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. Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 in funding. MORE >>

Plus, it appears that the company has done so well lots of employees have taken their stock options and simply retired, rather than jump into a startup. Amgen, which is headquartered in Thousand Oaks, is the perfect kind of company to spawn an entire industry worth of biotechnology firms in the region. Kuo, publisher of socalTECH.com. MORE >>

inLife   signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site.  The emails were so tailored, that many merchants called back to thank them for the personal attention.  Then get VC funding, rent a cool space, hire a big team, rebuild and relaunch.  If you can’t keep up, you are dead. For free.  MORE >>

Here are a number of Southern California startups who are making waves in the cloud computing, as mined from our subscription venture capital database. Funding: $25.5M, from Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates [ Profile ]. Funding: Mission Ventures [ Profile ]. Funding: Private [ Profile ]. MORE >>

According to HP, among the sixty professors were Dr. Amin Vahdat of the University of California, San Diego; Dr. John Bowers at the University of California, Santa Barbara; and Dr. Gerard Medioni and Dr. Alan E. Willner at the University of Southern California. MORE >>