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Theta Lake Takes $12.7M For Security, Compliance Software

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Theta Lake , a developer of security and compliance software which connects with Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams, RingCentral, Zoom and other collaboration platforms, has raised $12.7M in a Series A funding. As part of the funding, Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed joins the company's board. READ MORE>>.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

How our VC Firms Like Ours Organizing to Meet the Challenges? We try to cap our A-funds at around $300 million so we retain the discipline to invest early and small while building our Growth Platform separately to do late stage deals (we now have > $300 million in Growth AUM). That never would have happened 10 years ago.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

The thing that fuels this success is the amazing organizations and people from around the world who align and support the mission to build businesses. These organizations work tirelessly in guiding and supporting startup teams to success, regardless of their stage of business, as well as continue to encourage innovation across the planet.

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The Life This Wearable Saves Might Be Yours

InfoChachkie

A Santa Barbara based company, Milo Sensors, is tackling this problem via a wearable that constantly alerts your smartphone of your blood alcohol level. We started Milo Sensors over two years ago through the UC Santa Barbara New Venture Competition. I love origin stories. What was the company’s genesis?

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Entrepreneur Hack: This Remote Team Of 12 Generated $100M

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Two Virtual Organizations That Worked. Dan is now CEO of Mobile1st , makers of Mobilizer, the mobile customer experience optimization platform. Dan shared his entrepreneurial insights with my UC Santa Barbara students, including the manner in which he built a virtual organization.

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

socalTECH

Parenting has always required a village of support, and we consider our platform to be that village. My co-founder Kasey� and I started a boutique agency at the end of our time in college, which was in Santa Barbara. Both of us went to UC Santa Barbara, and were working as nannies there.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

socalTECH

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: Wildfire has developed a platform for monetizing social messaging. One of the things I like about this business, is it doesn't require a big organization. Wildlink is backed by Mucker Capital.

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