One year after the company raised $22 million in financing, Camarillo-based PBS Biotech secured another $17 million in follow-on growth capital from Avego Management and BroadOak Capital Partners.

Agoura Hills-based A2 Biotherapeutics, a clinical-stage cell therapy company, on Jan. 9 announced the closing of its $80 ...

UC Santa Barbara hosted a NCAA Regional during the May 31 weekend, bringing in attendees and dollars. (courtesy photo) UC ...

Despite successful IPOs from the likes of Ibotta, Reddit and OneStream, 2024 didn’t provide the influx of capital-raising opportunities that many late-stage tech startups and venture capitalists have ...

Since 2019-20, CSU Channel Islansa has experienced a 35% drop in enrollment — from 6,406 full-time equivalent students (FTES) in 2019 to 4,154 this Fall. As Ventura County’s only four-year public ...

The passage of California’s Proposition 30, a temporary tax increase to fund public education, will help tri-county universities survive the aftermath of the recession and maintain enrollment levels, ...

There were a lot of economic questions answered in 2024, such as the Federal Reserve finally issuing some rate cuts and of course, the November results which saw the re-election of Donald Trump to the ...

I’ll start the New Year with a prediction about one of the Central Coast’s prized agricultural products. Avocados are going to be at the center of trade tension between the U.S. and Mexico in 2025.

Let's get this out of the way now. If you got tired of hearing about artificial intelligence and how it is going to revolutionize our way of life, well, fair warning, that isn't going to stop in 2025.

Pearce is a key operator on the Edwards & Sanborn solar and energy storage project in Kern County. (courtesy photo) Fifteen years ago, Paso Robles-based Pearce Services was just breaking into the ...

Deckers had a record year in 2024, reaching a record market capitalization of over $31 billion. (courtesy photo) The tri-county region enters 2025 with 33 publicly traded companies headquartered here, ...

City National Rochdale ends the year with a note about S&P 500 valuations, with P/E ration expansion driven by the Magnificent 7 tech stocks. Outside of those high flyers, City National writes that it ...