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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , which develops marketing analytics software aimed at optimizing ad spend across digital, mobile, and offline channels, said Tuesday that it has expanded in New York City, opening up a new office on Madison Avenue. impact radius york marketing analytics software saas cloud advertising'

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JANUARY 7, 2022

Santa Barbara-based software developer LogicMonitor says it has named Christina Kosmowski as the company's new CEO, succeeding former CEO Kevin McGibben. McGibben is shifting to become Executive Chairman of the company. Kosmowski was most recently President of the firm.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Santa Barbara-based software developer FastSpring--best known for its e-commerce software tools--says it is expanding its offerings, and will offer up support to B2B, software-as-a-service and downloadable software companies with sales team.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Santa Barbara-based infrastructure and performance monitoring software developer LogicMonitor said today that it has opened up a new, European data center, as part of an expansion of business in Europe. LogicMonitor said the new data center, which is located in London, allows it to offer a local presence in the European Union.

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MAY 7, 2015

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk , the online marketplace for packing and shipping, said today that it has appointed Erica Deas to its sales team. ShipHawk said Deas will take over the daily operations and development of its SaaS sales team. Deas was previously Senior Director of Mid-Market Sales at Tapjoy. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 10, 2021

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi says it has launched a new product in the United Kingdom. According to Yardi, it has launched Yardi Breeze Premier for the UK property market, providing property management and accounting to small and medium-sized real estate landlords and property agencies.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Santa Barbara-based AppFolio , a developer of software-as-a-service for property management, is announcing today that it has raised $8M in additional funding for the firm. The funding comes from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB). Appfolio said the funding round brings the company's total raised to $30M.

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AUGUST 25, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops partnership management software, said this morning that it has acquired ACTIVATE , an influencer marketing platform which provides influencer discovery, program workflow, measurement, and analytics. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 15, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Briq , a developer of software used for financial forecasting in the construction industry, raised $10M this week, in what it says was a Series A funding round. That earlier funding also had included all four of the same investors in the company. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. I often answer the same way … * “First, yes, nearly every corner of our market is over-valued. By definition?—?I’m dot-com bonanza.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Am I biased?

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Anchore , which is developing security software aimed at the "container" market, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company disclosed this morning. The funding came from local angel Andreas von Blottnitz, along with Doug Carlisle of Menlo Ventures.

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APRIL 18, 2018

Santa Barbara-based IT monitoring software developer LogicMonitor has been acquired by private equity investor Vista Equity Partners , from its existing owner, Providence Strategic Growth (PSG), the companies said on Tuesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Tags: rightscale grid computing cloud software saas. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software headed by Michael Crandell, has raised $15.6M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , which develops digital marketing and affiliate marketing software, has raised $30M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding came from Silversmith Capital partners.

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MARCH 28, 2013

Jonathan Siegel , who co-founded Santa Barbara-based startups RightScale, RightCart, and RightSignature, has scored an exit today, and has sold Exceptional Cloud Services , his latest cloud software startup, to cloud hosting provider RackSpace. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

I have been watching ProductPlan for several years, as the founders are both friends and pillars of the Santa Barbara Startup Community. Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS.

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said this morning that it is in a definitive agreement to acquired Netviewer AG , a developer of software-as-a-service tools for business collaboration. The company said Netviewer has more than 18,000 customers using its products. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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APRIL 19, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud management software developer backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures, and PHP developer Zend Technologies , said today that they have launched a jointly developed solution for deploying and managing PHP applications.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

Given TimeHop’s failed experiment, I was especially intrigued when I learned that a team of a dozen remote entrepreneurs hack the typical corporate structure and creates a company that generated nearly $100 million in revenue. To gather hands-on remote team building advice, I sought out two companies that have done it: TaxJar and FastSpring.

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JULY 6, 2015

Once a buyer decides they want to make a purchase the first thing most companies will do is check out what other options are out there to make sure they’re not making an uninformed decisions. I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. So we took a stand.

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JULY 13, 2009

The company was founded by the head of the North America investments for Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world, the head of the retail banking practice at DLJ, the investment bank. The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. Those companies are doing phenomenally well, and in a normal market was IPO.

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MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. They're a big Rails development firm that does contract work for Fortune 500 companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

At the end of the day, you want to be employed and you want to get a job, and this allows companies to look at what you've done, what your portfolio is, and speed up the interview process. I worked as a software and hardware engineer, and did lots of software development for networking and telecom firms, mainly networking.

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