socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2020

The company--whose President and Chief Revenue Officer, Eric Sikola is located in Los Angeles--said the funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Sikola said Qualified is adding team members in Los Angeles shortly. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2021

Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan, which provides software used by contractors and the trades to manage their business, has acquired another company, Aspire Software, which develops software for the commercial landscaping business. ServiceTitan said it is hiring, particularly in customer support, sales, product, and engineering.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Salted , a Los Angeles-based startup creating digitally native quick-service restaurant brands, brought in a new round of $16 million in Series A funding to continue its nationwide expansion. Our technology and Salted Analytics product helps us grow at the rate we want to and still maintain customer experience,” Applebaum said. “We

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Los Angeles-based ServiceTitan is providing integration of its platform with garage door manufacturer and supplier Clopay, the company said this week. According to ServiceTitan, the integration allows garage door sales and service technicians to easily configure and present quotes and track and process Clopay doors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2014

Some recent jobs: VP of Business Development, RampRate - Los Angeles. The Vice President of Business Development reports to the CEO and is responsible for the direction and management of all worldwide sales operations direct and indirect, including market competitiveness, pricing, compensation, and distribution.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 15, 2018

Daniel Kim and Jay Lee, the two founders of AuditBoard , a Los Angeles-based provider of a risk and compliance software service for large businesses, grew up middle school friends in Cerritos, Calif. “We were impressed with AuditBoard’s product and its customer traction.

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socalTECH

JULY 26, 2018

Los Angeles-based Chrome River Technologies , which develops expense and invoice automation software, is expanding overseas today, saying that it has launched a new, German subsidiary. Chrome River already has a EMEA headquarters based in London.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Our fund (Upfront Ventures) recently returned >1x an entire $200 million fund just selling small minatory in secondary sales while still holding most of our stock for an ultimate public market exits. We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Our transaction-focused methodology delivers low risk, best-in-class business terms, rates and service levels for our customers. Funded B2B SaaS is looking for a VP, Engineering. Vice President, Sales and Marketing , Stanton Chase International. The company and this position is Los Angeles based.

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SoCalTech Outsource SaaS Report 138

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

If you run a salon or spa, how do you tackle the challenges of scheduling and your point-of-sale? Los Angeles-based Boulevard (www.joinblvd.com) has develops business management software to help premium salons and spas with their operations. It provides a comprehensive scheduling and point-of-sale system for those businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Over time you start to figure out who you customers are and how to sell to them or how to get them to adopt your products if you’re a consumer-oriented startup.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

CapLinked , the Los Angeles-based developer of enterprise software for managing M&A transactions, venture deals, and other business deals, is aiming squarely at legacy, virtual data room services with its latest updates. CapLinked is headed by Eric M.

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Services Venture Capital Equity Los Angeles 218

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2019

It's all about a social organization, like a Boy Scout group, a Girl Scout group, a religious organization like a church, K-12 such as when they do field outings, but also holiday parties and company meetings, sales force organizations. How did you end up here in Los Angeles if you had working up in Redmond for Microsoft?

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Startup Evite Organization Software 212

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. He comes from a SaaS background, and enterprise software. We took it to the market in January of 2015.

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Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Software Review Woodland Hills 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

For our pitch today, we have an interview with Taher Scherzay , founder of Thaeres (www.thaeres.com), a Los Angeles area startup developing subscription and recurring payment processing services. Thaeres is a SaaS-based, dashboard solution for mid-market enterprises. What''s the model behind how you charge customers for this?

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Startup Oracle Customer Custom 159

socalTECH

JULY 18, 2016

Los Angeles-based Pipeliner CRM , the developer of customer relationship management software led by Nikolaus Kimla, has rolled out a new release of its CRM tools, which it says adds new data visualization capabilities.

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Tool Los Angeles Software Customer 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

A few weeks ago, Los Angeles-based enterprise expense reporting software maker Chrome River (www.chromeriver.com) took a significant venture funding round--worth $100M--to help expand the company's growth in the enterprise software market. However, our customers, even with Concur, find those solutions didn't meet all of their needs.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Our profile this morning is with Network Automation , a Los Angeles company competing in the IT automation market. It's nice chatting with you again about your company--you're here in Los Angeles, aren't you? Our marquis customers are companies like Citibank and Lowe's Corporation, along with many others.

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Networking IBM IBM Pacific Palisades 214

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? How is the company backed?

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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. Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. It looks like there is some story behind how you ended up at FileTrek and the company ended up in Los Angeles--the firm was in Canada?

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EC2 Los Angeles Web Anthem 150

socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. Christopher Webb: It's a SaaS model, and it's $89 a month per location.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2016

He's now hard at work at a new company, Kaleo, which is tackling the enterprise, knowledge sharing market�and already has an impressive list of Fortune 500 customers. That can be a subject matter expert, product head, a sales head, any category in the enterprise, and they can use our lightweight platform for answers.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup CTO Hire 169

socalTECH

JULY 27, 2009

There might be a little customization we need to do for your website, but it's trivial--it's not an application rewrite that you might need to do like Google has. It seems like there are a lot of mobile sales folks who would find your software useful in that case? What does Mobophiles do, and what the idea behind the product is?

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SaaS Web Google Sites 127

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It has historically been the case that VCs would rather fund the promise of 100x in a company with almost no revenue than the reality of a company growing at 50% but doing $20+ million in sales. Our goal is to produce a $10 billion+ winner and remain the market leader in this SaaS category of AI in Sales & Marketing.

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Venture Capital Capital Funding Startup 363

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

We manage user login so businesses can focus on core product and engage customers faster. From: Los Angeles, CA. Fun Fact: LafaLafa is a play on the word ‘Laugh’ from the business tagline ‘Laugh your way to maximum savings’ and is meant to evoke a happy feeling for customers when they find the best deal. Cirrus Identity.

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Startup Training SaaS Walnut 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Customers are harder to sign than you want. You’ve got to accept customer losses as learning experiences and see how you can improve next time. I then flew from London to Los Angeles to meet with the partners of GRP. We committed to cost focus, customer adoption and delivering our numbers.

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Entrepreneur Startup GRP Partners Venture Capital 298

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

You attend five customer meetings together over a two-week period and after each meeting you replay the results in the office about what it meant. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. Been there.

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Technical Advisors Outsource Development Offshore Startup 335