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Report: Southern California Venture Capital Totals $464M In Q3

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For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M The biggest investments in Southern California for the quarter were for San Diego's SkinIt , a maker of customized "skins" for electronic devices, with $60.0M funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M

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

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San Diego was not far behind, with $222.4M Media and Entertainment was at $55.5M For Southern California, Orange County actually had the most dollars invested, with $239.6M invested across 18 deals, followed by Los Angeles, with $224.4M across 31 days. in 29 venture capital deals for Q1. of the total invested in Q1.

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Southern California Venture Totals Drop in Q4

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Most sectors saw drops in investment during the year, with the exception of few--including a couple of sectors where Southern California has a significant presence, in Clean Technology and Media & Entertainment. Media & Entertainment also saw an increase, up 3 percent to $2.0 billion in 277 deals. billion and 407 deals in 2008.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. Their purchases are limited to restaurants, bars, retail clothing outlets, travel and entertainment. Read more: PEHub. OpenCandy.