On Wednesday, May 9, 2012, all seven Angel Groups brought their “best and brightest” entrepreneurs to pitch their companies in hopes that they would be picked as one of the Final Three to present at the Summit. Company Contact: Dan Roberts – Maverick Angels COO. For more information, contact: dan@maverickangels.com. MORE >>

Appropriately enough, ­­­we gathered in the about-to-open Synergy Business and Technology Center, Santa Barbara’s latest incubator.   There was a broad consensus among both founders and investors that the boom in incubators provides tremendous leverage for young companies.  Photo: www.noozhawk.com. The takeaway?  MORE >>

Santa Barbara, one of Southern California's technology centers, has a unique problem: how do you scale out your technology staff, despite intense competition from the firm's large number of technology companies, expensive cost-of-living, limited real estate, and a fairly long trek from the rest of the region for commuters? MORE >>

Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. Google said that the firm is awarding a total of $5.7M MORE >>

The companies — both of which are apparently out of UC Santa Barbara — were founded by blue LED inventor Shuji Nakamura and fellow UCSB professor Stephen Denbaars. Filed under: Clean Energy , Venture Capital by Benjamin Kuo blog comments powered by Disqus Thoughts and commentary from Benjamin F. MORE >>