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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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I also have a visiting appointment at USC. The two other co-founders, one at USC and the other at the University of Utah are professors at those universities. Alan Horsager: Andrew Smith, who is at USC and I knew each other, as we'd collaborated on some other academic projects together. Let's talk about the recent funding round?

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