socalTECH

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Los Angeles-based private equity investor The Gores Group has sold one of its portfolio firms, Atlanta-based Peoplenet , to Boston-based Bullhorn. Peoplenet was a developer of cloud-based, workforce management software; Bullhorn is a developer of CRM and operations software for the recruitment industry. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2019

Irvine-based Mavenlink , a startup which develops business process management software and related tools for services businesses, has raised $48M more, in a Series E funding round. The funding came from Carrick Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Los Angeles-based Digital Fuel , a provider of IT business management software, has been acquired by Apptio , the two companies announced Friday. Digital Fuel had been owned by private equity investor Skyview Capital. Financial details of the buy were not announced. Apptio is based in Seattle.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group said on Thursday that it has agreed to merge Syncsoft Incorporated and Vision Solutions , two enterprise software companies that it already owns, and sell the resultant company to Centerbridge Partners. Clearlake said the deal is worth $1.26 READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2020

San Diego-based Lead Inclusively , a consulting firm which provides technology-enabled services around diversity, equity, and inclusion, said last week that it has raised $1.5M Denise Hummel is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lead Inclusively, which was founded in 2016. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

Digital Map Products was owned by private equity investor Silversmith Capital Partners, and had over 160 employees. Silversmith acquired Digital Map Products in a recapitalization deal in August of 2016. The deal had been announced in May. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

According to the National Venture Capital Association and PitchBook , this past quarter $15 billion was invested in 1,810 deals , which compares unfavorably to both the prior quarter ($22.1 Have investors drifted, becoming less dogmatic about hitting interim milestones with as little capital as possible? history (admittedly, at 2.1

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Our software is also able to optimize workflows and speed, so that the robot is not just taking orders, it's also doing a better job coordinating the kitchen. Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. What is Miso Robotics? The demand is there.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

IPO activity at a sluggish pace—so sluggish, in fact, that this year could end with the fewest IPOs and the lowest level of capital raised since 2009, according to PitchBook data for the first nine months of 2016. The institutional research firm is predicting a surge of IPOs in the weeks and months to come.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2017

funding led by Level Equity. What we did in 2014-2015 and most of 2016, was to really, really refine the business model, so that we could be a successful company, and not just have a successful product. That allowed us to bring in a new investor, Level Equity, and we raised a little over $16M in capital to scale the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. Sweat equity. This unpaid work component is sized in dollars, added to any funds contributed, to represent the total contribution of a founding partner and converted to an equity ownership percentage in a new startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

There is a common belief in the angel and venture capital community that you put your money on the best team, rather than the best idea. If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 06/10/2016.

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Xconomy

MAY 4, 2017

That Q4 2016 edition of a quarterly survey by University of San Francisco business professor Mark Cannice rated the overall confidence of the VCs at 3.81 on a scale of 5—-a number that remains almost unchanged in the latest survey taken in March and published Thursday.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 Tealium said its business grew by 60 percent in the first half of 2016, but the company did not disclose specifics about its revenue. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

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. So, too, investments.

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