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Is San Francisco the New Epicenter of Silicon Valley?

For years it’s been an open secret – young entrepreneurs and tech-savvy folks who work for the big Silicon Valley conglomerates have been living in San Francisco while commuting to Silicon Valley. After all, does anyone really relocate to northern California to live in Mountain View?

Now it appears that many of these people also did not move to the Bay Area to commute. They’ve started companies in San Francisco proper – not 30 or 40 miles south on the 101 freeway in Palo Alto or San Jose, traditional epicenters of what’s typically considered Silicon Valley.

According to the San Francisco Sunday Examiner, San Francisco has been “beating out South Bay cities for venture capital, boosting key sectors and creating a hotbed of growing firms.” Software companies, social media, gaming, green tech and biotech are leading the pack of industry sectors attracting the VC dollars.

Good news for the entire innovative tech industry in the Bay Area (which includes Silicon Valley and San Francisco): “investors poured nearly $3 billion into Bay Area companies in the past three months – a 100 percent increase from the first quarter.” More than $283 million went to companies located in San Francisco. (Read more)

Photos from ANZA TechNet’s Gateway to US Workshops in Australia

We’ve just completed our annual Gateway to the US workshops, with Guidewire Group’s CEO Chris Shipley. As a key component of the workshops we rated innovative Australian businesses with global potential on 7 critical dynamics using the Guidewire Group’s G/Score. The G/Score has been used exclusively in the US, Europe and Asia, but this was its first use Down Under. ANZA TechNet is hoping to see many of the companies we scored over the last two weeks in Silicon Valley at the Gateway to the US Summit in November.

Check out some photos from the workshops at this link. Portraits of the entrepreneurs and ANZA TechNet partners are courtesy of Chris Shipley. (Pictured: Greg Boundy, Innovate SA Chief Executive.)

Australians on Building a Brand in the US

The Advance Lounge Chair Series in Los Angeles last week featured a panel of Australians with experience on building a brand in the US. Some great first-hand tips for Australian entrepreneurs considering the US market.

For more videos from Advance, please click here.

Tech23 in Sydney This Week – 19 August

Tech23 is a celebration of innovation, bringing together innovative Australian ICT companies with industry leaders, media and 400+ attendees to support ICT growth and discover what innovations are just around the corner!

This second annual event will be held in Sydney, Thursday, 19 August at The Auditorium, 37 Reservoir Street, Surry Hills, NSW. The event will feature 23 of Australia’s hottest companies across multiple tech platforms, including: robotics, mobile, digital, green, software and enterprise technologies.

Companies will present to panels of experts including Roger Allen; Scott Farquhar, co-founder & CEO, Atlassian who just received over $60million from US VC; Martin Hosking, Chairman of Aconex and one of the founders of Looksmart; Ryan Junee who sold his company Omnisio to Google; Deepak Natarajan, Managing Director, Intel Capital and many more.

The event runs from 9-5.30pm and is followed by an Awards Presentation Event – 5.45-7.30pm.

Register here: www.tech23.com.au

ANZA Tech Members can attend for $150 (+gst) for both the Tech23 2010 event and the Awards Presentation Event. Register here.