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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 24th, 2009 / Uncategorized / Comments Off on AppFolio lands $8M investment from IGSB
In another sign that tri-county tech firms are holding their own amid a depressed investment market, Santa Barbara-based software firm AppFolio has gained $8 million in venture capital, bringing its total investment since last year to $30 million. The money came from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara, one of the company’s existing investors. “We Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 24th, 2009 / Columns / Comments Off on Moorpark industrial building sold in lease-to-own deal
A family trust has acquired a 32,233-square-foot industrial building that its family business, Pindler & Pindler Inc., had been occupying for the past two and a half years with an option to purchase. “These types of lease-to-own arrangements have become a lot more popular as the leasing market has slowed,” said Mike Tingus, president of Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 24th, 2009 / Columns / Comments Off on SLO puts economic plan on fast track
For much of the past year, San Luis Obispo County has looked like the basket case of the regional economy. Its government-heavy employment base has been shattered by the California budget crisis. City and county bureaucracies are being trimmed back, Cal Poly employees are facing furlough days and job growth has ground to a Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Monday, August 24th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Dole IPO gets nod at Inphi
In coming months, investment bankers and fast-growing start-ups, including a few from the Tri-Counties, will be hoping the initial public offering market literally goes bananas. In what analysts say will be a bellwether for whether the IPO markets are back from the dead, Westlake Village-based Dole Food Co. filed regulatory papers Aug. 14 to raise Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, August 21st, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Pacificor, Terminator producers wrangle in court
Santa Barbara-based hedge fund Pacificor has grappled with hard-money lenders and auto-parts firms. Now it’s going up against the Terminator. The producers who own the Terminator franchise – whose “Terminator Salvation” film, released earlier this summer, raked in $370 million at the box office but hasn’t yet come out on DVD – filed for Chapter Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Friday, August 21st, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on Looking for company
As California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, mulls bringing a master’s of business administration program to Santa Barbara, business schools around the Tri-Counties say demand for the degree is booming because of a down economy and that their satellite campuses are going strong. Cal Poly said Aug. 12 that it plans to conduct a Read More →
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By Pacific Coast Business Times Staff / Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 / Top Stories / Comments Off on AppFolio gains $8M more in venture capital
Santa Barbara-based software firm AppFolio has gained another $8 million in venture capital. The investment came from the Investment Group of Santa Barbara, one of the company’s existing investors. It brings the total venture capital raised by the Web-based software company since last year to $30 million, more than any other investments disclosed by tri-county Read More →
