Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

As a first-timer at Oracle OpenWorld , I’ve been quite impressed by the sheer number of people thronging Howard Street, Moscone Center and the local San Francisco area in business-suits and professional attire. Gaps are filled and new industries are born; technology continues to bring us all closer together.

Oracle 40

Oracle Customer Custom Marketing 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

We grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years. If that’s your end goal I couldn’t think of a better leader to take us to that conclusion and I think it could be in the next few years because SaaS companies capable of doing 9 figures of recurring revenue are few and far between.

Demand 150

Demand SaaS Startup Sales 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Rufus Labs is a wearable technology startup in Los Angeles with a heavy focus on building devices for the industrial sector (EMS, police, campus/event security, warehouse, etc).

Fractional VPE 40

Fractional VPE Entertainment SaaS Social Media 40

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. A large amount of this new fund, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, is focused on technology in the financial services sector. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us. Why do I say that?

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

However, despite the movement of social computing into our daily lives we’re all clearly on a long journey together as the technologies themselves emerge from infancy. A better social Web on mobile devices. Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0

Web 29

Web Technical Review Web 2.0 Social Media 29

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Shouldn’t you just hire the most senior guy you can out of Oracle, Salesforce.com, Microsoft, EA or whatever your relevant industry is? SaaS was hot so I was able to land a very impressive guy. IBM, Microsoft, Oracle) as long as they’ve done a start-up after that before coming to you. - Not so fast.

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Both Sides of the Table

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 So we brought in experience hand Mark Woodward who had taken 2 companies public and had a storied sales leadership turned CEO career where he learned in academy-rich Oracle. FOMO was NOMO.

Funding 150

Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150