Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

Several years ago I made an appearance in a burgeoning new podcast called “20 Minute VC,” which by now needs no introduction. We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. Do I Believe VCs Are Really Open for Business? It may take much longer to close deals than you’d like.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 31, 2022

Bonfire Ventures , a Los Angeles venture capital firm, invests in seed-stage business-to-business software companies and aims to change the odds so that more than the average 33% of companies in this sector make it to Series A. It says over 85% of its portfolio companies raise follow-on funding — a collective $1.15

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the hardest things to know when you’re new to fund raising is what you’re supposed to send to an investor, when and will they keep your information confidential. As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game. The key is WHAT you send.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2020

Los Angeles-based Pipe Technologies , which is developing a subscription financing platform to help software companies finance their businesses without debt or dilution, has raised $60M in a funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The company said the new funding will go towards growth and expansion of its operations into new markets.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

SaaS Funding , a new provider of debt funding to software-as-a-service companies, said it has set up an office in Santa Monica. The company, which provides senior and junior debt capital, says it is targeting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), digital media and tech enabled service companies who are bootstrapped or backed by angels.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

SaaS Funding , a new provider of debt funding to software-as-a-service companies, said it has set up an office in Santa Monica. The company, which provides senior and junior debt capital, says it is targeting Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), digital media and tech enabled service companies who are bootstrapped or backed by angels.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

This morning's interview is with Kevin O'Connor , a longtime investor and serial entrepreneur, who is now running venture capital investment firm ScOp Venture Capital. Congrats on the new name for your venture capital firm. It's always hard with venture capital. I was blown away.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? billion fund. What happened?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2021

in a seed funding, the company said this morning. The funding came from Mucker Capital, BAM Ventures, I2BF Global Ventures, HIVE Ventures and other strategic investors, according to the company. Spartak Buniatyan is founder and CEO of PayEngine.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The funding came from Fontinalis Partners, the venture capital investment firm founded by WIlliam Clay Ford, Jr. Telogis has previously raised funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The firm raised a big $93M funding round from KPCB back in October of last year. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Picking a VC is hard. So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. You want a VC who will spar with you but then STFU and let you get on with things.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

in a funding round. Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. Other details on the funding were not provided. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Fund raising. But it’s critical for your business, for you as a leader and people who excel at fund raising have an extreme advantage over those who do not. As a VC I also have to fund raise every three years and these posts 100% apply to VCs raising money, too. Below is the outline Upfront.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into how Scott Kupor & I see some of the changes and challenges of the venture industry. The only point we didn’t seem totally aligned on was what we happening to the “middle of the VC market.” tl;dr version.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The new funding came from Subtraction Capital, FF Angel, 500 Startups, and other investors. Jackson--said the funding is an expansion on its Series A funding it announced in the first quarter of the year. That funding was worth $3M. The startup--which is led by PayPal veteran Erik M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

A new, Los Angeles-based fintech startup, Pipe , said this morning that it has raised $6M in its seed funding round, to launch a new platform which offers up financing to subscription-based, software-as-a-service companies.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Irvine-based billing and payments software startup Chargezoom has raised $2M in a seed funding round, the company said on Wednesday. The funding was led by Okapi Venture Capital and also included Saas Ventures. Chargezoom said the new funding will go to continue scaling its product and team.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

It's turning out to be a great time for entrepreneurs looking for funding in the region, with not only high profile exits of such companies as Snap Inc., but a bunch of new, early stage investors looking to seed or fund the next big tech success story. Watertower Ventures. www.watertowerventures.com) Fund size: $5M.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2020

in a funding round. According to the company, the round--a Seed-2 funding--was led by Okapi Capital, and also included The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners and Brad Perry (co-founder of Dealer Socket), along with others.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2014

Yesterday, TigerText , a developer of enterprise, secure texting tools, raised a big $21M funding and last week, the big funding round was for Kareo , which raised $29.5M enterprise software tigertext invoca chromeriver venture capital feature saas cloud' for its cloud-based medical offices software. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

The benefits you will receive from doing even some basic planning before you hit the fund raising trail are enormous. Many points will seem obvious but since I observe many fund-raising processes as a VC I can tell you that most people get even the basics wrong. Let’s say the C list is probably your “safety schools”?—?not

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

San Luis Obispo-based WhiteFox , which develops tools to defend against hostile drones and help manage drone airspace, has raised $12M more in a Series A funding round, the company announced this morning. The new funding round included Moore Venture Partners, Serra Ventures, Okapi Venture Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, and JAM Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

It is an heroic accomplishment in a brutal fund-raising market in which only market leaders can bring in that sort of money. We started planning our fund raising as much as 14 months ago. Invoca had grown steadily and consistently since 2009 and by 2015 SaaS companies with scale had become hot – trading at a median of 7.3x

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Fika Ventures, and also included. MetaProp VC, Global Founders Capital, CrossCut Ventures, TenOneTen, IGSB, 1984 Ventures, Joe Montana's venture capital firm, L2 Ventures, GroundUp, NBA star Metta World Peace, Oberndorf Enterprises, Wolfson Group, and Sequoia scouts.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Irvine-based Mavenlink , a developer of a software-as-a-service offering for project management and project accounting, has raised $7M in funding. The funding came from Carrick Capital Partners. mavenlink venture capital saas software project management cloud collaboration' Mavenlink is led by Ray Grainger.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2013

in a seed funding round. Bitium said it is developing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) operating system, offering up everything from authentication and authorization of cloud-based software to features like consolidated messaging for apps. authentication system operating amplify software saas capital venture bitium'

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Frank Slootman , the CEO of San Diego-based ServiceNow , has invested in a big data startup, as he continues to expand out his angel funding activity. According to Mountain View-based BlueData , Slootman was one of the angels in a new, $15M Series B funding round raised by the company. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Product Manager at Yahoo!

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2014

San Diego-based Qualcomm Ventures , the venture capital arm of Qualcomm, is backing the developing of software to help home care agencies manage their workers and operations. clearcare home care agency software back office saas venture capital qualcomm' ClearCare is based in San Franciso. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

VC funding. We love capital efficiency until we love land grabs until we abhor over funding until we get huge payouts and ring the bell for more funding until we attract every non-VC on the planet to invest in startups until it crashes and we start the cycle all over again none the wiser.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Santa Monica-based venture capital investor March Capital Partners --the new investment firm led by longtime Southern California venture capital veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken, and Jamie Montgomery--has made an investment in cloud application infrastructure developer Appcito. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

in venture funding in its Series A round, bringing the total to $3.5M. The round came from Miramar Venture Partners. Bruce Hallett of Miramar joins the firm's board as part of the funding. in the Series A back in May, from GADS Options Fund and others. OptionEase had raised $2.5M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2010

San Diego-based Anametrix , a developer of cloud-based business analytics software, said today that it has received new funding and added a slate of well known advisors. Tags: anametrix venture capital angel investor business analytics software saas. Details on the new private investment was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 14, 2014

AuditFile , a developer of cloud-based auditing software for CPAs, has raised $3M in a funding round, the company said Thursday. The funding came from Banneker Ventures, Tim Draper, Nas Draper, as well as other angel investors. The funding came from Banneker Ventures, Tim Draper, Nas Draper, as well as other angel investors.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2017

Los Angeles-based fintech startup InvestCloud and seed-stage venture capital fund Stage Venture Partners have announced a new collaboration, where Stage will move into InvestCloud's "Innovation Center" in Los Angeles. Stage says it recently raised its second fund. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Their first fund was a $75 million fund raised in 2006 and they very recently announced a brand new $130 million fund.

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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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