socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2021

Los Angeles-based PayEngine, a startup developing a white label, payment platform for software-as-a-service companies, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding, the company said this morning. The funding came from Mucker Capital, BAM Ventures, I2BF Global Ventures, HIVE Ventures and other strategic investors, according to the company.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 27, 2021

Who knew building a vertical software as a service toolkit focused on home heating and cooling could be worth $8.3 The company’s massive mint comes thanks to a new $500 million financing round led by Sequoia’s Global Equities fund and Tiger Global Management. Based in Glendale, Calif.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Aliso Viejo-based Corent Technologies , the developer of software which helps turn corporate applications into software-as-a-service, has raised another $3.0M Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. corent saas software enterprise enable microsoft' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2021

Techstars LA, the startup accelerator headed up by Matt Kozlov, announced its 2021 class this week, drawing an international group of twelve new companies to its startup accelerator in Culver City. Companies this year in the program come from as far as Canada, India, and Ukraine.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based fintech startup, Pipe , said this morning that it has raised $6M in its seed funding round, to launch a new platform which offers up financing to subscription-based, software-as-a-service companies. Pipe is led by Harry Hurst, Josh Mangel, and Zain Allarakhia.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

A newly launched company, Mission --created from the merger of Los Angeles-based Reliam , Los Angeles-based Stratalux ,and Boston-based G2 Tech Group -- has launched under a new, consolidated brand, Mission said this week.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Even entrepreneurs that already sold on SaaS should stake note of new research from the SalientGroup : SaaS gets funded - Nearly 50% of SaaS-based startups are getting successfully funded—a rate of funding success no other sector can match. Overall, according to Gartner, the SaaS market will top $22 billion by 2015.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Thousand Oaks-based Servoy , a developer of software for developing software-as-a-service applications, said Monday that it has upgraded its namesake platform. Tags: development saas software servoy.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

Aliso Viejo-based Corent , which develops software tools to more easily port traditional software to the software-as-a-service model, has raised $3.2M Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. in a funding round.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Santa Barbara-based Service Objects , which provides software and services for real-time, contact validation for businesses, said it will offer up free assistance to nonprofits working in the area of environmental conservation and natural disaster relief. Service Objects said nonprofits such as Susan G. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Some types of businesses generate more and more recurring revenues over time, often growing to a size where recurring revenues pay all of the overhead of the company – an enviable position. There is a phenomenon I have observed time after time with mature companies receiving over 75% of their revenues from recurring sources.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

We’ve even created an acronym for these kinds of services: software as a service (SAAS). Usually, a company provides subscription based access to subscribers allowing these subscribers to use software in the cloud. Collaboration among these parties often exposes SAAS networks to greater risks. Client Segregation.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2013

The update includes a new self-service tenant management system; new tools to maximize the performance of virtual machines; a better web interface; and more. Metacloud said it has already deployed the new software at its clients, which include Fortune 5000 companies in industries including entertainment, finance, and technology.

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socalTECH

JULY 25, 2013

Irvine-based Kareo , which develops cloud-based software for medical office practice management, has acquired a provider of medical billing services. According to Kareo, it acquired ECCO Health , which it says has been providing medical billing services for the last decade in Las Vegas. Financial details of the buy were not announced.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2013

Tipalti , which develops an automated, mass payment platform for affiliate and other marketers, has integrated its service with CAKE , a provider of online campaign and affiliate tracking, the firms have announced. The company is led by Chen Amit, the former CEO of Atrica. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

Post-sale, AI analyzes customer data to improve service and loyalty, making it a cornerstone of modern sales methodologies. TechEmpower has been instrumental in developing chatbots like these, utilizing generative AI to sift through internal documents and user manuals, enabling them to provide precise answers to customer service questions.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 23, 2016

SaaS – or Software as a Service – platforms are all the rage. Essentially a business model where software is licensed and distributed from a central location, SaaS companies can now be found in telecoms, human resources, and more. RelinkLabs is a pioneering HR SaaS tool based in Scandinavia. RelinkLabs.

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring , the e-commerce and payment processing software firm headed by Dan Engel, said this week that it has launched a new online subscription management and payment service called SaaSy. Engel said that the service is aimed at SaaS and Web 2.0

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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

San Diego-based Perspectium , which develops software for service management integration, has raised $8M in its Series B funding round, according to the firm. The company says its customers include Fortune 500 companies, software-as-a-service vendors, and global service providers. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

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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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. The first offerings will be launching in the beginning of 2019, but the company has dozens of customers already using its pilot, McCorkle said.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Goleta-based AutoVitals , which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for the automotive repair and maintenance software business, has raised a round of private equity, the company recently announced, from private equity investor Tritium Partners. Financial details of the private equity deal were not announced.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Far too often, I come across companies with commission structures that take into account “all” the possible permutations of profit on a sale, causing everyone to wait for an accounting person to complete a cost analysis in order to find the magic number, or for a manager to rule on percentage splits for territories or products.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Newport Beach-based Sendio , a developer of appliances for reducing spam, has expanded into the software-as-a-service business, saying today that it has launched a new, hosted online service. The company said it would charged on a per-user, per-month subscription basis, and will sell the service through its existing channel partners.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2017

Burbank-based testing software and services provider PSI Services announced this morning that it has acquired Software Secure , a provider of cloud-based, online testing services for the higher education, K-12, and certification markets. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2021

According to the company, it is developing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) specifically for solving complex problems such as supply & demand forecasting, optimizing inbound and outbound logistics, or maximizing yield in controlled environment agriculture.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it Conversely if you’re burning $600,000 per month (yes, some companies do) then you only have 5 months of cash left. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2022

Or when something happens that makes an investor think this company is about to break out. Tech businesses today can do this much more easily than a decade ago, with cheaper development costs, SaaS hosting environments avoiding heavy equipment costs, and development platforms with pre-formed routines available. Do it on good news!

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, SpotOn said it has closed on $300 million in Series E financing that values the company at $3.15 Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led both the Series D and E rounds for the company, which says it has seen 100% growth year over year and a tripling in revenue over the past 18 months. Image Credits: SpotOn.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M. Both Poghosyan and Gudanis have long histories in identity and access management, back in 2009 Poghosyan founded Advancive Technology Solutions, which was acquired by Optiv in 2015 to bulk up its identity access management service.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2018

San Diego-based RelationEdge , a provider of Salesforce consulting and digital agency services, has been acquired by cloud service company Rackspace , Rackspace said on Thursday afternoon. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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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

JULY 16, 2014

Santa Monica-based CallFire , the provider of cloud-based text and voice services which is led by Ron Burr, has named a new CFO. According to the company, it has named Tridivesh Kidambi as Chief Financial Officer. callfire text voice service saas communications executive' READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

MARCH 28, 2019

Kyriba has been making cloud-based software since well before software-as-a-service (SaaS) became a tech buzzword. Nearly 20 years ago, the company, a spin-off of a French firm, began developing software to provide chief financial officers and other finance leaders with a comprehensive view of company cash and liquidity.

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socalTECH

JUNE 29, 2009

Irvine-based HireRight , a provider of online, employment screening services and software, announced this morning that the firm has upgraded its HireRight Enterprise offering. HireRight offers a software-as-a-service offering used by companies to run employee background checks. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

Irvine-based CalAmp , a provider of fleet tracking services, announced this morning that it has acquired Synovia Solutions , a company that operates in the fleet safety and management business for the K-12 school bus and state and local government fleet market, in a move to boost its software-as-a-service revenue.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Even more likely is eventual technology disruption where drones deliver foods and make it hard for existing car delivery services to compete. It won’t happen right away but I’ve seen some innovative companies doing exactly this in places like Australia where they are taking a more liberal approach to allowing drone deliveries.

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