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

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Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 For the quarter, San Diego County garnered the most venture capital, with $231.3M invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M in funding.

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Pivotshare Raises $1M For Content Monetization

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Irvine-based Pivotshare , a new startup offering up a service to help content creators publish and monetize their video or audio via subscription or pay-per-view, said today that it has raised $1M in a Series A funding.

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Southern California Firms Raise $738M In Q4 2011

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In Southern California, San Diego County took the lead in investment totals, raising $262.1M in venture funding. Orange County--boosted in a large part by a funding for Fisker Automotive--racked up $242.45M in funding. The biggest Los Angeles deal was a funding for SolarReserve , for $27.0M.

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Interview with Albert Ko, DealPerk.com

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One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. Albert Ko: At DealPerk, we cater toward Orange County, here in Southern California. Is this more than just a local Orange County site, or do you have plans to expand the idea elsewhere? READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Firms Raise $762.88M in Q1

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in funding, followed by San Diego with $242.98M in investments, and $209.97M in investments in Orange County. in the quarter, followed by San Diego''s Lumena Pharmaceuticals with $45.5M; the third largest funding was for Aliso Viejo-based Aquesys raised $43.6M in funding. in funding.

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

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I think the biggest challenge we have, is to get these investors to see that the startup world is not totally based in the Bay Area, that we have a whole, West-coast ecosystem, which Orange County is a part of. If you were to tell investors about Orange County's strengths, what would you say?

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Southern California Companies Raise $751M In Funding in Q3, Says Report

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PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association released their Q3 2008 venture capital numbers over the weekend, finding that Southern California companies raised nearly $751 in funding during the quarter. in deals, followed by Orange County with $186.9M, then San Diego with $178.4M invested. in investments.