socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Calabasas-based Spotlight , the developer of ticket management software-as-a-service, said today that it has appointed Richard Dym as its Chief Marketing Officer. Spotlight said its customers now include Comcast, MetLife, Nike, Oracle, Time Warner Cable Media Sales, NBCUniversal, Stanley Black & Decker, and Principal Financial Group.

Marketing 140

Marketing Oracle Calabasas Sales 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2012

How did you come across the market? The government and public sector is a fairly large market. A lot of software startups have shied away from serving public institutions, despite a big market, due to concerns about how slow they adopt things. It does take a long time to penetrate the market.

Software Review 243

Software Review SaaS Startup Technical Review 243

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Everyone in the outside world is talking about how great you are but internally you know that your sales aren’t ramping, your product isn’t shipping on time, you have doubts about the quality of your code, you’re not convinced you’re doing a good job on marketing – whatever. Your solution? My advice: don’t.

Startup 327

Startup Sales Class CIO 327

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Los Angeles-based OpenMethods , a developer of software for the contact center and telephony market, has raised $5M in a funding round, according to the company. The company's software connects the Oracle Service Cloud software, Oracle's CRM suite, with telephony software from Genesys, Cisco, Avaya, and Interactive Intelligence.

Oracle 100

Oracle Software Los Angeles Capital 100

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. 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 But of course public markets had begun gyrating.

Funding 150

Funding Startup SaaS Venture Capital 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Thaeres is a SaaS-based, dashboard solution for mid-market enterprises. We are looking at a market which is primarily mid-level, where they are too big for using Quickbooks as their solution, but they''re not big enough to use an Oracle or SAP. I built the software on my own, initially, and brought it to market.

Startup 159

Startup Oracle Customer Custom 159

socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2016

MindTouch, which was founded by Steve Bjorg and Aaron Fulkerson back in 2005, said the funding will go to increase its integration with software such as Salesforce, SAP, and Oracle, and grow its marketing, business development, sales, and engineering teams.

Customer 100

Customer Custom Software Services 100