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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus , the developer of open source software for managing private and hybrid clouds, has been acquired by HP , HP said Thursday afternoon. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed, however, reports place the buy at somewhere under $100M. The company had raised at least $55.5M in funding.

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Santa Barbara Acquisition Software Report 178

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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. Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. Curtail recently raised $3.25M in a seed funding round from Tarus Capital. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Chief Technology Officer Santa Barbara Seed Funding 133

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A report today says that Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of the user-friendly wireless home audio systems, has raised $25M in a secondary funding, which will go towards buying out fully vested employees. The report came from Fortune''s The Term Sheet. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Venture Capital Report Capital 147

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JUNE 26, 2017

Santa Barbara-based RentTrack , a startup developing online rent payment and reporting software, said on Monday that it has raised a Series A funding round. Size of the funding was not disclosed. RentTrack said the funding was led by Yabeo. The company said the funding will go towards growth in Canada and the UK.

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Santa Barbara Funding Report Software 113

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MAY 25, 2012

Santa Monica-based SurfAir , the startup airline headed by Wade Eyerly which is part of the Muckerlab accelerator, is closing in on $14M in its first funding round, according to reports today. The firm has not confirmed the report from PandoDaily. READ MORE>>.

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Report Santa Monica Funding Santa Barbara 140

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JUNE 18, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the maker of user-friendly, whole house music systems, has raised $135M in a funding round, according to reports today.

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Report Santa Barbara Redpoint Funding 145

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JUNE 21, 2012

The $135M funding for Santa Barbara-based wireless music system maker Sonos appears to be just that, rewarding such investors as Andreas von Blottnitz, and undoubtedly co-founders John MacFarlane, Craig Shelburne, Tom Cullen. When part of that funding is used to pay off early investors. Elevation Partners, and Redpoint Ventures.

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Santa Barbara Funding Redpoint Equity 140

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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. SpaceX (www.spacex.com).

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Southern California Orange County SpaceX Santa Barbara 133

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

Randy Churchill and his team at PricewaterhouseCoopers meticulously prepare a quarterly report detailing the venture landscape, called Shaking The Money Tree. all of which continue to thrive in Santa Barbara to this day. Thanks Mr. Big Firm VC. STAGE: Few Harvests, Little Planting. Nine Positions I Do Not Need.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Technical Review 233

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Yardi Systems , which develops real estate investment and property management software, reported earlier this week that it has signed Dallas, Texas-based Westmount Realty Capital as a customer. Size of the win was not disclosed.

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Custom Customer Santa Barbara Software 124

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

Santa Barbara-based BioIQ , a startup developing personalized medical testing services, is in the midst of raising funding, according to multiple sources. Those filings indicate that $393,000 of that funding has been received since July of this year, with PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA's MoneyTree report putting the total at $629,000.

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Funding Santa Barbara Venture Capital Report 133

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Lynda.com said today that it has raised a big growth round from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity, and also reported that the firm exceeded $100M in topline revenues last year. Meritech Capital also participated in the funding.

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Funding Santa Barbara ReachLocal Southern California 178

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Yardi Software , which develops software used for real estate management, including asset and property management, said today that it has gained a win with Physicians' Capital Investments. Physicians' Capital Investments, based in Texas, develops medical office buildings, with 14 projects under development.

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Custom Customer Santa Barbara Software 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

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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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DECEMBER 8, 2008

Santa Barbara-based BioIQ, a provider of web-based, consumer health testing services, said last week that it has inked a deal to provide its services to Alere, a provider of health and wellness serviecs. in funding from Great Pacific Capital. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. BioIQ is venture backed by $2.5M

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Santa Barbara Web Tool Report 100

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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. What was the biggest news for your organization in 2018?

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Southern California SoCal Pasadena Startup 113

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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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DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. Venture capital for innovators. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. to San Diego.

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MAY 5, 2016

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization. No venture capital.”.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

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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

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APRIL 5, 2010

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Santa Barbara Thousand Oaks Oracle Ventura 53

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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. We all want larger amounts of capital to hire more senior people and to build bigger teams. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150