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Epoxy Tunes Into $2M to Enable YouTube, Video Publishing

socalTECH

One of the hottest sectors in Southern California's high tech world in the last couple of years has been video--namely, Internet video and content creation.

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Southern California Firms Get $587.0M In Venture Capital In Q2

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The biggest deal for the quarter was for Venice-based photo messaging app developer Snapchat , which raised a huge, $60M funding round in the quarter. By far, the largest investment category for the quarter was software--helped by Snapchat--with $177.872M in investments for Q2, according to the report. Photo courtesy of Bigstock.

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‘Megadeals’ Dominate Q2 as VCs Invest $15.3B, and Top 10 Deals

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It was the 10 th consecutive quarter that venture firms put at least $10 billion into startups and other high-tech companies, including a $3.5 A lot of money went into software, mostly because of some big, expansion-stage deals.”. billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat. Venice, CA. Included is the $3.5

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 ”).

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

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Neville Spiteri is co-founder of Venice-based WEMO Media (www.wemomedia.com), a new, digital studio whose flagship product is TheBlu (www.theblu.com) an online, interactive experience focused on the world's oceans. Thirdly, at the end of the day, because this is ultimately software, we are building a very large, scalable web system.