Tech.Co

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As investors continue pouring funding into artificial intelligence and consumer habits shift, many AI and subscription model startups have been enjoying rapid growth. Source: runwayml.com In June, Runway raised $141 million in funding, nudging its market valuation to an envy-inducing $1.5 Organic milk formula product Bobbie.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2021

San Diego-based Emerged, a new startup which provides qualified leads to healthcare organizations, says it has raised a seed round of funding. The funding came from Round One Capital. Emerged said the new funding will go to scale its software platform and for sales and marketing. Size of the investment was not announced.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

San Diego-based GoSite , which develops an online platform to help small businesses put up online and mobile websites, has raised $16M in a funding round, the company announced this morning. The funding was led by Longley Capital, and also included Stage 2 Capital, Ankona Capital, Serra Ventures and SaaS Ventures, and angels.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2019

Irvine-based Restaurant365 , a developer of cloud-based accounting software specifically aimed at the restaurant industry, has raised $88M in a Series C funding round, the company said this week. The funding was led by ICONIQ Capital, and also included Tiger Global Management and Bessemer Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Irvine-based Kajabi , which develops a platform that helps both individuals, as well as small- and mid-sized businesses monetize online courses, training materials, and other content, has receive an investment from private equity investor Spectrum Equity. Kajabi said the funding is its first institutional funding since it launched in 2010.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 7, 2023

Getting something to market and getting funding override any other concerns. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas Here’s a graphic from Socal CTO that illustrates the roles as they change over time: In its earliest days, a startup’s top need is often to produce a product. Please write us at blog@techempower.com !

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Costa Mesa-based Givsum , which develops online software to help charitable organizations with their operations and fundraising, says it has received both new funding, as well as support, from two accelerators. Givsum is led by co-founder and CEO Shawn Wehan.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

El Segundo-based PushPress , a startup which develops a gym billing and business management platform, has raised $500,000 in a debt round of funding, which the company says it is using to expand its team.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2020

The company said the funding was led by Boston Millenia Partners, and also included existing investor Upfront Ventures. The company said that its platform helps those payers and MCOs with dealing with the challenges of compliance with government programs.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Last year at this time, SpotOn was on the brink of announcing a $60 million Series C funding round at a $625 million valuation. 4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. Fast forward to almost exactly one year later, and a lot has changed for the payments and software startup.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to YAPI, it will use the new funding to build out its account management, customer success, and R&D teams, plus bolster existing sales and marketing. The company said it has been adding more dental offices to its platform than any other period in its nine-year history, despite the pandemic, with its strongest quarter in Q2.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The funding, which was led by Two Sigma Ventures and included existing investors like Plexo Capital, Amplify, and BoldStart values the company at over $100 million. ” Replicated now counts 85 customers who pay for access to the platform and for every on-premise deployment that customers develop through the platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

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. If we wanted to we could have sold > 2x the fund easily in the secondary markets with significant upside remaining. of the fund. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of software to help manufacturers monitor their channel and e-commerce sites--and in particular, minimum-advertising-price (MAP) policies--has raised $2M in seed funding, the company said Wednesday.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2021

GoDocs is a provider of web-based legal document generation solutions for commercial lending, which provides automated loan closing document generation platform for commercial real estate, multifamily, and multiunit investment loans.

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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. Subscribe to Chain Reaction on Apple , Spotify or your alternative podcast platform of choice to keep up with us every week. follow the money. follow the money. the week in web3.

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TechEmpower

JULY 24, 2023

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What metrics will you need for future funding rounds or operations? Platform Are there pre-existing technical platform decisions that must be considered? Tell me about the business. Who’s helping you with fundraising? Administer users?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today, one of the companies that is supplying produce and other items both to consumers and other services that are in turn selling food and groceries to them, is announcing a new round of funding as it gears up to take its next step, an IPO. Source tell us it is now between $400 million and $500 million.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Jackson and Christopher Grey, announced this morning that it has scored a new, Series A funding round, worth $1.6M. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $2.5M. The new funding included FF Angel, Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups, Peter Thiel , Andrej Henkler , and Alexsis de Raadt-St.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

San Diego-based Hone, a provider of a corporate learning platform, has raised $16M in a Series A funding round. The funding was F-Prime Capital and also included Cowboy Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners, Slack Fund, Gaingels, Swift Ventures, and SemperVirens. Hone is led by CEO Tom Griffiths.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Newport Beach-based Givsum, a developer of an online platform to help charitable organizations with fundraising, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by SteelBridge Labs. According to the company, it will use the funding to accelerate its growth.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Culver City-based Omaze, which operates an online platform to help nonprofits raise money, said last week that it raised $85M in a Series C funding round. The company is led by co-founder and CEO Matt Pohlson.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Santa Monica-based Brace , a startup developing software to automate mortgage servicing, has raised $10M in a Series A funding round, according to the company. The funding was led by Point72 Ventures, and also included Crosslink Capital. Brace said the new funding brings its total raised to $15M.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Los Angeles-based Boulevard , which develops software to help salons manage their business operations, has raised $27M more in a Series B funding, the company announced on Monday. The funding was co-led by Index Ventures and Toba Capital, and also include VMG Partners, Bonfire Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, and BoxGroup.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

Perspectium recently raised a funding round from TVC Capital. I was a principal engineer facilitating the integration and connectivity of the ServiceNow platform into these other systems. All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data. You're received some funding lately?

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2021

Culver City-based Replicated, a developer of a container-based platform which makes it easier for software vendors to deploy cloud native applications inside customers'​ environments, has raised $50M in its Series C funding, the company said Tuesday.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

Santa Monica-based Tapcart, a startup focused on helping Shopify-powered e-commerce brands with mobile apps, has raised $50M in a Series B funding round, the company announed Monday afternoon. According to Tapcart, the funding was led by Left Lane Capital, and also included Shopify, SignalFire, Greycroft, Act One Ventures, and Amplify LA.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2020

in its Series A funding round. The funding was led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF), and also included Hitachi Ventures and ArcTern Ventures. The company says it is developing a "digital manufacturing platform", which manufacturers use for material traceability and data insights, quality, safety and compliance efforts.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2020

in a seed funding round. The funding came from Equal Ventures, Uncork Capital, Steve Sarowitz (founder of Paylocity), and 4S Bay Partners. According to Wrapbook, its software platform handles the labor-intensive process of onboarding, paying and insuring film and production crews.

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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. The challenge a lot of those businesses have, is likely have built their sites and are using a lot of different software-as-a-service platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

First, no matter what anybody tells you (people don’t want to believe that we’re influenced by the crowd), social proof is hugely important in fund raising. The emails we all get on the AngelList get say something like, “New gaming platform invested in by Dave McClure, Chris Yeh and Jeff Clavier.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year ushered in the successful launch our second fund at Moonshots Capital, further validating our thesis that investing in extraordinary leadership produces exceptional companies. We look forward to seeing how AI and ML will continue to disrupt finance, CPG, big data, and SaaS. Contact our editors for details.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Matt Danna: Boulevard is a platform-as-a-service that we built specifically to help power the next generation of salons and spas. How are you funding your business? Once we had a prototype and proof-of-concept for our enterprise platform, we then asked friends and family to invest. What is Boulevard?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. With SaaS, eventually, ou can provide a great booking experience and rides for everyone. The company recently announced $3.2M What's Swoop all about?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Carpinteria-based software developer Procore has raised $75M more in a funding round, bringing its valuation to a heady $3 billion, in a round led by Tiger Global Management, the firm said Thursday. According to Procore, the funding will go towards product development, partner platform expansion, plus hiring.

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Xconomy

MAY 16, 2018

After establishing a partnership with the Google Cloud Platform, Zesty.io The three-year-old company already provides its content management system on a software-as-a-service basis (SaaS) for such customers as Sony, Acorns.com, and Rocket League, said Widmer, who took over as CEO from Zesty.io

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socalTECH

JULY 11, 2018

in seed funding. The funding came from Alphabit Fund, Translunar One, Kenetic Capital, NextProtocol Ventures, and BKCM. The new funding comes as CapLinked has started focusing on developing a software platform for managing "token" securities, called TransitNet. CapLinked's founders are CEO Eric M.

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