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AUGUST 3, 2011

Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. Other investors, aside form Anthem and DFJ Frontier, were RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and Square 1 Bank. JanRain said it has raised $15.5M both Varma and Cremin sit on JanRain's board of directors.

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Anthem Draper Yahoo Venture Capital 154

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DECEMBER 7, 2009

Two Los Angeles-based venture firms, DFJ Frontier and Anthem Venture Partners , have invested in a Portland software firm developing online identification and single-sign in software. JanRain's software allows for single sign onto web sites, including using OpenID and other standards.

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Anthem Web Software Los Angeles 113

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

A new, venture capital firm, founded by Jon Bauch and Brian Mesic, has emerged in Los Angeles, called Ankona Capital. Bauch and Mesic--who were previously at Anthem Venture Partners--apparently are aiming at early growth capital investment in software companies.

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Capital Anthem Southern California Venture Capital 113

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

San Diego-based Email Copilot , which develops visualization, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of email deliverability data, has been acquired by Return Path , a New York-based developer of email data software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Al Bsharah, was co-founder and CEO of Email Copilot. READ MORE>>.

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Email Anthem San Diego Acquisition 100

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

Viewdle , the developer of cross platform, facial recognition technology backed by Santa Monica-based Anthem Ventures, has scored another round of funding, worth $10M, according to Viewdle. The new round comes from Best Buy, BlackBerry Partners Fund, and Qualcomm, in addition to Anthem Ventures, which was the original investor in the company.

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Anthem Santa Monica Venture Capital Research 154

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APRIL 5, 2010

The information--gleaned from funding announcements, regulatory filings, and other sources--are also up significantly from Q1 of last year, when only $729.89M was invested in the region. Interestingly, only Redpoint, Domain, Anthem, and DFJ Frontier have local offices in Southern California. in deals tracked by our database.

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Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

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JANUARY 12, 2015

However, for today''s interview, we''ve decided to venture a bit farther afield--talking to Samit Varma , founder of Los Angeles-based pizza franchise Pizza Studio (www.pizzastudio.com). I was part of the startup Odyssey Labs, which was backed by Anthem Ventures, and did that for a few years before going over to the venture side.

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Startup Anthem Venture Capital Technology 100