Santa Barbara Tech List

Invenios designs, develops, and manufactures microfluidics, MEMS, and 3D microstructures.

RightScale enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business-critical applications across public, private and hybrid clouds.

ProductPlan is easy-to-use roadmap software designed to help product teams better plan and communicate their strategies. Our drag and drop features are intuitive and let product managers get started building beautiful roadmaps quickly. ProductPlan roadmaps are highly visual, communication-focused and built for team collaboration.

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Novacoast is a software developer specializing in custom development of identity management software, security and compliance software, Enterprise applications, B2B web applications, and open source software installation.

nnGeographic Information Systems (Esri Business Partner) and IT application development.

CrossnoKaye was founded by Harvard PhDs that specialize in optimization with backgrounds in physics, statistics, machine learning, data science, and thermal transport. Today, CrossnoKaye uses these interdisciplinary approaches to develop model predictive industrial controls for the modern energy landscape.

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Founded in 2011, LUX LED Lighting was born from Mighty Bright, a leader in LED lighting and portable Technology since 1985. Headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, we design and manufacture elegant and functional LED lamps. Our emphasis on design ensures every aspect of a LUX LED product is formed with the user in mind, thoughtfully blending style, versatility and feature-rich solutions.nnUtilizing advances in solid-state Technology, we provide energy-efficient, bright illumination. Unlike incandescent lights, which convert 90% of the energy they consume into heat, LUX LEDs convert almost all of the energy they consume into light. Our products produce up to 1600 lumens for up to 50,000 hours of continuous lighting. Additionally, every LUX light comes with a five-year warranty.

Quintessent:  Scalable Laser Arrays for Networking, AI, and LIDAR, Quintessent is a Santa Barbara-based company manufacturing optical engines to power the growing connectivity needs of the future. Their unique Technology comprises advanced semiconductor quantum dot materials and laser architectures that allow for the scaling of high-bandwidth communication channels in optical networks powering the cloud, deep learning, and LIDAR systems.

Overview Our approach to investing is simple. We look for scalable opportunities (ScOps). We want companies that fill a fundamental consumer or business need in the most efficient way. Cool Technology just doesn't cut it - your product has to solve a real problem. We seek management teams that are smart, competitive and aggressive. We want to find people who love what they do and need to make a profound impact.nnWe bring a unique combination of assets to a startup company. Kevin O’Connor has been involved running his own startups for over 30 years so he understands entrepreneurs and founders very well - he’s been in your shoes. He has also invested in many companies and has sat on four public and many private company boards - so he understand investors. He has had tremendous success, along with some failures, and these experiences can help you. Cormac worked at Tinder when it went from 70 employees to over 300 and helped shape a culture of data-driven decision making and testing within the company. He has a lot of experience launching new products with testing and analytics in mind. He has an intense passion to understand the "why"​ questions in business, and utilizes data driven techniques to unearth the truth. We primarily focus on SaaS companies who have some proof of market validation which typically means between $500k+ in ARR. You still aren't at the "growth stage"​ yet - you still have plenty to figure out and need to build a highly scalable team. We will entertain seed stage investing from proven entrepreneurs. Sorry if you don't fit our criteria but there are only the two of us so we need to focus on companies where we can add real value. If you are located in Southern or Central California and have a Technology company with both product and revenue, please drop us an email and let's talk.

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