Companies Pitch at GEM Demo Day
Six companies presented to investors, colleagues and friends Aug. 9 as the Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet held a demo day for for regional companies. The Goleta Entrepreneurial Magnet held the event for six teams that finished its seven week G2 Summer Accelerator at the Bacara Resort & Spa Aug.n9 Among the teams that presented was Vibe; Read More →
Stellar Biotechnologies revenues up but losses grow
Stellar Biotechnologies’ revenues increased slightly during the third quarter of 2016 but losses widened as the company signed a new partnership with a French company and held an offering for institutional investors, the company said in a quarterly earnings report Aug. 8. Stellar revenues increased slightly from $157,748 during the third quarter of 2015 to Read More →
Goleta’s Sientra lines up new manufacturer for breast implants
Eleven months after manufacturing of its silicone breast implants stopped because it’s Brazilian factory was alleged to have unsafe manufacturing conditions, Sientra announced an agreement with a domestic manufacturer to make its implants Aug. 9. Sientra will use Vesta, a unit of Ohio-based tech conglomerate Lubrizol LifeSciences, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. CEO Jeffrey Read More →
AppFolio second quarter revenues up, net loss down
AppFolio raised its financial outlook for the year as revenues increased sharply and losses narrowed in the second quarter, the company said Aug. 8. AppFolio, a Goleta-based developer of property management software for small- to medium-sized property managers, raised full-year financial-guidance estimates to a range between $103 million and $105 million Aug. 8. Previous estimates Read More →
Inphi’s second quarter revenues soar
Inphi saw revenues rise during the second quarter as it sold off its memory products business. On June 30, Inphi announced it would sell its memory products business to Sunnyvale-based Rambus. Inphi said revenues rose from $49.4 million in 2015 to $60.5 million during the second quarter of 2016 when revenues from the memory business Read More →
OCB Bancorp’s second quarter net income up over last year
In its second quarter earnings report, OCB Bancorp — parent company of Ojai Community Bank, Santa Barbara Community Bank, Ventura Community Bank and Santa Paula Community Bank — reported net income year-to-date of $516,000, or 25 cents per share, up from $372,000 last year. “Loans also continue to grow, increasing approximately $49 million since June Read More →
Santa Barbara’s Aurrion acquired for $165 million
Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks announced Aug. 4 in a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission it acquired Santa Barbara-based silicon photonic chip maker Aurrion for $165 million. Aurrion makes components that transmit information quickly using cheap, easily mass-produced silicon wafers. UC Santa Barbara professor John Bowers founded Aurrion in 2008 and the company quickly Read More →
