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JANUARY 26, 2016

Amid hand wringing about an IPO slowdown in 2015, there's one shining region which had a banner IPO and acquisition year last year: Santa Barbara. The city and surrounding region, which has been a long time technology hub, had a huge IPO and exit year, according to an analysis conducted by socaltech. The biggest exit was the $1.5

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MAY 29, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Lastline , a developer of malware defense software for business, said today that it has debuted a new product. Lastline said its Previct analyst software is a malware analysis system, which provides threat analysis and forensic teams with visibility into malicious components. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2013

Santa Barbara-based apartment leasing software suite developer Yardi has expanded its software to handle social media marketing, according to the firm. Yardi''s software is used for real estate investment management and property management, handling operations, accounting, and other aspects for real estate mannagement.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Santa Barbara-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.

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DECEMBER 8, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Sonos has launched an updated to its software, saying last week that it has rolled out Sonos 5.2, sonos software music streaming update' which adds new service like Deezer Elite and SoundCloud, new playlist tools, and more. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Santa Barbara-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. shiphawk marketpace shipping logistics software' READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Sonos , the developer of the Sonos wireless, multi-room music systems, said Wednesday that it has released its Apple iPad application. The Sonos iPod version of the software had already been available and running on the iPad, but did not take advantage of the iPad's larger screen and capabilities.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Raad Mobrem , Lettuce (Los Angeles, software).

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Invoca -- better known here by its prior name, RingRevenue -- said this morning that it has raised $20M in a Series C financing round. Invoca provides call marketing software used for inbound sales call management and analytics. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi said today that it has launched a new product, which uses machine learning for prescriptive analytics.

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Yardi reported a customer win this week, with multifamily property development company Pennrose Management. Yardi said Pennrose is using its software to handle HUD compliance, online leasing, and check scanning, among other functions. yardi property development multifamily software realestate real estate'

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Eucalpytus , the developer of open source software for managing private and hybrid clouds, has been acquired by HP , HP said Thursday afternoon. exit software packard hewlett acquisition merger cloud hybrid private eucalpytus' The company had raised at least $55.5M in funding. READ MORE>>.

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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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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The highest ranking firms on the overall Technology Fast 500 from the area were Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , a developer of software e-commerce tools headed by Dan Engel , which was ranked at number 13 nationally with 17,468% revenue growth from 2006 to 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Santa Barbara-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".

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AUGUST 31, 2021

Santa Barbara-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.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software developer RightScale has expanded into Australia, the firm said last week. RightScale is a provider of software used to manage the configuration, monitoring, and other aspects of both private and public cloud computing.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

Santa Barbara-based AnsibleWorks announced today that it has raised $6M in a Series A round, to go towards the company''s open source, IT automation tools. AnsibleWorks was founded by Michael DeHaan, and develops software used for automating IT operations. ansibleworks automation software tools venture capital open source'

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Santa Barbara-based real estate management software developer Yardi has acquired WUN Systems , the developer of technology used to manage coworking and shared workspaces, the company said late Wednesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. WUN Systems' CEO was Dale Hersowitz.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

OpenX is profitable, and its ad serving software dominant among online publishers. positions on its site, ranging from software, sales, marketing, to finance. range of software products, and which has offices in Calabasas and Santa Barbara. Deploying software in the cloud? RightScale.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Among the highest ranked in the annual program was OpenX Software , based in Pasadena, which had a 44,075% five year growth rate, which was ranked at number 5 in the nation, based on its fiscal revenue growth rate from 2008 to 2012.

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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 company said it offers up access to secondhand products through its own browser extension software. Beni is led by CEO Sarah Pinner, and was co-founded by CTO Celine Mol.

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JULY 13, 2015

Santa Barbara-based Yardi , the developer of real estate investment management and property management software, has launched a new product, aimed at the military housing market. Pricing on the new product was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Santa Barbara-based real estate management software developer Yardi Systems has acquired a German company, iMS Immobilien Management Systeme GmbH , a developer of commercial property management software, the companies said very late last night. Financial terms ofthe acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 8, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Givezooks , a developer of social fundraising software for nonprofits, told its users today that it has launched a new way to allow nonprofits to offer up tickets or sponsorships of their events from Facebook, as well as from their website. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Santa Barbara-based real estate and property management software developer Yardi said MOnday that it has updated its mobile software, Yardi Maintenance Mobile. The firm's app, which runs on Android, Apple iOS, and BlackBerry, allows maintenance workers to create, update, and close work orders in Yardi's Voyager software.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Santa Barbara-based cloud deployment software developer RightScale said Thursday that it has added three new customers, bringing its total number of software-as-a-service providers to more than 100. Impact of hte various deals was not disclosed. RightScale's products work in public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi said this morning that it has released a new software product, called RentCafe Senior Living. Pricing on the new software was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

If you''re a business with a big database of email contacts, Santa Barbara-based Service Objects has a new product for you. Pricing on the new software was not announced. Service Objects claims that its algorithms and software reduce bounce rates on emails by 90 percent. Service Objects is led by Geoff Grow. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Santa Barbara-based venture investor Rincon Venture Partners is one of the investors in San Francisco-based Rainforest QA , which recently announced a $12M, Series A funding. Rainforest QA develops tools to help automate software quality assurance (SQA) tasks.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Barbara-based cloud computing software developer Eucalyptus said Monday that it has named Greg DeKoenigsberg as Vice President of Commuinty.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

Lastline , a developer of cybersecurity software for malware defense, which has its research and development headquarters in Goleta, has raised $10M more in funding. Santa Barbara computer science researchers. lastline venture capital malware protection ucsb university cybersecurity software' READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 16, 2018

Santa Barbara-based Green Hills Software , which develops embedded, real time operating systems software, says this morning that it is expanding in Japan. According to Green Hills, it has opened up a new subsidiary, Green Hills Software G.K.,

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Santa Barbara-based LogicMonitor , which develops software for IT infrastructure monitoring, said yesterday that it has released a new, free tool to help debug and monitor Java software. logicmonitor java operations monitoring software free management devops' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi announced this week that it has extended Yardi Marketplace, its online purchasing software for maintenance, repair, and operating (MRO) supplies, to Canada.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , which develops call marketing automation technology, said Wednesday that it has raised $3.25M in a funding round. RingCon said the new funding will go towards aggressively expanding sales, marketing, and software development. The round was led by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners.

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DECEMBER 17, 2014

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , which operates a cloud-based, e-commerce merchandising and fulfillment service aimed at software and SaaS companies, said it has joined a new group called the ServiceSource Recurring Revenue Alliance. fastspring recurring revenue servicesource software payment ecommerce' READ MORE>>.

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