Rafael H. Saavedra

Santa Barbara Angel Alliance is an angel investor group focused on startup and early-stage companies. Members have invested more than $17.5M in over 80 companies across the US and have participated in numerous public and private exits. The group is comprised of experienced entrepreneurs, senior executives, and sophisticated investors from a broad range of industries. The organization takes an active role in its investments, providing guidance and mentoring in addition to growth capital. Santa Barbara Angel Alliance believes in the importance of professional networks to locate and evaluate investment opportunities. The organization does not accept funding applications online, instead relying on personal introductions for deal flow.

Santa Barbara Angel Alliance is an angel investor group focused on startup and early-stage companies. Members have invested more than $17.5M in over 80 companies across the US and have participated in numerous public and private exits. The group is comprised of experienced entrepreneurs, senior executives, and sophisticated investors from a broad range of industries. The organization takes an active role in its investments, providing guidance and mentoring in addition to growth capital. Santa Barbara Angel Alliance believes in the importance of professional networks to locate and evaluate investment opportunities. The organization does not accept funding applications online, instead relying on personal introductions for deal flow.

We launched SecureDocs, Inc. with the goal of providing simple, smart document management solutions to help our clients accelerate transactions and minimize risk. Our innovative and successful products – SecureDocs, ContractWorks, and ReadySign – give organizations from a wide range of industries the tools they need to manage critical documents and grow their business. SecureDocs is a virtual data room solution used for secure business transactions like raising venture capital, M&A, IPOs, and more. Our software is easy-to-use, affordable, and built to meet the needs of our clients. We offer a secure platform, transparent pricing, and top-of-the-line customer service. Our platform handles thousands of financial transactions worth tens of billions of dollars, allowing us to grow our team and impact at a rapid pace. ContractWorks delivers a simple but powerful contract management solution to legal departments and contract teams who need to reduce costs, mitigate risk, and optimize revenue. Our easy-to-use, secure, and affordable software helps legal departments increase productivity, streamline tasks, and gain better control of their contracts. ReadySign is simple, affordable electronic signature software that makes signing, storing, and sharing contracts, invoices, IEPs, consent forms, and other documents easy. We believe in honest, transparent pricing and offer unlimited documents and signatures for one simple price, no surprises. In January, 2022, SecureDocs was acquired by Onit, the market leader in enterprise legal management, enterprise contract lifecycle management, and business process automation solutions. Together, we can provide even greater value to our customers thanks to a complementary offering of products and services.

The Flexera acquisition of RightScale is an investment in the continued development of RightScales proven multi-cloud management and cost optimization solutions, which complement Flexeras software, hardware, and SaaS optimization suite that helps businesses maximize their technology investments. The industry-leading RightScale Cloud Management Platform helps enterprises to accelerate delivery of cloud-based applications that engage customers and drive top-line revenue while optimizing cloud usage to reduce risk and costs. It is a comprehensive solution that enables IT organizations to deliver instant access to a portfolio of public, private, and hybrid cloud services across business units and development teams while maintaining enterprise control. RightScale Optima is a collaborative cloud cost management and optimization solution that enables organizations to take automated action to reduce cloud spend across the enterprise. In 2018, the independent research firm Forrester recognized both offerings as leading solutions in the Hybrid Cloud Management and Cloud Cost Monitoring and Optimization categories.  #cloudmanagement #cloudcostmanagement #multicloudmanagement #hybridcloudmanagement