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

JANUARY 2, 2019

Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference, which we co-host every year. We continue to focus on companies with Recurring Revenue (SaaS, Subcription) and in FinTech.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Being able to replace those with software really streamlines things, and automates their jobs, so they are not so boring.

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socalTECH

MARCH 30, 2018

This year, we're sponsoring the Recurring Revenue Conference (www.recurringrevenueconference.com), presented by Sutton Capital Partners. Therese is one of the keynote speakers at the Recurring Revenue Conference. Being able to replace those with software really streamlines things, and automates their jobs, so they are no so boring.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

The firm said its new product, ActiveEvents OnDemand, provide tools to event planners for managing conferences, meetings, tradeshows, seminars, and other events. Active Network entered the events management business in January 2008, with the acquisition of event management software firms RegOnline and WingateWeb. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 11, 2010

Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Consumers buying through smart phones, travelers using the new, shared economy and businesses replacing old software with modern cloud-based solutions. In the software industry we’ve always had a term that’s a bit of an anachronism called “shelfware.” For what purpose are they using your software?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

San Diego-based BUMP Network , a developer of online software used by membership programs to manage registrations and partnership programs, has raised $2.3M BUMP Network said its customers include large shopping malls and retailers, conference companies, medical services providers, sports companies, and others. along with other angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

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 Invoca was raising at the tail end of this market phenomenon at this time doing tens of millions in SaaS recurring revenue and growing at a nice clip. FOMO was NOMO. As in no more.

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socalTECH

JULY 7, 2014

Basically, what that means is we create software that runs on servers, which forms a cloud storage service. Many of our customers are software-as-a-service companies, and don''t know upfront how many customers they will have. startup interview cloud iaas saas enterprise storage zadara nahum nelson' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 11, 2012

AnyMeeting, which is headed by Coston Tuculescu, also said it will offer up two months of its premium ad-free conference service to Tech Coast Angels members. The firm's investors include those same Tech Coast Angels, the Pasadena Angels, and Maverick Angels. READ MORE>>.

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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. We now have 150 people across three offices, tens of millions in recurring revenue, inbound demand from investors, opportunities to acquire related startups and demands on Jason’s time to speak at conference, do press interviews and so on and so on.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 2, 2011

Central Desktop was founded in 2005 to provide an easy-to-use, SaaS collaboration solution to the SMB market. However, over the past several years, Central Desktop’s collaboration software has increased in functionality such that it is now a credible competitor to Microsoft’s SharePoint.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was attending a major industry conference in Barcelona at the height of the WAP excitement. I was on stage in front of several hundreds of conference attendees. So I attended a Red Herring conference in Laguna Niguel hanging out with Dharmesh Shah , James Citron , Rob Theis and others. Kleiner Perkins launches an iFund.

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socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2011

AnyMeeting provides a free, ad-supported service which allows users to run web conferences and webcasts. Hungtington Beach-based Freebinar , the free web conferencing and webcasting service headed by Costin Tuculescu , has renamed itself AnyMeeting , the firm said this morning.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

We kept meeting at conferences over the next 18 months and he kept showing me what he was working on. Under Rob’s leadership we built out an amazing organization of seasoned enterprise software veterans in the US market. I remain as childishly giddy at Nick’s vision as I did in our conference hangout we had in 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5 You have the super impressive Cory Levy who founded the NextGen Conferences (as well as One, Inc.). AWS helped lower the cost of starting a company by 90%. When I started my first company at 31 year’s old I had to raise at least $5 million. Back to women.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

Let me give you some examples I see of fauxmentum: In the SaaS world I see many business plans where companies have achieved 100-300% year-over-year growth and this is truly impressive. My cautionary tale here is that we’re in the phase of the market where every corporate buyer of software is being paid to innovate.

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Steve Reich

JUNE 11, 2012

MindBodyOnline is a terrifically succesful SaaS company, based in San Luis Obispo, that provides scheduling and transactional software for Yoga studios, hair salons, and spas. They have periodic conference calls with groups of users. They read product reviews obsessively. More importantly, they act on the input.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

This morning's interview with Daryl Bernstein , CEO and co-founder of Santa Barbara-based RightSignature (www.rightsignature.com), a firm which has created an online, software-as-a-service offering to collect legally binding signatures on documents. We ran into an interesting case at the big Rails conference in Vegas, in fact.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Without further adieu, I present to you the winners of the 1st annual REACH NeXT conference: Entertainment: Storygami. Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. Health & Wellness: Green Way Labs. Sold it in 2014.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2013, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan. Venue Sponsor.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Huntington Beach-based Anymeeting , the free web conferencing and webinar service headed by Costin Tuculescu, and backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels and Maverick Angels, reports today that it has added a new, ad-free version of the software aimed at small business users. The firm said the new, paid feature will cost $17.99

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Among them was Stribe , a company TechZulu originally interviewed at the TechCrunch50 conference earlier this year. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. Gostai - a consumer robotics company that just released its software, Urbi, under an Open Source license.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Company officials are attending the side-by-side Black Hat and Defcon cybersecurity conferences in Las Vegas this week, and did not respond to queries Monday from Xconomy. PacketSled plans to use the capital to embark on new marketing initiatives and make additional hires in sales, engineering, and operations, according to a recent statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

So I’ve always advised people that if they do launch at a big show, the most important public relations work they do is after the conference. Imagine if you had to release your software daily in order to keep your job or to have the traffic numbers you need to earn your paycheck. Many other great companies are not. -

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Siggi is a principal at Samsung NEXT in San Francisco, where she focuses on early-stage investment in frontier tech software companies. With experience in corporate and technology licensing, Alice frequently acts as outside general counsel for digital health companies, as well as other SaaS providers.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based online event promotion service Planana , the startup founded by Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao, said Thursday that the company has been accepted to the DreamIt Ventures Winter 2013 class in Austin, Texas. The startup said that it will be demonstrating its products at SXSW at March 8th, at the conclusion of the program.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

We discussed why in Q4 you will see large renegotiations of SaaS contracts and increased churn rates. Nobody will be immune because in a bull market executives are paid to “innovate” so they sign software contracts and run projects. I spoke about that more in this deck that I wrote for the SaaStr conference in early March 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition.

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