I'm being brought in the early stage, Start-up or Expansion (as the company looks at new product lines). I was just talking with someone who asked me to define how that could work and what they meant.

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CTO Hire Startup Technical Advisors Technical Review 231

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In an unprecedented surge in startup support activity in Los Angeles this morning, another venture startup accelerator, Start Engine , formally launched this morning, applying the accelerator model to startup in the Los Angeles area. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Southern California Activision Mentor 219

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MAY 8, 2018

J2 Global has a very long list of acquisitions, and is the most active company in Southern California in buying small startups. According to j2 Global, it ended the quarter with approximately $400M in cash and investments, after spending around $100M for acquisition and its regular quarterly dividend. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Acquisition Los Angeles Activity 162

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JULY 16, 2014

For the last few years, startup accelerator MuckerLab has been helping very early stage companies define and grow their businesses, using the accelerator model and small investments to get companies to the next stage. What we''ve done now is ramp up the size of our seed investments, and started to do more of them.

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Startup Capital Incubator Invest 206