January 12, 2025

		

Jorge Mercado

Jorge Mercado is a staff writer with the Business Times. His beats include technology, agriculture, cannabis, energy and the environment, and higher education.


| Saturday, July 23rd, 2022

Santa Barbara scores a soccer club

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| Saturday, July 23rd, 2022

New chair takes helm at UCSB Technology Management Program

Higher Education, Latest news, Regions, Santa Barbara County, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories

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| Friday, July 22nd, 2022

Energy Vault shows symptoms of SPAC hangover

Banking & Finance, Energy, Latest news, Regions, Subscriber content, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies, Ventura County

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| Thursday, July 21st, 2022

FreshRealm raises $200M in region’s largest funding round of 2022

Agribusiness, Latest news, Regions, Startups, Top Stories, Ventura County

Ventura-based FreshRealm took a huge bite from the venture capital market on July 20, with the company announcing a $200 million funding round, by far the biggest this year by a company in the tri-county region. Specific leaders of the funding round were not disclosed, but the company’s news release said it was “led by Read More →

| Tuesday, July 19th, 2022

Teledyne purchases acoustic imaging company

Banking & Finance, Latest news, Regions, Technology, Top Stories, Tri-County Public Companies, Ventura County

Thousand Oaks-based Teledyne Technologies still has its sights set on enhancing its imaging instruments sector, with the recent acquisition of a majority stake in Noiseless Acoustics, a Finnish technology company that specializes in advanced acoustic imaging instruments. Teledyne announced the acquisition on July 15 and did not disclose financial details. This marks the second time Read More →

| Monday, July 18th, 2022

Cal Poly Ventures invests in animal health spin-out

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| Friday, July 15th, 2022

Layoffs ‘largely not’ California-based, Apeel says

Agribusiness, Latest news, Santa Barbara County

Goleta-based Apeel Sciences will lay off an unspecified amount of workers and downsize its operations after years of continued growth that took it past a valuation of $2 billion in its last funding round. In a statement provided to the Business Times on July 11, an Apeel spokesperson said the company is “working tirelessly to Read More →