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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, May 30th, 2014 / Small Business, South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on New Venture Competition hands out prizes to UCSB startups
A technology to make mobile phone GPS more accurate, a new seafood distribution system and a novel way to brand beer growlers at craft breweries were among the top winners at UC Santa Barbara’s annual New Venture Competition on May 22.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, May 23rd, 2014 / Latest news, South Coast, Technology / Comments Off on Mapping technology wins UCSB business contest
A technology to make mobile phone GPS more accurate, a new seafood distribution system and a novel way to brand beer growlers at craft breweries were among the top winners at UC Santa Barbara’s annual New Venture Competition on May 22.
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, May 16th, 2014 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Mining new markets: HG Data funding rises to $5.5M
With a fresh round of venture capital, Santa Barbara-based business intelligence firm HG Data is hoping to track the technology in use at about 100,000 Asian companies to complement it huge database of North American firms.
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By Stephen Nellis / Tuesday, May 6th, 2014 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on HG Data funding rises to $5.5M
Santa Barbara-based HG Data has raised $2 million in venture capital, bringing its total raised to date to $5.5 million. HG Data uses a proprietary algorithm to sift through massive amounts of messy online data to create a database of which software and hardware products are in use at about 1 million U.S companies. Fortune Read More →
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By Staff Report / Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 / South Coast, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy / Comments Off on Invoca garners Salesforce.com investment, rolls out new technology
Santa Barbara-based inbound call technology firm Invoca has added Salesforce.com to its investor roster and released a new voice intelligence technology to help its customers decode incoming calls. Invoca’s software lets marketers generate unique phone numbers for campaigns and then route and track the calls and sales that result. The company has raised more than Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, April 4th, 2014 / Columns, Technology / 1 Comment
Maverick Angels, the Westlake Village-based investor group co-founded by the late John Dilts, is disbanding but not disappearing completely. Founded in 2006, Maverick was a different take on the idea of an angel network. Like other networks, it was an association of individual accredited investors — it didn’t pool money, and members made their own Read More →