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

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Interview with Dan LeBlanc, CEO and Co-founder, Daasity

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in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. The company got acquired by FD in 2014, and over the next two or three years, a lot of people just left the business.

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Interview with Robert Blatt, MomentFeed

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What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business.

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