B2B
B2B startups in Goleta. Business software and services sold to other companies. The largest single category of startup across Southern California, spanning sales tools, vertical operating systems, and everything in between.
Does business as ChipAgents, an agentic AI chip-design platform founded by CEO William Wang; has raised $134M in funding from investors including Bessemer Venture Partners and Matter Venture Partners.
$54.3MLaxmi will help people with diabetes stay in range more often, supporting better day-to-day control and long-term health through industry-first dermal continuous glucose monitoring.
Series A$23.2MQuintessent is developing optical connectivity solutions to scale computing and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.).
Series F$17.0MGaN semiconductor company co-founded by CEO Jeffrey Shealy and UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Dr. Steven DenBaars; raised $15M and is acquiring Vega Links.
Seed$11.0MCo-founded in 2023 by UC Santa Barbara Ph.D. students Kira Wyckoff (CEO) and Linus Kautzsch (CTO) after winning UCSB's New Venture Competition; backed by KdT Ventures and Voyager.
Seed$7.4MSnag delivers 1,500+ products to college students in 10 minutes. Order snacks, drinks, and essentials from our app.
Series H$4.9MAeluma, founded by photonics researcher Jonathan Klamkin, received a Letter of Intent for up to $30M in CHIPS and Science Act funding from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Seed$4.1MLaunchPoint Electric Propulsion Solutions is a propulsion and power generation company supplying lightweight, highly efficient, power-dense, electric and hybrid systems for aerospace, defense, unmanned aircraft systems, and advanced air mobility.
Transphorm, co-founded by Umesh Mishra and Primit Parikh and backed by investors including Google Ventures and KKR, was a Nasdaq-listed company (TGAN) that Renesas agreed to acquire in 2024 to expand its GaN power semiconductor business.
Series A$3.5MOpenLight has raised over $84M total, including a $50M Series A-1 round, with investors such as Capricorn Investment Group.
Seed$2.7MZymbit Resilient Edge Stack makes Linux devices more secure, reliable and recoverable. Trusted software and hardware that grows with your business.
Series A$1.6MReview medical records in minutes, not days. Our AI-powered software creates instant summaries and chronologies so you can focus on what matters.
Seed$1.5MYour platform for cost savings, optimization and tech stack benchmarking. Find redundant products. Track utilization. Deepen integrations.
This entity operates The Pad Climbing's Santa Barbara gym; the climbing-gym chain was founded in San Luis Obispo in 2002 by Kristin and Yishai Horowitz.