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OCTANe LaunchPad Firms Raise More Than $25M

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OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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Arkami Racks Up Over $300K For Secure USB Drive MyIDKey

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Technology veterans Tareq Risheq and Mark Thacker are no strangers to the world of high tech startups and angel and venture capital--Risheq was formerly CEO of Celllynx, Thacker was co-founder at Datallegro--but the way they're funding their newest startup is unusual, and a testament to the growing popularity of crowdfunding.

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Southern California Firms Get $587.0M In Venture Capital In Q2

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Orange County was second, with $161.9M The biggest deal for the quarter was for Venice-based photo messaging app developer Snapchat , which raised a huge, $60M funding round in the quarter. Southern California dropped to fourth in terms of investments in the region versus other high tech centers, behind Silicon Valley ($2.6

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

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I think the biggest challenge we have, is to get these investors to see that the startup world is not totally based in the Bay Area, that we have a whole, West-coast ecosystem, which Orange County is a part of. If you were to tell investors about Orange County's strengths, what would you say?

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