Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

When you accept outside money, particularly a private equity (PE) investment, however, that changes. In this article, I’ll provide some personal stories of how investors have navigated the balance between raising private equity capital and not losing control of their startup.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 20, 2019

The move to specific tools and software programs increases speed and accuracy of processes. This used to be one of the least automated components, but now software like Workday and 15Five are building platforms to assist workflow with related systems that support employee management. by Chris Grey, co-founder and COO of CapLinked.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2019

Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , and enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We focus primarily on software and Internet companies in areas such as SaaS, application software, financial software, consumer internet, and online marketplaces. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way. That drives every decision we make.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 8, 2010

How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies.and Buy a Company with Private Equity Backing. Also, for background, see MIT Enterprise Forum of NY: Collaborative Investing Startups Software & Information Industry Association Panel on Content and Community.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. That was before we even discussed the required software development. Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups. What Startups Should Do.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Today’s workforce has radically different expectations, brands are losing their power, physical channels are being destroyed by virtual ones, market share is less important than market creation, and software is eating world. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2020

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. That was before we even discussed the required software development.

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deal architect

JUNE 19, 2019

Part of me is excited by the announcement that EQT, the private equity investor in IFS is also buying Acumatica. I have been saying for a while even after two decades of cloud applications, there are shockingly few operational applications.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Magnitude Software, a leading provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software, today announced it has secured up to $100 million in capital investment led by Audax Group, a leading middle market private equity firm, and a significant personal investment by Chris Ney, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress. September 15, 2011. The IPO market, she is a fickle mistress. In the first half of 2011, the IPO markets were looking strong for VC-backed companies.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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SiliconHills

MAY 21, 2021

Cognite, an industrial software as a service company that has its U.S. TCV, a private equity firm, led the round in Cognite, founded in 2017, […]. headquarters in Austin, announced this week that it has closed on a $150 million investment round. That funding round values the company at $1.6

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). At its core Venture Capital is nothing more than a small portion of the Private Equity financial asset class.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2020

The Ferd Company has investments in Nordic Stock Exchange and has handsome private equity. Aged 30, John Collison is the founder of Stripe, which develops software to assist online companies in making payments. The two Norwegian sisters are aged 24 and 25 respectively, and each is $1.1 billion net worth. Their father is Johan H.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. For mature businesses, there are Private Equity or PE firms. ? For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Both of which are expensive and time-consuming.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. So I packed in my day job – as a software developer – and devoted more time monetizing the blog and website. Thanks to Daniel Javor, Next Luxury ! #4-

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SiliconHills

MARCH 29, 2018

SpareFoot, the Austin-based online self-storage marketplace, announced Thursday plans to acquire SiteLink, a software maker for the self-storage industry, founded in 1996 and based in Raliegh, North Carolina. As part of the deal, Cove Hill Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, will acquire a majority stake in the combined company.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

While private equity has a history in the U.S. that dates back over a century , the “boom or bust” period of the 1980s to early 1990s is considered the period that marks the rise in private equity and venture capital funding as we know it today. Sabrina Parsons, CEO of Palo Alto Software.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Background Reading: When LLCs Make Sense for Startups Not Building a Unicorn If you have spent almost any time reading about the basics of startup legal issues, you know that Delaware C-corps are the default organizational structure for a “classic” tech startup (software, hardware) planning to raise angel/VC money and scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A. Read more: PEHub.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We also made sure to look at the financial profile of other Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. After all, we were selling a Software as a Service platform and with it came a guarantee of success with our software through the services we coupled with it. He also assisted greatly in sales. Read my Lucky7 Bootstrap or VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. VC will shrink. Oh yes it will.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

My upcoming objective is to develop a software application that will give marketers an advantage over their competitors. I plan to use a combination of personal capital, debt financing, and private equity investment to fund the business. In 2023, I plan to launch a brand-new enterprise focused on developing chatting software.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Zipcar: Ok, not exactly consumer web/software, but a great consumer tech company nonetheless. Wayfair: This is somewhere between an exit and and a growth round, but the largest independent ecommerce company focused on the huge home/furniture category raised a $165M round from a group of growth, private equity, and venture investors.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There were some other interesting data points in the report: Private equity accounted for 7% of deals, down from nearly 10% a year ago. The average private equity deal was $443m – 2.68x the corporate average. Software/SaaS was by far the biggest sector (see chart below).

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Gust

APRIL 23, 2014

That’s likely why SWIFT, the international banking consortium, this year named Gust the world’s most innovative financial technology startup, and why the US software industry has awarded Gust the CODiE for Best Collaboration Solution for two years in a row.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Gravitant, the leading software company in the enterprise cloud brokerage and management market, today announced it has expanded its Series B funding round by an additional $25M led by new investor Cielo Private Equity and existing investor S3 Ventures. Enterprise Funding Gravitant'

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2019

The software won’t fix your time management problem or make you more productive. Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , and enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Business Software. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Human Resources (HR). Employee Benefits. Advertising.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For example, I developed a training for executives on “ How to Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds “, which helps leaders of all backgrounds grow into executive roles or board seats at private equity and VC-backed companies. Use advocate management software (e.g.,

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SiliconHills

JULY 28, 2016

a Nashiville, Tenn-based private equity firm. The company plans to use the funding to speed up development of its Brazos platform, a data and analytics software program. Austin-based BP3 Global announced this week it has raised $10 Million from Petra Capital Partners, LLC.,

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 18, 2017

Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, announced Thursday its plans to acquire Planview, an Austin-based software company. The two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for Thoma Bravo to acquire Planview form Insight Venture Partners. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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SiliconHills

MAY 22, 2016

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm, last week announced its acquisition of Austin-based Accruent, which makes real estate, facilities and asset management software. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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