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Procore Joins Ranks Of Southern California's Unicorns

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Carpinteria-based cloud-based construction software developer Procore apparently has joined the ranks of the small number of Southern California's "unicorns"--those companies who are valued at more than $1 billion--with the funding the company announced on Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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Five Startups Revolutionizing Music, In Southern California

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Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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One complaint we sometimes hear from venture capitalists visiting Southern California for the first time, is the difficulty of finding experienced entrepreneurs and executives. Mahalo / Jason Calacanis - Calacanis, often known better in Silicon Valley than Southern California, had his last success in Weblogs, Inc.,

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Trio Of SoCal Investors Back Welltok

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Three, local venture capital investors -- Miramar Venture Partners , Okapi Venture Capital , and Qualcomm Ventures -- are part of a group investing $22.1M in healthcare software developer Welltok , which announced a big funding round this morning. Miramar and Okapi are in Orange County, and Qualcomm is in San Diego.

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Rincon Ventures Backs Keen IO

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Southern California technology investor Rincon Venture Partners has backed Keen IO , a company developing mobile analytics software. in a Series A funding, which was led by Sequoia Capital. keenio venture capital mobile analytics software developer rincon ventures' READ MORE>>.

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Cylance Joins The Unicorn Club

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Irvine-based Cylance , the cybersecurity software developer which just announced a $100M funding round this week, appears to have joined the rare club of Southern California "unicorns", with that funding round being valued at more than $1 billion, according to several reports. READ MORE>>.

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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

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Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science.