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Aurrion Gets $13.9M DARPA Contract

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Goleta-based Aurrion , a developer of silicon photonics fabrication technology, reported today that it has been awarded $13.9M in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract. Aurrion's technology is aimed at allowing active components such as lasers and amplifiers to be fabricated on silicon wafers.

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SpectraFluidics Lands $1.3M From TSA

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Santa Barbara-based SpectraFluidics , the developer of chemical detection and analysis technology, reported yesterday that it has been awarded a $1.3 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration. The firm said the contract from the U.S.

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Ice Energy Wins Deal In Riverside

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Santa Barbara-based Ice Energy , a developer of energy storage technology, reports that it has scored a win with Riverside Public Utilities. According to Ice Energy, it has signed a five-year contract to provide 5 megawatts of thermal energy storage, using its systems.

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Soraa Gets More ARPA-E Funding

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Soraa , the LED lighting technolgoy developers which was spun out of U.C. Santa Barbara, reported today that it has been awarded several million dollars in funding from the Department of Energy''s Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E). project to develop GaN substrates for use in power switches.

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

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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). Note: I am an investor in TaxJar via Rincon Venture Partners.).

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. It creates a feeder system of local businesses that get their first biz dev deals or sales contracts.

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