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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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? With the enormous changes to our economies and financial markets?—?how Of course we can’t.

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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. But the company says its offering extends beyond traditional payment processing and point-of-sale software. Image Credits: SpotOn.

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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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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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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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APRIL 26, 2016

= profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). It’s funny how scarcity of capital can focus one’s mind. Customer acquisition cost. This is how much you spend to get a new customer. End of story.

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MARCH 10, 2015

I write about sales often both because it’s the lifeblood of any organization and because in my experience it is the area in which more startups are least experienced or inclined. I also write and talk about it frequently because raising capital is a part of sales and this is important for entrepreneurs to understand.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. In the Early Days. Mentorship.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). In the US alone there are 30 billion inbound sales calls every year.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

According to ServiceTitan, the integration allows garage door sales and service technicians to easily configure and present quotes and track and process Clopay doors. ServiceTitan said the move is aimed at helping improve efficiency and drive sales for garage door dealers and contractors served by Clopay. READ MORE>>.

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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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MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x forward sales with some as high as 12x sales. Total customers grew 20% year/year. As I mentioned, at the start of the process median SaaS multiples were around 7.3x

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Berkonomics

JUNE 4, 2015

When I hear a company pitch a business model which I believe has the potential to acquire a customer once, and keep the customer paying for a multi-year period without further marketing expense, my ears perk up. Typical examples are software as a service (SaaS) models, or any kind of content-driven subscription model.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2021

ServiceTitan said it is hiring, particularly in customer support, sales, product, and engineering. According to ServiceTitan, the acquisition came alongside a new, $200M investment from private equity investor Thoma Bravo. The Series G funding values ServiceTitan at $9.5 billion, according to the company.

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JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. I’m not saying don’t hire sales staff or market your products aggressively. We live in heady times.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

We casught up with CEO Jay Ackerman to learn more about the company, its market, and how the company is looking to help its customershealth plans and managed care organizations--with risk management and quality improvement using technology. I've been a sales leader, a Chief Revenue Officer, Head of Customer Success.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). ” Whatever answers they have manufactured the only thing I hear is, “Because we can.”

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JUNE 25, 2015

As we went from a small band of missionaries hell bent on making our idea a reality, raising capital, getting press, and selling to customers – we were all having fun. We built a business with $36 million in bookings and real customers who relied upon our service. In other words, Why now?

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2016

Zingle's products--which are currently being used in the hospitality, parking, food and beverage, and other areas--provide a dashboard and other ways to let businesses interact with their customers via texting. According to the company, it will use the new funding round to invest further in sales, marketing and product.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to YAPI, it will use the new funding to build out its account management, customer success, and R&D teams, plus bolster existing sales and marketing. Financial details of that investment were not announced. YAPI's software allows dental practices to automate administrative tasks.

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MAY 6, 2018

As a VC with scores of startups in our portfolio we have ringside seats to many, many fund raising processes plus I had to raise money across about 5 different rounds of capital as an entrepreneur so I’ve developed some thought on the process that I hope can be helpful to some of you before you start. Let me give you an example.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2011

provides an upgraded customer experience, targeted at increasing sales for its customers. Shopatron's customers include Callaway Golf, Suzuki, Polaroid, Mizuno, Ducati, JL Audio and Sport Chalet. The firm is headed by Ed Stevens, and is venture backed by Kern Whelan Capital and Rivenrock Capital.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

Those features include iPad compatibility, bulk uploading of files, secure communications and conversations, custom branding, and automated PDF report generation features. The company is now focused on providing a platform to help streamline deals like asset sales, financings, and mergers & acquisitions, according to the company.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2020

Qualified's software helps marketing and sales teams identify when target buyers arrive on their websites, and starts a conversation with those customers to help increase interaction with those prospects. Scott Beechuk, a partner at Norwest Venture Partners, joins the company's baord of directors.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2016

Wrike said the new jobs in the location will be in sales and customer service. Wrike is backed by Bain Capital, DCM Ventures, and Scale Venture Partners, and focuses on enterprise project management software.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Simply put – I’d be in search of a VC who had an intuitive sense of my product, my customers, my organizational issues, my competitors, etc.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The company is venture backed by Polaris Partners, Toba Capital, Amplify.LA, Wavemaker Partners, and Danmar Capital. In our first year of selling, we brought on over 50 clients, and last year we had 170 customers, and we now have about 40 employees. He comes from a SaaS background, and enterprise software.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. What do your apps do? Laurence Sotsky: That's a great question.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Thaeres is a SaaS-based, dashboard solution for mid-market enterprises. Now, we''re putting together a team of engineers, sales, and marketing people to launch this nationally. We are looking at commercial business services, those businesses who in turn also have customers who are businesses.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

The company is backed by POint Judith Capital. Spotlight said its customers now include Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, NBCUniversal, Stanley Black & Decker, and Principal Financial Group. Spotlight is led by Tony Knopp, who, along with his co-founders, was previously at Stubhub.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2011

San Luis Obispo-based MINDBODY , the provider of online software for health and wellness companies, reported today that it has launched a new, custom daily deal feature to its software. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2011

from Point Judith Capital--said its new space is more than 60 percent larger than its previous headquarters. The firm says its customers include Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, NBC Universal, Stanley Black & Decker, and Principal Financial Group. The firm--which recently raised $2.5M

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was from their hometown Los Angeles exurb, that Kim and Lee first began plotting how they would turn their experience working for PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young (respectively) into the software business that just managed to rake in $40 million in financing led by one of venture capital’s most-respected firms, Battery Ventures.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital! It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

According to the company, it pans to use the new funding to hire more than 40 team members in San Diego, across sales, engineering, customer success, and marketing. The funding came from Revolution Ventures. eSub was founded by Weny Roger and Benny Baltrotsky. READ MORE>>.

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