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2022 Year in Review for Southern California Tech

A Sobering Year 2022 was not a good year for the tech industry. While the broader stock market tumbled the most since the Great Recession, tech bore the brunt of the selloff. The S&P 500 fell 19%, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell 33% and the BVP Emerging Cloud Index representing enterprise SaaS fell…

Southern California

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2022 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
2022 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
Southern California

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Feb 9, 2022

The emerging client-side SaaS infrastructure stack

The dominance of the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model has become undeniable over the past two decades. Leading identity and single sign-on provider Okta estimates that the average company today uses 89 applications, with large companies deploying an average of 187. …

SaaS

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The emerging client-side SaaS infrastructure stack
The emerging client-side SaaS infrastructure stack
SaaS

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Dec 31, 2021

2021 Year in Review for Southern California Tech

One year ago, after the ups and downs of the first year of the COVID pandemic, I ended my 2020 Year in Review with some misgivings. Southern California’s tech startup ecosystem showed resilience during last year, but it didn’t seem to be growing at the same rate as other cities…

Startup

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2021 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
2021 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
Startup

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B Capital Group

·Jun 30, 2021

Do low Average ACVs affect your ability to go public?

VCs look to invest in companies that can go public. Although M&A exits occur more frequently, public liquidity events drive the majority of value creation and returns for VCs’ portfolios. So a commonly asked question is, just what does a public company look like? The world of enterprise software is…

Startup

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Do low Average ACVs affect your ability to go public?
Do low Average ACVs affect your ability to go public?
Startup

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B Capital Group

·Apr 28, 2021

The Five Themes Cybersecurity Startups Are Tackling in 2021

One year into the COVID pandemic, it has become cliché to say that we have compressed years of corporate digital transformation into the span of just a few quarters. What started as a scramble to ensure that employees could work from home has turned into a simultaneous acceleration of cloud…

Cybersecurity

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The Five Themes Cybersecurity Startups Are Tackling in 2021
The Five Themes Cybersecurity Startups Are Tackling in 2021
Cybersecurity

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B Capital Group

·Jan 1, 2021

2020 Year in Review for Southern California Tech

New unicorns, new funds, and new real estate priorities, but where are the mega exits? — Two years ago, I spent my New Years Eve writing a recap of all that had happened in SoCal tech that year. It was an exciting time, with a slate of major exits (Cylance, Ring, and Sonos, among others), and Bird scooters were taking LA and San Diego by storm…

Startup

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2020 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
2020 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
Startup

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B Capital Group

·Nov 15, 2020

The future of Southern California’s startup ecosystem is Enterprise tech

The steady pace of venture-backed Enterprise startup exits makes the sector the bedrock of a healthy technology ecosystem. The recent IPO of GoodRx marked another mega liquidity event for a Southern California startup, with the company going public at a monster valuation of $12.7B. Of course, this is on top…

Startup

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The future of Southern California’s startup ecosystem is Enterprise tech
The future of Southern California’s startup ecosystem is Enterprise tech
Startup

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B Capital Group

·May 29, 2020

Why we invested in Synack

This article was co-written by B Capital Group Senior Principal Mike Fernandez and General Partner Rashmi Gopinath. Regardless of sector or structure, organizations are increasingly confronted with ever-expanding threats in the form of cyberattacks. As recently as last year, cybersecurity ranked as the number one concern among CEOs of the…

Cybersecurity

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Why we invested in Synack
Why we invested in Synack
Cybersecurity

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Jan 1, 2019

2018 Year in Review for Southern California Tech

Last month marked my five year anniversary as an investor. I first moved back to Los Angeles to join the world of venture capital in 2013, when the tech ecosystem in Southern California looked very different than it does today. Long time LA fund GRP Partners had just rebranded as…

Los Angeles

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2018 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
2018 Year in Review for Southern California Tech
Los Angeles

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B Capital Group

·Jun 28, 2017

Fighting money laundering with federated learning

By Mike Fernandez, B Capital Group Banks have faced a difficult regulatory environment in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. Since 2008, regulators in developed economies have levied over $321B in fines against banks, and banks are struggling to keep up with the over 50,000 regulatory changes that occur…

Fintech

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Fighting money laundering with federated learning
Fighting money laundering with federated learning
Fintech

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