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AUGUST 30, 2010

Pasadena-based Central Desktop , the software-as-a-service provider of business collaboration software, said today that it has named Laurence Sotsky as Vice President of Sales. Sotsky was most recently Vice President of Sales at the Los Angeles Times Media Group, and has also served at Deloitte Consulting, and Accenture. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Our interview today is with Aaron Ross, the Co-CEO of Predictable Revenue (www.predictablerevenue.com), and author of the Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100M Best Practices of Salesforce.com, and From Impossible to Inevitable: How SaaS and Other Hyper-Growth Companies Create Predictable Revenue.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Sales tax compliance is not a typical sexy startup area. So, it was a surprise when a number of smart, insider angels -- including Roy Rubin (founder of Magento, which he sold to eBay), and Dan Rose (VP of Partnerships at Facebook)--put their money behind TaxJar (www.taxjar.com), a San Diego startup developing sales tax compliance software.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Fullerton-based Digsy has rolled out a new, sales software platform specifically aimed at helping commercial real estate brokers better manage their sales teams. The company said it has users at such companies as CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers International, NAI Capital, Sandler Sales Training and others.

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MARCH 19, 2013

Los Angeles based Leads360 , the developer of sales leads management software, thinks so, announcing today that it has launched a new product which uses a fancy algorithm to better assign and drive leads and sales followups.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2010

The firm, which currently has 34 employees, is targeting at least 50 employees by the end of the year, Garcia told socalTECH over the weekend. The firm says that it's been seeing lots of customer and sales growth, and is hiring across the board to grow faster. The firm had only 18 employees in January of 2009. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 19, 2018

Los Angeles-based expense and invoice management software developer Chrome River said on Thursday that it has had another year of record revenues and sales growth. The company--which did not release any of its financials-said it grew its revenues by more than 32 percent year-over-year.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Goleta-based AutoVitals , which develops software-as-a-service (SaaS) products for the automotive repair and maintenance software business, has raised a round of private equity, the company recently announced, from private equity investor Tritium Partners. Financial details of the private equity deal were not announced.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Los Angeles-based Velocify , which develops cloud-based, sales automation software, has scored a win over at eHarmony. velocify sales lead eharmony management software cloud funnel saas marketing leads360' Financial impact of the deal was not announced. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2013

Sales automation software developer Leads360 said Wednesday that it has renamed the firm to Velocify , saying the new name better reflects its focus on "high-velocity" sales environments. velocify leads360 sales saas cloud leads management lead scoring renaming rename' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2015

San Diego-based NoteVault , which develops a cloud-based note taking product for the commercial construction industry, has named Jeremy Foster as the company's Chief Marketing Officer, and John Roshala as its new VP of Sales. Foster was previously at Ericsson, and also worked at Vodafone New Zealand.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Lytle is the company's current Head of Government Affairs, where he has been since April 2020; he also previously served as Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Enterprise Saas Solutions from August 2017 to October 2018, and has since been consulting for the company; he also served at Cavulus, Morgan Stanley, and hedge fund RCL Capital.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We spoke with Andrew about how the company pivoted from its original model after finding a huge amount of traction for its sales software and data, and its ability to guide brokers on the best practices for them to close more deals, which it is now offering as software-as-a-service. What is Digsy?

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APRIL 27, 2017

Los Angeles-based Chrome River , which develops expense and invoice management software, said this morning that it had its largest first-quarter sales in the company's history.

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JUNE 4, 2015

West Hollywood-based Orbitera , a developer of a cloud-based software product to help companies the sales of cloud-based software and services, including managing leads, trial subscriptions, billing, and operations, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The company disclosed the funding Thursday. The funding came from Resolute Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The seed funding was led by Okapi Capital, and also included Stage Venture Partners, SaaS Capital, and angels. Widespread, cutthroat price discounting is a bane for manufacturers, particularly those who also have a significant bricks-and-mortar channel they do not want to cannibalize through online sales. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 26, 2013

The company''s tools are aimed at managing financing, asset sales, M&A deals, and other complex business deals. caplinked file management dealroom saas software project' CapLinked''s software is used by companies doing due diligence and managing business transactions. READ MORE>>.

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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>>.

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OCTOBER 31, 2013

Nimble''s service tracks all contacts with a user--whether it''s email, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other means--to help users better manage things like sales and business relationships. nimble hootsuite social media management contact sales software saas' READ MORE>>.

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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

AUGUST 5, 2013

Financial terms of the sale were not disclosed. teletrac merger acquisition saas software fleet tracking private equity cloud' Garden Grove-bsaed Teletrac , a developer of cloud-based, software-as-a-service products for fleet tracking and fleet operators, has been sold to Danaher , according to private equity investor Vector Capital.

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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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FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The company said the new funding will go towards product development, sales, and marketing activities. amplifyla amplify accelerator capital venture software saas cloud enterprise bitium' Bitium''s software is used for managing software-as-a-service apps. Bitium was part of the Amplify LA accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Nimble said the link is aimed at helping companies create virtual, social call centers for their sales teams. integration saas talkdesk software center call nimble' Financial details of the link were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 19, 2014

The company said it plans to double its sales force in the U.S. incentive incentivecorp sweden venture capital social software saas cloud intranet sharing business enterprise' this year, along with expansion in Sweden. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Laguna Hills-based SpeedTax , a developer of software-as-a-service for sales tax management, announced this morning that it has named David Lahey as the firm's Executive Vice President, Sales and marketing. Lahey was most recently at Sage, where he was a VP of Sales for a number of the firm's product lines.

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OCTOBER 29, 2013

Convertro''s products help companies understand the attribution of the marketing efforts, to determine which marketing efforts are converting best to sales. convertro executive marketing analytics attribution saas software' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2013

If you were in sales, you either ran ACT!, and Goldmine faded away, no longer the two kings of the sales CRM world. contatta goldmine customer relationship management nimble software saas' , created by Pat Sullivan, and Goldmine , created by Jon Ferrara. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 , the developer of online sales lead management software-as-a-service, said Tuesday that it has launched a new, real-time prioritization product. The firm said the product is aimed at helping provide for more efficient and contact by sales professionals. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 , a developer of hosted software for managing sales leads, reported yesterday that the firm has signed on Infinity Auto Insurance, a unit of Infinity Property and Casualty Group. Tags: leads360 software sales lead saas. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2014

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' Kareo is led by Dan Rodrigues. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2015

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. saas software marketing upfront capital venture restaurant ordering mobile chownow' ChowNow was founded by Chris Webb. Kellermeyer was most recently at GrubHub; Jhaveri was at Yodle.

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JULY 22, 2020

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. Santa Barbara-based TrackStreet , a developer of brand protection software, has raised $5.1M

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Los Angeles-based Leads360 reported today that it has linked its sales lead management software with offerings from web-based mortgage software firm Optimal Blue. Tags: leads360 sales lead management software saas mortgage optimal blue. Business details of the integration were not announced. Leads360 was founded by Jeff Solomon.

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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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JANUARY 19, 2022

Santa Barbara-based FastSpring, which develops e-commerce software used by software-as-a-service companies to manage sales and VAT taxes, prevent fraud, and more, says it has opened up new operations in Belfast, Ireland. The company also said it has appointed Mansoor Bajowala as the VP of Global Customer Operations to manage those operations.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. Part of our team is working on partnerships and sales with big companies like Netflix, Google, and others who require group transportation. They book through Swoop, which leads to those operators.

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