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Q3 Venture Capital: LA leads, OC’s up, San Diego down

October 20th, 2008 by Benjamin Kuo

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their quarterly MoneyTree data over the weekend, totaling up $751M in Southern California deals. Taking a closer look at the numbers, LA led the region with $385.65M in deals, but Orange County also had a strong showing with $186M in deals. San Diego slipped somewhat in the amount of capital invested during the quarter, to $178.4M. Interestingly enough, San Diego — which led Q2 investments — slipped significantly in deal amounts this quarter.

Top ten deals for Los Angeles:

  1. SolarReserve, $140M
  2. Mail.com, $32.4M
  3. Microfabrica, $22.6M
  4. SpaceX, $20.4M
  5. VivoMetrics, $19.9M
  6. Perfect Market, $15.6M
  7. NanoH2O, $15M
  8. MyShape, $12M
  9. Fonality, $12M
  10. Red Mango, $12M

In Orange County – land of the stealth deals this quarter — the top deals went to:

  1. Fisker Automotive, $65M
  2. Glaukos, $35M
  3. GluMetrics, $20M
  4. Aktino, $14.2M
  5. Aristos Logic, $13.4M
  6. Symwave, $10.1M
  7. Seventh Shield, $8.2M
  8. RF Nano, $8M
  9. NeoMend, $6.3M
  10. Ivantis, $4.5M

Finally, San Diego’s top deals:

  1. Sapphire Energy, $35M
  2. Peregrine Semiconductor, $30M
  3. PowerGenix, $30M
  4. Verimatrix, $21M
  5. FrameMax, $10.1M
  6. Sequoia Communications, $10M
  7. CoDa Therapeutics, $8M
  8. Access Scientific, $5.5M
  9. ISE Corporation, $5.5M
  10. AndroScience Corporation, $4M

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