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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They spoke with salon owners in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and other trendy neighborhoods trying to get a sense of where software and services were falling short. Investors including Index Ventures, Toba Capital, VMG Partners, Bonfire Ventures, Ludlow Ventures and BoxGroup agreed. million in funding.

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JANUARY 10, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital said this morning that it has acquired Perforce Software , a developer of version control software. Perforce was based in Minneapolis, MN, and had previously been owned by another private equity company, Summit Partners. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital announced today that it has sold off one of its portfolio firms, Calero Software , to private equity investor Riverside Partners. Clearlake created Calero in 2013, when it rolled up three companies--Veramark Technologies, PINNACLE, and Movero--into a single entity.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Los Angeles-based venture investor March Capital is the lead investor in a $51M, Series C funding round for Uniphore , which also included Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures), Sistema Asia, CXO Fund, ITP, Iron Pillar, Patni Family, and others. March Capital's investment in Uniphore was led by Sumant Mandal. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Santa Monica-based Arrowroot Capital Management announced today that it has raised a $177M, third fund, Arrowroot Capital II, L.P. , to invest in growth equity for enterprise software companies. Arrowroot Capital said the fund was oversubscribed. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

San Diego's TVC Capital has made another investment in a growing software firm, this time in Washington State. Limeade , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to manage employee wellness programs, said today that it has raised $5M in a funding round from TVC, which it will use for innovation and servicing its customers.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. But GitHub is by no means the first company to consider and make these changes.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital says that it has sold one of its portfolio companies, Provation, which provides software to the healthcare industry. The company also funded the acquisition of four companies for Provation, including MD-Reports, ePreop, iProcedures and endoPRO.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 31, 2022

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. It says over 85% of its portfolio companies raise follow-on funding — a collective $1.15

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this morning that it has raised a new, $675M fund. The company said its new fund, Diversis Capital Partners II, exceeded its target of $500M. The company said it reached the $675M in commitments just three months after its formal launch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to the company, the funding was spit between a seed round of $4M, and earlier pre-seed and seed funding. The new seed funding was led by Bouyant Ventures, and also included Better Ventures,XYZ Venture Capital, Chingona Ventures, and Starting Line Ventures. Beni is led by CEO Sarah Pinner, and was co-founded by CTO Celine Mol.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

A new, Santa Barbara-based private equity investment company Cuadrilla Capital says it has acquired a Mt. Laurel Township, New Jersey-based company, Agilence. Abraham was previously at Clearlake Capital and Marlin Equity Partners. Financial details of the deal were not announced.

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Los Angeles-based Skyryse, a startup which is developing software to automate piloting of aircraft, has raised $200M in a Series B funding round, according to the company. The company's prior investors, Venrock, Eclipse Ventures, and Fontinalis Partners also participated.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based Sugar, which develops software to help manage apartment and residential living, has raised $2.5M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The company develops software for residential communities, handling rent payment and other tasks. The company is led by foudner and CEO Fatima Dicko.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital announced this morning that it has entered into a deal to acquire Zywave , a developer of software-as-a-service for the insurance industry, from another private equity investor, Aurora Capital Partners. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 25, 2021

Torrance-based BQE said on Wednesday that it has received a "significant investment" from private equity investor Serent Capital. Serent Capital is a private equity investor that invests in technology and tech-enabled software companies. The company was founded by Shafat Qazi in 1995.

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JULY 8, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Partners has made a "significant" growth investment in Toronto-based Adlib, a developer of software used for structuring data. Adlib's software is used to automate the discovery, classification, extraction, and structure of data from unstructured documents.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Santa Monica-based venture investors March Capital Partners led a $51 million Series C round for conversational artificial intelligence developers Uniphore Software Systems Private Ltd.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

Aliso Viejo-based software company Quest Software announced this morning that it has acquired erwin, Inc., a developer of data modeling, data governance, and business process modeling software. Erwin had been owned by private equity investor Parallax Capital Partners.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

Los Angeles-based Greenfly, a developer of marketing software for brand ambassadors, athletes, and sponsors, said on Tuesday that it has raised $8.4M The company said that the NBA's Paul has joined the company as both a strategic investor and partner. in a strategic growth round.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 25, 2021

The partners at MaC Venture Capital , the Los Angeles-based investment firm that has just closed on $103 million for its inaugural fund, have spent the bulk of their careers breaking barriers. MaC Venture Capital co-founders Marlon Nichols, Michael Palank, Charles King, and Adrian Fenty. Image Credit: MaC Venture Capital.

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JANUARY 14, 2015

San Diego-based TVC Capital , the software-focused, growth equity investment firm founded by Jeb Spencer and Steve Hamerslag has raised a big, $115M software fund, the company said Wednesday. The fund said that TVC Capital III was oversubscribed, and closed in only 90 days. million in revenues. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Diversis Capital Management said this week that it has backed field sales software developer SalesRabbit. SalesRabbit offers up both native mobile and web-based software aimed at field sales organizations. The company is based in Utah.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Santa Monica-based investor Clearlake Capital said today that it is behind a deal where HEAT Software will acquire the Absolute Manage and Absolute Service businesses from Absolute Software Corporation. HEAT Software is a portfolio company of Clearlake Capital, and is based in Milpitas.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Los Angeles- and Nashville-based Clovers, a developer of interviewing and recruiting software, has raised $15M in a funding round, the company said this week. According to Clovers, the funding was led by Greycroft and Alpha Edison, and also included Crosslink Capital, Acadian Ventures, Fika Ventures and Act One Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital, along with private equity partner Motive Partners sai this morning that the two have agreed to acquire 80% of New York-based InvestCLoud, which develops digital wealth and investment management software. Financial terms of the deal were not announced.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

Los Angeles-based Meta Data Software, a company which develops software for managing media and entertainment catalogs and metadata, has been acquired by Rob Delf, the former founder of Rightsline. According to the company, the deal was backed by growth capital from private equity founder Salem Partners.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Irvine-based Toba Capital , the investment firm of Quest Software CEO and founder Vinny Smith, has re-upped on Quorum , a developer of appliances for disaster recovery and backup--and also taken charge of the company. Paul Sallaberry, who was on the board of Quest Software, has also joined Quorum''s board of directors.

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JULY 27, 2020

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Arrowroot Capital Management says it has completed its sale of its interest in SocialChorus , to another private equity investor, Sumeru Equity Partners. Arrowroot Capital said it will continue to own a minority interest in the company. Financial details of the sale were not announced.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Skyview Capital has acquired cybersecurity software developer Fidelis Cybersecurity a provider of network traffic analysis, digital forensics, and incident response software, the company said late Thursday. Skyview Capital says that Fidelis has over 250 employees.

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APRIL 14, 2021

Los Angeles-based BLAZE, a developer of enterprise resource planning and point-of-sale software for the legal cannabis market, recently raised $8M in a funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Delta Emerald Ventures with participation from returning investor Act One Ventures and new investor SOJE Capital.

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JUNE 19, 2019

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Dude Solutions , a developer of operations management software, which was based in Cary, North Carolina. Clearlake Capital acquired Dude Solutions from another private equity firm, Warburg Pincus.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based ringDNA , which develops sales engagement software, says it has launched a new, artificial intelligence (AI) product, which it says helps recommend actions for sales reps, to increase success.

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JULY 22, 2020

Los Angeles-based CreatorIQ which develops influencer marketing software, has raised $24M in a Series C funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The funding was led by Kayne Partners Fund, a private equity fund managed by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. The funding also included TVC Capital and Unilever Ventures.

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MAY 5, 2020

Newport Beach-based Toba Capital , the venture investment firm founded by Vinny Smith, is the lead investor in Emeryville, California-based Clear Skye , a developer of identity governance and administration software. As part of the funding, Rajan Aggarwal, Partner at Toba Capital, will join the company's board of directors.

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