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In what could help SantaBarbara further increase its influence in the high tech world, Surf Air , the subscription-membership based, all-you-can-fly airline headed by Wade Eyerly, said today that it has added SantaBarbara to its daily schedule. Surf Air launched its service between Burbank and San Francisco in June.
A new study released earlier this month has ranked the SantaBarbara-Santa Maria-Goleta metropolitan area, as well as the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metropolitan area among the top ten markets for venture capital activity. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana ranked further down on the list, at number 16, at $13.1M
Amazon is in a major expansion in SantaBarbara, with plans to hire as many as 300 people in a new, three story downtown location, all working as part of the Amazon Alexa team.
In a major, patent lawsuit, the University of California, SantaBarbara has sued the five biggest retailers of filament "Edison-style" LED lighting, saying all of those bulbs violate patents held by UC SantaBarbara. UC SantaBarbara says it is being represented by Nixon Peabody LLP. READ MORE>>.
San Francisco-based real estate startup Pacaso, which was founded by former Zillow executives Austin Allison and Spencer Rascoff, said this week that it is expanding its platform to SantaBarbara. The startup helps people co-own and buy luxury second homes. Rascoff is based in Los Angeles.
earthquake which occurred in SantaBarbara in 1925. That quake destroyed most of downtown SantaBarbara, and severely damaged the Mission SantaBarbara. Alerts were sent for a M6.8 in California. This was an error. More information to come. USGS (@USGS) June 22, 2017.
which might rattle windows in SantaBarbara, Ventura County, and San Luis Obispo counties, according to officials at Vandenberg Air Force Base. SpaceX is planning a launch this morning at 7:17 a.m., Image: The Falcon 9 at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Tuesday. READ MORE>>.
The startup--which currently offers services in Santa Monica, SantaBarbara, and a number of other locations, also said it plans to expand services shortly to Brentwood, Westwood, Beverly Hills and West LA. The startup is based in SantaBarbara. READ MORE>>.
SantaBarbara-based apartment leasing software suite developer Yardi has expanded its software to handle social media marketing, according to the firm. Yardi said it has expanded its Yardi Marketing Suite to now handle social media marketing, including a Facebook application and links to Twitter.
Instead, grab your surfboard and head to UC SantaBarbara. Although UCSB has room to grow with regard to the total number of VC-backed startups it generates, the SantaBarbara region fares well when its relative size is taken into account. Image Credit: University Of California, SantaBarbara.
SantaBarbara-based ShipHawk , which offers up an online service and marketplace to help businesses and individuals to arrange for packing and shipping of items via shipping carriers, has rolled out a new API to let users tap into real time status of their shipments.
Naki Laundry''s service includes both an iPhone app as well as an Android app, and launched a pilot in SantaBarbara 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).
San Diego's Optimer Pharmaceuticals was number 15, at 18798% growth; Marina Del Rey-based TeleSign ranked 23 at 7534% growth; followed by FastSpring in SantaBarbara, with a 6742% growth rate. Trius Therapeutics was ranked at 42, with 3420% growth for the San Diego firm, and Santa Ana-based Local Splash was at 46, with 3034% growth.
Internet giant Google said late Tuesday that it has tapped a research team from UC SantaBarbara , to help build new, new quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics. Google said that John Martinis and his team at UC SantaBarbara is helping in the hardware initiative with the company.
SantaBarbara-based Eyko, a new startup focused on "data preparation, blending, and streaming", says it has raised $2.5M in a Seed funding round, the company announced this morning. The startup is led by co-founder and CEO Paul Yarwood.
SantaBarbara-based Invoca -- better known here by its prior name, RingRevenue -- said this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series C financing round. The startup, led by Jason Spievak, said the new funding was led by Accel Partners, and also included prior investors Upfront Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners.
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. READ MORE>>.
SantaBarbara- 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>>.
SantaBarbara- and New York-based Lead Edge Capital, a private equity investor which focuses on growth stage investments in technology companies, said on Wednesday that it has raised $150M in a new fund. According to the company, the new fund will be used for public equity investments.
The app--which is free--is the brainchild of David Rabie and Joe Sarafian, two Santa Monica entrepreneurs who were born and raised in Los Angeles. The two were roommates at UC SantaBarbara and hatched the idea because they are diehard sports fans.
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 SantaBarbara. Among the successes driving the creation of the fund was the IPO of Santa Monica-based Kite Pharma, which is a spinout of UCLA.
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Later today I’m presenting at the annual Rincon Ventures Summit in SantaBarbara. Startup Exits: A Primer from msuster. I thought you might like to see an advance copy of what I’m going to cover. I speak privately a lot about getting an exit at a startup.
SantaBarbara-based smart speaker manufacturer Sonos is continuing to battle Google over patents, asking the U.S. International Trade Commission this week to reject a judge's blessing of a software design change to avoid infringing on Sonos patents. Sonos called the Google changes "half-baked" and "trivial".
Goleta-based employees for LogMeIn have pitched in to help in the aftermath of the massive disaster in Montecito, and spent all Saturday cleaning off mud from SantaBarbara County Sheriff's Search and Rescue response vehicles, equipment and even the station itself, according to the Sheriff's Office.
SantaBarbara-based Yardi reported a customer win this week, with multifamily property development company Pennrose Management. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. Yardi said Pennrose is using its software to handle HUD compliance, online leasing, and check scanning, among other functions.
Andrew Fuller (left) and Jonas Bolduan I encourage my UC SantaBarbara entrepreneurial students to err […]. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. The post This Student Talked His Way Into Google Through Courageous Networking appeared first on John Greathouse.
Sonos is based in SantaBarbara. According to Sonos, the move comes as it looks to "balance our need to innovate with our desire to maintain support for older devices". Sonos said it now will only support iOS devices running iOS6 or higher. Apple''s iOS 4 was introduced in 2010; iOS 5 was launched in 2011. READ MORE>>.
SantaBarbara-based Invoca, which develops call tracking and other customer tracking software, says it is on the path towards $100M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by the end of its fiscal year. The company did not disclose its current revenues, but said it has seen "record growth" in the first half of FY21.
SantaBarbara-based Eucalpytus , the developer of open source software for managing private and hybrid clouds, has been acquired by HP , HP said Thursday afternoon. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed, however, reports place the buy at somewhere under $100M.
Disclaimer: Deloitte is a sponsor of socalTECH, and socalTECH sponsored Deloitte''s LA Fast 500 awards last night in Santa Monica, although that does not affect our coverage.
The new experience ties travel via Surf Air flights with special tours and excurions in SantaBarbara, San Francisco, and Lake Tahoe. The menu of options for the new experiences include sunset yacht cruises and winery tours in SantaBarbara; E-bike tours of San Francisco; fly fishing and kayaking in Lake Tahoe; and more to come.
Benedikt Scholz is an exceptional student whom I had the pleasure of instructing when he recently studied at UC SantaBarbara. Before arriving in SantaBarbara, he had already launched his first startup, Rooming , which helps college students manage their living accommodations while studying abroad or interning.
It was a rather hapless soul who was seeking my help networking within SantaBarbara''s startup community. Proactive – Not only had the caller not done any research on me, it was clear he also had not properly canvassed SantaBarbara for potential prospects. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.
Los Angeles-based SpaceX is planning to send yet another rocket into space today, this time from Vandenberg Air Force Base, just north of SantaBarbara, in a launch which should be visible to residents across SantaBarbara County, Ventura County, and parts of Los Angeles County.
SantaBarbara-based Anchore , which is developing security software aimed at the "container" market, has raised $5M in a funding round, the company disclosed this morning. The funding came from local angel Andreas von Blottnitz, along with Doug Carlisle of Menlo Ventures.
SpaceX said over the weekend that it is targeting a November 28th launch of Spaceflight SSO-A: SmallSat Express, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, which is north of SantaBarbara near the town of Lompoc.
Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC SantaBarbara. Kim told the UC SantaBarbara student entrepreneurs that they should never fear being fired from their jobs. Kim shocked some of the students by telling them that she hopes they fail. Getting Fired.
range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and SantaBarbara. RightScale is one of a number of enterprise software and open source companies to emerge in the area, and is based in SantaBarbara. The firm--which was started in the quiet and.
SantaBarbara-based venture capital investment firm Rincon Ventures is part of a new funding round for quality assurance software developer Rainforest QA.
SantaBarbara-based HG Data said this morning that it has rolled out a new, enhanced app on the Salesforce AppExchange. The company's software is used by sales teams to sort, filter, and target B2B customers. HGData is venture backed by Updata Partners and Rincon Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.
SantaBarbara-based Yardi , which develops property management and accounting software for the real estate market, reported another customer win this morning, with commercial property owner Blatteis & Schnur. Yardi did not detail the financial impact of the win.
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