socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

Maverick Angels , one of the angel investment groups in the Los Angeles area, said this afternoon that the group is launching two new chapters, expanding into the Santa Barbara and South Bay area. Tags: venture capital investment angel angels maverick. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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. According to FastSpring, Accel-KKR has made a majority equity investment in the firm, to provide capital and resources for its technology and go-to-market initiatives.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Theta Lake , a developer of security and compliance software which connects with Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and other collaboration platforms, has raised $12.7M in a Series A funding. As part of the funding, Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed joins the company's board.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Santa Barbara Seed Funding 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Maverick Angels , the angel investment group headed here by John Dilts , told its members today that it is launching two new chapters in the state of Utah. Tags: maverick angels angel investment venture capital utah expansion. The launch of the chapter follows an expansion of the group into Italy in November.

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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.

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Commerce Artificial Inteligence Seed Funding Santa Barbara 124

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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. The funding was led by Rincon Venture Partners, and also included Epic Ventures and angels. software intelligence business capital venture marketing sales hgdata' READ MORE>>.

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MAY 16, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Active Life Scientific , a developer of life sciences research and diagnostics tools, said this morning that it has raised $500K in a Series A follow on investment. The funding came from members of the Tech Coast Angels. The Tech Coast Angel''s Central Coast Network, led by Mike Panesis, led the deal.

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MARCH 28, 2012

Los Angeles- and Santa Barbara-based DFJ Frontier , the venture capital firm founded by David Cremin and Scott Lenet, has scored an exit at one of its portfolio firms, ClearAccess. Other investors in ClearAccess were Blade Ventures and Montlake Capital (formerly Buerk Dale Victor). READ MORE>>.

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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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AUGUST 21, 2017

Santa Barbara-based venture investor Rincon Venture Partners is one of the backers in a funding round for LiftIgniter , a developer of machine learning software used for personalization.

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Artificial Inteligence Santa Barbara Software Funding 113

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M billion in venture activity here in Q1, up significantly from around $997M tallied in Q4. in a March deal.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

CytomX Therapeutics , a biotech startup which was founded by UC Santa Barbara professor Patrick Daugherty, and which has a significant number of Southern California angel investors, filed for an IPO last week, saying that it is looking to raise $100M on the NASDAQ Global Market. The company hopes to trade under the symbol CTMX.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home, information technology support firm headed by Eric David Greenspan, has shut down. Make It Work was backed by Frontera Capital, Somera Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Make It Work was backed by Frontera Capital, Somera Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Local Market Launch , a new startup founded by former ValueClick founder Brian Coryat, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5M Coryat has also been an angel investor in recent years in local startups. local market launch localmarketlaunch venture capital valueclick coryat business listings search'

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Chance Barnett , Crowdfunder (Los Angeles, crowdfunding). Allison Beal , StyleSaint (Los Angeles, fashion). Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app).

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Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

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MAY 19, 2015

Appfolio--which is led by Brian Donahoo--is venture backed by Investment Group of Santa Barbara and BV Capital, along with such local angels as Andreas von Blottnitz and Klaus Schauser. The IPO is being underwritten by Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Pacific Crest Securities, and William Blair.

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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. acquisition merger capital venture pylon fastspring' Size of the funding round was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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. He currently heads up BestCovery.com. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Technology Santa Barbara Venture Capital 197

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? Capital is a lot less patient at scale. Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

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JULY 21, 2016

Santa Barbara-based WeDo , a new startup developing social, to-do list apps, has raised $1M in a funding from angel investors, the company said this morning. Name of the angels were not announced.

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JULY 18, 2017

A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. Cylance (www.cylance.com).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Southern California's venture capital totals dropped significantly in Q3 of 2016, to a mere $663.2M The most amount of investment came for the Los Angeles-Long Beach MSA, which saw $247.6M Another $28.68M was invested in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, plus Ventura. billion funding round for Snapchat.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home computer and electronics service and help firm headed by Eric David Greenspan, said this week that it has launched a new web and social media services arm. The firm is backed by The Tech Coast Angels, Frontera Capital, Somera Ventures, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Web Tech Coast Angels Services Social Media 154

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JANUARY 27, 2010

The Tech Coast Angels is stressing its mixer program, seed investment efforts, and a new website, as it kicks off a 2010 program, according to the angel investing group. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Orange County Seed Funding Santa Barbara 157

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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 ]. Funding: $42.5M, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Tenaya Capital [ Profile ].

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Cloud Computing Southern California Manhattan Beach Startup 182

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MAY 24, 2021

All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. Interim liquidity plus long-term capital gains work really, really well.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

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JUNE 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based TrueVision Systems , a developer of 3D visualization technology used for microsurgery, said this week that it has raised $1.2M Source of the funding was not disclosed, and comes on top of a $5M, Series B funding round it raised from angels last year.

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Santa Barbara Venture Capital Funding Capital 100

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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. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Why do they invest in venture capital?

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Venture Capital Funding Technical Review Startup 396

InfoChachkie

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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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

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APRIL 27, 2009

Los Angeles-based seed stage venture fund DFJ Frontier is announcing today that it has closed a second, $55M fund, expanded its team, and opened up new offices. The new offices are in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. The new offices are in Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. Tags: frontier venture capital firm.

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Funding Santa Barbara Sample Venture Capital 113

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest.

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Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

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MARCH 13, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , which operates an in-home, computer and electronics help service, said Friday that it has signed a multi-year contract to host a radio show on KNX 1070. Make It Work is backed by Frontera Capital, Somera Ventures and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Coast Angels Chief Technology Officer Santa Barbara Southern California 113

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APRIL 27, 2013

It would be easier in terms of getting access to angels, VCs, the media, whatever. Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. For starters I’d try to raise my initial capital locally. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship.

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Venture Capital Marketing Santa Barbara Startup 365

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

In my new role as the first executive director for the Alliance for Southern California Innovation, I spent a lot of time outside of my home turf of Pasadena -- visiting innovation nodes such as San Diego, Irvine, Riverside, Santa Barbara, Venice, Santa Monica, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California SoCal Pasadena Startup 113

Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. “All

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital.

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Startup Venture Capital Press San Diego 378