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TrueCar Launches New Pricing Tool

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The firm is venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Arcturus Capital, Capital One, Capricorn Management, and GRP Partners. Painter is best known for being the founder and CEO of CarsDirect.com, but is also heavily involved in local startups such as SharesPost, and other firms through his BrightHouse business incubator.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

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Indiana is home to the global headquarters for Anthem, Cook Medical, Dow AgroSciences, and Eli Lilly and Company, as well as the North American headquarters for Roche Diagnostics. Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. Some of these entrepreneurs are faculty and staff members who license their own work. The results?

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Why Technology is Driving More Urban Renewal

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So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. I think the urban tech renewal is happening for the same reason. And with startups so go VCs.