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Two billion, about the same as the state of Illinois for three years.

” Of the $140 billion disbursed by VCs in the U.S. during the past three years, $78.4 billion went to the Golden State, with the vast majority of that going to Silicon Valley (including San Francisco). To be precise, 47 percent of all U.S. VC investment from 2013 through 2015 went to the Bay area.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-01-19/california-is-the-place-to-be-for-venture-capital

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