socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising).

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2016

The last time Forbes has placed a Southern California venture capitalist on the Midas List appears to have been in 2009, when Jim Gauer of Palomar Ventures made the list.

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Southern California SoCal Palomar Santa Barbara 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We invite you to our upcoming in-person Founder’s event in Santa Barbara, “Fundraising in Today’s Startup Market." ​Join us for this exclusive event to hear from how Santa Barbara-based founder, Woody Sears at Autio, raised his latest funding round. See [link] (more)

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Santa Barbara Marketing Startup Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Here are a number of Southern California startups who are making waves in the cloud computing, as mined from our subscription venture capital database. Funding: $25.5M, from Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates [ Profile ]. Eucalyptus Systems. RightScale. Funding: Private [ Profile ].

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Cloud Computing Southern California Manhattan Beach Startup 182

socalTECH

MAY 26, 2020

The funding--which values the company at over one billion dollars--adds the company to Southern California's list of "unicorn" companies. The company said that Viking Global Investors, Upfront Ventures, Tao Capital Partners and Rock Creek Group also participated, along with local Santa Barbara locals Oprah Winfrey and Katy Perry.

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Santa Barbara Funding Southern California Capital 124

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. If you want to understand how the VC industry is changing there is a great primer in the link.

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Rincon Venture Partners , the Santa Barbara-based venture capital fund run by Jim Andelman , John Greathouse , and Brian Kelly , has led the investment in a developer of social recruiting software tools for companies, The Resumator. Rincon led a $700,000 Series A round in 2011 in The Resumator. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Southern California Social Media Venture Capital 157

socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Here's Mike Panesis , Executive Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at California Lutheran University (CLU). READ MORE>>.

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Ventura Tech Coast Angels Santa Barbara Southern California 154

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. Share and Enjoy.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Steve Reich

MARCH 23, 2012

I joined a panel with Sam Teller, Managing Director of LaunchpadLA ( www.LaunchpadLA.la ) , Klaus Schauser CEO of Appfolio ( www.appfolio.com ) , and Michael Holliday, founder of the incubator and prominent architect in Santa Barbara, to talk about the pros and cons of the current incubator boom.

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Santa Barbara Incubator Technology Outsource 49

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

VC's love to talk about their successes. Yet most VC's bury their failures under six feet of denial. In the startup world, the former happens when a VC makes a bad investment, and the latter occurs when they miss a great opportunity. As noted in What Does VC Traction Really Mean? , What’s The Worst Mistake? billion).

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Southern California 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 23, 2011

In addition to all the local startup folk, we're gonna be joined by a bunch of VCs, have a SHORT talk about Venture Capital, Fundraising, etc. from VC Frank Foster of DFJ Frontiers Santa Barbara office and Gregg Lavin from uSamp, a 101 corridor company that is kicking butt and works with local VCs Greycroft and DFJ Frontier.

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Venture Capital Santa Barbara Startup Capital 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 26, 2010

Ben has invested the past 10 years in tracking the Southern California Technology market, maintaining a deep database of technology firms and publishing realtime news about local high tech companies through his website, socalTECH.com.

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Santa Barbara Southern California High Tech Hollywood 100

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

In addition to the new chapters, the group said it is joining up its Westlake Village, Palos Verdes, and Santa Barbara chapters as a single "Maverick Angels Southern California" chapter, to be headed up by Bill Barber, a former Amgen executive; the group said it will be meeting at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village.

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Westlake Village Angel Santa Barbara Southern California 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The group announced today that it has named the incoming Presidents of its area networks, with Steve Flaim in San Diego, John Glanville and Jeff Kurfess in Santa Barbara, Stu Roberts in Orange County, Scott Sangster in Los Angeles, and John Tillquist in the Inland Empire. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? Here’s how to do it.

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks to all of our sponsors and advertisers, who make our coverage of Southern. California's technology industry possible. Looking to reach Southern California's high tech executives and. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. Venture capital for innovators.

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SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

Meritech Capital also participated in the funding. 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.

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Funding Santa Barbara ReachLocal Southern California 178

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. We've created over a billion dollars in public market capital created by our investments here. We really believe in the market.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

What's your thoughts on the local venture market? We'd like to be one of the most prominent investors in Southern California. We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 12, 2010

present an overview of the tech hotspots on the 101 Corridor from Hollywood to Santa Barbara. Speaker: Ben Kuo, socalTECH.com.

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Santa Barbara Hollywood Venture Capital Marketing 100

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. 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.

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Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

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. How did you start the business?

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

A lot of the challenge is in human resources that understands that technology, however, we live in Southern California, which has some of the best universities in the country in that area. Our employees come from Caltech, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, and we've employed people as far away as the University of Michigan.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? I recently wrote a post on how to get access to VCs and angels where I outlined why lawyers are such an important tool for VC introductions. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm. He mostly covers Southern California.

Startup 318

Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

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. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital.

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Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents. A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Startup SEO Pepperdine Blogging 150

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. The emails were so tailored, that many merchants called back to thank them for the personal attention. Get Angel capital and build a prototype. Then get VC funding, rent a cool space, hire a big team, rebuild and relaunch.

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Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

Let me give you another simple example from my experience as a VC at Upfront Ventures. When we went to raise funds we faced lots of competition as there are of course many other VC funds in the country. I think that’s where many startups and even VC funds go wrong. We do a lot of deals in San Francisco.

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Sales SaaS Startup Venture Capital 150

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

Seed stage, venture capital fund DFJ Frontier (www.dfjfrontier.com) announced this morning that it has raised its second fund, worth $55M. We've increased our focus on Southern California, which is good for you guys. We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara.

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Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Funding Invest 124

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Peter Csathy is CEO of Manatt Digital Media Ventures, a division of Manatt Digital Media, which offers innovative full-service business consulting and legal services, as well as venture capital. Babak Razi - Founder Third Wave Ventures. More panelist to be announced soon. Want To Sponsor?

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. wonder what that might be? Event Details.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. Community Sponsors.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150