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Interview with Albert Ko, DealPerk.com

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One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. Albert Ko: At DealPerk, we cater toward Orange County, here in Southern California. Is this more than just a local Orange County site, or do you have plans to expand the idea elsewhere?

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Southern California Companies Raise $751M In Funding in Q3, Says Report

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PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M invested.

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Venture Capital Hits 12 Year Low

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in deals, Orange County seeing $92.1M, and San Diego with $87.4M PwC found the largest funding deals were for San Diego's Mpex Pharmaceuticals, with $27.5M raised, followed by Orange County-based LenXs Lasers. The largest deal for Los Angeles was $15M in a funding for Buzz Media. in 67 deals.

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Southern California Venture Totals Drop in Q4

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PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 billion and 407 deals in 2008.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. We now have seven companies, and have our own venture fund as well, and we'll be doing four or five for the next few years.

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Innovation and Geography

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LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time.

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