socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor OpenGate Capital announced this morning that it has acquired Chicago-based InRule Technology , a developer of decision management and business rules management software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Los Angeles-based March Capital Partners is the lead investor in a big, $32M funding round for ActionIQ , a startup which provides personalization software to enterprise customers. As part of the funding, March Capital's Meredith Finn, a Partner at the firm, will join ActionIQ's board. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group has acquired Houston, Texas-based symplr , a provider of healthcare governance, risk, and compliance software. Clearlake acquired symplr from its existing set of private equity investors, Pamlico Capital and The CapStreet Group. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based private equity investor Vincente Capital Partners announced on Tuesday that it has sold Carlsbad-based Intellectual Technology, Inc. , a developer of software for motor vehicle agencies (DMVs), to Arlington Capital Partners. Vincente Capital acquired ITI in November of 2012. The company is 25 years old.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2021

San Diego-based Drata, a startup working on security and compliance automation software, said it has raised $25M in its Series A funding. The funding was led by GGV Capital, and also included Okta Ventures, Silicon Valley CISO Investors (SVCI), Cowboy Ventures, and Leaders Fund. Photo: Drata's founders).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

I spend a lot of time with startups and thus hear many companies talk about their approach to sales and their interactions with customers. From these meetings you can really tell the leaders that care deeply about their customers and those the look down on them. You’d be very wrong. Contrast that with a VC conversation I had.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Cloudbreak Health , which provides telehealth and video medical interpretation service, said this morning that it has integrated with healthcare electronic medical records provider Epic Software. The company said the integration allows its healthcare provider customers to seamlessly access its services.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Santa Monica-based cloud-based learning, talent management, and other software, said today that it has connected with Ultimate Software , a developer of human capital management software. Cornerstone OnDemand said it joined Ultimate Software's UltiPro Connect Partners program. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2018

Los Angeles-based SteelHouse , which develops online retargeting and advertising software, has named Rory Mitchell as Chief Customer Officer (CCO) at the company. Mitchell was previously VP of Client Success at SteelHouse, where he has been for less than a year. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2017

Los Angeles-based March Capital appears to be having a busy investment week this week, and has led an $30M, Series B funding in Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Descartes Labs , a developer of software used for satellite imagery analysis. The round also included a customer, Cargill. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 21, 2017

Santa Barbara-based property management software developer Yardi said Friday that it has signed up Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as a new customer. Cortland Capital Market Services, which is based in Chicago, provides investment servicing, and is using Yardi's Investment Management software. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2018

San Diego-based startup Truepic , a developer of software which "notarizes" digital photos for authenticity, has raised $8M in a Series A funding, the company announced on Thursday. Truepic says that its customers include Reddit and the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS). The company was founded by Craig Stack and Jeff McGregor.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Santa Monica-based Brace , a startup developing software to automate mortgage servicing, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Point72 Ventures, and also included Crosslink Capital. Brace said the new funding brings its total raised to $15M.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Today's interview is with Jon Ferrara of Nimble (www.nimble.com), the maker of contact management software-as-a-service. How does customer service tie into all of this?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Fundamentally venture capital is about human capital. Invoca has grown its enterprise customer base 550% in the past three years including major customers like Microsoft, Allstate and SunTrust. Marketing departments, software partners and investors have now woken up to this opportunity. Nothing fancier.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2023

Management undertakes a simple exercise of calculating the increased profitability of shutting down all R&D, sales and subordinate operations, and universally notes with shock the high net profit that results – from shutting down all operations except customer service to recurring customers (as in software support operations.).

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

El Seguno-based SmartAction , which is developing artificial intelligence-driven, call center automation software, said today that it has raised funding in a management recapitalization by private equity investors Staley Capital and TVC Capital. Staley Capital is based in Boston, and TVC Capital is based in San Diego.

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socalTECH

APRIL 23, 2019

Los Angeles-based March Capital is the lead investor in an artificial intelligence startup, which is aiming at improving employee service, as it further continues its theme of investing in big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning startups in the enterprise. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 9, 2017

Los Angeles-based Funraise , the developer of a software platform which helps nonprofits manage their fundraising efforts, has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The funding was lead by Toba Capital, the investment firm founded by Quest Software founder Vinny Smith.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

North Hollywood-based Yapi , a provider of paperless communications and account management software for dental practices, says it has raised a round of growth investment from M33 Growth. YAPI's software allows dental practices to automate administrative tasks. Financial details of that investment were not announced.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Los Angeles-based Catalog , a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, has raised $1.5M The funding was led by Moonshots Capital, and also included Techstars and Luma Launch. in a seed funding round.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2017

Santa Monica-based private equity investor Clearlake Capital Group announced this morning that it has acquired NetDocuments , a provider of cloud-based document management, email management, and collaboration software for law firms and corporate legal and compliance customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2018

San Diego-based VizExplorer , which develops operational intelligence software used by casinos, reported a win with the Tunica-Biloxi Gaming Authority for Paragon Casino Resort, in Marksville, Louisiana. VizExplorer recently received a big round of funding from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2018

Playa Vista-based Appetize , which develops modern, tablet- and handheld-based point of sale (POS) systems, has added a number of high profile customers, and says it has seen record growth this year. The company's point-of-sale terminals and software are a significant upgrade from legacy point-of-sale terminals. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Today, we share the thoughts of Peter Cowen , Managing Director of Sutton Capital Partners (www.suttoncapitalpartners.com). Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year?

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

GrubMarket , which provides software and services that help link up and manage relationships between food suppliers and their customers — which can include wholesalers and other distributors, markets and supermarkets, delivery startups, restaurants, and consumers — has picked up $120 million in a Series E round of funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2018

This year, we're again sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. What has been the biggest lesson you've learned in retaining and keeping customers? listen to them to iterate our product, and that's how we get buy-in from our customers. Kevin Anderson.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Zingle, a startup whose software is used by hospitality, travel, and retail industries to more easily and quickly connect with their customers via messaging, has been acquired for about $42 million in cash by Medallia, a publicly traded software company in San Francisco.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2014

The two said the deal will provide the ability to target guests with content and offers, letting restaurants communicate with customers via email, mobile web, apps, and social promotions. Kahuna is backed by Sequoia Capital. tillster mobile emarketing software kahuna restaurant ordering system partnership' READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

deliver profitable revenue that while on gross margins of 50% vs. software at 85-95% it is still profits to help you cover fixed costs. You don’t want to run the risk that having a PS business that takes your eye of off the ball of growing a large software business. That is the software business. rollout support.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the company, it offers up its software to cities and counties to help those counties and cities identify unpaid property taxes from real estate improvements done without plans and permits. The company said that the lead investor that participated in its first two rounds of seed funding was Loeb Enterprise.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

Santa Monica-based location analytics software developer MomentFeed announced Tuesday morning that it has signed on some big brands as customers of the firm. MomentFeed is backed by Gold Hill Capital, DFJ Frontier, DFJ-JAIC Venture Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, as well as a long list of local angel investors.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The company says its software platform currently works both on Windows and Linux operating systems, utilizing used processing power on those systems to minimize use of cloud computing costs. Tim O'Neal, a former executive at Intuit, is CEO of Kazuhm. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2013

in a funding round, the firm announced today, for its "cloudpaging" software, which helps deliver Microsoft Windows applications into the cloud. According to Numecent, the funding was led by T-Venture, the venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom. telekom deutsche capital venture enterprise conversion software saas cloud numecent'

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MARCH 28, 2019

The summit is now associated with March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com). What's your role at March Capital? Meredith Finn: I joined March Capital at the beginning of the year. For myself, I'm largely focused on investments in enterprise software, primarily in the areas of application software and intelligence.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 13, 2011

San Luis Obispo-based Shopatron , which develops e-commerce software for retailers, said today that it has made a major upgrade to its software. provides an upgraded customer experience, targeted at increasing sales for its customers. The firm said that Shopatron 3.0 READ MORE>>.

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