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MAY 24, 2021

Imagine if, say, Autodesk had purchased it in 2009 for $100 million? Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. Maker Studios?—?sold

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JANUARY 14, 2014

source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). If you want to understand the power of how they’re built inbound call management into a SaaS category where they’re the market leader watch this one minute video. And you can’t act like a B-round company when you raise $20 million in growth capital.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

YAPI is led by co-founder and CEO Dr. Gina Dorfman; the company was founded in 2009. The company said it has been adding more dental offices to its platform than any other period in its nine-year history, despite the pandemic, with its strongest quarter in Q2. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm. Greycroft is an early-stage VC.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2011

The Investment Group of Santa Barbara , a venture capital investment group based in Santa Barbara, has invested $4M in funding for a developer of a web-based cloud training software firm, Mindflash , Mindflash said today. The firm said that the Investment Group of Santa Barbara also led its prior $5M funding, which closed in December 2009.

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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). Availability of Capital. ” Whatever answers they have manufactured the only thing I hear is, “Because we can.”

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Carlsbad, CA-based Zingle, founded in 2009 by CEO Ford Blakely, allows businesses such as hotels to view and manage many. The Medallia (NYSE: MDLA ) IPO earlier this year was one of a number of successful public market debuts by companies offering cloud-based software, often dubbed software-as-a-service.

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JUNE 18, 2015

They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? And with the crash of Sept 2009 – March 2009 the market cleared out created an open field in which to invest, go slowly, learn and let companies mature before they felt the need to be “hyped.” You own how much?” ” Overnight successes, all.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

I first met Nick Halstead in 2009 when he was running a company called Tweetmeme (the predecessor to DataSift) who had invented the Retweet button and actually helped Twitter develop its early API. I remain as childishly giddy at Nick’s vision as I did in our conference hangout we had in 2009.

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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 grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years. But at 90 employees in 5 countries my job became less fun to me personally.

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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! We sold the company when we hit $36 million in bookings and $16 million in SaaS GAAP revenue.

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AUGUST 20, 2015

We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser. ” I believe firmly in capital efficiency in the early days.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

For starters – we all know the argument that more enterprises are buying SaaS software because it works more easily than on-premise software and that expectations set by our consumer lives to have software as easy and convenient as Amazon, Google or Facebook drives our business lives. I have to assume other investors feel the way I do.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies. We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

We formed the company in 2007, came out with our first product in late 2008, and began selling in earnest in 2009. In 2009, we immediately approached the law firm market because we knew it so well, and because we had lots of relationships from over the years. That went equally well, and we found that extra capital really us grow.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital. Joanne was an angel investor for two years at Hyde Park Angels prior to joining Foundation Capital in 2014. Marissa Lowman, Investor at Village Capital.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 Omniture acquired San Diego-based WebSideStory in 2008 (after the company had rebranded itself as Visual Sciences), and Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE ) acquired Omniture in 2009. Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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 Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip. FOMO was NOMO. As in no more.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Cohen, Capital Thought. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. . The PepsiCo10 program in 2010 saw the company team up with Mashable and Highland Capital Partners to. Unger, John T.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. This is how VCs feel.

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