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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. raised, and Irvine-based Brand Affinity Technologies , a. Nationwide, there was $4.8 in investments.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

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APRIL 14, 2016

Southern California startups raised $810.5M in venture capital in Q1, according to the latest MoneyTree Report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data from Thomson Reuters. Southern California venture totals were down significantly from the $1.38 was invested.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Ventura 100

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M The MoneyTree report--which is compiled with data from Thomson Reuters--found that so far in 2012, $2.5 was raised. in investments. in investments.

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 210

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APRIL 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, The National Venture Capital Association, and Thomson Reuters have tallied up just under a billion dollars in venture capital investments in the Southern California region in Q1 of this year, a very significant uptick from Q2 of 2011. in 13 deals.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Avalon 221

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M The MoneyTree report--which is compiled with data from Thomson Reuters--found that so far in 2012, $2.5 was raised. in investments. in investments.

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Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 180

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OCTOBER 18, 2013

Southern California technology companies raised $709.8M in venture capital in Q3, according to the latest numbers from the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the National Venture Capital Association, based on data From Thomson Reuters. The amount raised in the region was up from Q2, when $627.4M

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Southern California Orange County Tech Coast Angels Company 234

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APRIL 12, 2013

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been?

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Southern California Incubator Report Startup 222

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APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M in Q1, up from $588.033M tallied by the report in Q4 of 2009, and up significantly from the $320.2M received in the region in Q1 of 2009. across 31 days.

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Southern California Orange County Invest GRP Partners 208

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

A new report issued today, detailing technology jobs employment concentration in the United States, shines some light on where the highest concentrations of tech jobs are in the region. percent of private jobs in the technology sector, ranked at number 13 nationwide; Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta had 8.9 READ MORE>>.

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Report Santa Barbara Technology Southern California 203

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Think there is a technology investment slowdown? That's definitely not the case in Southern California, which saw a massive, $1.3 Southern California bucked the national trend, where venture investing dollars were down 32 percent in Q4 compared with Q3. billion invested in Q4 matched the $1.3 in San Diego.

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Southern California Invest Orange County San Diego 100

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MARCH 27, 2014

A number of Southern California angel investors, and one of its venture firms, have scored an exit over at social media influence measurement startup Klout , as the San Francsco company said Thursday that it is being acquired by Lithium Technologies. The deal is reportedly worth $200M. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Acquisition SoCal Social Media 182

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture capital Association MoneyTree survey, which is based on data from Thomson Reuters, tallies $738.34M invested in Southern California in Q4 of 2011. Southern California fundraising matched a similar increase nationally, where $28.4 in venture funding.

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Southern California Orange County San Diego GRP Partners 157

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

A new report released today tallies up $7.7 billion in IT exits in 2011, the highest since 2000, for Southern California IT firms. The report--compiled by Ocean Road Partners--included both venture-backed and self-financed information technology companies. billion in liquidity was generated in the sector.

Southern California 187

Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Report Riot Games 187

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OCTOBER 18, 2011

Venture capital investments in Southern California for Q3 of 2011 are up from last year, but down from last quarter, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. The latest MoneyTree report from the three find that $603.2M

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Capital 212

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AUGUST 28, 2020

Southern California Gas Co. , the primary supplier of natural gas to customers in Southern California, reports that it has received over $7M in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), to advance its work on zero- and near-zero emissiosn vehicle technology. The company said $7.1M

Research 124

Research Southern California Technology Report 124

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the socalTECH 50 --our attempt to identify Southern California''s technology industry up-and-comers, the people most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit or to influence the industry in a significant way.

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Southern California SoCalTech Report Entrepreneur 154

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JANUARY 14, 2011

LSI Corporation , a developer of data storage products, has cut a product line it had been developing in Southern California, resulting in the layoffs of employees in Irvine and Westlake Village, as well as Israel and Silicon Valley. Sources close to LSI confirmed the layoffs.

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Southern California Westlake Village Layoffs Networking 145

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Based on a trio of recent, cloud technology acquisitions by major, Silicon Valley technology powerhouses, that would be Southern California. Where is the future of the cloud being developed?

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Southern California Startup Santa Barbara SoCal 145

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JULY 13, 2011

A report released today from the Brookings Institution counts the region as among the job leaders in clean economy jobs. San Diego, which was counted separately in the report, had 22,862 clean technology jobs. California as a whole has 318,156 clean economy related positions, according to the report.

Southern California 153

Southern California Report Long Beach San Diego 153

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MARCH 23, 2016

A new survey, released this week by Silicon Valley Bank, finds that even as the availability of venture capital in Southern California is tightening, and lofty unicorn valuations are declining, startup entrepreneurs are still optimistic about the future of technology in the region. and China for their opinions. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Venture Capital Capital SoCal 100

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APRIL 3, 2018

A report, published Tuesday by CNBC, says Venice, California-based Snap is in advanced talks to set up a new office in Saudi Arabia. The report said the move is related to an effort by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to help train Saudi youth to develop content for the market.

Southern California 113

Southern California Report Snapchat Venice 113

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The firm reported net income of $1 billion on revenues of $3.7 Facebook filed for its IPO Wednesday afternoon, saying that it is looking to raise up to $5 billion, in what is expected to be the biggest IPO since Google. billion in 2011 in its S-1, which is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs & Co.,

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Southern California Thousand Oaks .Net Google 113

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APRIL 7, 2017

A new report, created by Irvine-based online career community CareerBliss , says that two of Southern California's biggest tech employers-- Broadcom and Qualcomm , are among the top happiest tech companies in the USA. READ MORE>>.

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Report Company Companies Southern California 140

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

A report released today by Ernst & Young finds that Southern California was number two in the nation in terms of clean technology investments for the year. According to the analysis of 2009 venture capital, based on data from Dow Jones VentureSource, Southern California had annual investments of $329.5M

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Southern California Invest Technology SoCal 140

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AUGUST 27, 2018

When people think Walmart , they don't often think of the retail giant as a technology leader. However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

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MAY 10, 2021

The former CEO of a Southern California communications services company has plead guilty to charges that he fraudulently obtained $5 million in bank loans from one of Southern California's big startup and technology banks. According to the U.S. According to the U.S. Lewis was the CEO of Blue Wave Media.

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Startup Southern California .Net Media 113

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JULY 19, 2011

Southern California companies raised $739M in venture capital in Q2 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) based on data from Thomson Reuters. According to the MoneyTree report, released last night, Orange County led fundraising, with $319.3M

Southern California 167

Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 167

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AUGUST 27, 2018

When people think Walmart , they don't often think of the retail giant as a technology leader. However, the company's technology team, Walmart Labs (www.walmartlabs.com)--which said this month that it is planning on major growth in San Diego is responsible for the company's key supply chain technology, online e-commerce site, and much more.

San Diego 100

San Diego Southern California Technology Artificial Inteligence 100

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MAY 21, 2013

Two, Southern California markets-- San Diego and Irvine --are among the top ares for engineering job demand, according to a report today. listings monster technology engineering employment jobs irvine diego' READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Demand Southern California Report 217

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JULY 17, 2020

From a partnership with the Russian company 3D Bioprinting Solutions to make chicken meat replacements using plant material and lab cultured chicken cells to an expansion of its Beyond Fried Chicken pilots to Southern California, KFC is aggressively pushing forward with its experiments around the future of food. ”

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Southern California Orange County Los Angeles San Diego 307

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

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. over 117 deals, versus the $751M in only 76 deals for Southern California. in investments.

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Southern California Orange County Funding Report 113

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JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 Clean Technology saw a 52 percent increase in terms of dollars, and 16 percent growth in deal volume over 2007, reaching an investment level of $4.1 billion in the third quarter.

Southern California 100

Southern California Rustic Canyon Orange County Miramar 100

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Blake Krikorian , the UCLA graduate who founded Sling Media , the maker of the Slingbox, has died, at the age of 48, according to reports trickling out of Silicon Valley. He moved to Silicon Valley after graduating from UCLA, but was also well known in Southern California's technology community. READ MORE>>.

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Media UCLA Report Southern California 100

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JULY 15, 2010

Investments by venture capitalists in Southern California were up, both in terms of deals and dollars in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The numbers released by PwC and the NVCA seem to back that statement, showing that so far this year, $1.48

Southern California 174

Southern California Orange County Rustic Canyon SoCal 174

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

CNBC cited "people familiar with the financing" in reporting the funding effort. The valuation of SpaceX would far exceed the valuation of any technology startup in Southern California's recent history. The funding--which has not been announced by SpaceX--apparently valued SpaceX at $419.99

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SpaceX Southern California Hawthorne Funding 113

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MARCH 29, 2013

It looks like the sale of book review and community Goodreads was worth between $150M to $200M, according to a report form AllThingsD Friday, potentially making the acquisition one of the better returns on capital from a Southern California technology startup in recent years.

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Report Technical Review Southern California Santa Monica 203

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Venice-based Snapchat might be the darling of the technology startup scene, but there are at least three, privately held startups--and maybe, more--in Southern California who recently passed $100M in revenues, according to a look through recent announcements.

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