socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

Corent CEO Feyzi Fatehi confirmed the round, saying that the firm is seeing lots of traction from firms looking to "SaaS"-ify their software. Aliso Viejo-based Corent , which develops software tools to more easily port traditional software to the software-as-a-service model, has raised $3.2M in a funding round.

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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. Less than 33% raise an A and only 50% raise any follow-on capital.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The new funding round included Moore Venture Partners, Serra Ventures, Okapi Venture Capital, SaaS Venture Capital, and JAM Capital. The company said the new funds will go to enhance existing product lines, expand mitigation capabilities, and more. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 24, 2021

Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all. My first ever investment as a VC was Invoca. Entrada Ventures? —?that Maker Studios?—?sold

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 5, 2018

The former President of ExactTarget and later chief executive of Salesforce Marketing Cloud has made billions of dollars building products to help support customer service and now he’s back at it again with his latest venture MetaCX. If customers are doing the things i want them to be doing through my product.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2013

The new startup--founded by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson--said the funding was led by Mike Hirshland of Resolute VC, and also included Alex Bard (Desk.com), Michael Lazerow (Buddy Media), Hank Vigil (Microsoft), Rob Glaser (RealNetworks), Hiten Shah (KISSmetrics), Sean Ellis (Qualaroo), Double M Partners , Social Leverage , and Karlin Ventures.

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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.” This is why I loved Brad Feld’s recent post about the “ illusion of product / market fit.” Are our users addicted to our product?

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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. I have always worked on early stage products. Greathouse: Great products and companies that came out (of) Santa Barbara.

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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. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The startup--which was founded by Scott Kriz and Erik Gustavson--said the round came from Polar Partners, Amplify, Resolute VC, Double M Partners, Social Leverage, Karlin Ventures, Lazerow Ventures and Rob Glaser. The company said the new funding will go towards product development, sales, and marketing activities.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

He also nails the reason why venture capital is still necessary to grow large businesses quickly in a world where the costs of running startups have fallen dramatically. “Why do founders want to take the VCs’ money? .” After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital!

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Join us for a special evening with InfoWorld’s Dave Linthicum as he delves into global enterprise software trends with some of LA’s most successful SaaS and cloud computing companies. The opportunities cloud computing and SaaS afford management. Paths to SaaS and cloud computing that will work for your enterprise. Scott Kriz.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2015

ChowNow said the new funding round was led by Upfront Ventures, and also included Steadfast Venture Capital, Daher Capital, and Karlin Ventures. Along with the new funding, the startup said it has named Nick Kellermeyer as Vp of Sales, and Arpan Jhaveri as VP of Product & Marketing. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2014

It is in her blood to see this journey through and try to launch her product or service to the world. Does your investor eat, sleep, breath your industry or product? On reflection of the role that I want to play as a VC it is clearly in the camp of passion. I’m a VC. Does she live your journey?

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Venture Capital Startup Course Entrepreneur 373

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. 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.

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Startup Company Companies .Net 383

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Socaltech has partnered with Sutton Capital Partners with their Recurring Revenue Conference for several yars. While it was a good year for our merger and acquisition practice in the SaaS and fintech space, our most exciting news is in our merchant banking sector where we invest in and advise growth companies often for several years.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

The funding was led by Longley Capital, and also included Stage 2 Capital, Ankona Capital, Serra Ventures and SaaS Ventures, and angels. Longley Capital is also based in San Diego. GoSite is led by CEO Alex Goode.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. The first investment I ever made as a VC was in a company now called Invoca. So I send Byron any SaaS investment I do at the earliest stage where I know we’ve nailed product / market fit.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2019

The startup said the funding was led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital (PGVC), and also included Okapi Venture Capital, Fika Ventures, and Mucker Capital. Gabe Greenbaum of Pritzker Group Venture Capital will join the company's board alongside the funding. READ MORE>>.

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Software Venture Capital Capital Funding 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Product Manager at Yahoo! Tags: snowball factory awesm tweetpost twitter facebook venture capital software saas. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Snowball Factory is headed by Jonathan Strauss, who according to his profile on LinkedIn was most recently a Sr.

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Beverly Hills Funding SaaS Yahoo 145

TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

4 key areas SaaS startups must address to scale infrastructure for the enterprise. SpotOn will now have over 500 employees on its product and technology team, according to co-founder and co-CEO Zach Hyman. While the Series E capital is primarily funding the acquisition, SpotOn continues to double down on its product and technology.

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Technical Review Software Review Invest Acquisition 296

socalTECH

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Amplify LA said it found that software-as-a-service (SaaS) was the most funded sector, with a decline in investments in such areas as e-commerce and mobile technology. The group also said it saw activity in consumer products and services, plus fintech. The group says its tracking found that the average seed round size was $2.2M

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Report SaaS Los Angeles Commerce 133

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2019

The funding was led by Octopus Ventures, and also included Partech Ventures, Notion Capital, and Tribal VC. to build out its Los Angeles headquarters, and add new products in the enterprise and franchise market. According to Glofox, it will use the funding to continue expansion efforts in the U.S., READ MORE>>.

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Tool Venture Capital Los Angeles Software 113

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2012

Steve goes on to note that Chuck Eesley , one of his Stanford compatriots, has performed quantitative studies of the VC industry, finding that firms which have operationally experienced partners tend to generate superior financial results. The Alchemy Of A Great Venture Capitalist. Let them…understand how to analyze deals.

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Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur SaaS 239

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. Your culture suffers. Your CAC stinks.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. A decent showing, but well below a number of larger schools, as the ranking is based on the number of graduates who secured VC funding. This allowed the curriculum to efficiently find its product / market fit.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

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JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. You’d imagine that companies selling tons of shelfware would quickly meet their deserved fate in the market, yet the spin around a category of software can fool buyers into thinking they “must have this product to compete.”

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

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JULY 23, 2013

No amount of persuasion would work so I asked simply if I could be staffed on one of his projects to teach some of his MBA geniuses about computer networks since they were working on defining telecom product offerings for the Internet age. I talked with a few VCs and batted around the idea of becoming a VC. 25, ISDN, T3s, etc.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

Chris Bostick: We're a mid-Wilshire venture firm, with a $260M fund. We invest in life sciences, medical devices, but we're also a generalist investing in SaaS technologies and real estate, as well. How did you get into venture capital, and how did you make that leap from scientist to venture capital?

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Venture Capital Invest SaaS Entrepreneur 113

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 22, 2016

My venture firm, Rincon Venture Partners recently teamed with Jason Lemkin, Founder of SaaStr , to host the first SaaStrX event. We had a spirited discussion regarding a number of issues related to blowing past $10M in annual recurring SaaS revenue, in front of a sold-out crowd of about 400 entrepreneurs.

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MARCH 23, 2015

The final clip is Fred & I talking about whether “the best product wins” and my assertion that the bias in today’s Silicon Valley dominated tech world there is probably too much emphasis on tech at the expense of how to sell, implement and service customers. You can’t time VC investing markets.

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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. What is TrackStreet?

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Commerce Sales 140

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JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. So what are you waiting for?

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JULY 1, 2015

. “the ecommerce company gained fauxmentum by raising artificially high amounts of venture capital and spent lavishly on customer acquisition despite long payback periods and questionable LTV” __. I’m not saying don’t hire sales staff or market your products aggressively. We live in heady times.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2010

If your last company was Apple, Blackberry, AdMob or JAMDAT and you have some experience in the sector then I know that your product will have your experiences baked into it. My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). version of their product was.

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Entrepreneur Startup SaaS San Diego 267

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APRIL 26, 2016

In product business it is often measured over multiple purchases and assumptions are made about the repeat rates and in the enterprise or services world LTV can be based on churn rates, which are notoriously hard to predict in an early-stage business. In SaaS (or any recurring revenue business) this is also a very difficult task.

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Metrics Startup SaaS Course 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. how to market our products and company. how & when to raise capital.

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