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AUGUST 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based Sugar, which develops software to help manage apartment and residential living, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The company develops software for residential communities, handling rent payment and other tasks.

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MAY 31, 2022

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. It says over 85% of its portfolio companies raise follow-on funding — a collective $1.15

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Los Angeles-based Skyryse, a startup which is developing software to automate piloting of aircraft, has raised $200M in a Series B funding round, according to the company. The company's prior investors, Venrock, Eclipse Ventures, and Fontinalis Partners also participated.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital announced this morning that it has entered into a deal to acquire Zywave , a developer of software-as-a-service for the insurance industry, from another private equity investor, Aurora Capital Partners. Financial terms of the buy were not announced.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Torrance-based BQE said on Wednesday that it has received a "significant investment" from private equity investor Serent Capital. Serent Capital is a private equity investor that invests in technology and tech-enabled software companies. The company was founded by Shafat Qazi in 1995.

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JULY 8, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Partners has made a "significant" growth investment in Toronto-based Adlib, a developer of software used for structuring data. Adlib's software is used to automate the discovery, classification, extraction, and structure of data from unstructured documents.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investors March Capital Partners led a $51 million Series C round for conversational artificial intelligence developers Uniphore Software Systems Private Ltd.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Aliso Viejo-based software company Quest Software announced this morning that it has acquired erwin, Inc., a developer of data modeling, data governance, and business process modeling software. Erwin had been owned by private equity investor Parallax Capital Partners.

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JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

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OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based Greenfly, a developer of marketing software for brand ambassadors, athletes, and sponsors, said on Tuesday that it has raised $8.4M The company said that the NBA's Paul has joined the company as both a strategic investor and partner. in a strategic growth round.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this week that it has backed field sales software developer SalesRabbit. SalesRabbit offers up both native mobile and web-based software aimed at field sales organizations. The company is based in Utah.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital, along with private equity partner Motive Partners sai this morning that the two have agreed to acquire 80% of New York-based InvestCLoud, which develops digital wealth and investment management software. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Los Angeles- and Nashville-based Clovers, a developer of interviewing and recruiting software, has raised $15M in a funding round, the company said this week. According to Clovers, the funding was led by Greycroft and Alpha Edison, and also included Crosslink Capital, Acadian Ventures, Fika Ventures and Act One Ventures.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based Meta Data Software, a company which develops software for managing media and entertainment catalogs and metadata, has been acquired by Rob Delf, the former founder of Rightsline. According to the company, the deal was backed by growth capital from private equity founder Salem Partners.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital is hoping to sell one of its portfolio companies, Perforce Software , for around $2 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg over the weekend. Perforce has been owned by Clearlake Capital since January of 2018. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2020

Newport Beach-based Toba Capital , the venture investment firm founded by Vinny Smith, is the lead investor in Emeryville, California-based Clear Skye , a developer of identity governance and administration software. As part of the funding, Rajan Aggarwal, Partner at Toba Capital, will join the company's board of directors.

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JULY 7, 2021

Ventura-based advertising technology developer The Trade Desk is launching its own venture capital arm, and has made its first investment, the company said this morning. The company said that the new investment fund, TD7, will invest in open Internet startups.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

The partners at MaC Venture Capital , the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent the bulk of their careers breaking barriers. MaC Venture Capital co-founders Marlon Nichols, Michael Palank, Charles King, and Adrian Fenty. Image Credit: MaC Venture Capital.

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JULY 27, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Arrowroot Capital Management says it has completed its sale of its interest in SocialChorus , to another private equity investor, Sumeru Equity Partners. Arrowroot Capital said it will continue to own a minority interest in the company. Financial details of the sale were not announced.

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APRIL 14, 2021

Los Angeles-based BLAZE, a developer of enterprise resource planning and point-of-sale software for the legal cannabis market, recently raised $8M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Delta Emerald Ventures with participation from returning investor Act One Ventures and new investor SOJE Capital.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Skyview Capital has acquired cybersecurity software developer Fidelis Cybersecurity a provider of network traffic analysis, digital forensics, and incident response software, the company said late Thursday. Skyview Capital says that Fidelis has over 250 employees.

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JULY 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based CreatorIQ which develops influencer marketing software, has raised $24M in a Series C funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The funding was led by Kayne Partners Fund, a private equity fund managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P.

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MAY 30, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor Moonshots Capital is the lead investor in a new startup, Backtracks , a developer of podcast analytics software. in a seed funding round, which was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Capital Factory, Sputnik ATX, Next Coast Ventures, Bull Creek Capital, and BNSG Capital.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

One of the portfolio companies of Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group , Minneapolis-based Perforce Software , has acquired cloud testing software developer Perfecto Mobile. Perfecto is a developer of cloud-based, automated mobile and web application test software.

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APRIL 16, 2021

SWARM Engineering, a new startup which is focused on developing supply and demand forecasting software for the food supply chain, has raised $2.7M in its seed funding round. Anthony Howcroft is CEO and founder of SWARM Engineering.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital and its portfolio company, Perforce Software , have acquired embedded software development tools provider Rogue Wave Software , the firms said last week. Perforce is a developer of source code control and other tools used by software developers.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based ringDNA , which develops sales engagement software, says it has launched a new, artificial intelligence (AI) product, which it says helps recommend actions for sales reps, to increase success.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Santa Monica-based investor Arrowroot Capital , headed by Matthew Safaii, has scored a win with the acquisition of one of its portfolio companies, Evergage , by Salesforce. and had raised $26M in funding from Arrowroot Capital, G20 Ventures, and Point Judith Ventures. Evergage develops real time personalization software.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Dude Solutions , a developer of operations management software, which was based in Cary, North Carolina. Clearlake Capital acquired Dude Solutions from another private equity firm, Warburg Pincus.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Los Angeles-based Parabol , a startup developing software management tools, used to manage the efforts of development teams, has raised $4M in a funding round, the company said this morning. The company--which moved here from Brooklyn, New York, but is mostly virtual--is led by founder and CEO Jordan Husney.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Vincente Capital Partners announced on Tuesday that it has sold Carlsbad-based Intellectual Technology, Inc. , a developer of software for motor vehicle agencies (DMVs), to Arlington Capital Partners. Vincente Capital acquired ITI in November of 2012. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Irvine-based Toba Capital , the investment firm of Quest Software CEO and founder Vinny Smith, has re-upped on Quorum , a developer of appliances for disaster recovery and backup--and also taken charge of the company. Paul Sallaberry, who was on the board of Quest Software, has also joined Quorum''s board of directors.

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APRIL 29, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Palisades Growth Capital announced this morning that it has sold off its ownership interest Los Angeles-based L Docupace , a developer of software for the wealth management industry. Palisades said it sold its interests in Docupace to another private equity investor, FTV Capital.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Symplr , a healthcare risk and governance software developer which is owned by Los Angeles-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital , has acquired API Healthcare , a provider of healthcare human capital management software. API Healthcare was owned by another private equity investor, Veritas Capital.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Irvine-based Specright , a developer of specification data management software, has raised $8.8M in a Series A funding, according to the company. The startup said the funding was led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital (PGVC), and also included Okapi Venture Capital, Fika Ventures, and Mucker Capital.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Santa Monica-based GumGum , which develops artificial intelligence software for the advertising and media market, has raised $22M more in a funding round, the company said on Thursday. According to the firm, the new $22M funding came from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, NewView Capital, and Upfront Ventures.

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