Santa Barbara startup Expond raises $1.25M in seed round
Expond — short for “experiences on demand” — plans to use the money to expand in the Santa Barbara area and launch in a new […]
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Yardi acquires Canadian software firm
Yardi, a Santa Barbara-based property management software company, acquired Planimetron, a Toronto company that provides digital visualizations for the real estate industry.
Shape Sensing Company brings fiber optics to health care
Fiber optic cabling revolutionized telecommunications when it replaced traditional copper cables, enabling better and faster internet, television and more. Now one Santa Barbara company is […]
Briq builds a software powerhouse in Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara-based Briq is expecting revenue growth of 180% from 2021 to 2022 and raised $30 million in a series B round in 2021. “We […]
Even in a down year for venture capital, Santa Barbara area holds its own
The Central Coast has actually surpassed the pace it was maintaining through this time last year, thanks in large part to a number of Santa […]
Santa Barbara-based Bitwarden raises $100M
The investment will fuel growth of the company’s open source password manager.
Santa Barbara #8 among America’s Fastest-Growing Startup Cities
“If you’re not playing the Silicon Valley growth-at-all-costs game of chasing vanity metrics on a fundraising hamster wheel, you’ll be able to find there is […]
Inc. 5000 fastest growing private companies includes 22 from Central Coast
The Central Coast showcased the diversity of its companies in the latest edition of the Inc. 5000, as 22 companies based in tri-county region made […]
