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JUNE 21, 2017

Los Angeles-based accounting software developer FloQast has raised $25M in a Series B funding round, the company announced today, bringing its total raised to $33M. The new funding was led by Insight Venture Partners, and also included Toba Capital and Polaris Partners. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Carpinteria-based construction software developer Procore Technologies has launched two, brand new cloud-based software products to the market, Procore Construction Financials and Procore Quality & Safety , according to the company. Pricing on the new offerings was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. There is an art to efficient management of a process, whether that is the process of bringing a product to market from R&D to production or developing a new product’s launch program.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

San Diego-based nonprofit software developer Classy announced on Tuesday that it is acquiring event platform Fondi, the developer of a virtual and hybrid event platform. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Classy said it will relaunch Fondi as Classy Live for nonprofits. Fondi was previously owned by Lennd.

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JANUARY 9, 2019

Irvine-based cybersecurity software developer Cylance and El Segundo-based devuce security software developer CUJO AI are in a partnership aimed at the connected home, the two said today. CUJO AI is led by CEO Einaras von Gravrock, and recently raised funding from KPN Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Santa Monica-based drone data management software developer DroneBase announced on Wednesday morning that it has raised $7.5M in a Series C funding. DroneBase has now raised a total of $32M in funding. DroneBase is led by CEO and Founder Dan Burton. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. Often speakers will donate their fees to scholarship and childcare funds, she added.

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MAY 4, 2021

Irvine-based e-commerce software developer Kajabi said this morning that it has raised a massive, $550M funding round, which values the company at over $2 billion. Scott Wagner of Tidemark will join the company's board with the funding; Wagner is the former CEO of GoDaddy. Kajabi's CEO and co-founder is Kenny Rueter.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Los Angeles-based Linktree , a software developer which helps brands, celebrities, and others to create "microsites", has raised $10.7M in a Series A funding round, the company said this morning. The funding was led by Insight Partners and AirTree Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Lake Forest-based Higher Ground Education, which operates a network of Montessori schools in the US and China, says it has acquired software developer Altitude Learning LMS. According to Higher Ground, it has acquired the Altitude Learning LMS technology, along with Altitude's product and engineering teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Amazon took a consumer value proposition (buying books, then all retail products) and made the consumer experience significantly better, faster & cheaper. years of software development. years of software development. In short — how the hell did we raise $30 million?

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JUNE 30, 2015

Los Angeles-based enterprise software maker Chrome River , which develops cloud-based software used for expense reporting and automated invoice processing, announced today that it has raised $100M in a Series D funding round. The funding came from Great Hill Partners. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Irvine-based Ingram Micro , a distributor of technology products and provider of cloud and other related services, has launched a new competition aimed at startups, thec ompany said this morning. It is seeking B2B software developers, and says it will not take any equity in those companies.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Pasadena-based e-discovery software developer X1 has raised $5.1M more in a Series B funding round, the company said Wednesday, in a round led by Palisades Growth Capital. The round also included angel investor George Kadifa, the former head of HP Software. X1 is led by CEO Craig Carpenter and CTO Brent Botta.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Los Angeles-based expense management and accounts payable automation software developer Emburse --the parent company of Chrome River--said it has launched a new, corporate payment card, which lets its customers pre-approve expenses. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Los Angeles-based software developer Zest AI has raised $15M in funding from Insight Partners, to go towards its credit underwriting software, the company announced this morning. As part of the new funding, MD Lonne Jaffee of Insight Partners joins the company's board, with Jon Rosenbaum joining as a board observor.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Santa Monica-based Forge Platform , which is developing software development kits used for Ethereum, has raised $1M in a seed funding, the company disclosed on Wednesday. The funding came from Manta Ray Ventures and Upfront Ventures. The company was founded by Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow.

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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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JUNE 5, 2019

San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software --fresh off a $12M funding round --says it has hired on a new Chief Technology Officer (CTO), to help it development its platform. Henricks was most recently Senior Vice President of Engineering at Verimatrix, and also had been Vice President of Engineering at TriTech Software Systems.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

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JULY 27, 2018

Los Angeles-based DevOps security software developer Prevoty , which is backed Trident Capital Cybersecurity, US Venture Partners, Plus Capital, Double M Capital, Core Ventures Group, Inventures Group, Daher Capital, Digi Venture Fund and Karlin Ventures, has been acquired by Imperva , Imperva announced late Thursday afternoon.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

San Diego-based software developer Tealium announced on Monday that it has scored a strategic investment from Citi Ventures, as part of Series E investment round. Size of the investment from Citi Ventures was not announced.

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MAY 28, 2014

San Diego-based e-commerce software developer Ecwid said this morning that it has closed a $5M, Series B funding round. According to Ecwid, the funding was led by iTech Capital, and also included Runa Capital. Ecwid said that Gleb Davidyuk of iTech Capital joins the company''s board with the funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2023

Count on six months from beginning the funding process until a new check is cashed. Always add 20 percent to your best estimate of funding requirements when approaching investors. As a rule of thumb, your monthly burn rate should be less than 10 percent of your last funding raise or starting cash in the bank. Martin Zwilling

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APRIL 7, 2016

Los Angeles-based web content management software developer CrownPeak has raised $50M in a funding round, and merged with UK-based ActiveStandards , according to the two companies. The company said it will use the funding to re-launch the company and for future product enhancements. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Santa Monica-based learning and human capital management software developer Cornerstone OnDemand has acquired fellow Santa Monica company WorkPop , as a part of its expansion into talent acquisition software, the company announced this morning. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

SweetLabs said the event is aimed at showing product managers, designers, developers and other "technology superstars" how much is happening in the San Diego area. The group said that the event will feature Michael Robertson (MP3, Linspire, Gizmo5) and Joe Kraus (Excite, Jotspot, Google Ventures).

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JANUARY 8, 2015

San Diego-based sales software developer Seismic has raised $20M in a Series B funding round, to go towards its sales content management software, the company said this morning. The funding was led by JMI Equity, and also included Sigma West. seismic content management sales software' READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

San Diego-based Pack, a developer of e-commerce tools, says it has raised $3M in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners, and also included Alpaca and Vanterra Ventures. Pack says it is developing what it calls "headless commerce", which helps brands create personalized shopping experiences.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

LumaTax , a new startup has offices in both San Diego and Seattle, Washington, has raised $2M in a funding, the company said on Thursday. The funding came from Madrona Venture Group, Greycroft Partners, and angels. LumaTax develops software which can be used by small businesses to automate the paperwork required for paying sales taxes.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Cylance also says it hopes to also add malware analysis and software development roles in the future at the location. Cylance said the new office is the latest in a series of internationalization moves for its CylancePROTECT product, and also will help provide an in-region presence to support its EMEA customers. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based application security monitoring software developer Prevoty said this week that it has expanded into Silicon Valley, and has opened up a new office in Menlo Park which will serve as its headquarters. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Los Angeles-based application security monitoring software developer Prevoty announced Monday that it has launched a new software tool for Splunk. Pricing on the new software was not announced. Prevoty is led by Julien Bellanger. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Los Angeles-based ISBX , a developer of a cross-platform, mobile development product, said today that it has scored $750,000 in funding. According to ISBX, it will use the funding for research and development, as well as expansion of its offerings and core technologies.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 18, 2011

I have been through many months with them but because of lack of funds, I spent lot of time doing non-technical work for first 4-5 months, spending time with them on putting pitches for investors, cash flows, budgets, writing business plans, product prototype setups etc. Do they recognize any Startup Founder Developer Gap ?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 26, 2012

And we are not even moving yet on the the next big release that I have to have to get my next round of funding. Instead, what they had was a contract that promised Agile Software Development with Rapid Iterations and an incredibly vague list of features. Enough to have an estimate of the scope of the item.

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