Santa Barbara is increasingly becoming a hub for startups and entrepreneurs. The sandy beaches and beautiful weathers help the case quite a bit. Over the past 30 years, we have seen constant growth in both venture capital money and total startup valuations in the area. We thought it would be helpful to share some of the names driving this progress.

1. Woody Sears (Autio)

2. Chuck Frazier (Nurture)

3. Craig Harris (BuyerCaddy)

4. David Nunez (Falconer)

5. Roger Kjensrud (Impact.com)

6. Ashwin Singhania (Unwrap AI)

7. Tooey Courtemanche (Procore)

8. Jeremy Bodenhamer (ShipHawk)

9. Mirko Prezioso (Mentium Technologies)

10. Alan Liu (Quintessent Inc.)

11. Tom Quisel (Musubi)

12. Mark Ruiters (SentriGrid AI)

13. Tal Halperin (Intellijend)

14. Davis Brimer (First Epic)

15. Guillaume De Zwirek (Artera)

16. Kate Scanner (Beni)

17. Kyle Spearrin (Bitwarden)

18. Molly Abbott (Constructable)

19. Gregg Peterson (Bexson Biomedical)