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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The company is targeting the software for companies working on asset sales, financing, and mergers. caplinked venture capital investment dealroom virtual document collaboration saas software' READ MORE>>. caplinked venture capital investment dealroom virtual document collaboration saas software' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Here, we feature the contribution of John Greathouse , an investor with Rincon Venture Partners and Professor Of Practice at UC Santa Barbara, where he teaches courses on New Venture Creation and Entrepreneurial Sales. As such, I'm also looking forward to helping non-SaaS Founders, which has been my primary focus for the past 15-years.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2014

The surge in Southern California, cloud-based software investments continues today, as Irvine-based Kareo said this morning that it has raised $29.5M The company said it will use the funding for sales, marketing, and to enhance its software. kareo venture capital cloud medical office software enterprise saas' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 17, 2019

All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data. The CFO requires financial acumen driven from metrics, which can be had from sales and operational information, however, they're often locked into these silo'ed application stacks. That's how we started. What specific problem were you seeing?

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2021

Size of the investment was not announced. Emerged said the new funding will go to scale its software platform and for sales and marketing. 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.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The new investment joins with a $4 million seed round raised in May. million in annual sales, he added. Adrien Lejal, investment director at Creadev, said he was attracted to Salted because the company “doesn’t take shortcuts in the healthier food options and stands true to its mission, which speaks to the values of the team.”.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2018

Jon Ferrara: I firmly believe that Service is the New Sales and that the Sales starts after a customer buys. Customer service is critical to customer retention in the SaaS subscription model. You're hiring new sales and customer support team members as fast as you can. How does customer service tie into all of this?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

North Hollywood-based Yapi , a provider of paperless communications and account management software for dental practices, says it has raised a round of growth investment from M33 Growth. Financial details of that investment were not announced. YAPI's software allows dental practices to automate administrative tasks.

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Both Sides of the Table

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). It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Much more data in the full post.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

= profitable and companies like Amazon who chose to focus on growth > profitability were not losing money on each book sale (ie they were gross margin positive). The reason one would accept losses is when they are investments in fueling faster growth. Of course this is an imprecise science which is why you measure both methods.

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socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2021

According to ServiceTitan, the acquisition came alongside a new, $200M investment from private equity investor Thoma Bravo. ServiceTitan said it is hiring, particularly in customer support, sales, product, and engineering. Louis, Missouri. The Series G funding values ServiceTitan at $9.5 billion, according to the company.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2020

Size and terms of the investment were not announced. According to Workspace, the additional capital also comes as it has hired a new President, Chief Operating Officer, VP of Sales, and VP of Engineering. WorkSpace was founded by Alan Bedekar. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

San Diego-based Seismic , which develops sales enablement and marketing software, has joined the unicorn club, saying this morning that it has raised $92M in a Series F funding, which values the company at approximately $1.6 Seismic has now raised a total of $270M in funding.

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socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2021

According to Uberall, the acquisition was made as part of a $115M investment from Bregal Milestone, Level Equity, and United Internet. Uberall said it will continue to have a significant sales, service and engineering footprint in California.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Givsum said that has received capital investments from both SteelBridge Labs and OC4 Venture Studios, but did not say how much it raised from those efforts. Givsum is led by co-founder and CEO Shawn Wehan. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The funding is coming from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment, Celtic House Venture Partners, Marubeni Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital, Mojo Partners alongside with previous investors GGV Capital, WI Harper Group, Digital Garage, CentreGold Capital , Scrum Ventures, and other unnamed participants.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales. how to build an initial sales organization. how to evolve our management team.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Our interview today is with Andrew Schydlowsky , the CEO and founder of Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet (www.trackstreet.com), a startup which is backed by Okapi Capital, The Cove Fund, Early Light Ventures, SaaS Venture Capital, and Stage Venture Partners. We provide analytics on the velocity of sales across their channels.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2020

Size of the investment was not announced. According to Prodoscore, the funding goes towards sales and product development. Irvine-based Prodoscore , which develops software for monitoring employee productivity, has raised a Series A funding round, led by Troy Carter.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Connections?

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We wondered why they weren’t on DoorDash, and the reason was two-fold: a bakery has to plan production days ahead of time, and every delivery sales takes away from retail customers. “We saw the crazy lines outside of popular bakeries, but when the pandemic hit, it wasn’t something you could do,” Friedland told TechCrunch. “We

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

If you run a salon or spa, how do you tackle the challenges of scheduling and your point-of-sale? It provides a comprehensive scheduling and point-of-sale system for those businesses. Once we had a prototype and proof-of-concept for our enterprise platform, we then asked friends and family to invest.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 16, 2018

Without taking a dime of outside capital, the company has achieved impressive success in a competitive, SaaS market segment, landing companies such as Nike, Intuit, NASA, AutoDesk and PBS. We build product roadmap software – it’s a SaaS company based here in Santa Barbara, California. We both made personal investments in the company.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 13, 2015

Because I am cheap and I know that car dealers are incentivized by the manufacturer to hit quarterly and annual sales goals. Thus, the value of a sale at the end of a quarter can be significant, if the sale contributes to obtaining a manufacturer''s incentive. Avoid The End-Of-The-Quarter Trou Drop. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2016

eSUB also said it has previously raised funding from The Investor Group, led by Sheldon Lewis, Raymond Levitt, and the Stanford Farmers Investment Club, a group of Stanford professors that make angel investments. The funding came from Revolution Ventures. eSub was founded by Weny Roger and Benny Baltrotsky. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

The business model, is people use this to do better marketing and sales targeting when they sell their own products. The company has grown very rapidly and well for a startup, but we're now at the point where sales is the name of the game. Prior to that, for seven years I was at Citrix in Santa Barbara, at their SaaS division.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2016

According to the company, it will use the new funding round to invest further in sales, marketing and product. Zingle's products--which are currently being used in the hospitality, parking, food and beverage, and other areas--provide a dashboard and other ways to let businesses interact with their customers via texting.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Let’s say you have built a SaaS company where a large part of the early revenue comes from a few big customers or a large part of the revenue is services based vs. software based. So you might hear 9–10 “no’s” in the early stretches of your fund raising process. Let me give you an example.

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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. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

in a Series A from TVC, to invest in expanding sales, marketing, and business development. San Diego-based TVC Capital , the growth equity investor which specializes in software companies, is the lead investor in a round of funding for Levels Beyond , the two announced today. Levels Beyond said it raised $4.5M

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok. Think DropBox, Airbnb, Uber, Maker Studios.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

My House Is Not For Sale. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. We boiled our alternatives down to the following: IPO – To bolster our negotiating position, I engaged an investment bank to explore the public capital markets. Our BATNA to a sale was to accept funding from venture capitalists.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Irvine-based Kareo , a developer of cloud-based practice management and medical billing software, announced today that it has raised $10M in an equity investment round. The round was led by Greenspring Associates, and also included OpenView Venture Partners, Western Technology Investment, and angel investor Travis Kalanick.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The path I went down after a few years was to hire more process driven people and devolved more daily operational ownership to people running individual functions such as product management, sales management, finance, etc. One of the most obvious places where you see this is in sales & marketing. Ditto the CFO. I was the laggard.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 14, 2012

At Rincon Venture Partners , we have a laser focus on identifying groundbreaking adtech and business productivity SaaS solutions. When we initially invested in DataPop in 2010, we placed a bet on a serially successful team that had grown up together at DoubleClick, Yahoo! and Overture Services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California. Nowhere is social proof more prevalent than in angel investing. From there Rob decided to make a small investment.

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