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Mapping fun, redux

June 27th, 2008 by Benjamin Kuo

I had some more mapping fun this afternoon, using our venture database data to draw a few informative maps: one, of Palo Alto, and in particular around Sand Hill Road (right off the Stanford campus); the other, of West Los Angeles. (Little known fact: we also have all recent Silicon Valley venture deals, and venture capital firms in our database, because it’s also linked to our sister site, silicontap.com, covering Silicon Valley venture deals).

First, a photo of Palo Alto, which is the heart of Silicon Valley’s venture community:

Sand Hill Road

Next, we have a picture of West Los Angeles (todo: look at this for Orange County, San Diego, Santa Barbara, etc.)

West Los Angeles Technology Companies

Red dots are technology companies. Green dots are venture capital firms. Blue dots are service providers (lawyers, PR firms, real estate agents, focused on high tech).

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4 Responses to “Mapping fun, redux”

  1. eportnoy Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 7:09 am

    Hi Benjamin,

    Great post and some very helpful context in understanding the “funding gap” in SoCal.

    Do the red dots represent “funded” companies or all startups?

    Thanks for a very insightful blog.

    Eli

  2. Benjamin Kuo Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 7:26 am

    Thanks. The red dots are high tech companies, not necessarily venture funded…

  3. eportnoy Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 7:23 am

    Is there a database that has information on tech companies in SoCal?

  4. Benjamin Kuo Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 7:27 am

    eportnoy: Yes, this is from our own database at http://www.socaltech.com/intelligence - which is a complete database of information on technology companies here in Southern California.

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