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Apeel Sciences Finds $70M

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The company said the funding will go to meet demand from both U.S. As part of the funding, Apeel said it will be growing its team in Santa Barbara, out of a 105,000 square-foot facility in Santa Barbara. Apeel was initially started in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Eucalyptus Systems Opens China Office

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Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Wednesday that it has opened up a new office in Beijing, China. Eucalyptus, which is headed by former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, is venture backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital, and BV Capital.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing).

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. There's lots of noise in the on-demand tutoring space, especially connecting people virtually, however, in my experience, it's in the best interest of consumers to get in-person, local tutoring. What is HeyTutor?

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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

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Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. Because of the higher demand there, and because there were not a whole lot of providers, plus our good connections in Japan, we started there.

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Zingle Raises $3M to Expand and Improve Messaging App Technology

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Zingle, a Carlsbad, CA-based tech startup targeting the service industry and consumer-facing businesses with its messaging app technology, has raised $3 million in venture capital, according to a regulatory filing earlier this month. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ. Zingle (@ZingleMe) July 14, 2016.