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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

InfoChachkie

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit.

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Interview with Winston Damarillo, Morphlabs

socalTECH

Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara. The company is about three years old, and we had our first product initially in Japan. There's really big demand. We brought that to the U.S.

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Interview with Mike Hopkins, ICE Energy

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy (www.ice-energy.com) has quietly been working away at developing energy storage systems to help smooth out the demand for energy on the nation's power grid. We have a lot in common in terms of those air conditioners and even the technology, but our product is different in an important way.

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Opening The Cloud: Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems

InfoChachkie

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. They have a number of mini-websites that they run for various products and campaigns and they cannot know which of those sites will need resources at any given point. They just grab the product. They run all their websites on Eucalyptus.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion. The first product tests for gluten and is especially targeted at people with Celiac’s disease which affects 1% of the population meaning millions of people.

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

socalTECH

The company just announced its first product, so we thought it would be interesting to follow up with Kos on his progress bringing the company's technology to market. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about? So those resources have been fantastic.

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Zingle Raises $3M to Expand and Improve Messaging App Technology

Xconomy

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. Blakely said he also intends to add sales and marketing resources to take advantage of increasing demand from businesses for Zingle’s messaging technology.