socalTECH
APRIL 23, 2019
Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops software used by brands to manage partnership and affiliate programs, has launched a new product to help those companies with managing mobile linking. The company recently raised a huge $75M funding round, led by private equity investor rovidence Strategic Growth (PSG). READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
JANUARY 16, 2013
Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. According to Eric Robison, the firm's CEO, the funding round will go towards increasing the firm's global reach and expanding content.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. just to name a few! Investments in the intersection of data, technology and biology.
Steve Reich
MARCH 30, 2012
inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. 20k from StartEngine, and a lot of sweat equity from the founders. You can go to virtually any city in the world and meet a local who will tell you about their city. They did it entirely through social networking. No wonder they just raised $1mm.
socalTECH
JANUARY 22, 2013
Last week, Carpinteria-based Lynda.com announced one of the biggest investments in the region in the last few years--a $103M, growth equity investment in the company, which came from Accel Partners and Spectrum Equity. We already had a presence there, and are moving into a standalone building in Calabasas focused on web development.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 25, 2010
Kevin O'Connor is the co-founder of DoubleClick , which he took from startup to IPO on the Nasdaq in 1998, sold it to private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for around $1.2 After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered.
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. is a web hosting and virtualization service provider headquartered in Los Angeles, California. mt) Media Temple, Inc.
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