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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , which develops e-commerce software for subscription-based software businesses, has been acquired by private equity investor Accel-KKR. FastSpring was founded in 2005, and is led by CEO Chris Lueck. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 22, 2013

FastSpring , the fast growing Santa Barbara-based e-commerce payment services provider headed by Dan Engel, said today it has scored a funding round from Pylon Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment firm. The investment is the first, outside investment in the company since it was founded in 2005.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Kamran Pourzanjani , the former CEO and founder of PriceGrabber.com, and Omid Rahmat , the former CEO of Tom's Hardware, have acquired Portland- and Santa Barbara-based ELC Technologies , the development firm founded by Jonathan Siegel. ELC is known for its cloud computing applications development, and Ruby On Rails development.

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JULY 24, 2012

Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. At GRP Partners we’re all in on Los Angeles having written about $35 million in early-stage venture capital investments in this market alone in the past six months.

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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. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check. We're taking it seriously. That as unhealthy.

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