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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Here, we feature the contribution of John Greathouse , an investor with Rincon Venture Partners and Professor Of Practice at UC Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Sales. What was the big news for your company this year? What are you looking forward to most in 2018?

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 14, 2018

Santa Barbara-based energy storage startup Ice Energy has an almost-too-good-to-pass-up offer for businesses in Orange County, as part of a recent energy storage contract the company won with Southern California Edison (SCE): a free, HVAC replacement and energy storage system. The company recently won a 25.6

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in Santa Barbara. The median VC exit price for deals is $70 million (FLAG Capital via Bryce.VC). I’m assuming that’s for positive outcome deals. Startup Exits: A Primer from msuster. ” That’s b t.

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MAY 16, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Active Life Scientific , a developer of life sciences research and diagnostics tools, said this morning that it has raised $500K in a Series A follow on investment. The Tech Coast Angel''s Central Coast Network, led by Mike Panesis, led the deal. The funding came from members of the Tech Coast Angels.

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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. Image Credit: University Of California, Santa Barbara.

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MARCH 22, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus Systems , the developer of cloud software deployment tools, has inked a major deal today, with Amazon.com. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The firm is being run by Marten Mickos, who had previously served as CEO of MySQL AB. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

In May, the Center co-hosted the first New Venture Ventura County, a celebration of student entrepreneurs from grade school to grad school. What I really need is a gadget for dealing with all of my gadgets. He also is President of Tech Coast Angels' Central Coast Network and a founding member of Santa Barbara Angel Alliance.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. Whereas we had four partners investing Fund IV we now have six partners actively looking at deals for Fund V.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the in-home, information technology support firm headed by Eric David Greenspan, has shut down. Make It Work was backed by Frontera Capital, Somera Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Make It Work was backed by Frontera Capital, Somera Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Southern California's venture capital totals dropped significantly in Q3 of 2016, to a mere $663.2M According to the report, there were 71 deals worth a total of $663.2M Another $28.68M was invested in Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc, plus Ventura. in funding in Q3, down from the much larger, $2.5

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the call tracking firm headed by former Callwave CFO Jason Spievak, has inked a deal with online marketing and affiliate firm LinkTrust, the two said today. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Linktrust operates an online service for affiliate tracking and lead management.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , which develops wireless music systems for the home, said late Thursday that it has tied its systems with social music service Rdio. Rdio is an online, social msuic service started by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the founders of Skype, and is venture backed by Atomico.

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OCTOBER 12, 2010

Kamran Pourzanjani , the former CEO and founder of PriceGrabber.com, and Omid Rahmat , the former CEO of Tom's Hardware, have acquired Portland- and Santa Barbara-based ELC Technologies , the development firm founded by Jonathan Siegel. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2017

A look at the companies who are private, backed by venture capital, and are valued at more than $1 billion across Southern California -- from San Diego to Los Angeles to Santa Barbara -- is an interesting contrast in the wide range of types of technology companies across the region. The company's founders are veterans of SpaceX.

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MAY 24, 2021

Since funds were driven by extreme successes in their portfolios where just one deal could return 5x the entire fund while 95% of the fund may have done well but not amazing, not missing out on deals was critical. Entrada Ventures? —?that It literally drove FOMO.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Venture capital investments in Southern California in Q3 totaled to $464.18M, according to the latest numbers released by the PricewaterhouseCoopers/NVCA Money Tree Report this evening, based on data from Thomson Reuters. billion invested in 780 venture capital deals for Q3. Nationwide, there was $4.8 in investments. in funding.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology firm headed by Jason Spievak, has signed on a new, cost-per-auction affiliate network, the firm said this week. Financial details of the deal between the firms was not disclosed. Spievak is the former CFO of Callwave. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , which develops open source, cloud computing management software, has linked with a developer of scaling software for the Java programming language, Terracotta, the firms said Tuesday. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Randy Churchill and his team at PricewaterhouseCoopers meticulously prepare a quarterly report detailing the venture landscape, called Shaking The Money Tree. The Three Enthralling Factors Of Venture Funding. I do not advocate that you perform unnatural acts in an attempt to make your company more advantageous to venture funding.

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JUNE 23, 2009

Santa Barbara-baesd RightScale , a developer of cloud computing management software, and SpringSource, a provider of web application performance and monitoring software, said this morning that SpringSource's software is now available through RightScale. RightScale is venture backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital.

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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. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed. Financial impact of the deal was not disclosed.

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APRIL 27, 2013

Just ask the people of Portland, Seattle, Boulder, Iowa, Princeton, Dallas or countless other cities that don’t have enough venture capital. If you don’t live in a major VC zone, I have some tips for how to make it easier to raise Venture Capital. So here’s the deal. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.” ” The former are deals where everybody around the table thinks the deal sounds sensible. Far from it. 6SensorLabs.

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JULY 28, 2015

At the same time, we made it clear that we were flattered and happy to further explore if a reasonable deal could be crafted. We were more concerned with ensuring a cultural fit with our acquirer, rather than squeezing the last dollar out of the deal. Our BATNA to a sale was to accept funding from venture capitalists.

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JULY 24, 2012

Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). ” I met with him several times and had tried to bring him onto deals I was working on but his practice wasn’t yet geared up to handle the earliest-stage deals. If you’re not getting great deals early – you may never see them.”

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

As noted in Success, Santa Barbara Style , my definition of success includes living where you want to live and making money doing what you love. For many entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara, achieving such success would be much more difficult if it weren’t for the emergence of an innovative airline – Surf Air.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. I think there's plenty of money and opportunities for a Series A.

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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. My response is a math problem: (Passion + Solvable) * Sufficient Reward = Great Venture.

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JULY 13, 2009

This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. What's your thoughts on the local venture market? We're taking it seriously.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

venture funding and business deals, technology develops, and more from Santa Barbara. It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. Venture Partners , Rustic Canyon Partners , Binary Pulse Technology.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

However, all of my successful partnerships shared the following characteristics: Common History - Just as you wouldn''t marry someone you just met in a bar, you shouldn''t start a venture with someone you don''t know well. Ensure that such solidarity remains in place, especially as your venture shifts focus to accommodate evolving markets.

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MARCH 9, 2016

I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. As Guy points out, most ventures morph over time to accommodate market realities. As such, the direction you initially point your venture will likely change over time.

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MARCH 7, 2016

I encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to launch mini-ventures while in school so they will begin to see the opportunities that surround them. As Guy points out, most ventures morph over time to accommodate market realities. As such, the direction you initially point your venture will likely change over time.

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APRIL 27, 2009

Seed stage, venture capital fund DFJ Frontier (www.dfjfrontier.com) announced this morning that it has raised its second fund, worth $55M. We've opened an office in Los Angeles, and continue to maintain one in Santa Barbara. That helps us in a couple of different ways, and to do the right deal. Congrats on the new fund.

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JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. We put out an RFQ to all sorts of venture capital firms in California, in order to be the fiscal steward of that money. The purpose was to deliver high value jobs.

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