SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 -- The MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast Presents: Technology Space - The Final Frontier for Growth of Companies in Santa Barbara? Have you ever come up against a wall when trying to find "technology space" in the Santa Barbara region?

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Santa Barbara Enterprise Forum Technology Company 100

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JULY 10, 2018

Santa Monica-based air travel provider Surf Air --which got its start offering up low cost "all you can fly" travel between Silicon Beach and Silicon Valley--has lauched a new offering which hopes to attract its members for weekend getaways. Surf Air said the cost of those experiences start at $1,200 per person.

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Santa Barbara Santa Monica Startup Technology 147

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JULY 13, 2017

According to Blackbird, the startup, regional air service offers up flights starting at $124, and hopes to serve such destination which aren't well served by commercial airlines, such as Santa Monica and Palm Springs. The company said it is aggregating the existing charter industry to provide the fleet for its services.

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Santa Monica Santa Barbara Startup San Diego 165

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Jason is another local Santa Barbara CEO and we had a great chat about Make It Work, Ring Revenue, Affiliate Marketing and life in SB. The focus of this post is Commission Junction, as we are just about to get started with them. I remember when they started in a building I once thought to lease for my 2nd company Push.

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Santa Barbara PPC Blogging Google 106

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Sonos is getting some additional competition from Google's Nest , as Google announced new, whole-home music features to its products. Google said the new features will start rolling out to all Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max and other compatible Assistant-enabled Smart Displays today. READ MORE>>.

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Google Santa Barbara Competition Product 113

Steve Reich

MARCH 23, 2012

I joined a panel with Sam Teller, Managing Director of LaunchpadLA ( www.LaunchpadLA.la ) , Klaus Schauser CEO of Appfolio ( www.appfolio.com ) , and Michael Holliday, founder of the incubator and prominent architect in Santa Barbara, to talk about the pros and cons of the current incubator boom.

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Santa Barbara Incubator Technology Outsource 49

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi has expanded its renter screening service, ScreenWorks Pro, saying this morning that it has started providing access to payroll records from Equifax in the olution.

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Screening Santa Barbara Startup Report 113

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APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. Elizabeth Cholawsky: I never lost my ties to Santa Barbara.

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Santa Barbara High Tech Outsource Development Startup 113

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of user-friendly, whole home speakers, has rolled out its first outdoor speaker, a battery powered speaker called the Sonos Move. Sonos said the new portable speaker, which costs $399, will be available globally starting September 24th.

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Santa Barbara Startup Google Services 113

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AUGUST 1, 2018

As part of the funding, Apeel said it will be growing its team in Santa Barbara, out of a 105,000 square-foot facility in Santa Barbara. Apeel was initially started in 2012 with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The company said the funding will go to meet demand from both U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Demand Funding Product 113

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AUGUST 29, 2017

Santa Barbara-based Sonos appears to be gearing up for a big launch of a "smart speaker", and has started sending out invites to journalists to an October 4th launch event in New York City.

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MAY 29, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Resonant , which is developing radio frequency filters (RF) used for mobile devices, has priced its IPO, saying it is offering up 2,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $6.00 The company is slated to start trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market as RESN today. The IPO raises only $16.2M READ MORE>>.

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Pricing Santa Barbara Startup Mobile 138

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JANUARY 22, 2019

Kevin sold his last company, Santa Barbara-based Graphiq, in July of 2017 to Amazon, but has a long history of successful companies, including founding DoubleClick. Just this past September was a year with Amazon, when I left, and we started investing in September under the new name, ScOp Venture Capital.

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Venture Capital Startup Invest Capital 145

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APRIL 13, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Inlustra , a firm developing Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor materials, announced this morning that the firm has begun delivering its products to customers.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Santa Barbara-based Sonos has rolled out another speaker this morning, aimed at the home theater market, called the PLAYBASE. Sonos said the new speaker cost $699, and will start shipping on April 4th.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Santa Barbara-based whole home music system developer Sonos is boosting its prices in the United Kingdom by 25 percent, due to "a significant change on the US Dollar to GBP exchange rate." the company said over the weekend.

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Pricing Santa Barbara Develop Development 113

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NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Phone Halo has launched a crowd-funded project to develop a Bluetooth-based device to track users' wallets, the company said Tuesday.

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Santa Barbara Hawthorne Funding Networking 153

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The fund would seek to invest in companies started on campus, from University research, and from students. The University of California has ten campuses, of which half of them are in Southern California, including UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, and UC Santa Barbara. Image courtesy Chris Radcliff , via Flickr.

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Venture Capital UCLA Capital UCSD 223

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JUNE 10, 2013

Naki Laundry''s service includes both an iPhone app as well as an Android app, and launched a pilot in Santa Barbara in September. Naki''s new coverage area includes Santa Monica, Venice, and Marina Del Rey, and themonthly subscription service will be priced by-the-bag (starting at $19.99).

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Santa Monica Marina Del Rey Services Santa Barbara 268

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Santa Barbara-based Sonos has walked back plans it had to essentially force its users with older Sonos devices to either "brick" and upgrade those devices, or to be locked out from any further updates of software--even on their newest equipment.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Santa Barbara-based music system maker Sonos said that it is rolling out Apple Music on its system starting today, letting users stream the entire Apple Music catalog through the company's controllers and speakers. Sonos has been testing support for Apple Music since December through a beta program.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

The new flights give non stop access from Carlsbad to San Caros (SQL) in the Bay Area, and Santa Barbara (SBA). Surf Air said it will also start flying from Carlsbad to Hawthorne (HHR) on January 12th. The new Carlsbad location is actually convenient to both San Diego and Orange County. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Orange County Palomar Santa Barbara 147

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

An uncontrolled, raging fire in Ventura County--which started in Santa Paula last night around 6:45pm, and rapidly spread to more than 25,000 acres early on Tuesday morning--is directly impacting the high tech corridor in Ventura County.

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Ventura Technical Review Santa Barbara Incubator 124

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JUNE 15, 2012

UK-based Coull , a developer of technology which lets publishers and advertisers tag video products within videos, has just signed Under Armour, as the firm's acquisition of Santa Barbara-based online media agency RevUpNet starts to pay dividends.

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Santa Barbara Advertising Acquisition Media 133

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 12, 2015

One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: The post Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture appeared first on John Greathouse. You can follow John on Twitter: @johngreathouse. Share and Enjoy.

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MARCH 30, 2012

Soraa , the UC Santa Barbara spinout whic is backed by Khosla Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, and NGEN Partners, said today that it has launched its first, outdoor LED lamp product, which it says patches the performance of a 40W halogon MR16 lamp. READ MORE>>.

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LAMP Santa Barbara Product Design 140

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OCTOBER 18, 2010

Looking to take on comparisons between products, services, and other information, a new startup, FindTheBest.com , has emerged in Santa Barbara. O'Connor--who moved out to Santa Barbara in 2000--founded and was CEO of DoubleClick, which he started in 1995. READ MORE>>.

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Product Santa Barbara Startup Activity 170

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

Santa Barbara-based whole home music system developer Sonos said Tuesday that it has rolled out a new product, the Boost , which helps provide a better wireless network for the company''s music system.

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Networking Santa Barbara Help Product 147

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AUGUST 11, 2015

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , which got its start offering up lists and ways to compare the merits of a myriad of different things (products, colleges, you name it), has rebranded itself as Graphiq , and has refocused on the visual tools behind FindTheBest's original service.

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Tool Santa Barbara Startup Web 100

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APRIL 5, 2012

The startup--headed by Wade Eyerly --is looking to start regular service between Los Angeles, Moterey, Santa Barbara, and Palo Alto to subscribers, who will be able to fly as much as they want between the locations for a monthly subscription. Eyerly--who previously worked for the U.S. Eyerly--who previously worked for the U.S.

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Santa Barbara Startup Netflix Los Angeles 228

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MARCH 11, 2014

Santa Barbara-based wireless speaker maker Sonos said Monday that it will start "forward-publishing" its patent applications, making the text of those patents available to the public far before they normally would be, saying it wants to "accelerate innovation".

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Patents Santa Barbara Product Technology 138

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JUNE 18, 2013

FindTheCompany , a new business research site started by DoubleClick co-founder Kevin O''Connor, launched out of beta today, saying that it has created an online resource to let users check on the reputation of a business before buying products and services, and to learn more about companies such as balance sheets, income statements, and more.

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Research Tool Santa Barbara Resource 170

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Three companies--all started in Southern California--have been picked up for their cloud technology over the last few months, including today''s acquisition of Pasadena-based Metacloud by Cisco Corp.; Based on a trio of recent, cloud technology acquisitions by major, Silicon Valley technology powerhouses, that would be Southern California.

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Southern California Startup Santa Barbara SoCal 145

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JUNE 22, 2015

Santa Barbara-based streaming music system developer Sonos and music service Spotify said last week that the two have rolled out a beta of an upgraded Android app, which brings more of Spotify's features into the Sonos Controller App.

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Santa Barbara Tool Services Develop 100

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Graphiq , the startup led by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, said Thursday that it has inked an agreement with the Associated Press , to increase the amount and variety of interactive content that the AP provides to news subscribers. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Surf Air had initially launched with flights out of Burbank in June, and also has been serving the Santa Barbara market since July. Surf Air said new flights in Hawthorne will start on December 9th, and Palm Springs will start on December 12th.

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Hawthorne Burbank Santa Barbara Southern California 190

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the online products and information comparison site started by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, has made a major upgrade to the site today, shifting the site into a more interactive, visual display.

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Santa Barbara Sites Resource Research 182