2023 Spirit of Small Business Awards winners
The Pacific Coast Business Times created the Spirit of Small Business Awards in 2003 to honor small business leaders along the Central Coast. We partnered with the U.S. Small Business Administration to show off the region’s best and brightest, and over the years, we’ve given out 174 awards to small business advocates, pioneers, families and Read More →
Westlake Village BioPartners launches new fund, appoints new and experienced directors
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Westlake Village BioPartners launches new $450M fund
Westlake Village BioPartners, a venture capital firm focused on biotechnology startups in the Conejo Valley and the rest of greater Los Angeles, announced the closing of its third fund on July 17, raising $450 million that will go toward early-stage next-generation biotechnology companies. The new fund will be managed by founding managing director Beth Seidenberg, M.D., Read More →
Transphorm unfazed by China’s new import rules
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Central Coast health providers to pay out $68M in settlement
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No baggage left behind: Avi.AI helps cut down on luggage loss in aviation
Vivek Adarsh’s inspiration to start his company just a couple of years ago, Avi.AI, is a story that will resonate with almost anyone whose been on an airplane before. While completing work for his Ph.D. program at UCSB in 2019, Adarsh was traveling to Amsterdam for an academic conference where he was to present in Read More →
Inogen co-founder lands CEO job at Next Energy
Brenton Taylor, a co-founder and former executive at Goleta-based Inogen, will be taking over as the new CEO of Next Energy Technologies effective immediately, the company announced on June 28. Taylor will be succeeding Daniel Emmett, who is staying with the company, moving into a newly-created position as Executive Chairman, supporting Taylor’s transition and the Read More →
