TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Our guest, Aaron Levie, built a successful SaaS business in Box, and now he’s on a mission to beef – respectfully – with web3 stans all over Twitter. Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures. the week in web3.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Threese Tucker: We're a SaaS company, and in fact, that's 95 percent of our revenue. That's key.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. If you want to understand the power of how they’re built inbound call management into a SaaS category where they’re the market leader watch this one minute video. THE FULL STORY.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

in a funding round, the firm said today. The funding round came from Eric Schmidt via TomorrowVentures, ZIG Capital, Chris Burch via JCB Investments, Moore Venture Partners, La Jolla Holding Co., along with other angels. along with other angels. The firm said the Series B2 financing round brings its total raised to $4.5M.

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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. Seed deals, for example, are easier to get funded than a late-stage deal for obvious reasons. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020. In a word: Yes. Raise when you can.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

AnyMeeting provides a free, ad-supported service which allows users to run web conferences and webcasts. The angel-backed company has raised funding from the Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. The firm is targeting competitors like GoToMeeting and WebEx with its free service. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. Venue Sponsor.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

We kept meeting at conferences over the next 18 months and he kept showing me what he was working on. When Roger Ehrenberg & I agreed to fund Nick’s first institutional VC round we agreed it knowing that he was staying in the UK, that he was building out product & engineering in the UK and that he was the CEO of the company.

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JULY 1, 2015

On the other hand a certain amount of growth is fauxmentum caused by the over-funding of the startup markets and ebullient buyers of technology products (both businesses and consumers). When the music does stop playing it will create a more jarring counter force than you feel when markets grow more sensibly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. People attending marquee conferences with rock bands, prominent speakers, Gartner Group prognosticators and lots of other happy customers. If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There are so many events to attend that one could become a full time conference attendee and you could easily feel like you’re missing out with each event that happens without you and of course there is Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat to remind you just how fun it was for everybody else. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue?

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JUNE 25, 2015

We grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years. We now have 150 people across three offices, tens of millions in recurring revenue, inbound demand from investors, opportunities to acquire related startups and demands on Jason’s time to speak at conference, do press interviews and so on and so on.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

PacketSled, a cybersecurity startup based in suburban San Diego, has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Keshif Ventures, a local angel investment fund that has put money into dozens of tech startups in the San Diego area. Two other small funds, Blu Ventures and JHS Ventures joined in the round.

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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. Venue Sponsor.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. Originally funded by the Pasadena Angels , the Company is now backed by “A” list VCs, and growing phenomenally, with tens of thousands of customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We have some very good competitors--EchoSign and DocuSign are the two bigs ones, and are both venture funded--who have spent a lot of money educating the market. We ran into an interesting case at the big Rails conference in Vegas, in fact. And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile?

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MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

8 ) SocialStay is effectively a B-to-B, SaaS product that requires you to simultaneously speak to several audiences (hotels, travelers, travel sites, etc.). The most immediate and natural extension for us is conferences since our solution fits perfectly for that industry.”. They are starting to see the light. Grass is always greener….

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

30% of our last fund went into deals in this sector. My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector. Vice versa is it’s a SaaS platform company where I spent nearly 10 years running companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In a world where 90% of communications is non-verbal imagine what is lost on conference calls. Those cultural normals are established through human connections: the night we all stayed late to get that release out the door, the day we celebrated our funding round or the day we landed our first big account.

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