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MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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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.

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JUNE 30, 2011

This is the final part of a 3-part series on the major changes in the structure of the software & the venture capital industries. Or the Cliff Note’s version: Open Source & Cloud Computing (led by Amazon) drove down tech startup costs by 90%. But … Downsizing Venture Capital.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus Systems , the venture funded startup developing open source, private cloud management software, said Thursday that it has released its first major update of its software. According to the firm, the updated software now includes multi-cluster support, better scaling, and new monitoring capabilities.

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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 billion invested in the region.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a provider of software for managing cloud computing, has tied with GroundWork Open Source , a developer of open source network and systems management software. Tags: eucalyptus software cloud computing groundwork amazon. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software maker Eucalyptus Systems , which is run by Marten Mickos, said Tuesday that it has launched a new version of its products, which includes a number of enterprise deployment features. The Eucalpytus software is used to manage enterprise-class private cloud and hybrid clouds.

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MARCH 19, 2010

Eucalpytus develops open source, cloud software used to manage cloud deployment, and is venture backed by Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. Mickos also serves on the board of another, cloud software firm in Santa Barbara, RightScale, along with Mozilla Messaging and Electrosonic READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Ninja Metrics uses social analytics and cloud computing software to calculate "social value" of users in an online gaming environment, helping companies to predict what their users will be purchasing or doing, and helping them to better monetize their games. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Investment interests: Consumer Internet, eCommerce, enterprise software, cloud computing, financial technology, advertising technology. Core Innovation Capital. Moonshots Capital. Fund size: $250M growth fund Los Angeles Partners: Dana Settle, Mark Terbeek, Dylan Pearce, Paul Bricault, Jon Goldman. Section 32.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software headed by Michael Crandell, has raised $15.6M RightScale's software is used by companies to monitor, deploy, and manage their cloud applications, including both public and private clouds.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Today, we're featuring Marc Averitt , co-founder and Managing Director of Okapi Venture Capital. becomes a reality in 2013 with the consumerization of enterprise software and cloud computing leading the charge. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I think "enterprise 2.0" READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm RightScale announced today that the firm is partnering with a number of other software providers to deliver business intelligence software on its cloud management platform. RightScale is venture backed by Index Ventures and Benchmark Capital.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Wednesday that it has opened up a new office in Beijing, China. Eucalyptus, which is headed by former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, is venture backed by New Enterprise Associates, Benchmark Capital, and BV Capital.

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JUNE 26, 2013

MetaCloud is one of a number of cloud-focused, technology heavy startups to recently gain funding here in Southern California, including cloud montoring software firm ThousandEyes, cloud application delivery firm Numecent, and open storage software developer Inktank. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software firm Eucalyptus has opened up a new, cloud testing lab in the Bay Area, the firm said today. The developer of cloud management and computing software said the new lab will be based at the CoreSite Bay Area data center. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 10, 2012

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing management software, said Tuesday that it has linked with a Korean company to distribute its products in Korea. RightScale said that the Korean Internet Neutral eXchange (KINX) will resell its software for managing public, private, and hybrid clouds.

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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. WaveMaker and RightScale said that the two will integrate their products, allowing users who develop apps on WaveMaker to deploy them through RightScale's Cloud Management Platform.

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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 round was led by New Enterprise Associates, and also included current investors Benchmark Capital and BV Capital. READ MORE>>.

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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. Eucalpytus, which is venture backed by Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates, makes software which helps enterprise customers deploy cloud computing infrastructure.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.

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APRIL 18, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , the cloud computing software developer headed by Marten Mickos , has raised $30M in a Series C round of funding, the firm announced this morning. in capital. Eucalpytus develops cloud deployment software, which is used to create either private cloud or hybrid cloud deployments.

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JULY 10, 2012

I can’t say for sure, but it feels to me like the re-urbanization of technology companies is driven by a broader trend of the tech industry overall – cloud computing. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. And with startups so go VCs.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Manhattan Beach-based Morphlabs , which develops software for managing public and private cloud computing infrastructure, said this week that it has launched a new product called mCloud On-Demand. Morphlabs is one of the newest software firms started by Winston Damarillo, who has previously founded such firms as Gluecode.

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JUNE 11, 2010

Thursday, June 17, 2010 -- SaaS/Software Revenue Workshop. If you are a Software, Cloud-Computing or technology company and want to grow your revenue predictably and profitably, you should attend our 5 hour Revenue Acceleration Workshop.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , the developer of cloud computing software which is backed by Benchmark Capital, BV Capital, and New Enterprise Associates, said Thursday that it has named Ning Wang as its Chief Financial Officer. Wang replaces co-founder Woody Rollins, who becomes Chief Talent Officer.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

San Diego-based venture capital firm Avalon Ventures has led an investment in a cloud computing company, Standing Cloud , based in Boulder, Colorado. According to Standing Cloud, it received a $3M, Series B financing from Avalon, which also included the firm's prior investor, The Foundry Group.

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MAY 10, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RightScale , the developer of cloud computing software, is expanding its space in Santa Barbara, according to a report. RightScale is venture backed by Tenaya Capital , DAG Ventures, Benchmark Capital , Index Ventures , and Presidio Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Santa Monica-based ServiceMesh , a developer of cloud computing management software, announced today that it has raised $15M in a funding round. ServiceMesh provides software to help enterprise business units self-provision cloud infrastructure and enterprise apps. The round came from Ignition Partners.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , which develops open source, cloud management software, said today that it has launched the latest version of its Eucalyptus Enterprise Edition (EE) software with support for Windows virtual machines. Tags: windows enterprise cloud source open systems eucalyptus. READ MORE>>.

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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. Tags: enterprise software computing cloud amazon eucalyptus. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software). John Jersin , Connectifier (Newport Beach, recruiting software). Jason Koch , Telogis (Irvine, fleet tracking software).

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus , the UCSB spinout which is developing cloud computing software, said today that the firm has linked into a number of partners, including AppScale, Canonical, CohesiveRT, RightScale, rPath, and Ylastic. All of those partners are supporting Eucalyptus through their respective software packages.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

The company says its software platform currently works both on Windows and Linux operating systems, utilizing used processing power on those systems to minimize use of cloud computing costs. Tim O'Neal, a former executive at Intuit, is CEO of Kazuhm. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Santa Barbara-based Eucalyptus Systems , a developer of software for managing cloud computing infrastructure, has scored $5.5M The firm said the funding was led by Benchmark Capital, along with participation by BV Capital. in a Series A funding round.

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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. Tags: rightscale grid computing cloud software saas.

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JULY 22, 2009

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing management software firm RightScale is linking its products into IBM DB2, one of the major enterprise database software packages, the firm said today. RightScale devleops products which help in deploying applications across Amazon EC2 and other cloud computing environments.

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