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JULY 10, 2012

I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based NanHealth , the subsidiary of NantWorks, the incubator of LA billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has scored an investment from Verizon Investments , the investment arm of Verizon Communications. Size of the funding was not disclosed. NanHealth said it will use the funding to "accelerate innovation" at the company.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Amplify , the startup accelerator program being run by Paul Bricault in Venice Beach, has tied with a cloud computing provider, Joyent , the two said this morning. The two said they are in a partnership, where Joyent will provide free cloud computing resources and marketing services to Amplify's portfolio companies.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising).

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JANUARY 14, 2013

NantHealth , the advanced, next-generation healthcare services startup which is part of NantWorks, the startup incubation effort of billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, has raised $6.1M in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. Details on investors and the funding have not been announced by the company.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. At UC Santa Cruz.

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MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

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