socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. One is the mobile app. The platform can be divided into three products.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). In fact 61% of all mobile searches where a customer contacts a business it is via a phone call (source: Google). Much more data in the full post. But phone calls are dead? Not so fast.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2015

According to Disney, the second class of the Disney Accelerator includes ten startups, who will participate in a three month mentorship and investment program. The second class includes Decisive (SaaS for mobile targeting); EMOTIV (brain monitoring technology); FEM Inc.

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MAY 20, 2020

Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash I was listening to Dan Primack’s podcast on Pro Rata and he was interviewing Senator Klobucher who is now publicly and vocally speaking out against Uber purchasing Grubhub and has tried to mobilize against this. ChowNow is simply a SaaS enablement product. so, too, are restaurants. Enter ChowNow.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

As the founder of an accelerator, I'm constantly being approached by ambitious people with big ideas, and generally we invest in 1/100th of what comes to us. This year, we were lucky enough to find 40 great startups to invest in, growing StartEngine immensely. Definitely Software as a Service (SAAS). SAAS is here to stay.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

But Slager says that’s starting to change as construction companies realize that technology isn’t just an expense; it can represent an investment in money-saving efficiencies. As Slager puts it, even bankers and insurers spend more on technology as a percentage of revenue than building contractors.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

At GRP Partners our focus has always been on having a small number of investments in the industries we know well. Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation. 9 companies out of 33 drove our largest returns.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

San Diego-based eSUB Construction Software , a startup developing mobile and cloud-based project management and document control software for the construction industry, has raised $5M in a Series A funding, the company announced this morning. The funding came from Revolution Ventures. eSub was founded by Weny Roger and Benny Baltrotsky.

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2019

According to the companies, Nadavon Capital Partners originally invested in Clubspeed in April of 2017. Clubspeed offers up an online booking engine, mobile app, secure payments, and other customer management tools for famil entertainment centers. Nadavon is based in Newport Beach.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Three active angel investment groups--The Tech Coast Angels , the largest and most active angel investment group in Southern California; Maverick Angels , and Keiretsu Forum , have backed a developer of transcription services, TranscribeMe. operations in Emeryville. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Think of web vs. mobile. Traditional software vs. SaaS. I’ve sat on ad tech boards with board members who clearly knew little about impressions, fill rates, CTRs, RTB, eCPMs or the difficulties & opportunities of embedded mobile SDKs vs. HTML5. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments.

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JANUARY 25, 2015

I have written about the deceiving nature of early successes before – in particular in the SaaS or B2B world leading to a phenomenon called “shelfware.” I have many investments with early traction and I the entrepreneurs I work with must tire of my constantly saying, “Are we really making a difference?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Our first investment in the new fund was a $12 million investment in Beverly Hills based MediaPlatform. It is easy to invest capital, but very, very hard to exit, so don't. TVC is currently investing their third fund and has over $235 million under management. be the pig and don't get greedy. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

During the many hours I have stood in anticipation of the next wave (as noted in You’re Never To Old To Learn To Surf , I’m an old guy on a standup paddle board), I have come to realize that surfing and investing share a number of surprising corollaries. Gnarly Corollaries Between Surfing And Investing. Time in the water matters.

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MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 26, 2018

.” It finances (or part financies) the deployment of its sensors on the vehicles of fleet partners — with Aclima’s business model focused on monetizing the interpretation of the data provided by its SaaS platform. So a chunk of the Series A will be going to help pay for more sensor rollouts.

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JUNE 25, 2015

We grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years. If that’s your end goal I couldn’t think of a better leader to take us to that conclusion and I think it could be in the next few years because SaaS companies capable of doing 9 figures of recurring revenue are few and far between.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

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JANUARY 6, 2014

With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. As we have invested millions in building out our sales organization efficiency really matters.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha is a member of Pipeline Angels , a social impact angel investing group focused on women and non-binary femmes, and serves as the Deal Flow lead. At NextGen Venture Partners, Ashley discovers and vets potential investments. She began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and later cofounded a mobile gaming company.

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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Startup Week San Diego is intended to showcase local startups that are focused on innovation in such areas as Software as a Service (SaaS), consumer Internet, mobile technology, hardware, and defense technology. Keynote Talk by Upfront Ventures Partner Mark Suster. Copley Symphony Hall, 750 B Street, 92101.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Decisive is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that uses real time data to enable advertisers to optimize mobile ad creative and targeting based on user engagement. The participants will receive up to $120,000 in investment from Disney to develop their ideas, along with mentoring from executives. Advertiser Optimization.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. They are a group of engineers who have figured out how to create cloud-based analytics, which allow for cross media attribution, on the fly.

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Xconomy

JANUARY 28, 2019

Venture capital firms invest in potentially disruptive technologies with the hope of profit, then keep watch for further advances that could overtake their existing portfolio companies. Palo Alto, CA-based Norwest weathers the uncertainties of technology and the economy with an investing strategy. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2011

MindBody's software-as-a-service handles business management, merchant account processing, mobile, and other aspects for its clients. Source of the new funding was not disclosed, however, the firm has previously raised capital from Bessemer Venture Partners, Catalyst Investors, Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, and Frontera Capital.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Categories: mobile consumer, on-demand, chat. Early 30s: Got really serious about her career and started her company LaunchBit, an adtech platform for SaaS marketers.

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MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. Lookout – SaaS provider of security and data back-up services for smart phones. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total Raised: $9.64mm.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

We're focusing on what we believe is a collision course between the desires of the mobile workforce--people like you and me who use their iPad, Android, or iPhone to get to our data and stuff and share it with other people--and the desires of business to make sure they can securely provide that information to both employees and people outside.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2015

Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment. That got us the attention of Bain Capital Ventures for our next round, which, combined with our prior investors, gave us another $17M, for about a total of $20M in investment. We'll also be building up new and exciting products.

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Georgian Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, the investment firms that anchored Tealium’s $30.7 It’s about defining your data across the Web and now mobile.”. million Series D round in early 2015, re-upped in the latest round, which included all existing investors and some debt, Tealium CEO Jeff Lunsford said last week. “We

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Our interview this morning is with Kelly Perdew of Moonshots Capital , a Los Angeles based investment firm that makes seed stage investments in early stage companies�and in particular, for this Veterans Day, in companies founded by military veterans. Great catching up with you, tell us a little bit about your new investment fund?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

They were going to bring the Internet to your mobile phones ushering in the era of “m-commerce.&# Gag. I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP.

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