socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2016

Los Angeles-based mPulse Mobile , which develops mobile healthcare software, has upped its recent funding round to $13M. The company--which announced the first tranche of a Series A in January, worth $10M--said the new funding came from Cambia Health Solutions and Rincon Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2015

ChowNow said the new funding round was led by Upfront Ventures, and also included Steadfast Venture Capital, Daher Capital, and Karlin Ventures. saas software marketing upfront capital venture restaurant ordering mobile chownow' READ MORE>>. ChowNow was founded by Chris Webb. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you an entrepreneur, looking for capital here in Southern California? Here's a rundown of some of the venture capital investors who have set up shop in Southern California, plus those with big new funds, which have been announced so far since January of this year. Moonshots Capital. Core Innovation Capital.

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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. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Amplify LA said it found that software-as-a-service (SaaS) was the most funded sector, with a decline in investments in such areas as e-commerce and mobile technology. The group says its tracking found that the average seed round size was $2.2M for the quarter.

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Report SaaS Los Angeles Commerce 133

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash I was listening to Dan Primack’s podcast on Pro Rata and he was interviewing Senator Klobucher who is now publicly and vocally speaking out against Uber purchasing Grubhub and has tried to mobilize against this. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product.

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SaaS Customer Custom Technical Review 242

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Calls are changing but not dying. Much more data in the full post.

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Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based CitySourced , which develops mobile apps to help cities communicate with their constituents, has merged with Rock Solid Technologies , a provider of software to the government. Rock Solid is owned by private equity investor Strattam Capital. Financial terms of the merger were not announced.

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Technology Equity Los Angeles Mobile 160

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2019

Berman currently is a venture advisor for Spider Capital Partners. Raken is backed by Spider Capital, as well as U.S. Venture Partners, Tao Capital Partners, Eniac Ventures, and Rincon Venture Partners. The company says it now has more than 4,000 clients for its cloud-based mobile software.

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San Diego Software Mobile Capital 113

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

According to FatTail, the new software allows advertisers to book ads, including banners, rich media, video, and mobile ads, on publisher web sites. FatTail is venture backed by Fuse Capital, Ted Meisel, and others. Tags: fattail software advertising self service saas pagegage direct. READ MORE>>.

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Woodland Hills SaaS Advertising Web 140

socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

Corona, California-based Clubspeed , which develops software used to manage go karting tracks, race tracks, trampoline parks, and family entertainment centers, has been acquired by private equity investor Nadavon Capital Partners , the two said over the weekend. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 5, 2018

San Diego-based Raken , a startup developing mobile software to manage construction projects, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round. Venture Partners, and also included Tao Capital Partners, plus earlier investors Eniac Ventures, Rincon Venture Partners and Spider Capital. The funding was led by U.S.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

The Series A is led by Social Capital which is joining the board. Also participating in the round: The Schmidt Family Foundation, Emerson Collective, Radicle Impact, Rethink Impact, Plum Alley, Kapor Capital and First Philippine Holdings. So a chunk of the Series A will be going to help pay for more sensor rollouts.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2015

The funding came from Mithril Capital Management and Salesforce Ventures. Classy was founded in 2006 as StayClassy, and also counts Bullpen Capital and Venture51 as backers.

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Software San Diego Mobile Capital 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2017

San Diego-based mobile broadband equipment maker Inseego is continuing to reshape its executive team, after a major shift in direction, saying today that it has named Chris Lytle as its new Chief Strategy Officer. Lytle was also previously at Morgan Stanley and a portfolio manager at hedge fund RCL Capital.

San Diego 113

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation. When we invest we tend to be very active in our companies and we look to invest enough capital to have meaningful ownership stakes. Women Entrepreneurs.

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GRP Partners Technical Review Truecar Invest 285

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” If venture capital is propping up your business performance – good luck when the spigot slows one day. Success for many is ephemeral.

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Product Startup Metrics Technical Review 150

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company says it offers up donation pages, ticketing, memberships, and real-time online/mobile auctions to nonprofit and other charitable organizations. The funding was led by SteelBridge Labs. According to the company, it will use the funding to accelerate its growth. Givsum says it is continuing to raise angel funding via Wefunder.

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Tool Seed Funding Organization Platform 100

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, the firm has previously raised capital from Bessemer Venture Partners, Catalyst Investors, Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and Frontera Capital. MindBody's software-as-a-service handles business management, merchant account processing, mobile, and other aspects for its clients.

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Software Tech Coast Angels Pasadena Angels Pasadena 157

Xconomy

JANUARY 31, 2019

It sells online tools for veterinarians looking to automate appointment requests and marketing messages, and offers a free mobile app allowing pet owners to schedule visits and complete other tasks. This month, PetDesk raised $12 million from New York- and Silicon Valley-based PeakSpan Capital to expand its offerings beyond.

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San Diego Startup Tool Mobile 78

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. And so is venture capital. SEO marketing vs. social marketing.

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Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

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Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

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.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Both Sides of the Table

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. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

One of the questions we discussed is, “How much capital should a startup raise?” ” Fred & I are both in agreement that there is a tension between capital constraints and creativity. Perhaps that’s rational capitalism at its extreme. But it’s not who I am. This works brilliantly.”

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Startup Writing Blogging 150

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan.

Startup 110

Startup Activision Santa Monica SaaS 110

socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software , a startup developing mobile and cloud-based project management and document control software for the construction industry, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The funding came from Revolution Ventures. eSub was founded by Weny Roger and Benny Baltrotsky.

Software 100

Software San Diego Mobile Invest 100

Steve Reich

OCTOBER 30, 2012

I was wrong, and the article was a good reminder that telling your company’s full story is a critical element in raising capital. The company builds a SaaS mobile banking platform for community banks. Mobile is important. Malauzai is an example of a company that tells its’ story well. It all flows into a great story.

Startup 65

Startup SaaS Platform .Net 65

InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2016

In contrast, TaxJar, a SaaS solution which makes automates online sales tax calculations, reporting and filings, is an entirely virtual company. Dan is now CEO of Mobile1st , makers of Mobilizer, the mobile customer experience optimization platform. No venture capital.”. FastSpring. And we did it all with about $30,000.

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Entrepreneur Santa Barbara Email Outsource Development 100

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Unfortunately, investors and surfers can be lemmings, which results in good breaks getting over surfed and market sectors attracting too much capital. Although the venture's journey is not completed, we are very pleased that we deviated from our traditional b-to-b SaaS focus.

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Invest Software Review Journal Competition 100

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha served a lengthy tenure fulfilling multiple roles at Wells Fargo, most recently as VP of Consumer Financial Services, where she led the mobile payments strategy and implementation for the credit card business. The program has been so successful that the startups have leveraged $48M in private capital to further their development.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

TranscribeMe is using a hybrid of machine translation and real, human translators to power its mobile translation service. The investment is an unusual one for the Southern California angel groups, as in TranscribeMe was started in New Zealand, and has its U.S. operations in Emeryville. READ MORE>>.

Keiretsu 164

Keiretsu Tech Coast Angels Southern California Funding 164

Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego is intended to showcase local startups that are focused on innovation in such areas as Software as a Service (SaaS), consumer Internet, mobile technology, hardware, and defense technology.

San Diego 74

San Diego Guide Tech Coast Angels Startup 74

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

We've invested in a fantastic company called Mobiclip, which provides high throughput video with low battery consumption on mobile devices. As a result, I'm looking at a lot of software-as-a-service companies, and have run a number of SaaS companies. Tags: mark suster interview venture capital partners global retail grpvc.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies. All this is done while they guide startups through other external challenges such as fundraising droughts and overall market downturns.

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Venture Capital Marketing Guide Invest 67