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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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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Ansible > , a developer of IT automation software, has been acquireed by Red Hat , to help bolster Red Hat's management capabilities for hybrid and OpenStack clouds, and container-based services. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed, however, reports say the deal was worth around $100M.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Service Objects , which provides software and services for real-time, contact validation for businesses, said it will offer up free assistance to nonprofits working in the area of environmental conservation and natural disaster relief. Service Objects said nonprofits such as Susan G. READ MORE>>.

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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). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps).

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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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JANUARY 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based Gibson Hoffman & Pancione , the law firm representing Santa Barbara-based Cybersitter in a $2.2 billion, software piracy suit against China, claimed Wednesday evening that the firm has come under attack from servers within China. The report comes a week after the firm filed a $2.2

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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. WeDo says it launched its app into beta in May, and so far has 18,000 signups for the service so far. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Among the highest ranked in the annual program was OpenX Software , based in Pasadena, which had a 44,075% five year growth rate, which was ranked at number 5 in the nation, based on its fiscal revenue growth rate from 2008 to 2012.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? He also is President of Tech Coast Angels' Central Coast Network and a founding member of Santa Barbara Angel Alliance. Nothing that really blew me away. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. The goal is to create a place where it's relatively easy to find current content and highly relevant content surrounding Los Angeles Technology. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Who are the top tech companies to work for in Los Angeles? popped up consistently in an informal (and highly non-scientific poll) of a number of readers, executive recruiters, and others in the Los Angeles area, who cited growth, brand, profitability, and other factors in their suggestions to us of the top companies. Rubicon Project.

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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. AppFolio develops cloud-based property management software. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Peter Pham, of Los Angeles technology studio/incubator Science Inc., An explanation of PublishThis and its content curation software. Santa Barbara's Phone Halo pitches the idea of its GPS/Bluetooth wallet tracking device in this (kinda campy) video. with Mario Andretti. Introducing the PublishThis Content Cloud.

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APRIL 5, 2010

Biopharmaceuticals continues to drive the investment totals in Southern California, with $222M in investments; followed by Medical Devices, with $120M in investments, and Software, with $119M. for Santa Monica electric vehicle firm Coda Automotive. Father north, in Santa Barbara, Sonos scored $25.0M in a March deal.

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JULY 19, 2011

Los Angeles-based RPost , a developer of electronic signature services, has filed a suit against Adobe and EchoSign for patent infringement, the firm said this morning. RPost sued Santa Barbara-based RightSignature and fellow electronic signature firm DocuSign in June over the same patents. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 18798% San Diego Pedro Lichtinger 22 Phone Power 7642% Winnetka Ari Ramezani 23 TeleSign Corporation Software 7534% Marina del Rey Steve Jillings 26 FastSpring 6742% Santa Barbara Dan Engel 30 Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

Eucalyptus Systems, based in Goleta, develops cloud computing software to manage private and public cloud deployment. The firm is notable not only for the widespread use of its software, but because it is now headed by former MySQL CEO marten Mickos. Are we missing your favorite, local cloud computing software firm? MaestroDev.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

According to the firm, both schools are using Active Network's operations management software and hosted technology for their campus recreation departments. Financial impact of the two wins was 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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JANUARY 5, 2010

Santa Barbara-based internet filtering software provider Cybersitter said today that it has filed a $2.2 billion, software piracy suit against China, two Chinese software firms, and seven computer manufacturers, over misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, copyright infringement and conspiracy.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

invested; Los Angeles had $169.7M, and Orange County $63.1M Other large deals include Santa Barbara-based CytomX , with a $30.0M The other large sector for investments was Software, with $54.8M Tags: venture capital southern california angeles orange county diego moneytree nvca. billion invested in the region.

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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. Jim Semick: I’ve been launching and managing software products for 15 years now, going back to when you and I worked together at Expertcity before it was acquired by Citrix. Semick: They are.

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JUNE 10, 2009

San Juan Capistrano-based OptionEase , a developer of software-as-a-service for tracking stock option accounting, has tied with a Los Angeles-based management consulting firm, the firms said this week. Financial details of the alliance were not disclosed. Financial details of the alliance were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

When my team of graduate students and I sent the first message over the internet on a warm Los Angeles evening in October, 1969, little did we suspect that we were at the start of a worldwide revolution. Such an invisible infrastructure coupled with intelligent software agents imbedded in the internet will seamlessly deliver such services.

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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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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. With our software, it does it all in an instant. Who is the ideal customer for your site? How are you funded?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. At Upfront we have always done 40% of our investing in Greater Los Angeles and it’s precisely for this reason. So he covers a ton of ground for industry knowledge and M&A chops.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. 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.

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JUNE 17, 2011

He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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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. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies. Mark Suster: Luckily, there's a very big poster child for software-as-a-service, Salesforce.com.

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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. What is TrackStreet? How did you start the business?

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JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's developed quite a bit from when we first conceptualized the firm in 2008.

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APRIL 4, 2013

That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. It''s much like a sales team might use software to find leads. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 1, 2013

How did a small, open source software company from Finland capture billions in market share from Oracle? You can watch Marten tell his entertaining story in the following 15-minute excerpt from his UC Santa Barbara talk. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus. Note: I am a micro-Angel investor in Eucalyptus.

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SoCal Delicious

APRIL 5, 2010

They will be honored at the Business Times’ 10th Anniversary gala event on April 12 at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree Resort in Santa Barbara and will be profiled in-depth in the anniversary special section publishing March 19. • Jeff Henley , chairman of the board of multi-billion dollar software firm Oracle Corp.,

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MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. Daryl Bernstein: Yeah, we have. I've been an entrepreneur for many years.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

And in many communities that are new to building tech startups I’ve found that a lot of angel money is not very sophisticated at investing in startup companies. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program.

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