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Southern California Investments On Uptick, Totals $686.5M For Q1

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Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M Southern California's investment totals bucked the national trend, which found that there was a 9 percent drop in dollars to $4.7 of the total invested in Q1.

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Location-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S.

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Earlier this year, in a small, grey-walled storefront inside a very large mall in Torrance, Calif. That experience, a more extravagant investment than Survios’ humble multi-bay storefront, was one of the first in the U.S. ” Bennett knows a thing or two about entertainment.

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