socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

Newbury Park-based Lottay , an online site focused on social "gifting" applications, has raised around $200,000 in a round from DFJ Frontier, socalTECH has learned. Lottay's online web site allows people to help buy gift cards and collect money from friends and family for those gifts. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

FindTheBest , the online comparison and research site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said this morning that it has raised $11M in a Series B funding round. According to the company, the new funds will go to enter new market segments, to expand internationally, and build out monetization of its platform.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the on site technical support and computer repair service headed by Eric Greenspan, said Monday that it has switched its services to a new fixed-price, per-service model. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , which is developing technology for pay-per-call, telephone affiliate advertising, has raised $3.5M in a funding from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and Great Pacific Capital. The firm is headed by former Callwave CFO Jason Spievak. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2013

In 2012,I added video from my UC Santa Barbara speakers, including Mark Templeon, CEO of Citrix; Kerri Pollard, President of Commission Junction; and Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus. I also expanded the syndication of my articles to mainstream sites, such as TechCrunch, Inc. and Forbes. and Forbes. 2013 And Beyond.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Los Angeles technology crowd turned out in full for last week's Twiistup 5 event--a showcase for startups looking for exposure and funding--with over 1,000 attendees at a private aircraft hangar at the Santa Monica airport.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Santa Barbara-based BioIQ, a provider of web-based, consumer health testing services, said last week that it has inked a deal to provide its services to Alere, a provider of health and wellness serviecs. in funding from Great Pacific Capital. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. BioIQ is venture backed by $2.5M

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Tracy''s frank, pragmatic and somewhat controversial comments were presented as part of UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. Other people are funded''. I''ve seen well-funded companies fall apart. Note: I am an investor in Tradesy via Rincon Venture Partners.). How are you going do this?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk (www.shiphawk.com) is looking to solve the problem of pretty much shipping anything large (like cars and furniture) or unique, with its online shipping service--think "Kayak" for shipping. Who is the ideal customer for your site? How are you funded?

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. When Suite Arrival launches, you will be able to login to their site, choose your travel period, destination and toiletry needs and a box will show up at your hotel before you arrive. I’ve jumped on the bandwagon, big time! I love Namechk.com for this.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. All of these companies cranked out an app or site and launched within a few months, and they produce new iterations at blazing speed. ” … Yeah.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. It allows us to start peeling the onion.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Santa Barbara-based SendMeHome (www.sendmehome.com) is looking to solve that problem, with a free service to print out labels which attach to your item, and where you can register items in case they are lost. How do people go about using the site? How's the company funded and backed? How do you get those items back?

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SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

Rice Mercado Depot project leads Santa Marias mixed-use push In keeping with its push towards mixed-use, Santa Maria has plans in the works for a six-acre commercial, residential and manufacturing site at the northwest corner of Depot Street and Morrison Avenue. His son, Rod, today continues in the TOLD Corp. family business.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point. A good example is the shoemaker Puma. They run all their websites on Eucalyptus.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format. Compressed Timeline - I realize that for purposes of the show's formula, funding decisions must occur immediately after the pitches. I have seen the effects of this distortion first hand.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. We had to go to 1200 ski resort sites to gather data in a consistent format, so that people could do a good comparison. How is the firm funded?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. People can come in and have a coffee.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. The best part is we will soon complete a online version of the seminar which has been wholly funded by our friends at Verizon. The problem is rampant and they have a responsibility to act.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? We have traditionally been a company heard about through word of mouth, radio advertising (now our own show) and from a Mini sighting. Love the minis! Great posts.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. Explain your technology?

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. Those sites are on the large side, with 20,000 or 30,000 people. We love data visualization.

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