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JULY 27, 2010

Laguna Hills-based Parallax Capital Partners , an investment group which acquires and operates software companies, said today that it has acquired Seattle-based Daptiv , a provider of online software-as-a-service for project and portfolio management. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Houston, Texas-based symplr , a provider of healthcare governance, risk, and compliance software. Clearlake acquired symplr from its existing set of private equity investors, Pamlico Capital and The CapStreet Group. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

As we close out our contributions for the end of 2018, here's Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital. 2018 was a great year for TVC Capital and we were able to get our fourth growth equity fund closed, taking our assets under management to close to $400 million. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? Two big lessons in 2018.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. The firm is targeting enterprise customers with its offering, and has a major deal with IBM to help customers move their software into the cloud.

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AUGUST 17, 2010

According to the firm, partners IDEA Health and Fitness, TeachStreet, RoamingQ, Yogoer, FindYoga.com, Yoga Tampa Bay and Kidzmet are among the customers who will be rolling out the technology this fall. MINDBODY is venture backed by Frontera Capital, the Pasadena Angels, and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 22, 2020

According to the company, the round--a Seed-2 funding--was led by Okapi Capital, and also included The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners and Brad Perry (co-founder of Dealer Socket), along with others. in a funding round. The founder and CEO of TrackStreet is Andrew Schydlowsky.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product. . “MetaCX sits above any digital product,” McCorkle says.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

I had the honor of moderating a panel of three SaaS CEOs who have collectively raised nearly $40 million of venture capital and are on their way to breakout success: Reed Shaffner of Workpop , Jerry Jao of Retention Science and Ara Mahdessian from ServiceTitan. He started by stating, “We track customer success.”

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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. ” Replicated now counts 85 customers who pay for access to the platform and for every on-premise deployment that customers develop through the platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Customers were happy and restaurants focused on their in-store business. The problem for the restaurants is that the more successful the “aggregators” of customer demand become over time, the less power the restaurants themselves have individually. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product. Covid-19 has changed all of that.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? Until we weren’t.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

how on Earth could the venture capital market stand still? One of the most common questions I’m asked by people intrigued by but also scared by venture capital and technology markets is some variant of, “Aren’t technology markets way overvalued? Capital is a lot less patient at scale. Of course we can’t. dot-com bonanza.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 20, 2017

Join local entrepreneurs, SaaS innovators, leading VCs, private equity/angel investors April 26, 2017 at the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com) presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Wednesday, April 26, 2017 -- Recurring Revenue Conference.

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JUNE 11, 2014

Bessemer said that Procore now has over 600 customers and more than a hundred employees. project saas software management construction capital venture procore' READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Paths to SaaS and cloud computing that will work for your enterprise.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

Santa Monica-based location analytics software developer MomentFeed announced Tuesday morning that it has signed on some big brands as customers of the firm. MomentFeed is backed by Gold Hill Capital, DFJ Frontier, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, as well as a long list of local angel investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? In 2009 we could take a long time to review a deal.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

CEO Gerry Widmer said Wednesday the San Diego-based company is expanding its workforce and extending its Web content management system (WCMS) to international customers. After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io founder Randy Apuzzo at the end of 2017.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2013

According to Numecent, the funding was led by T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. The firm is targeting independent software vendors (ISVs), managed service providers, enterprise customers, and telcos with its tools. telekom deutsche capital venture enterprise conversion software saas cloud numecent'

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Locale, based in San Francisco, enables customers to order from dozens of businesses, including bakeries and restaurants, and get them delivered in one box for just a $5 delivery fee. To keep up the pace, Locale secured a $2 million seed round led by Decent Capital, the family office of Tencent co-founder Jason Zeng.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. Coming out of ServiceNow around 2013, I realized that a lot of problems that we had been discussing and dealing with with customers adopting applications like ServiceNow into the enterprise, was establishing connections of that data and processes with systems in the enterprise.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

With the new capital, SpotOn has raised $628 million since its inception. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. While the Series E capital is primarily funding the acquisition, SpotOn continues to double down on its product and technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. It’s funny how scarcity of capital can focus one’s mind. Customer acquisition cost. If you can’t raise — you’re dead.

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2021

Culver City-based Replicated, a developer of a container-based platform which makes it easier for software vendors to deploy cloud native applications inside customers'​ environments, has raised $50M in its Series C funding, the company said Tuesday.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

This week, we saw the interconnectedness of major institutions as crypto lending protocol Celsius stuttered and brought down Ethereum prices with it as investors feared a price collapse brought on by reportedly over-leveraged players like 3 Arrows Capital. Three Arrows Capital, Pantera Capital and Dragonfly Capital.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

The firm is headed by Rick Stollmeyer, and has also received backing from the Pasadena Angels, Tech Coast Angels, and Frontera Capital. The firm said it reached nearly $10M in revenues in 2009, and has over 9,300 customers in 62 countries. Tags: mindbody software saas venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 3, 2021

El Segundo-based human capital and policy management software developer NEOGOV, which is led by Shane Evangelist, has scored a round of funding from private equity giants The Carlyle Group and Warburg Pincus. The size of the investment--described as "significant"--was not announced. Warburg Pincus had an existing stake in NEOGOV.

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APRIL 20, 2017

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. With our increases in capital we hope to be able to serve you in the near-term future. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 MakeSpace is building the exact same systems but in reverse.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese Tucker: We're now at 800 employees, with more than 2200 customers, and we operate in more than 10 different countries, with customers logging in from more than 130 countries.

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MARCH 30, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese Tucker: We're now at 800 employees, with more than 2200 customers, and we operate in more than 10 different countries, with customers logging in from more than 130 countries.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Series C funding was co-led by co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Meritech Capital Partners. According to the company, it has tripled its revenue, and now counts such clients as McDonalds, Booking.com, Papa Johns, and Netflix as customers.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

According to Tapcart, the funding was led by Left Lane Capital, and also included Shopify, SignalFire, Greycroft, Act One Ventures, and Amplify LA. Tapcart says its platform allows cusomers to create apps using drag-and-drop, codeless tools which merchants can customize for their customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. I don’t want to speak to customer service reps!! 61% of mobile searches in which a customer contacted a vendor, a phone call was generated.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2021

Santa Monica-based business texting software developer EZ Texting, which is venture backed by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Investor AB, and ROCA Partners, said last week that it has partnered with Shutterstock. According to the companies, the partnership makes millions of free images available to EZ Texting customers.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. Semick: They are.

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