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Five Startups Revolutionizing Music, In Southern California

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Southern California is the center of the entertainment industry, which not only includes the world of Hollywood, movies and film, and television, but is also the home of the music industry. We've compiled a list of five of the startups that are revolutionizing some part of music, based here in Southern California.

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Southern California Companies Raise $2.49 Billion In VC In Q2

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Southern California companies raised $2.49 The big numbers were directly impacted by several large fundings in Southern California--most notably, a giant, $1.27 billion round for Venice based Snapchat. Southern California represented almost half of the top fundraising rounds for Q2 nationally.

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Reflections on 2018: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Our first is with Andy Wilson of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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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 Southern California dropped to fourth in terms of investments in the region versus other high tech centers, behind Silicon Valley ($2.6

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Companies In Southern California

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Who are the companies in Southern California that are part of this growing industry? Snap - Venice - (www.snap.com). Interested in getting involved in the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones)? How is the parent company of Snapchat involved in drone development?

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Los Angeles Startup Events

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I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.

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Snap Opens Bricks And Mortar Spectacles Shop In Venice

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has opened up its second, bricks-and-mortar store selling its Spectacles sunglasses, just down the street from its Venice headquarters. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat , just had the biggest IPO in Southern California's history. Los Angeles-based Snap, Inc. READ MORE>>.

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