SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2019

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Los Angeles Chapter has teamed up with the Orange County, Inland Empire, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Bay Area Chapters to bring you another great AppSec California. Tuesday, January 22, 2019 -- AppSec California 2019.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Reactful , a developer of artificial intelligence and machine learning software for website personalization, and 6sense , a devleoper of "account based orchestration" software for marketers, said they are in a new technology partnership. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

Artificial Inteligence 113

Artificial Inteligence Technology Santa Barbara Web 113

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JANUARY 5, 2018

Santa Barbara-based InTouch Health , which provides telehealth services, said on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire TruClinic , a web-based telemedicine provider based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Financial details of the transaction were not announced.

Santa Barbara 113

Santa Barbara Web Services Marketing 113

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JUNE 10, 2013

In the latest services-meets-smartphone service to launch in the Los Angeles area, a new startup, Naki Laundry , said today that it has launched its service in Santa Monica, letting the tech set use their smartphone or the web to get their laundry cleaned.

Santa Monica 268

Santa Monica Marina Del Rey Services Santa Barbara 268

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MAY 14, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Curtail , a new cybersecurity startup which recently landed $3.25M in funding, said this morning that it has named two VPs. According to the startup, Deborah Scanlon will serve as vice president of strategic sales, and Nigel Quinnin will take on the role of vice president of development at the company.

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Funding Chief Technology Officer Santa Barbara Seed Funding 133

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Santa Barbara-based real estate management software developer Yardi reports a customer win in Vancouver, British Columbia, saying that it has signed up Wesgroup Properties to its web-based property management and accounting platform. The financial impact of the win was not announced.

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Customer Custom Santa Barbara Software Development 100

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online said Wednesday that it has rolled out a new software product that the firm is aiming at remote web support. The firm said the new web support service will cost $9.95 The firm said the new web support service will cost $9.95

Web 100

Web Product Santa Barbara Technical Support 100

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APRIL 23, 2019

Santa Barbara-based Impact , which develops software used by brands to manage partnership and affiliate programs, has launched a new product to help those companies with managing mobile linking. Impact says it powers partnerships for such brands as Cabela's, Fanatics, Getty Images, Lenovo, Levi's, Techstyle and Ticketmaster.

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Mobile Ticketmaster Santa Barbara Equity 113

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MARCH 11, 2010

Long time Make It Work customer and Santa Barbara resident Rob Lowe joined Twitter today. Congrats on the new show Rob and welcome to the Social Web. Tags: Eric Greenspan Make It Work Santa Barbara amy poehler aplusk ashton ellen nbc parks and recreation rob lowe theEllenShow Twitter. Rob Lowe's first tweet.

Santa Barbara 194

Santa Barbara Guide Web Customer 194

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MARCH 28, 2013

Jonathan Siegel , who co-founded Santa Barbara-based startups RightScale, RightCart, and RightSignature, has scored an exit today, and has sold Exceptional Cloud Services , his latest cloud software startup, to cloud hosting provider RackSpace. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced by the companies. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Software Development Web Acquisition 147

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JUNE 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud computing firm backed by Tenaya Capital, DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and Presidio Ventures, said Tuesdya that it has launched a new product called RightScale myCloud.

Cloud Computing 176

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Software Framework 176

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

A new article this morning from ReadWriteWeb has identified Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm Eucalyptus has one of the open source software companies most likely to become the next, $1 billion company (in annual revenues).

Cloud Computing 147

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Web Software 147

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JUNE 28, 2012

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the comparison site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, has started making its various comparison charts embeddable in other websites, the firm said today. The firm is making it easy for web publishers to create their own, embeddable comparison charts, for embedding into a web page.

Santa Barbara 133

Santa Barbara Web Sites Customer 133

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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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Tool Santa Barbara Startup Web 100

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JULY 20, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparison engine site run by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor, has raised another $4M in funding, the firm said today. FindTheBest offers up a web site which compares different products, services, and other items, via lists which can be sorted and filtered.

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Santa Barbara Web Sites Funding 157

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MARCH 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based HG Data Company announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, for its cloud-based, business intelligence database service. HG Data is led by Craig Harris, and develops technology to gather business intelligence data from both the Web as well as offline source.

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Santa Barbara Web Funding Marketing 174

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MAY 9, 2012

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest , the online comparisons site headed by former DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Conner, has inked another distribution deal, this time with ad network and widget provider Lijit. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Blogging Sites Web 197

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software developer Eucalyptus Systems is deploying its software to India, the firm said this week, via a new partnership with distributor Ingram Micro.

Cloud Computing 133

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Education Software Development 133

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APRIL 30, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Local Market Launch , a new startup founded by former ValueClick founder Brian Coryat, said Tuesday that it has raised $1.5M Coryat founded ValueClick and took it public in 2000; before ValueClick, he had founded online directory firm AAA Internet Promotions, and search engine optimization company Web-Ignite.

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Search Engine Optimization Marketing Santa Barbara Seed Funding 178

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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. Amazon is tapping Eucalyptus to make it easier for enterprise customers to migrate their web applications between Amazon and their own IT environments.

Cloud Computing 150

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Web Tool 150

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MAY 5, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the online comparison site headed by DoubleClick founder Kevin O'Connor , has turned to a Google and DoubleClick vet to serve as President. Yaghoubi was also an executive serving under O'Connor at DoubleClick, where he was Vice President of Global Media. READ MORE>>.

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Google Santa Barbara Web Design Commerce 199

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MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , the e-commerce and payment processing software firm headed by Dan Engel, said this week that it has launched a new online subscription management and payment service called SaaSy. Engel said that the service is aimed at SaaS and Web 2.0

Web 2.0 174

Web 2.0 Services Santa Barbara Idealab 174

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Systems said today that it has launched a new, Android version of its GoToMeeting online meeting software. Citrix GoToMeeting allows users to set up online web conferences. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Barbara Conference Web Software 153

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JULY 19, 2011

RPost sued Santa Barbara-based RightSignature and fellow electronic signature firm DocuSign in June over the same patents. News of the lawsuit follows the announcement by Adobe yesterday that it had acquired EchoSign, a Palo Alto developer of web-based, electronic signature software. READ MORE>>.

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Patents Santa Barbara News Web 164

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APRIL 19, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , a developer of pay-per-call technology headed by Jason Spievak, is powering a new performance marketing firm called OfferMobi. affiliate network focused exclusively on the mobile web, based on RingRevenue's call tracking technology. The company said that it will operate a U.S. READ MORE>>.

Santa Barbara 165

Santa Barbara Mobile Advertising Web 165

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APRIL 19, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the cloud management software developer backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures, and PHP developer Zend Technologies , said today that they have launched a jointly developed solution for deploying and managing PHP applications.

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PHP Platform Santa Barbara Software Development 140

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JULY 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of private cloud management software, said this morning that it has raised $20M in new funding. The firm's software is used to manage the deployment of cloud computing systems, and works with Amazon Web Services. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $25.5M.

Cloud Computing 154

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Software Web 154

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online , which develops the GoToMeeting and GoToWebinar online web conferencing products, announced this morning that it has added toll free audio to those services. The firm previously offered either voice-over-IP audio or toll-based call numbers for the web conferencing options.

Santa Barbara 133

Santa Barbara IP Web Pricing 133

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JANUARY 22, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Rightsignature , a developer of online, electronic signature software-as-a-service, reported Friday that the firm has signed on a healthcare staffing technology firm as a customer. Financial impact of the new customer was not disclosed. Financial impact of the new customer was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Technology Santa Barbara SaaS Web 154

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, said Wednesday that it has rolled out its first commercial offering, focused on enterprise customers.

Cloud Computing 124

Cloud Computing Santa Barbara EC2 Marketing 124

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 dot-com bonanza. just to name a few!

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

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FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Security software vendor Symantec said this week that it has selected three students for a fellowship program, including one UC Santa Barbara graduate student. Cova's area of research focuses on analyzing malicious Web code targeting web browsers.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RightScale disclosed today that the firm has linked with WaveMaker Software, a developer of a framework for deploying web applications. RightScale, which is venture backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital, develops cloud computing software used to manage and deploy servers.

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Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Framework SaaS 133

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , a developer of cloud computing software, has linked with a London developer of enterprise content management software, Alfresco Software, the two said this week. RightScale develops software used to deploy software in Amazon Web Services and other cloud computing environments. READ MORE>>.

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Content Cloud Computing Santa Barbara Software 133

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Cogi , a startup which allows people to capture and transcribe conference calls and conversations, announced today that it has released a new, iPhone application. The firm said the new app is now available on the Apple App store.

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Santa Barbara Conference Web Mobile 140

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APRIL 15, 2010

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the venture-backed developer of cloud computing management software backed by Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, said yesterday that it has launched a new product specifically focused on grid processing. Pricing on the new product was not announced.

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S3 EC2 Product Cloud Computing 140

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Citrix Online , the firm behind the popular GoToMeeting software, said today that it has acquired Paglo Labs , a developer of IT search and management tools, and launched its own IT management platform called GoToManage. Financial terms of the acquisition, which occurred earlier this year, was not disclosed.

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Tool Santa Barbara Acquisition Platform 140