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APRIL 16, 2019

Santa Barbara-based software developer HG Insights is powering a new market research offering from research and advisory giant Forrester, to power Forrester's new Business Technographics Service.

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APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Santa Barbara-based HG Data , which has been developing software that helps companies understand the technology stack their operations depend on, has rebranded itself as HG Insights , and launched a new platform it calls the HG Insights Platform. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 12, 2020

Google has counter-sued Santa Barbara-based Sonos , with a patent infringement lawsuit, saying that Sonos has illegally used a number of Google patents in the development of its wireless audio technology. The lawsuit, Google LLC v. Sonos, Inc. , READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Urban Airship , a startup which develops mobile analytics and engagement software, said today that it has named two executives--both of whom have had prominent roles at Santa Barbara area technology companies. The company--based in Portland--said it named Scott Allen as its CFO, and Eric Holmen as its SVP of Worldwide Sales.

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MAY 14, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Curtail , a new cybersecurity startup which recently landed $3.25M in funding, said this morning that it has named two VPs. According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in Santa Barbara. Don’t put all your eggs in the “corp dev basket” – often deals are champions by the business units (product or sales). Startup Exits: A Primer from msuster. I speak privately a lot about getting an exit at a startup.

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MAY 6, 2014

Santa Barbara-based HG Data , a developer of B2B sales and marketing tools, said today that it ahs raised $2M in an additional Series A funding. HG Data offers up business intelligence software used to help in sales and marketing programs, specifically for technology clients. The company is led by Craig Harris.

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MAY 23, 2017

Santa Barbara-based Carpe Data , a new startup developing predictive data software for the insurance industry, has raised $6.6M The funding was led by Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG). According to the company, the new funding will go towards sales and product development. in a Series A funding round.

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JULY 22, 2020

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of brand protection software, has raised $5.1M According to TrackStreet, it is developing brand protection technology, which uses artificial intelligence and automation to help brands monitor brand, MAP (minimum advertised price), and resale pricing violations. in a funding round.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. I will also become more involved in the Santa Barbara startup ecosystem, now that I am no longer vetting deals up and down the CA coast.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the provider of in-home and on-site technical support and services headed by Eric Greenspan, said today that it has inked a deal to offer up its services for sale at Costco Wholesale Corporation locations in Southern California. The rollout will begin in Q4 of the year.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of software to help manufacturers monitor their channel and e-commerce sites--and in particular, minimum-advertising-price (MAP) policies--has raised $2M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , which develops call marketing automation technology, said Wednesday that it has raised $3.25M in a funding round. RingCon said the new funding will go towards aggressively expanding sales, marketing, and software development. The round was led by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners.

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OCTOBER 13, 2015

Santa Barbara-based radio frequency filter technology developer Resonant Inc. said late Monday that it has added a sales and marketing veteran to its advisory board.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based AnsibleWorks announced today that it has raised $6M in a Series A round, to go towards the company''s open source, IT automation tools. Ansible said the funding will go towards product development, sales, and other initiatives. The funding was led by Menlo Ventures. The company''s CEo is Said Ziouani.

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JUNE 13, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Invoca , the developer of cloud-based, call marketing and click-to-call technology which is backed by Accel Partners, Upfront Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners, said it has hit 100 employees, and also expanded its executive team.

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AUGUST 6, 2009

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of IP communications software for the embedded market, said this morning that it has promoted two of its executives and created two new business units. Tags: technologies voip embedded software executive. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Resonant , a developer of radio frequency front ends, says it has created an advisory board, to help it commercialize its designs. Curry was previously Senior Sales Director and Director of Key Global Accounts at Avago Technologies, where he had spent 26 years of his career.

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APRIL 8, 2009

Santa Barbara-based InTouch Technologies , which develops robotic telepresence sysetms for the health care industry, revealed this morning that it has settled a legal dispute with HeadThere Inc. InTouch Technologies sued HeadThere in October of 2007 over the alleged patent infringement. over the firm's patents.

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JUNE 12, 2015

Los Angeles-based membership airline Surf Air says it now has more than 1,600 members, and has flown over 13,000 flights, two years after its debut--according to the company's sales emails. The company's service allow members to skip the long security lines and crowded public terminals, and also mostly uses smaller airport locations.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

As far as technology goes, sure, I’ll be using my knowledge and skills to develop a business around technology and the process of producing our product uses some rather savvy science, so its not as big of a stretch as it might appear. The Macaw Coffee factory in Santa Barbara, Honduras. operations and sales.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 26, 2009

" Kurt has a great background in sales and marketing. He is well known in the Southern California Technology scene for his work producing the Digital Family event series, along with the MOTM (Meeting of the Minds) series. We have regular monthly meetings in Westlake Village, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, & Newport Beach.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the provider of pay-per-call, performance marketing technology run by Jason Spievak, said this morning that it has closed on $4M more in a new round of funding. RingRvenue develops technology which tracks responses to phone calls, allowing calls to be used for affiliate sales and tracking.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider, says today that it has been seeing gains in the financial services industry with its platform. RingRevenue said Progrexion has seen an increase of 630% in sales due to its pay-per-call campaigns since launch in July of 2010.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the developer of pay-per-call technology and performance marketing products, said today that it is seeing "record" mobile campaign growth. RingRevenue's technology can generate and track unique toll free and local phone numbers in order to track sales leads.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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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. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. has long been home to both technology and fashion--but, based on its trajectory, looks to be one of the fastest growing. Rubicon Project.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The funding is the largest funding in Santa Barbara County in recent history, and among the largest fundings across all of Southern California, with the exception of a couple of late stage biotechnology deals in the past year. Meritech Capital also participated in the funding.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

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. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond. Hate2Wait #H8toW8 pic.twitter.com/KcMuKvoqRZ.

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JUNE 10, 2009

CallWave , once one of Southern California's heralded technology successing, is going private and voluntarily delisting its stock, putting an end to the public era of the firm's existence. CallWave debuted back in 2004, and was one of Santa Barbara's most prominent technology firms to come out of the Internet era.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 26, 2010

In early December of 1818, Jose de la Guerra devised a brilliant plan to thwart the French pirate Hippolyte de Bouchard who was lurking off the coast of Santa Barbara, contemplating an attack. Members were also more comfortable aligning their brands with an emerging technology, as opposed to a fledgling company.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. That''s how recruiting works now, and continues to work with our technology. Why is technology important here? I then put together a team of four founders, two on the technology side, and myself and Kai on the business side.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

What our technology platform does, is determines what about a marketer's offers that will matter to the consumer. That allows marketers to drive a significant increase in sales, and a reduction in cost on the back end. That allows marketers to drive a significant increase in sales, and a reduction in cost on the back end.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Yet, the ways that enterprises and businesses are monetizing that user interaction is sort of archaic, compared to the evolution of the technology. So when I say stay at the Marriott Del Mar, our technology turns that into a link that points to one of those travel partners, based on some proprietary algorithms.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

It also provides a way for graduates to learn about ideas, opportunities and technologies about which they might not have been aware while focusing on building and scaling their own startup. If the sales aren’t there, it might be time for the entrepreneurs to either pivot or seek out a new venture.” No program can work miracles.

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