Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. And as a result of this there are now very robust secondary markets where founders and seed-funds alike are selling down their ownership long before an ultimate exit. That used to be called A-round investing. of the fund.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2021

Irvine-based GoDocs, a developer of legal document preparation software, said today that it has raised round of investment from private equity investor M33 Growth, and appointed a new CEO. Size of the investment round was not announced. According to the company, it has appointed Steve Butler as CEO of the company.

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Xconomy

MAY 2, 2019

A new venture capital firm, which in November marked its launch by raising a $53 million-plus fund to invest in startups, has made its first investment.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2019

Graduway , a developer of software used for alumni engagement and career services management, has scored an investment from Manhattan Beach-based investor K1 Investment Management. Size and terms of the investment were not announced. K1 Investment Management says it invests in high growth, enterprise software companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

San Diego-based Certona , a developer of personalization software which uses machine learning and predictive algorithms, has raised $30M in a combined growth investment and minority recapitalization. The funding came from private equity investor Primus Capital. Certona was founded in 2004.

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socalTECH

JULY 30, 2014

San Diego-based XIFIN , a developer of cloud-based software for the healthcare diagnostics market, has been acquired by private equity investor GTCR. GTCR said the investment came from its $3.85 billion GTCR Fund XI, with additional funding provided by GE Capital and CapitalSource. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2020

Newport Beach-based WorkSpace , a developer of software used by commercial real estate teams to manage their operations, has received funding from ASG , a backer of software-as-a-service companies. Size and terms of the investment were not announced.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2021

According to ServiceTitan, the acquisition came alongside a new, $200M investment from private equity investor Thoma Bravo. The Series G funding values ServiceTitan at $9.5 Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Aspire Software is based in St. Louis, Missouri. billion, according to the company.

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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. million in pre-seed investment from investors including Liberty City Ventures, Digital Currency Group and Coinbase Ventures. debt, equity, derivatives) or sectors (e.g.,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Santa Monica-based enterprise software developer Cornerstone OnDemand has raised $300M in a strategic investment from private equity investor Silver Lake, according to the company. In conjunction with the investment, publicly held Cornerstone OnDemand said it will launch a $100M share repurchase program.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

Technology investing is the best job in the world, but it can be fraught with failure. Once you make enough technology investments, as we have over the last decade, failure at multiple levels will increase and sometimes it feels as if these failures are often sudden, surprising and multiplicative. Two big lessons in 2018.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Proficio, a Carlsbad, CA-based startup providing cybersecurity protection services for middle market companies, has raised $12 million in an investment round led by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors. The Los Angeles-based private equity firm provided funding from its Kayne Partners Fund Group, which invests in high-growth technology businesses.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

in Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences from West Virginia University, and told us a bit about the fund, its investments, and his advice to entrepreneurs looking for investment from the company. Chris Bostick: We're a mid-Wilshire venture firm, with a $260M fund. Bostick obtained his Ph.D. What is OCV Partners?

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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. Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform.

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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. The firm said it has added Ned Hentz, the son-in-law of Iacocca, as its Chief Creative Officer and board member of the firm as part of the investment.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

San Diego-based TVC Capital , the growth equity investor which specializes in software companies, is the lead investor in a round of funding for Levels Beyond , the two announced today. in a Series A from TVC, to invest in expanding sales, marketing, and business development. Levels Beyond said it raised $4.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Irvine-based Kareo , a developer of cloud-based practice management and medical billing software, announced today that it has raised $10M in an equity investment round. The round was led by Greenspring Associates, and also included OpenView Venture Partners, Western Technology Investment, and angel investor Travis Kalanick.

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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.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

in a funding led by Orange County's Okapi Venture Capitalis looking to help direct to consumer brands use better data to direct their marketing and other efforts. Talk about this recent funding round, how did that come about? Dan LeBlanc: Initially, the hardest part was making the decision on the right level of funding.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

We''d like to build out our brand equity so that people know we are going to be here for a long time. When did you decide to go out for a funding round? mark faggiano taxjar software small business saas magento facebook interview startup' We were able to go and explain what we were doing, and the response was very positive.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

It’s also hard to know (unless you’re a professional trader at a large fund with tons of research and colleagues who have more market knowledge than the average retail investor) whether the market is off of a fair value by 10% or whether it was already 20% overvalued and this is an inevitable correction. So, too, investments.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. We both made personal investments in the company.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For early stage entrepreneurs seeking funding, building their product and formulating their product / market fit, an Accelerator is a great alternative. For instance, some focus on go-to-market strategies, such as SaaS or Cloud-based technologies, while others concentrate on a particular industry. Many Sizes, Many Fits.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

It’s what signals to existing investors how quickly their teams need to be fund raising and the level of risk the company is facing and also it signals to potentially new investors both how quickly you need to raise (ie you have less leverage if you’re in a rush) as well as how much cash you’ll need if they fund you.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. In the intro section of the show we talked a lot about why VC funds are becoming smaller again and where Greycroft fits.

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Xconomy

DECEMBER 18, 2018

The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region. (In Seismic, an enterprise software company with ambitious growth plans, has raised $100 million in a Series E financing and added Microsoft chairman John W.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 Tealium also unveiled a new “executive briefing center” (pictured above) at its expanded San Diego headquarters.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Cloud Computing, Entrepreneurism, SaaS. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Funding, psychology , vc. . It's generally thought that investment banking and management consulting are terrible backgrounds fo. Bootstrapping a Lean Startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. I’ll spare you the math and point out that this means we funded 0.104% of the market. If I’m right my only hope is that more companies actually get funded and more companies reduce burn and survive.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Considering our revenue is SaaS revenue this achievement is even more remarkable. The timing of the announcement of this investment couldn’t have been timed more perfectly if we tried. And before that you might enjoy this longer analysis on why I invested in DataSift in the first place , which was written 2.5 Asymmetric.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When an entrepreneur takes on investors who take equity (i.e. The board is where large equity investors get their representation. I sat on a board a decade ago where the other VC fund had one of its parters take on the CEO role temporarily before I joined the board (I took the seat from a former partner).

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 27, 2021

and OMERS Growth Equity. With the latest funding, Clio claims that it’s the “first legal practice management unicorn” globally. The investment also brings its total capital raised since its 2008 inception to $386 million. This investment allows us to expedite our plans and offer even more to our existing customers.”.

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