Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.
Invoca, a marketing call analytics company based in Santa Barbara, announced its first acquisition May 24, the purchase of a Chicago-based call tracking and analytics company called DialogTech in a combined cash and stock deal. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Invoca said the puts it on track to exceed $100 million in revenue Read More →
John Krist, the CEO of the Ventura County Farm Bureau, will retire in February after 14 years with the organization, the Farm Bureau said in a May 21 news release. Krist joined the Farm Bureau in 2008 and as the CEO he was responsible for managing the staff, daily operations and finances. He also recommended Read More →
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Shares of Deckers Brands, the Goleta-based parent company of Ugg and other footwear brands, jumped 7% on May 20 following the announcement of its fourth quarter and full-year 2020 financial results, which included big jumps in both revenue and net income. Net sales increased 19.4% from 2019 to 2020, to $2.5 billion, the most in Read More →
Editor’s note: This article was updated after the market closed at 1 p.m. to reflect Procore’s closing price. Carpinteria-based Procore Technologies began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 20 and saw its share price shoot up 33.7% on its first day, to close at $89.59. Procore priced shares of its initial public Read More →
Oxnard-based Cure Pharmaceutical saw another spike in revenue in the first quarter of 2021, but net losses also continued to grow. Cure had $1.5 million in revenue in the quarter ended March 31, up 400% from the first quarter of 2020, according to the company’s earnings report, released May 17. The bulk of that growth Read More →
Editor’s note: This article was updated May 19 to reflect the fact that Procore did not begin trading that day. The Carpinteria-based software company Procore Technologies expects to raise around $615 million in an IPO scheduled for no later than May 21. The Procore IPO is on the New York Stock Exchange’s calendar for the Read More →