socalTECH

JULY 1, 2020

Los Angeles-based Scalefast , a developer of direct-to-consumer, e-commerce software, has raised $22M in a Series B funding round. The funding came from Xplorer Capital, Stereo Capital, FJLabs, Benhamou Global Venture and Credit Mutuel Equity. Scalefast's software is specifically used by brands to scale direct-to-consumer sales.

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Tool Commerce Equity Los Angeles 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Laguna Hills-based SpeedTax , a developer of software-as-a-service for sales tax management, announced this morning that it has named David Lahey as the firm's Executive Vice President, Sales and marketing. Lahey was most recently at Sage, where he was a VP of Sales for a number of the firm's product lines.

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Marketing SaaS Sales Equity 162

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 company said the new funding will go towards sales and marketing, enhancing its products, and also for channel partnerships. READ MORE>>.

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Software Equity Invest Sales 162

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2009

San Juan Capistrano-based OptionEase , the software-as-a-service startup developing a service for managing stock options, said this week that it has seen "record sales" for the firm's quarter ending September 30th. Tags: optionease saas software stock option accounting startup. OptionEase recently landed another $1.0M

Miramar 133

Miramar SaaS Equity Software 133

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. WorkSpace was founded by Alan Bedekar. READ MORE>>.

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ASP Funding Sales Software 113

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

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Capital San Diego Equity Software 157

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. If we wanted to we could have sold > 2x the fund easily in the secondary markets with significant upside remaining. just to name a few!

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Venture Capital Writing Invest Pricing 471

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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.

Services 218

Services Venture Capital Equity Los Angeles 218

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. Semick: They are. It’s chaotic.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Santa Barbara SaaS 115

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The firm said it will not receive any proceeds from the sale by the selling stockholders. The firm's major stockhoders are JMI Equity (44.64% ownership) and Sequoia Capital (19.68%). ServiceNow is a provider of IT automation software. ServiceNow went public in June, pricing at $18.00 per share on the NYSE as NOW. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Equity Pricing Sales 138

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. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

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Startup Cornerstone OnDemand Software Review Woodland Hills 124

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Everyone in the outside world is talking about how great you are but internally you know that your sales aren’t ramping, your product isn’t shipping on time, you have doubts about the quality of your code, you’re not convinced you’re doing a good job on marketing – whatever. Your solution? My advice: don’t.

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Startup Sales Class CIO 327

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Bootstrapping enterprise, marketing, Sales. . In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. Spencer Fry, Carbonmade, LLC.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69