SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2020

Wednesday, May 13, 2020 -- The Mindset of an Investor Today. Join Peter Cowen (Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners) as we explore what SaaS investors are looking for in the current climate. Sutton Capital Partners and the Recurring Revenue Conference. 5/13/20 - Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates. See [link] (more)

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Draper SaaS Conference Capital 100

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Founded in 2020 by two former Meta executives, Tome is a business-focused storytelling and presentation tool that leverages generative AI. million it generated in 2020. The startup has been around since 2020, but has witnessed massive growth throughout 2023 off the back of the recent AI boom kickstarted by OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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Startup Generative AI Newsletter Tool 210

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 10, 2020

Thursday, January 16, 2020 -- LA CEOs: Sales - Close More Business and Scale. Start off your year with LA's top tech CEOs and our special guest Carrie Lauby, an LA-based sales expert with over 25 years growing B2B2C SaaS companies. This sponsor supported FREE event is restricted to qualified CEOs and CFOs only. Confirmed RSVP required.

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Sales SaaS Company Companies 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Lytle is the company's current Head of Government Affairs, where he has been since April 2020; he also previously served as Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Enterprise Saas Solutions from August 2017 to October 2018, and has since been consulting for the company; he also served at Cavulus, Morgan Stanley, and hedge fund RCL Capital.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product. Two lessons learnedand relearned!

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Capital SoCal Southern California SaaS 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 6, 2022

million in recurring donations in 2020. The company has been developing tools to help nonprofits move donors to give on a recurring basis--more like a subscription--rather than just provide on-time donations. The company said it saw $19.9

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San Diego Platform Software Development Tool 189

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Were on a mission to create more fair and respectful work places and that has encompassed a lot more to our SaaS product than we initially thought when we were in ideation stage. What are you most looking forward to in the technology/startup world in 2020?

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Startup News SaaS Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2019

The two said that ServiceTitan will be transitioning CUC Software's customers over to its products, but will support CUC Software's current product line until April 1, 2020. According to ServiceTitan, CUC Software's customers were largely based in Canada. CUC Software was developed by Jack Vannoy and Carolyn Slayden in 1981. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” Probably not and 10x (May 2022) seems more in line with the historical trend (actually 10x is still high).

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2019

The company says it hopes to grow its team from a current 30 employees to 75 employees by early 2020. The company said the new funds go to help the firm advance its software, including accelerating product development, hiring, and expanding globally. The company is led by founder and CEO Matthew Wright, a veteran of the packaging industry.

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Software Venture Capital Capital Funding 113

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

High school friends Jonathan Friedland and Chris Clark started Locale in 2020 and bootstrapped its way to hundreds of customers, and since being a part of Y Combinator’s three-month program, grew revenue by 100% year over year, Friedland said. “We Other investors include Goodwater Capital and Esas Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. * Topics we covered: B2B Companies You haven’t seen the full extent to how the correction is going to affect you. Raise when you can.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Writing 263

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

” I applied this advice and started writing about SaaS and about Online Video and have found Fred’s advice spot on. At Upfront we have huge conviction around topics that aren’t exactly 2015 sexy and I think that will set us up nicely for 2018-2020 if we’ve played our cards right. This works brilliantly.”

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Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The latest round of funding gives FitOn a total of $30 million raised to date, which includes a seed round in 2018 and Series A in 2020. It also has a social platform built in with a chat feature, and members can invite friends to participate in programs and challenges.

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Platform Capital Funding Beachbody 208