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MAY 7, 2015

Santa Barbara-based ShipHawk , the online marketplace for packing and shipping, said today that it has appointed Erica Deas to its sales team. ShipHawk said Deas will take over the daily operations and development of its SaaS sales team. Deas was previously Senior Director of Mid-Market Sales at Tapjoy.

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Sales Santa Barbara SaaS Capital 100

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Santa Barbara-based AppFolio , a developer of software-as-a-service for property management, is announcing today that it has raised $8M in additional funding for the firm. The funding comes from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara (IGSB). The company said the new funding will go to accelerate its growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Seksom most recently ran Corporate Development & Strategy for Twitter so he knows a thing or two about exits to corporates and whether he funds a startup or not I suspect many will get value from building a relationship with him for his expertise. dot-com bonanza. Secrets of Sand Hill Road. just to name a few!

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based 15desks , a developer of software-as-a-service for educators, said this morning that the firm has launched a new product for course management. The firm said it is privately funded, and first launched in 2007 at the University of Santa Barbara.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Rightsignature , a developer of online, electronic signature software-as-a-service, reported Friday that the firm has signed on a healthcare staffing technology firm as a customer. Tags: rightsignature saas software signature healthcare staffing health medical. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Tags: rightscale grid computing cloud software saas. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 28, 2013

Jonathan Siegel , who co-founded Santa Barbara-based startups RightScale, RightCart, and RightSignature, has scored an exit today, and has sold Exceptional Cloud Services , his latest cloud software startup, to cloud hosting provider RackSpace. Siegel also headed by software development firm ELC Technologies.

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Santa Barbara Software Development Web Acquisition 147

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JUNE 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud computing firm backed by Tenaya Capital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Presidio Ventures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScale myCloud.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Software Framework 176

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Santa Barbara-based Impact Radius , which develops digital marketing and affiliate marketing software, has raised $30M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding came from Silversmith Capital partners.

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Software Marketing Ticketmaster Santa Barbara 100

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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. Tags: consulting stock options saas optionease. Financial details of the alliance were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara SaaS Los Angeles Web 100

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JULY 25, 2011

The Santa Barbara-based arm of Citrix Systems , which develops GoToMeeting and other online communications and sharing software, said today that it ad tied its GoToTraining training software with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Training Class Social Media 160

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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JANUARY 25, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Yardi Systems , a developer of real estate and property management software, has sued Texas-based RealPage , a competing provider of software as a service for the apartment and rental market. According to RealPage, Yardi Systems sued its EverGreen Consulting division, which it acquired in 2009.

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Santa Barbara Software Organization Services 157

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said this morning that it is in a definitive agreement to acquired Netviewer AG , a developer of software-as-a-service tools for business collaboration. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Netviewer is based in Europe.

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Santa Barbara Tool Software Customer 145

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said today that it has closed on its acquisition of Netviewer AG , the developer of business collaboration software-as-a-service. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Citrix had originally announced the acquisition on December 17th.

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Santa Barbara Acquisition Software Services 133

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APRIL 19, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud management software developer backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures, and PHP developer Zend Technologies , said today that they have launched a jointly developed solution for deploying and managing PHP applications.

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PHP Platform Santa Barbara Software Development 140

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. Early in his career, Dan proved to be a valuable contributor on my GoToMeeting business development team (acquired by Citrix). They could work on their own terms.”.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

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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. Explain to me how your service works? How far along is the service?

Outsource Development 100

Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks! Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services. I worked as a software and hardware engineer, and did lots of software development for networking and telecom firms, mainly networking.

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be. We said to customers, “We only sell SaaS and we think that’s the right solution for you. So we took a stand. How responsive are they to your needs now?

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