Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Technology solutions are now used by authoritarians to monitor and control populations, to stymie an individual company’s economic prospects or to foment chaos through demagoguery. What Has Changed in Financing?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2022

in a seed funding round. The funding was led by Companyon Ventures, and also included Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund, SixThirty Ventures, Gaingels, Gutbrain Ventures, PBJ Capital, and CreativeCo Capital. Los Angeles-based NVISIONx, a developer of data risk reduction software, says it has raised $4.6M

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Xconomy

MAY 24, 2017

million in seed funding to spin out its consulting business, and focus instead on providing its core Web content management technology as a subscription-based software-as-a-service. Zesty.io, a San Diego Web development firm, has raised $1.3

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socalTECH

JANUARY 25, 2019

San Diego-based Trust & Will , a startup which operates an online software tool to help people create their own estate plans, has raised $2M in a funding round, the company disclosed this week.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 18, 2022

Our guest, Aaron Levie, built a successful SaaS business in Box, and now he’s on a mission to beef – respectfully – with web3 stans all over Twitter. Molecule , a platform where DAOs can back medical research projects, secured $13 million in seed funding led by Northpond Ventures. debt, equity, derivatives) or sectors (e.g.,

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2020

in a seed funding round. What Swoop does, is we build technology for them, SaaS tools, which allow them to run their businesses more effectively. With SaaS, eventually, ou can provide a great booking experience and rides for everyone. The company recently announced $3.2M What's Swoop all about?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. I do believe that we are in structural change where technology will increasingly play a bigger role in all facets of life so the long run up for tech is promising through all of these cycles. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Paul Bricault: The biggest lesson, I guess, is that when we started, the vast bulk of of our applicants were the three pillars of technology people felt matched the area. We have companies here from enterprise SaaS to Internet of Things, to the on-demand economy, to virtual and augmented reality, and health care.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Jeff told us of his life-long passion for technology and start-ups, which spoke volumes about the drive, dedication and focus needed to make any business a success. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Jeff Solomon holding court in the kitchen.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 30, 2013

Jeff told us of his life-long passion for technology and start-ups, which spoke volumes about the drive, dedication and focus needed to make any business a success. Consequently, Jeff is a big believer in B to B opportunities or SaaS platforms, like Jeff’s own Leads 360. Jeff Solomon holding court in the kitchen.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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