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APRIL 20, 2018

Los Angeles-based Saviynt , a developer of identity management software, announced this week that it has raised $40M in a Series A funding round. The funding came from Carrick Capital Partners. According to the company, it will use the new funding round to expand its U.S. Saviynt is led by CEO Amit Saha. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2016

The funding came from Jack W. Schuler Living Trust, Oracle Partners, L.P. and Oracle Institutional Partners L.P., Irvine-based dental laser maker BIOLASE , which trades on the NASDAQ as BIOL, said this morning that it has raised a private placement worth $10M. along with a number of its directors and officers.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

San Diego-based MindTouch , a developer of software-as-a-service tools to help companies create self-service, customer support sites, has raised $12M in a Series A funding. The funding came from PeakSpan Capital, along with SK Ventures and SAP SE.

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Irvine-based Analytix On Demand , a provider of business intelligence software, said this morning that it has raised a round of mezzanine funding. Amount of the funding was not disclosed, but came from Private Equity Management Group. Analytix On Demand offers enterprise focused, business intelligence software.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

in funding from database giant Oracle, which invested in the firm in May of 2007. Tags: oracle property intellectual bankruptcy sophoi. Los Angeles-based Sophoi , which was developing software for intellectual property licensing, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month. Sophoi had been backed by $17.5M

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DECEMBER 21, 2010

San Diego-based MeLLmo , maker of the Roambi mobile business application for the iPhone, said this morning that it has raised an additional $10M in funding. The firm said the new round of funding brings its total raised to $20M across three round of funding. Names of the investors were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2011

San Diego- and Campbell-based ParAccel , the developer of data warehouse and big data analytics software, reported this morning that it has scored a new round of funding, which includes Amazon.com as the lead investor. Financial terms of the new funding was not disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. Personal relationships do count.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

in a Series B funding. The firm said that the new funding for the company was led by Syncom Venture Partners, and also included investors Barshop Ventures, Monitor Ventures, and Tudor Ventures. The firm said the new funding will go to expands its go-to-market efforts. This new funding brings its total raised to around $10.5M.

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JANUARY 2, 2015

This enabled our partnership to raise its third Frontier Fund offering, focused on early stage media and technology companies. There are many silos, and several big players (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.), Several companies in the Frontier portfolio earned liquidity in 2014, providing significant profits to our partners.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Freitag has previously worked at Oracle, IBM, and Hyperion Solutions, and was most recently at Host Analytics, where he was Vice President of Sales. MeLLmo is backed by around $10M in angel funding. The firm's mobile application allows users to view business reports and other information from the Apple iPhone.

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MARCH 24, 2011

Hulse joins from iPass, and also has served at Frontbridge and Tumbleweed; Harries was most recently at Oracle; McHargue joins from AutoWeb. Rubicon Project is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures Asia, GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and News Corporation. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2011

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Webtide was self-funded, and was headed by Adam Lieber, who has previously been at Gluecode and Mission Ventures. Jetty is very widely used in web servers and software applications, including HP OpenView, Zimbra, Hadoop, Google AppEngine, Oracle WebLogic, and other enterprise software. the United Kingtom, Italy, and the Philippines.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

Douglas has also served at Oracle. The firm is venture backed by Mayfield Fund, Clearstone Venture Partners and IDG Ventures. Douglas joins the firm from eHarmony, where he was the firm's Vice President of Technology. Rubicon Project develops technology used to optimize advertising revenues for web publishers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. Personal relationships do count.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

A new venture fund had been launched, not because it was her husband’s but it was a totally unique and different fund and a timely move. She tweeted; So proud of my husband @zackbogue for the launch of his new fund, DataCollective ( @dcvc ). The good news is Data Collective fund is now open to the public. Big Data Shift.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Outside funding causes loss of control and undue pressure to deliver.” Funding is like a turbocharger for a startup company, if used correctly. Investors love to fund growth and scaling of a proven business model for entrepreneurs, and they avoid at all costs funding research and development for engineers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose. Personal relationships do count.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

There are a lot of solutions out there, but they tend to be really big, complex, and expensive, kind of Oracle-like. How are you funding this so far? We looked for a solution, and we couldn't find anything that was accessible. It's not what people need. From this point forward, we'll be scaling on the customer acquisition side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. get the attention of the market they choose.

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APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Outside funding causes loss of control and undue pressure to deliver.” Funding is like a turbocharger for a startup company, if used correctly. Investors love to fund growth and scaling of a proven business model for entrepreneurs, and they avoid at all costs funding research and development for engineers.

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AUGUST 24, 2014

For example, a while back I received a startup executive summary, requesting Angel investor funding, that touted technology for a line of new medical devices, also to be offered in a new military radar device. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

We are looking at a market which is primarily mid-level, where they are too big for using Quickbooks as their solution, but they''re not big enough to use an Oracle or SAP. How are you funded? I knew that there were a lot of businesses who also struggle to put a payment processing system together that will scale with their needs.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. For instance, a company-friendly investor will typically only participate in a follow-on funding round beyond their pro rata participation with the Founders’ explicit approval.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2013

For example, just last week, I received a startup executive summary, requesting Angel investor funding, that touted technology for a line of new medical devices, also to be offered in a new military radar device. If you really believe that IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle are your competition, you probably don’t have a business.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

LPs (the people who invest in VC funds) want to know what “hot” deals you’re in. In a pool of 25-30 investments in a VC fund the goal is to have 2-3 huge outliers. ” And many more examples of employees launching careers including several employees at Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce.com and elsewhere.

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JULY 26, 2010

Salesforce.come is brilliant at marketing heroes and I think Marc learned it in turn from Oracle. Think about this – what is more powerful – a VC who tells you how great he/she is or when you read your peers reviews on The Funded ? If they’re consumers they’re just everyday people like you and me.

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

VCs are typically “closed-end&# funds, which means that we are expected to sell our positions in companies within a pre-defined timeframe and return the money to our shareholders. When you look at the likes of Cisco, HP and Oracle (note they bought Sun) it seems a return to this model.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).

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MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum. I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I attended events.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

We also incurred substantial software licensing charges from Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and Oracle. For instance, a company-friendly investor will typically only participate in a follow-on funding round beyond their pro rata participation with the Founders’ explicit approval.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. As a result many funds are OK with big bets.

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MAY 4, 2013

I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum. And that fund raising is part of the job of being an entrepreneur – not something that gets in the way of your doing your job. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I attended events.

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APRIL 3, 2014

Most technology startups seem to be funded by product people or business people. If we just dropped prices to match our less funded competitors we wouldn’t be able to keep innovating and adding value for our clients. That stuff is for Oracle or IBM. Specifically what is often not in the DNA of founders are sales skills.

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