"Entertainment and technology have gone together for a long time," says Andrea Belz, the vice dean for technology innovation and entrepreneurship at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. "L.A. is a great place to do that. There's a lot of talent here to support it."
"Investors from other parts of the country go to Silicon Valley because they can access a much deeper talent pool," USC's Belz says. "That same pool exists here in L.A. Talent here tends to give investors a lot of options."