socalTECH

MARCH 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based HG Data Company announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, for its cloud-based, business intelligence database service. HG Data is led by Craig Harris, and develops technology to gather business intelligence data from both the Web as well as offline source.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparison engine site run by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, has raised another $4M in funding, the firm said today. FindTheBest offers up a web site which compares different products, services, and other items, via lists which can be sorted and filtered.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2009

No details on the funding have been announced by the firm, however, DFJ Frontier now lists the company as a portfolio firm, and DFJ Frontier's David Cremin is listed as a board member at the company. Lottay's online web site allows people to help buy gift cards and collect money from friends and family for those gifts. READ MORE>>.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2013

To get the story behind the new funding, we spoke with Eric Robison , the firm's President and CEO, last week. This was a situation where we had the opportunity to take on funding, at a point where we could utilize it to scale our technology platform, and to increase our global reach and expand our content, beyond what we'd do normally.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

The group also said it is focusing on its SeedTrack program, which is specifically focused on seed stage funding and extensive mentoring. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year. Tags: tech coast angels funding venture capital seed fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , which is developing technology for pay-per-call, telephone affiliate advertising, has raised $3.5M in a funding from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and Great Pacific Capital. The firm is headed by former Callwave CFO Jason Spievak. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2009

According to OptionEase and Avant Advisory Group, the two will provide professional services along with web-based accounting and finance tools. Avant Advisory Group provides CFO, controllership, and other executive and interim management services through its Los Angeles, Newport Beach, and Santa Barbara offices. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs (..)

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. Then get VC funding, rent a cool space, hire a big team, rebuild and relaunch. 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. Not any more.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. Funding great entrepreneurs. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network. socalTECH.com offers up continuous coverage of Southern California's growing high. to San Diego.

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Xconomy

JULY 21, 2016

The funding, provided by Santa Barbara, CA-based Rincon Venture Partners and Venice, CA-based CrossCut Ventures, represents the first institutional investment for Zingle. The company raised $1 million last year, according to a 2015 regulatory filing. or forward the query to an appropriate hotel staffer to respond.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

Still though, when founders are seeking funding, “ 75 percent of the venture capital goes to three states: Massachusetts, New York, and California,” said Steve Case in an interview with Recode. They also align with companies such as Amazon web services, IBM, and many others. THE SANDBOX & StartupSB (Santa Barbara, CA).

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

The other major evolution of Steve’s thinking is in the area of web and mobile businesses, the latter of which were nascent at the time Four Steps was written. There is a different speed and a different customer development process, still four steps, but the tactics are radically different for web and mobile apps. Enter Eric Ries .

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Eucalyptus’ underlying technology was developed at UC Santa Barbara. The most typical use case is a scalable web service. You can manage across AWS (Amazon Web Services) and Eucalyptus, for instance.”. As Marten notes, “The basic need that they all have is unpredictable and variable workloads.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Platform Resource 212

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

Earlier this month, his latest startup, El Segundo-based Morphlabs announced it had raised a Series B funding worth $5.5M. 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. What's Morphlabs?

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. is providing funds for food, AV, security and an amazing venue at their HQ complete with every amenity one could ever need to pull off a successful meetup. Tags: Eric Greenspan 140conf Google Voice jeff pulver santa barbara social media tech news Twitter.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

Steve Poizner, who sold two of his startups to Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM ) and served as California Insurance Commissioner a decade ago, has signed a collaboration agreement with a venture fund that Maris founded in suburban San Diego. Maris raised $160 million last month for the inaugural fund of Section 32, a new venture firm he founded.

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Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

socalTECH

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. It looks like you're using Amazon Web Services heavily in the service?

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2010

After DoubleClick, Kevin eventually settled down in Santa Barbara, which is where his newest startup-- FindTheBest.com (www.findthebest.com) is headquartered. How is the firm funded? Kevin O'Connor: Right now, it's funded by all three of the founders. billion in 2005, and finally sold again to Google in 2007 for $3.1

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Xconomy

JULY 2, 2019

The year was 1972: three years after the first messages were firing across the US military-funded research network ARPANET, the precursor to the internet, but still more than a decade before the internet’s architects settled on rules for how information would be transmitted across the network.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

We are huge proponents of the Internet, so the last thing we wanted to do was scare them and stop their kids from benefiting from using the Web. We are currently scheduling a District-wide event in Santa Barbara for all parents of students in elementary and middle schools. We’ve yet been turned down.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I'm down here probably three or four days a week on average, and we're trying to be active, and pick off what we think are going to be the best deals here, from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. People can come in and have a coffee.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. The key it to have “realistic capital.”

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. Santa Barbara: the home of the clicks (and the calls) , Do your kids Google poo? Great posts.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Cogi (www.cogi.com) recently launched a phone-based service which allows users to transcribe conference calls and meetings. What are the barriers to entry here--it seems like there have been a number of web startups who are doing some aspects of this--if not conference calls, at least transcribing voicemails?

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. We then actually went to the leader, Amazon, and we're in the web services group.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund. Unicornless. billion). . <Note:

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. If you make this cut then they will usually defer the payment until your funding. Our lives are intertwined.

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Startup IP Southern California Entrepreneur 318

socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Earlier this month, Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue (www.ringrevenue.com) announced that it had raised a round of venture funding. The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. Explain your technology?

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Advertising Networking Santa Barbara Startup 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

We've basically taken advantage of all the new technology out there--especially, the web-based service model. How is the company funded? Zareh Baghdasarian: We're privately funded, and we will be starting some funding activity pretty soon, basically so we can expand and build features and get our tools faster to the market.

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Education Startup Course Tool 124

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84