February 28, 2024

		

Stephen Nellis


| Friday, February 14th, 2014

Meet, greet and click: Firm connects event planners, conference centers

Special Sections, Technology, Tourism

Elite Meetings International is a company that started out aiming to make it easier for corporate planners to find a good luxury hotel but ended up helping those same hotels do more business by creating better booking software.

| Thursday, February 13th, 2014

Inogen IPO raises $70.5M, prices at low end

Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies

Goleta-based Inogen has raised $70.5 million in an initial public offering of 4.4 million shares priced at $16, the bottom of the expected $16 to $18 a share range, according to IPO investment firm Renaissance Capital.

| Friday, February 7th, 2014

Ventura backs out of its brief adventure in venture capital funding

Columns, Technology

The city of Ventura is near the end of its relationship with DFJ Frontier, a venture capital fund associated with Draper Fisher Jurvetson with an outpost in Santa Barbara.

| Friday, February 7th, 2014

REC spinout could expand SLO solar jobs

Central Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

San Luis Obispo can expect to see a slight increase in solar-power industry jobs with a recent deal that split up REC Solar and sold off its residential installation business to a San Francisco firm.

| Friday, February 7th, 2014

Resonant’s $13.8M IPO sets stage for push into iPhones

South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy

Resonant’s planned initial public offering is small at $13.8 million, but there’s a chance that the Santa Barbara-based company’s development deal with a major supplier to Apple’s iPhone and every other mobile handset-maker could become very large, very quickly.

| Friday, February 7th, 2014

Cloud farming : SLO firm brings sensor technology to the fields

Agribusiness, Small Business, Technology, Top Stories

The Tri-Counties may or may not see many rain clouds this year, but farmers around the region will be using cloud computing to manage their irrigation with San Luis Obispo-based Hortau.

| Friday, January 31st, 2014

Inogen IPO is subject to looser SEC rules

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Central Coast, East Ventura County, Law & Goverment, Personal Finance, South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy, Tri-County Public Companies, West Ventura County

If Goleta-based Inogen goes public this year, it will be the first firm in the region to do so under new securities rules that make it easier for small companies to become listed on the major exchanges but also allow them to reveal less information to investors than their larger counterparts.