socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2012

MetaCloud's fully managed services helps companies deploy their own, OpenStack cloud computing systems. OpenStack is an emerging standard which lets developers create cloud computing applications which are portable across different Internte service providers, private clouds, and more. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Amplify , the startup accelerator program being run by Paul Bricault in Venice Beach, has tied with a cloud computing provider, Joyent , the two said this morning. The two said they are in a partnership, where Joyent will provide free cloud computing resources and marketing services to Amplify's portfolio companies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2017

We've summarized the funds that have announced new funds in the last nine months or so, or that are in the midst of raising funds--a total of more than $1086 million in total funds. List ordered by fund size). Fund size: $230M fund. Fund size: $100M fund. Fund size: $100M fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Seed investments are down by any measure (funds, deals, dollars) over the past 3 years in deals < $1 million AND in deals between $1–5 million. As you can see below the number of seed funds shot up dramatically between 2006 and 2014. It’s very noticeable in terms of funds raised, dollars invested and deals completed.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software headed by Michael Crandell, has raised $15.6M in a new round of funding, according to a regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. The firm has now raise $58.10M in funding.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Software Capital 187

socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

It's turning out to be a great time for entrepreneurs looking for funding in the region, with not only high profile exits of such companies as Snap Inc., but a bunch of new, early stage investors looking to seed or fund the next big tech success story. www.watertowerventures.com) Fund size: $5M. Fund size: $40M.

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Southern California Artificial Inteligence Funding SoCal 138

socalTECH

JUNE 26, 2013

Metacloud , a provider of managed, Openstack-based private cloud services, announced this morning that it has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Canaan Partners, and also included Storm Ventures and AME Cloud. The companies said the funding will go towards growth and global expansion of its services.

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Services Cloud Computing Ticketmaster Southern California 187

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2012

in funding during Q2 of 2012, down from Q1, and slightly below investments in Q2 of 2011. in funding, followed by San Diego, with $304.7M in funding. County and San Diego seeing slightly less funding that the prior quarter. M raised, and cloud computing provider Eucalyptus , with $30.0M in investment, then.

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Southern California Orange County GRP Partners Funding 145

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh , a developer of cloud computing management software, announced today that it has raised $15M in a funding round. ServiceMesh provides software to help enterprise business units self-provision cloud infrastructure and enterprise apps. The round came from Ignition Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Santa Monica Software Funding 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Calient said its new funding will go towards expanding its products to the data center and cloud computing markets. Santa Barbara-based CALIENT Technologies , a developer of photonic switching equipment, said this morning that it has raised $19.4M in a round of venture financing. Names of those investors were not disclosed.

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Technology Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Funding 168

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Irvine-based Numecent , a stealth-mode, cloud computing firm run by Osman Kent, said yesterday that it has raised $2M as part of a Series A financing round. The firm said the tranche is part of a $10M, Series A funding round. Numecent said the new funding comes on top of an earlier, $7.5M READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

million from LA’s own venture fund, Upfront Ventures and a clutch of security experts. Now, he and Gudanis are trying to solve the issues of identity access management that the new, ubiquitous cloud computing model presents for security officers and developers.

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Los Angeles Chief Technology Officer Culver City Angel 308

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the developer of cloud computing products headed by Winston Damarillo, announced this morning that it has raised $5M in a Series C funding round. The firm said the funding will go toward deployment in the ASEAN and North American area.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. One of the major trends I’ve outlined is this movement of entrepreneurs (and as a lagging indicator venture funds) to more urban environments.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus Systems , the venture funded startup developing open source, private cloud management software, said Thursday that it has released its first major update of its software. Tags: eucalyptus systems cloud computing softare. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2014

For all of the consumer adoption of the cloud, enterprise users are still not as bought into the vision of cloud computing as one might think they would be. So, how do you help ease enterprise customers into the cloud--or at least, help them use cloud technology to help them with their business goals?

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Cloud Computing Outsource Development Outsource Startup 217

socalTECH

JULY 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of private cloud management software, said this morning that it has raised $20M in new funding. Eucalyptus said the funding will go to scale development, marketing, and sales of its commercial open source private cloud management software. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Software Web 154

socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2010

San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has led an investment in a cloud computing company, Standing Cloud , based in Boulder, Colorado. According to Standing Cloud, it received a $3M, Series B financing from Avalon, which also included the firm's prior investor, The Foundry Group.

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Avalon Invest Cloud Computing San Diego 154

socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the cloud computing software developer headed by Marten Mickos , has raised $30M in a Series C round of funding, the firm announced this morning. The firm will use the new funds for product innovation, sales, and customer support. IVP's Steve Harrick joins the company's board.

Cloud Computing 154

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara News Software 154

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

San Diego-based Kazuhm , a startup developing a distributed computing workload platform, has received a funding round from Analytics Ventures, Analytics said this week. Size of the investment was not announced. Tim O'Neal, a former executive at Intuit, is CEO of Kazuhm.

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Software Cloud Computing Funding San Diego 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , the provider of software for managing private and public cloud infrastructure, has raised $1M in funding from a strategic partner, the firm said this week. According to Morphlabs, the investment came from BroadBand Tower, a provider of Internet services, hosting, and other services in Japan.

Manhattan Beach 157

Manhattan Beach Cloud Computing Platform Invest 157

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2013

in a funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Monday. The filing indicates the funding is part of an ongoing $9.197M funding for the company. Details on investors and the funding have not been announced by the company. The company's existing investors include Verizon Investments. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Incubator Los Angeles Funding 147

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley had the lion's share of the venture funding dollars in Q3, with $1.75 in funding raised; followed by Otonomy , a San Diego maker of treatments for hearing disorders, which raised $38.5M. funding, fellow San Diego cloud computing firm RightScale , with $25.0M in funding. in funding.

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Southern California Venture Capital Orange County Rustic Canyon 195

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. The result was a massive increase in startups & a whole group of new funding sources: both angels & “micro VCs&#. The series started here if you want to read from the start.

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Venture Capital Capital Cloud Computing Marketing 289

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, has scored $5.5M in a Series A funding round. The firm said the funding was led by Benchmark Capital, along with participation by BV Capital.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara CTO Coach Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Carlsbad-based Luxtera , the chip developer backed by August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds and Lux Capital, said today that it has launched the industry's first, 100Gbps optical transceiver chip. The firm said the chip is targeted at next generation cloud computing data centers and high performance computing.

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socalTECH

JULY 19, 2013

Irvine-based Netlist , a publicly listed developer of memory for the cloud computing and storage market, announced Thursday that it has raised $15M in credit financing. The funding came from Fortress Investment Group.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

in a funding round, to bring its social analytics engine for gaming companies to market. in funding came from the Harvard Business School Angels and Tech Coast Angels. Los Angeles-based Ninja Metrics announced this morning that it has raised $2.8M

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Metrics Tech Coast Angels Software Cloud Computing 147

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Irvine-based cloud computing services provider Caylent has raised $16M in a growth equity investment round, the company said on Monday. The company said the funding came from East Los Capital. Caylent is led by CEO JP La Torre.

Cloud Computing 113

Cloud Computing Equity Demand Web 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We very quietly went live with our second fund, Okapi Ventures II, LP, back in March and have already made 4 investments. becomes a reality in 2013 with the consumerization of enterprise software and cloud computing leading the charge. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I think "enterprise 2.0"

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Venture Capital Capital Southern California High Tech 164

socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Santa Barbara-based RightScale said today that it has raised $13M, in a second round for the cloud computing software firm. Danny Rimer of Index joins the board as part of the funding. The new round brings the company's total funding raised to $17.5M, including an earlier round this year led by Benchmark. READ MORE>>

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

We also believe, as we did at MySQL, that it is important to have a business model that revolves around the open source product so that you can fund the further development of the product. Marten also offers some grounded advice for emerging entrepreneurs interested in starting a venture within the cloud ecosystem.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Or would you like me to sell you a story on how cloud computing is green because these large datacenters are more energy efficient than the same number of computers run in ad-hoc ways? Let me answer ‘why computing needs RightScale.’ Computing is going the way of the electric grid. It’s contagious!”. 5) It is 2015.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Startup 188

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

Solarflare's network interface cards are used in cloud computing, fintech, and other data center applications, where applications require low latency network access. Xilinx was a strategic investor in the last funding announced by Solarflare, and Solarflare's other investors have included Oak Investment Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Cloud Computing Anthem Networking Acquisition 113

socalTECH

MAY 19, 2009

Nirvanix is a privately held company backed by more than $23 million in venture funding. Its backers include Intel Capital, Valhalla Partners, Mission Ventures, Windward Ventures and the European Founders Fund. Tags: nirvanix executive engineering storage cloud computing. READ MORE>>.

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Windward Cloud Computing Chief Technology Officer Mission Ventures 100