InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. All-Star Alumni. Am I biased?

Santa Barbara

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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. One area with headwinds are non-mission critical SaaS niche solutions showing slower growth.

Capital

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. One with a company that produces games and educational products for children that we will announce in the next few months. I have fallen in love twice recently.

Venture Capital

InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2016

In the early 2000’s, SaaS was a nascent concept and most companies were reticent to rent software. Users, on the other hand, immediately saw the benefits of SaaS. They appreciated that the software could be accessed from anywhere and that it was updated weekly. Car Door Slam Features.

SaaS

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

San Diego-based Portfolium , a startup developing tools to allow students to showcase their achievements, projects, and other portfolio of academic work to potential employers, has been acquired by educational software provider Instructure , the two announced late Tuesday. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

Tech Coast Angels

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2011

Docufide , which provides a service to transmit educational credentials and high school transcripts to colleges and universities, announced Thursday that it has renamed itself Parchment, Inc. Docufide recently hired Matthew Pittinsky, the founder of educational software firm Blackboard, as its new CEO. funding round. READ MORE>>.

SoCalTech

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

Education

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2012

A new, financial education and family organization website, DoughMain , said yetserday that it has raised funding from a private equity fund managed out of Los Angeles and Boston. DoughMain provides a combination of financial education and online organizational tools for families. DoughMain is based in Princeton, New Jersey.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

JANUARY 15, 2013

The firm said that Alyson Stone, who formerly served in the same role at Salesforce's Desk.com division, will lead expansion of its content and education strategy. Nimble said that Stone also served at Assistly, in addition to having over 20 years of experience at startups and large companies.

Santa Monica

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Ironically, studies have shown that the majority of value associated with high-tech innovations involve unique advancements in non-product areas, such as: pricing (SaaS subscriptions vs. licensing), delivery (downloads vs. retail) and customer experience (Apple vs. Microsoft). smaller, faster, cheaper, lighter, etc.)

Startup

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2019

Los Angeles-based educational software developer GoGuardian , a developer of. software for the K-12 market, said it has named Mike Jonas its new Chief Financial Officer. Jonas was most recently CFO of ThriftBooks, and also had been at Microsoft for 14 years. The company is owned by private equity investor Sumeru Equity Partners.

Education

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.

Tech Coast Angels

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? 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. That's a good thing for us, because of the legal issues--it's been a lot of education.

Outsource Development

socalTECH

JULY 6, 2017

Kangarootime says it develops software that allows childcare centers and other educational centers to digitize their operations, including allowing parents to check their children in and out of centers, pay tuition, view and share photos, and more. The funding came from Skyview Ventures LLC, Mucker Capital, and the Tech Coast Angels.

Tech Coast Angels

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2019

Graduway is based in the UK, and offers up its software to educational institutions and non-profit organizations. Size and terms of the investment were not announced. K1 Investment Management says it invests in high growth, enterprise software companies.

Manhattan Beach

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The company said its tools provide sales and financial training, tools to understand financial benchmarks, and education around understanding key data analytics. The startup is led by two co-CEOs, Izhak Musli and Terri Ross.

Seed Funding

socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2017

Burbank-based testing software and services provider PSI Services announced this morning that it has acquired Software Secure , a provider of cloud-based, online testing services for the higher education, K-12, and certification markets. Financial details of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Services

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Current rount: $8.14mm in Series A from Redpoint (lead), Foundry Group, with previous investors, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital (Chris Sacca), Ravi Narasimham.

Venture Capital

socalTECH

JUNE 3, 2021

NEOGOV develops employee management software for state and local government, education, public safety, and other public sector customers, made available through software-as-a-service. The size of the investment--described as "significant"--was not announced. Warburg Pincus had an existing stake in NEOGOV. The company was founded in 2000.

El Segundo

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the software-as-a-service (SAAS) subscription model was created many years ago to offset the high one-time purchase cost obstacle that killed many early software products. Selling products to education organizations, or the government, is never simple. Identify interim growth steps to mitigate the cost and risk.

Product

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2016

Nimble's employee scheduling tools are aimed that retail, hospitality, healthcare, education, government and services areas. Nimble Software said the funding goes towards technology development, marketing, and global expansion. The company is led by Sasha Poljak. READ MORE>>.

Education

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The software of Portfolium, a San Diego startup that hosts online portfolios for students trying to showcase their achievements to potential employers, is set to join the portfolio of Utah educational software company Instructure. Instructure (NYSE: INST ) has agreed to acquire privately held Portfolium.

Software

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Cornerstone OnDemand said its software is already used by a number of other higher educational institutions, including Boston College, the University of Southern California, Ohio State University, Sam Houston State University, Valencia College, Full Sail University and Alamo Colleges, among others.

Cornerstone OnDemand

Steve Reich

MAY 12, 2013

Even though I’ve been involved with SaaS products since 1998, the last few months have been quite the education. I’ve recently joined Malauzai Software, a developer of Mobile Banking Apps for Community Banks and Credit Unions, as their Chief Sales Officer.

Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2013

They are genuinely creating these podcasts to educate and inspire people who love building products as much as they do. They focus on a specific market and over deliver quality education. It’s this awesome SAAS that allows me to include links and email forms inside YouTube videos.

Customer

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. An audience member brings up education. A great tip, as we enter an era of newly emerging education models, distance learning, and higher education.

Startup

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. What is TrackStreet? Direct-to-consumer is just part of that.

Artificial Inteligence

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Most big companies initially rejected use of the cloud, just as they rejected SaaS solutions when we launched GoToMyPC in 2001. Or to softly educate the customer using phrases like ‘I’m not sure this is a good idea, the way we’ve seen others solve the problem successfully is …’. From day one we focused on customers.

Cloud Computing

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

They've done a fanstic job moving through the space, and educating the market about expense management and reporting. Their main competitor also changed hands a few times. Both of those solutions were leap-frogged by Concur, which is now the big known brand name here.

Software

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. Marissa leads the Education Practice at Village Capital. Blackwell, iTech Program Executive & OCT Innovation Liaison, NASA. Marissa Lowman, Investor at Village Capital. She also has experience advising non-U.S.

Technical Review

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

The company also educates people about their rights on capture data when interacting with law enforcement. Spinbackup is a Google Cloud Partner and provide Cloud-to-Cloud backup and cyber security solutions for SaaS data. Once uploaded, the company safeguards the data in their secure cloud. DatavizVR (Austin, TX).

Startup

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

We grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years. If that’s your end goal I couldn’t think of a better leader to take us to that conclusion and I think it could be in the next few years because SaaS companies capable of doing 9 figures of recurring revenue are few and far between.

Demand

SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 20, 2010

On CBS MoneyWatch: Why Debit Cards Are Dangerous BNET Business Network: BNET TechRepublic ZDNet ZDNet Members login Newsletters Site Assistance RSS Feeds Home News & Blogs Videos White Papers Downloads Reviews Popular Enterprise Web 2.0 Dion Hinchcliffe Get Enterprise Web 2.0 Forrester Research Googling Google GreenTech Pastures Hardware 2.0

Web

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

On many occasions I’ve offered to give 30 minute industry overviews on a tech topic to journalists when they’re not working on a deadline and want to better understand a topic like SaaS, Cloud, LBS, etc. Robert Scoble interviewed me in 2006 about my startup, Koral.

Tips

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

If you’re a SaaS company and the firm is a “consumer” firm (or vice versa) then don’t waste your time. If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. The second-pass qualification is “industry focus.”

Funding

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Higher education. 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. So I send Byron any SaaS investment I do at the earliest stage where I know we’ve nailed product / market fit. Home alarms.

Email

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. Food production and distribution, group collaboration, remote training or education, sensor technology (tracking people movement, temperatures, etc), certain biotech deals.

Venture Capital