socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

It's surprising how often we run into rapidly growing companies that not many people have heard of, here in Southern California, but that's the case with El Segundo-based. NEOGOV , which has quietly built an enterprise software company supplying human resources software to the government and public sector. What is Neogov?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. This can’t all be driven by increased company performance). Each of the two videos is about 10 minutes long.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2021

Los Angeles-based PayEngine, a startup developing a white label, payment platform for software-as-a-service companies, has raised $1.6M in a seed funding, the company said this morning. The funding came from Mucker Capital, BAM Ventures, I2BF Global Ventures, HIVE Ventures and other strategic investors, according to the company.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

LA gets a big SaaS exit as Fastly nabs the Culver City-based Signal Sciences for $775M. Instead of granting permanent access to, there re policy-based pre authorizations that a company can set up defined for specific tasks and roles. million from LA’s own venture fund, Upfront Ventures and a clutch of security experts.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2021

Techstars LA, the startup accelerator headed up by Matt Kozlov, announced its 2021 class this week, drawing an international group of twelve new companies to its startup accelerator in Culver City. Companies this year in the program come from as far as Canada, India, and Ukraine.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US. Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar. companies’ largest VC raised in 2018 , and no surprise here: the 10 largest rounds all topped out well north of $100 million. companies have raised $38.4 More posts by this contributor.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

or your ran Goldmine, and the two companies competed head to head in managing every salesperson''s contact list. So far, Nimble has the edge, as the Santa Monica company has been offering up its products to the market since 2011, and Contatta just announced the company and has yet to launch its own software. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This allowed us to create a suite of SaaS solutions under their radar (GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, GoToAssist, etc.). We eventually sold our company to Citrix, which went on to grow the products into the world''s third largest SaaS offering. I''ve seen well-funded companies fall apart. How are you going do this?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Traditional software vs. SaaS. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. I call them “ VCs Seagulls.” FourSquare.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Mostly, no.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Scott McCorkle has spent most of his professional career thinking about business to business software and how to improve it for a company’s customers. The first offerings will be launching in the beginning of 2019, but the company has dozens of customers already using its pilot, McCorkle said.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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. Last year, the company unveiled its tools for managing Kubernetes deployments and immediately saw sales increase. “Once we started building on that success.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

Clio , a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. The round propels the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company to unicorn status, valuing it at $1.6 Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

It won’t happen right away but I’ve seen some innovative companies doing exactly this in places like Australia where they are taking a more liberal approach to allowing drone deliveries. they just put up with the food delivery company fees. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product. Covid-19 has changed all of that.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Goleta-based AutoVitals , which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for the automotive repair and maintenance software business, has raised a round of private equity, the company recently announced, from private equity investor Tritium Partners. Financial details of the private equity deal were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

The role of a CTO varies as the company matures. And you certainly don’t want to be the company that spends time and money building something you could have picked up off the shelf. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Should a startup CTO spend their time programming? Exploring new technologies?

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TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) How much money will your business generate from each converted customer? Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It’s even more exciting when you can report an exit of a company that is a major win. HealthDataInsights (HDI) is a company that helps to recover money for the government or private insurers who have been incorrectly billed or fraudulently charged. 9 companies out of 33 drove our largest returns. Solving bigger problems.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

<== Our conclusion was that this isn’t a temporary blip that will swiftly trend-back up in a V-shaped recovery of valuations but rather represented a new normal on how the market will price these companies somewhat permanently. First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Yet as obvious as it is to create messaging for your company, many people don’t consider their personal brands.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

AWS helped lower the cost of starting a company by 90%. When I started my first company at 31 year’s old I had to raise at least $5 million. million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 Heck, you can launch your company if you’re a developer for $50,000. The infrastructure alone cost $2.5

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Companies that have leveraged technology to make the procurement and delivery of food more accessible to more people have been seeing a big surge of business this year, as millions of consumers are encouraged (or outright mandated, due to Covid-19) to socially distance or want to avoid the crowds of physical shopping and eating excursions.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Companies being created has continued to go up dramatically making managing dealflow nearly impossible. In the market we’ve seen the massive uptick of SaaS valuations in the public markets and commensurate attention on private market fundings and valuations. Thank you to the companies that went through transitions this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

During this period Kobie worked closely with many SaaS companies including ExactTarget from its early days and the Founder & CEO, Scott Dorsey, served as a strong reference for Kobie. Kobie worked with several companies while at Accel including Campaign Monitor (run by my good friend Alex Bard), UserTesting, and Emergent VR.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I follow Jason Lemkin closely (he’s a long-time friend) and he speaks frequently and passionately about SaaS businesses having built a successful one himself. I want to wake up in the morning on weekends thinking about the company, the product, their positioning. I have fallen in love twice recently.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

However, in many cases, acquiring companies behave less rationally than Mr. Jackson. Citrix politely approached us, told us they had an interest in acquiring our company and then asked us, “How much?”. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. VC Funding Alternative.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 4, 2024

At TechEmpower , we’ve used LLMs as part of marketing strategies where you can find and classify companies, personalize outreach campaigns and have personalized drip campaigns. By processing and analyzing large datasets, AI can identify emerging trends, enabling companies to align their product strategies with future market demands.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. But what if you’re a credit card company and you want to know where to find your next customers? What I am certain of is that real-time processing of big data (both public & private) is going to build some multi-billion dollar companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

A newly launched company, Mission --created from the merger of Los Angeles-based Reliam , Los Angeles-based Stratalux ,and Boston-based G2 Tech Group -- has launched under a new, consolidated brand, Mission said this week. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These outside board members spend most of the board meeting trying to reacquaint themselves with the company’s business and critical issues. These posts are not about any individual company even though they’ve all heard me say these things often. Explain and discuss company admin (10-20%). Ineffecient Board Meeting.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 1, 2014

However, Redondo Beach-based StaffRanker (www.staffranker.com) has rolled out a system to help those companies better manage what is a notoriously difficult segment of the labor market, which has a lot of turnover and which just doesn''t match existing, corporate performance management systems. How did you start the company?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Irvine-based billing and payments software startup Chargezoom has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The funding was led by Okapi Venture Capital and also included Saas Ventures. Chargezoom develops a software platform that helps businesses automate accounts receivable, billing, and payments.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2019

Our interview today is with Aaron Ross, the Co-CEO of Predictable Revenue (www.predictablerevenue.com), and author of the Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100M Best Practices of Salesforce.com, and From Impossible to Inevitable: How SaaS and Other Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue.

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socalTECH

MARCH 25, 2021

Los Angeles- and Palo Alto-based MaC Venture Capital has launched a new, $103M seed stage investment fund today, saying it plans to invest in technology startups across the fintech, e-commerce and marketplaces, interactive media, connectivity, enterprise SaaS, space and aerospace, logistics, and other sectors.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 27, 2022

Or when something happens that makes an investor think this company is about to break out. Tech businesses today can do this much more easily than a decade ago, with cheaper development costs, SaaS hosting environments avoiding heavy equipment costs, and development platforms with pre-formed routines available. Do it on good news!

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2019

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference, which we co-host every year. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018? What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Los Angeles-based LogicBoost Labs, a startup accelerator which focuses on pre-revenue and early-stage B2B SaaS startups, says it has made a $300K investment in Clarevent, which supplies video infrastructure for virtual events. The company said the investment was $200K in cash, plus another $100K in advisory services.

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