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

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in venture capital investments in Q2 2013 across Southern California, spread across 80 deals. However, venture dollars invested were above Q1, when Southern California saw $569.1M However, venture dollars invested were above Q1, when Southern California saw $569.1M in investments across 90 deals. READ MORE>>.

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NextSpace Expands Beyond California With New Funding, Chicago Acquisition

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The coworking trend--which started in part in Southern California and its high tech startup ecosystem--looks to be spreading East, with news this week that NextSpace has raised $500,000 and acquired a Chicago company, to establish its first coworking site outside of California. READ MORE>>.

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What Mattered in 2012: Paul Bricault, Amplify LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Paul Bricault is Managing Partner at Amplify LA (Www.amplify.la), a hands-on startup accelerator and co-working and community space in Venice. READ MORE>>.

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

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

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Showing little concern for stock-market volatility or worries over the Brexit, venture capital firms pumped $15.3 billion into 961 deals across the United States during the three months that ended June 30, according to the MoneyTree Report on venture capital activity. billion invested in Venice, CA-based Snapchat.

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

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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. billion dollars of regional GDP. But even this is changing. More on both trends later.