TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Existing investors DST Global, 01 Advisors, Dragoneer Investment Group, Franklin Templeton and Mubadala Investment Company too doubled down on their investments in SpotOn, joining new backers Wellington Management and Coatue Management. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Her argument is that if Uber buys Grubhub (which itself once merged with Seamless) it would mean that Uber Eats / Grubhub would control half the market and that with DoorDash the two together would control 90% of the market. Customers were happy and restaurants focused on their in-store business.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

While the market isn't short of spritely, innovative entrepreneurs, harsh economic headwinds combined with a pullback in investor spending have made it harder than ever for budding businesses to break through. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5

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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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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. He derived five lessons from his latest guerilla marketing triumph.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Aliso Viejo-based H3 Financial Services , a developer of web-based software for managing consumer finance and billing for the dental and veterinary market, has scored a Series A investment. Size of the investment was not announced. financing dental veterinary credit billing saas software services financial' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This morning, we have a contribution from investor and investment banker Peter Cowen of Sutton Capital Partners. Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the largest player has < 10% market share. We’ve invested heavily in inventory management software so we can track every bin and every item of your stuff and know where it is at all times.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 27, 2013

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. He derived five lessons from his latest guerilla marketing triumph.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Things have already plunged so quickly at the signal of a recession that insiders fear a lengthy bear market could hit crypto far more brutally than expected — tearing tokens to lows far below the highs of the 2017 bull run. Crypto markets were down pretty bad last week (though admittedly, it’s only been downhill since then).

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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). It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. People don’t want to speak to customer service reps. Not so fast.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 26, 2022

At the time, the company raised $2 million, and Alexandrov said about the perceived competition, “The level of competition in this market in the U.S. We are creating new habits of customers. Are rivals snacking on Instacart’s core grocery delivery market? locations.

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socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2021

The size of the investment--described as "significant"--was not announced. NEOGOV develops employee management software for state and local government, education, public safety, and other public sector customers, made available through software-as-a-service. Warburg Pincus had an existing stake in NEOGOV.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

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. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth. Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

Technology investing is the best job in the world, but it can be fraught with failure. Once you make enough technology investments, as we have over the last decade, failure at multiple levels will increase and sometimes it feels as if these failures are often sudden, surprising and multiplicative. Two big lessons in 2018.

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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. It is both an exciting and incremental market,” Li said. Locale wants to keep you connected to the food you love, even if you live hours away now.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. The only point we didn’t seem totally aligned on was what we happening to the “middle of the VC market.”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

North Hollywood-based Yapi , a provider of paperless communications and account management software for dental practices, says it has raised a round of growth investment from M33 Growth. Financial details of that investment were not announced. YAPI's software allows dental practices to automate administrative tasks.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

As part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenue, customer service, and similar topics. We have an incredibly passionate and dedicated team, and they are great advocates for the customer. That's key.

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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

MARCH 30, 2018

As part of our sponsor relationship with the conference, we're running a series of interviews with speakers from the conference about their experience in the area of recurring revenue, customer service, and similar topics. We have an incredibly passionate and dedicated team, and they are great advocates for the customer. That's key.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Those businesses have made the investments and thought around making themselves convenient to clients, and I still didn't understand why salons required you to make a call to make an appointment. So, we talked to a bunch of business owners, several hundred of them, over many weekends, and learned as much as we could about the market.

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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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socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2019

The investment came from TVC Capital. According to Perspectium, the new funding will help it continue expansion to global markets, and launch new products. The company says its customers include Fortune 500 companies, software-as-a-service vendors, and global service providers. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2018

On the one hand they can provide meaningful validation, and investment can support a deeper business relationship that significantly helps the startup. We had great news in 2018 from the companies weve invested in and supportive over the years. Happy Holidays! What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Tealium, a San-Diego startup that provides online advertising tag management and marketing services for enterprise customers, has raised $35 million in a growth financing deal intended to expand its technology and market reach. Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 10, 2013

Clay will share his experience on how to build a profitable and bootstrapped SAAS startup that’s doubled in revenue almost every month since its inception. Clay Collins is the Co-Founder of LeadBrite , a profitable and bootstrapped SAAS startup that’s doubled in revenue almost every month since its inception in May of 2012.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

when a technology startup, its investors or the market believe in robust growth rates writ large. “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” __. __. faux·men·tum.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. how to market our products and company. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. Reviewing financial & operational performance.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. Combining that with my previous experience, which was in the platform and SaaS market, and sports, was really a home run. We're now the biggest provider of mobile applications in college.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

For this morning's interview, we caught up with Elizabeth Cholawsky , the new CEO of Santa Barbara-based HG Data (www.hgdata.com), which develops software which helps marketers and salespeople understand the "technology stack" of their potential customers and prospects. So, I cam on board. That's what led to the job at Support.com.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

Is there a specific kind of customer who most benefits from your softare? Mark Faggiano: Our typical customers are e-commerce merchants, folks that sell online for a living, or have an e-commerce presence as part of their current business. The customers we are going after are largely ignored when it comes to compliance.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less).

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

eSUB also said it has previously raised funding from The Investor Group, led by Sheldon Lewis, Raymond Levitt, and the Stanford Farmers Investment Club, a group of Stanford professors that make angel investments. The funding came from Revolution Ventures. eSub was founded by Weny Roger and Benny Baltrotsky. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

A huge mistake I see is that VC tells an entrepreneur no based on a set of reason that this VC felt weren’t right with the business (market size, traction to date, too many competitors, no big exits in the category or whatever easy excuses VCs have developed to politely say no) and the entrepreneur lets this get inside his or her head.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

Startups in a world of massive markets can be confusing. The law of large numbers, platforms that can make your company blow up unexpectedly and the trendy nature of tech markets can be deceiving. This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.”

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