socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M in funding.

Southern California 195

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

socalTECH

JULY 19, 2011

Los Angeles had $222.5M in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. Investments were slightly down from Q2 of 2010, when the region saw $856M in funding. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $7.5M Both of those fundings significantly boosted the totals for Orange County. raised for the quarter.

Southern California 167

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 167

socalTECH

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. Funding: $25.5M, from Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates [ Profile ].

Cloud Computing 182

Cloud Computing Southern California Manhattan Beach Startup 182

socalTECH

APRIL 14, 2009

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment is announcing this morning that it has raised an additional $2.7M in a Series B funding for the firm. According to the company, the funding came from Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures Research 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops 3D avatar technology, said today that it has partnered with video game company GGL Global Gaming, to provide free game content on its web site. Big Stage develops technology which converts digital photos of a person into a 3-D avatar. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC Social Network 100

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest. Here’s how to do it.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

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JANUARY 20, 2011

The biggest investments for the quarter went to Irvine-based Fisker Automotive , which raised $78.0M, followed by Hawthorn-based Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), the commercial rocket firm of Elon Musk, which raised $50.2M. in a funding round. in investments for the Los Angeles area. in investments.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Southern California Invest Capital 154