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By Stephen Nellis / Monday, September 30th, 2013 / Central Coast, Technology / Comments Off on Last day for Central Coast TechPitch
Today is the last day for Central Coast entrepreneurs to sign up for the third annual TechPitch in San Luis Obispo. The event will be held Oct. 23 from 3-8 p.m. At the Madonna Expo Center. To be eligible, entrepreneurs need to have a San Luis Obispo or North Santa Barbara county-based firm in the Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Monday, September 30th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Technology / Comments Off on Crowdfunding firm makes buy
InvestedIn, the crowdfunding technology platform founded by Conejo Valley entrepreneur Alon Goren, has acquired MyNewFinancialAdvisor, a Santa Barbara startup. Together, the firms have created InvestedIn Alpha, which aims to give affluent-but-not-elite investors the chance to buy directly into private-equity funds, hedge funds, venture-capital funds and other vehicles where the minimum investment has often started at Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, August 16th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on AnsibleWorks boots up with $6M in funding
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, July 26th, 2013 / Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Calient snags $27M amid bandwidth boom
Santa Barbara-based photonics firm Calient Technologies has raised $27 million in venture capital and hired a new chief financial officer to lead growth. The latest funding round brings Calient’s total raised over the past two years to $46.4 million. Calient’s core technology is what are called micro electromechanical devices — MEMs for short. On a Read More →
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By Staff Report / Wednesday, July 24th, 2013 / Technology / Comments Off on Calient raises $27M, hires new CFO
Santa Barbara-based photonics firm Calient Technologies has raised $27 million in venture capital and hired a new chief financial officer to lead growth. The firm said July 24 that it raised the round from a combination of new and existing investors and that the funding will be used to enhance its portfolio of 3D micro Read More →
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By Stephen Nellis / Friday, July 12th, 2013 / Banking & Finance, Technology, Top Stories / Comments Off on Lastline raises $10M in fresh funding
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By Staff Report / Thursday, May 23rd, 2013 / Central Coast, Latest news, Technology / Comments Off on Cal Poly student startup sold
A San Luis Obispo startup founded by Cal Poly students has been acquired by a Silicon Valley firm, marking the second sale of a student business from the school in two years. Quest.to, which was founded during a Startup Weekend event in 2012 and then attended the HotHouse summer accelerator program organized by the school’s Read More →
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