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FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Redfin , a tech-centric real estate brokerage firm based out of Seattle, said late last week that it has expanded into Santa Barbara and parts of Ventura County, bringing its website and mobile app into the Santa Barbara and surrounding areas. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

Add another, high dollar exit for a young startup in Santa Barbara, adding to the region's growing list of successful technology exits: Aurrion. According to a 10-Q, quarterly filing from acquirer Juniper Networks on Thursday, it paid $165M for Goleta-based Aurrion, a fabless, wafer scale silicon photonic technology provider.

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OCTOBER 25, 2011

Santa Barbara-based CALIENT Technologies , a developer of photonic switching equipment, said this morning that it has raised $19.4M CALIENT Technologies is headed by Atiq Raza, and develops modular photonic switching systems. in a round of venture financing. The round came from both new and existing investors.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Santa Barbara-based D2 Technologies , a developer of embedded IP communications products, said today that it has enhanced its products to support multiple, Android device types. Tags: technologies voip software embedded android. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Superconductor Technologies , the developer of superconducting materials which was, until recently, located in Santa Barbara, said earlier this week that it has spun off a subsidiary working on its Reconfigurable Resonance (RcR) technology. is looking to find financing before actively developing its technology.

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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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DECEMBER 12, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Superconductor Technologies , which was founded in 1987 in Santa Barbara and develops high temperature superconducting materials, is moving its headquarters out of the state, to Texas. The firm said it is taking advantage of that facility and its already-built clean room facilities.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Earlier this week, Deloitte released its latest list of the top 500 growing technology companies, in its 2012 Technology Fast 500. The full list follows: 13 EdgeCast Networks 21406% Santa Monica Alex Kazerani 15 Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 46 Local Splash 3034% Santa Ana Steve Yeich 60 Lpath, Inc. Gorman, Ph.D.

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APRIL 21, 2014

Santa Barbara-based whole home music system developer Sonos said late last week that it has made a big change to the way its products work, removing the need to connect one of its components to a user''s wireless router. sonos wireless technology wifi bridge music streaming whoel home' READ MORE>>.

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JULY 12, 2010

A group of businesses and local organizations in Goleta, California, north of Santa Barbara, are looking to rally more businesses to join in their effort to spur new, direct flight support to San Jose, California, after a loss of the service in February.

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JULY 24, 2013

Santa Barbara-based CALIENT Technologies said this morning that it has raised $27M in a round of venture funding, from both new and existing investors. VeriSign, CoWare (acquired by Synopsys), enStage, iPrint Technologies (acquired by American TonerServ Corp.), Names of those investors were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. This contribution is from John Greathouse , a longtime venture capitalist and also a professor at UC Santa Barbara, who was instrumental in Computer Motion's initial public offering and the sale of GoToMeeting to Citrix.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work , the provider of in-home and on-site technical support and services headed by Eric Greenspan, said today that it has inked a deal to offer up its services for sale at Costco Wholesale Corporation locations in Southern California. The rollout will begin in Q4 of the year.

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APRIL 29, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the developer of pay-per-call technology for the affiliate marketing industry, told its customers Friday that it has moved into a new space on East Figueroa Street in Santa Barbara. The firm said the move comes as it needed to accommodate new team members.

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JUNE 10, 2013

Naki Laundry''s service includes both an iPhone app as well as an Android app, and launched a pilot in Santa Barbara 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). The company was founded by Shai Kedem.

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JANUARY 3, 2012

Santa Barbara-based Channel Technologies Group , a manufacturer and supplier of piezo-electric ceramics, transducers along with systems and services, has been acquired by private equity firm Blue Wolf Capital Partners. Channel Technologies Group has approximately 250 employees. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Innovative Micro Technology has added a new Vice President of Worldwide Sales, according to the company. innovative micro technology mems imtmems executive foundry semiconductor' READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Channel Technologies Group , a manufacturer of piezoelectric ceramics, transducers, and other related products, said Friday that it has acquired H.C. Channel Technologies Group acquired H.C. channel technologies group materials merger acquisition piezoelectronic electronics ultrasound'

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OCTOBER 30, 2018

Santa Barbara-based MEMs technology developer Innovative Micro Technology (IMT) said early this morning that it has received a majority equity financing from Cerium Technology. Cerium Technology is an investment firm focused on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) market. IMT is currently led by CEO Craig Ensley.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Santa Barbara-based CALIENT Technologies , which provides optical circuit switching technology, said today that it has linked up with American Networking Solutions to offer up a cyber-security product. calient technologies security cybersecurity optical switching hardware' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Santa Barbara-based optical circuit switching technology devleoper CALIENT Technologies said today that it has linked up with a 10-university research organization, to expand the use of optical circuit switching in software defined data center and metro networks. READ MORE>>.

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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. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Organic Academia.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Channel Technologies Group , which manufacturers sonar and navigation systems, piezoelectric ceramics, transducers, and other products used in the defense and other industries, said this morningthat ith as acquired Materials Systems Inc. , Materials Systems is based in Littleton, Mass., READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2012

The annual ranking of the fastest growing companies by Deloitte , the 2012 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, was released today, showing a healthy list of Southern California companies in growth mode. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Santa Barbara-based Innovative MIcro Technology , which develops micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), says it is in a deal to expand in China.

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MARCH 19, 2010

According to DEMO, Thousand Oaks-based Invested.In , Santa Barbara-based Phone Halo , San Diego-based Tastr , and Los Angeles-based Immitter will all be presenting at the technology launch conference. DEMO has traditionally been a major launch event for startups and new technology products.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

The Los Angeles winners of the Deloitte Fast 500 ranking of fastest growing companies was announced last night at an event at Santa Monica's Shutters on the Beach, with 26 companies recognized in the overall 2011 Technology Fast 500, and three "Technology Rising Stars" recognized in the Los Angeles area.

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APRIL 23, 2010

Santa Barbara-based Make It Work said today that it has signed a national syndication agreement with Envision Radio Networks , which will make the firm's technology radio show available to radio stations nationwide. Both shows are hosted by Make It Work co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Jeremy Anticouni.

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MAY 14, 2012

The UC Santa Barbara has received a big boost to the firm's technology programs with a $50M gift from the Chairman of Oracle and his wife, Jeff and Judy Henley. Jeff Henley, who is a UCSB graduate, is currently Chairman of the Board of Oracle, and served as Chief Financial Officer of the company from 1991 to 2004.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Santa Barbara-based C-Zero, a startup developing natural gas decarbonization technology--based on research out of UCSB--has raised $11.5M The company said the funding will go towards accelerating its first commercial-scale deployment of its technology. The company said it is actively hiring in Santa Barbara.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Santa Barbara-based CALIENT Technologies said Friday that it has named Jag Setler as the company''s Chief Operating Officer. CALIENT Technologies develops optical circuit switching technology. CALIENT''s optical switching technology is based on a semiconductor process for manufacturing MEMS mirrors.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

Santa Barbara-based optical switching technology developer Calient Technologies said this morning that it has named Erik Leonard as its Senior Vice President of Sales. He also has served at Lineage Power, on2 Technologies, Narus, Maple Optical Systems, Cisco Systems, GTE Internetworking, and AT&T Data networks.

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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. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms.

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JUNE 26, 2017

Santa Barbara- 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>>.

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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>>.

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Artificial Inteligence Technology Santa Barbara Web 113

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MARCH 20, 2017

Santa Barbara-based optical switching equipment maker CALIENT Technologies has launched a new, optical switching product into the market, called the CALIENT S320 Optical Circuit Switch. CALIENT said it has already begun customer trials of the product with government and commercial data center operators.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2012

NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. has long been home to both technology and fashion--but, based on its trajectory, looks to be one of the fastest growing. across its many businesses, and has a surprising number of technology related jobs. Rubicon Project.

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