Santa Barbara Tech List

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.

SecureDocs Virtual Data Room and ContractWorks Contract Management Software

SelfEcho is a mental health startup with Technology platforms Mobile Therapy and Upjoy.org aimed at improving the patient-doctor relationship outside of in-office appointments.

Service Objects keeps a huge database of customer contact info for use in marketing lead validation.

ShipHawk operates a marketplace for logistics and shipping services. It is a modern transportation management system (TMS) helping businesses run data-driven supply chains.

Efficient, API-driven, and purpose-built for Kubernetes, Talos OS lets you treat the cluster as the machine, letting you focus on your applications instead of managing the OS. Sidero Metal automates bare metal Kubernetes cluster creations.

Simpler Systems provides a software called datapps for aggregating and organizing data.

Snag is a 10-minute delivery service for Isla Vista residents.

socalTECH.com provides up to date news and information about high tech companies in Southern California, including interviews, a calendar of local events, and a database of Technology firms in the region.nsocalTECH has been dedicated to promoting the Technology industry in Southern California since 1998, and provides the most in-depth, up-to-date, and focused view of high tech in the Southern California area.

Creator of CyberSitter, which filters internet content for children and small businesses including spam and other websites as requested by the user/enterprise.C

Founded by researches/professors Shuji Nakamura, Steven Denbaars and James Speck of UCSB, Soraa developer of LED and laser-based lighting and projection display Technology. The company utilizes unique Technology relating to the growth of Gallium Nitride wafers to create high efficiency blue and green lasers and LEDs. Soraa has raised $5mil from Khosla Ventures.

Sovato is fueled by a profound mission to create unprecedented access to high-quality surgical care by enabling access to remote robotic surgery.

Sovato's remote surgery platform will expand scarce surgical resources to new markets and new patients –transcending the geographic boundaries that exist with surgery today. Our comprehensive solution brings together the people, systems, tools, data, and business model in an integrated ecosystem – addressing the full range of requirements to ensure a safe, scalable, and sustainable remote surgery program.

Spero Renewables is a green chemistry company that develops technologies for plant-based alternatives to products manufactured with petrochemicals. Spero utilizes its proprietary Technology to unlock the resources of readily available biomass for making natural and environmentally friendly products. Spero was founded in 2013 by Mahdi Abu-Omar, Ph.D., the Mellichamp Professor of green chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara.