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Southern California Venture Investments See Big Drop In Q1

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The largest funding round was for PICS Auditing , which provides screening of contractors, which is in Irvine; the firm raised $35M in funding. Finally, looking at venture capital investors, the most active investors in the region were Siemer Ventures (10 investments); Correlation Ventures (8); Qualcomm Ventures (7), and Avalon Ventures (5).

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Vision, School, & Work | Interview with Jim Farley CMO Ford Motors

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” CHANGING THE FACE OF AUTOMOTIVE MARKETING. 2) “The second piece is the transformation of marketing thanks to the digital media companies. Jim continues our discussion with his thoughts on privacy and how it relates to advertising and marketing. Immediately yellow flags are raised.