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Alliance for SoCal Innovation, Verizon Media In Partnership

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The Alliance for SoCal Innovation , a nonprofit looking to help connect Southern California's innovation ecosystem, has partnered with Verizon Media to help launch microsites to connect the local technology community, and grow the ecosystem, Verizon said on Wednesday.

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See Jane Go Snags $2.47M To Expand In SoCal

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Laguna Hills-based See Jane Go , a startup which operates a ridesharing service driven by, and which serves just women, has raised $2.47M in an angel funding, the company said Tuesday. See Jane Go currently offers it service in Orange County and Long Beach, with plans to expand to the rest of Southern California using the funding.

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MoneyTree Report: Southern California Q3 Venture Totals Drop To $663.27M

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Southern California's venture capital totals dropped significantly in Q3 of 2016, to a mere $663.2M Q2 fundings in Southern California were much higher, due to a giant $1.27 The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M billion funding round for Snapchat.

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Sixty-four Southern California Firms On Technology Fast 500

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A very healthy list of Southern California companies made the list, with a total of 64 companies in the region ranked in the list. 1193% Santa Monica Scott Painter 116 Network Solutions Provider 1001% Long Beach Phillip Walker 119 BlackLine Systems Software 973% Los Angeles Therese Tucker 131 Kotura, Inc.

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Report: Venture Capital Dollars In 2017 On Way To Record

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The report did not break down Southern California as a single region, but reported $4.408 billion invested across 386 so far in the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA this year. The 3Q 2017 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor report said the latest quarter worths of investment brings 2017's total to $61.4

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Southern California Leads In Green Jobs, Says Report

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According to the latest Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment report, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana metropolitan area was among the areas with the largest amount of clean economy jobs, with 89,592 jobs--even more than the 51,811 clean economy jobs in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area.

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Wilcon Buys Freedom Dark Fiber Networks

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Los Angeles-based fiber optic and data center infrastructure provider Wilcon announced today that it has acquired dark fiber provider Freedom Dark Fiber Networks. Freedom Dark Fiber Networks is also based in Southern California, and is a provider of dark fiber in the region. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.