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JULY 20, 2015

Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. According to Doug, “ productivity fell dramatically whenever the surf was up.”.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Santa Barbara-based Beni, a startup which lets users find and buy secondhand apparel and accessories, said this morning that it has raised $5M in funding. The new seed funding was led by Bouyant Ventures, and also included Better Ventures,XYZ Venture Capital, Chingona Ventures, and Starting Line Ventures.

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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. I ended up doing that for eight years, when it was bought by Amazon for use in Alexa, which is really cool. Congrats on the new name for your venture capital firm.

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JULY 13, 2017

A new, air travel startup, Blackbird , said today that has launched new service between Santa Monica and Palm Springs, part of a expansion of the startup beyond its Bay Area roots. The company said it is aggregating the existing charter industry to provide the fleet for its services. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Santa Barbara-based Eyko, a new startup focused on "data preparation, blending, and streaming", says it has raised $2.5M The startup is led by co-founder and CEO Paul Yarwood. in a Seed funding round, the company announced this morning.

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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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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.; READ MORE>>'

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC Santa Barbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the Santa Barbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse.

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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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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

EI Solutions, the solar integration startup backed by Pasadena-based Idealab, has scored a win in the City of Santa Barbara. According to Tioga Energy, a renewable energy services provider, and EI Solutions, the two are building and funding a 384 kW DC solar electric system for Santa Barbara. READ MORE>>

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Santa Barbara-based C-Zero, a startup developing natural gas decarbonization technology--based on research out of UCSB--has raised $11.5M The startup is led by CEO Zach Jones. The technology behind the company was initially developed in labs at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

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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. How'd you end up at HG Data?

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Thus, the "best" place for you to start your company is the community you want to live in. The days of entrepreneurs having to move to New York, LA or Silicon Valley to ensure their startup''s success are long over. Santa Barbara Dreaming. ROI - It is markedly less expensive to start a venture outside of the Meccas.

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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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OCTOBER 27, 2012

Friday, November 2, 2012 -- Startup Weekend Santa Babara. Startup Weekend Santa Barbara is a 54 hour event where entrepreneurs, designers, developers come together to share ideas, form teams, build products, and launch startups. Santa Barbara's second Startup Weekend will be held at Citrix Online.

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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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MAY 26, 2020

Goleta-based Apeel Sciencs , a startup developing technology which coats fresh fruit and vegetables with what it calls an "extra peel" to help preserve fruit for longer, has raised a huge, $250M funding round, the company said on Tuesday. The funding was led by GIC.

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JUNE 26, 2017

Santa Barbara- and New York-based clean technology investor NGEN Partners has scored an exit at Choose Energy , a startup which lets consumers comparison shop for and select electric energy providers, according to a report. The report, from Fortune, said the deal was worth less than $100M. READ MORE>>.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Santa Barbara-based Cognixion, a startup which says it is developing a non-invasive, wireless brain-computer interface with augmented reality display--aimed at helping those with communications and physical disabilities--has raised $12M in a funding round. Andreas Forsland is Founder and CEO of the new startup.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Don Charlton’s heroic journey began with him growing up on government assistance and culminated in his founding The Resumator , one of America''s fastest growing startups. You can hear Don tell his story in the following excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. I grew up ridiculously poor. Growing up.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in Santa Barbara. Startup Exits: A Primer from msuster. I speak privately a lot about getting an exit at a startup. We also are going to talk a lot about startups getting exits and ultimately: Companies are bought, not sold.

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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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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events. Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these.

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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

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AUGUST 12, 2013

Naki Laundry , the smartphone driven startup which has been offering up pickup, cleaning, and delivery of laundry, has expanded into San Jose, and is looking to expand to San Francisco next month, according to the company. The startup is based in Santa Barbara. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Sonos has filed for a confidential IPO, according to a report on Wednesday, which says that Sonos is hoping to go public as soon as June. The report , from the Wall Street Journal, says the IPO will value Sonos at between $2.5 billion and $3.0 and Redpoint Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Brian Coryat, Founder and CEO of Local Market Launch and former Founder and CEO of ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK) recently winged his talk at UC Santa Barbara''s Distinguished Lecture Series. He shared a number of witty entrepreneurial insights, including: "Startups are like high school. Both are fun, but mostly in hindsight.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

A new bill is expected to be introduced this week by local Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara), to target incidents of sexual harassment in the venture capital industry. Hanna-Beth Jackson is looking to use Senate Bill 224 to amend the Unrah Act, to clarify that the law applies to women entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Affinity Biosensors , a startup developing benchtop, automated systems for microbiology research, has raised $5.9M Details on the funding have yet to be announced by the startup. in a ongoing funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the company this week. The company was founded in 2006.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Santa Barbara-based WELL Health , a startup which offers up patient communications tools to healthcare providers, payers, and others, has raised $45M more in a SEries C funding round, the company said this week.

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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. The startup--which bills itself a "comparison engine"--is headed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor , an active technology investor and industry notable. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Article first published as Why A Prominent Start-up Executive Wants You to Get Fired and Fail on Technorati. Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. attendees was the importance of focus, especially during a startup’s early days.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I consistently remind my UC Santa Barbara startup students that for most people, money is not a sustaining motivator. They might start a venture with the money as a primary goal, but money alone generally isn''t an adequate catalyst. I am often asked, "John, how do I identify a great startup opportunity?"

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