socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2015

Varma is actually a former technology investor at Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Anthem Ventures, and we thought it would be great contrasting his experience starting and running a restaurant franchise with the technology startup world. How did you go from venture capital to running a franchise restaurant chain?

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Startup Anthem Venture Capital Technology 100

From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

The recent firing of Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason is a cautionary tale of the increased scrutiny and heightened expectations that come from accessing increasingly larger amounts of investment capital. Is outside capital really required? Who should you approach, “friends and family”, passive investors or value added institutions?

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Venture Capital Capital Anthem Startup 45

socalTECH

DECEMBER 22, 2008

The equity came from Oak Investment Partners, Acacia Capital, and Anthem Venture Partners; source of the debt financing was not disclosed. Solarflare said the new funding will go towards ramping manufacturing of its 10GBASE-T PHY products. Tags: venture debt capital ethernet semiconductor gigabit solarflare. READ MORE>>.

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Anthem Equity Capital Funding 100

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2009

Irvine-based Solarflare Communications , which develops 10 Gigabit Ethernet silicon, said today that it has hired on Mike Smith as the firm's Vice President of Product Marketing. According to Solarflare, Smith will be responsible for product management and product marketing at the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Anthem Marketing Invest Product 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2008

According to Solarflare, El-Gev Electronics will handle pre- and post-sales actiivty and technical support for its products. Solarflare is a developer of 10GBASE-T transceivers and 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers.

Windward 100

Windward Miramar Technical Support Anthem 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Zag has developed a software product which allows users to fully configure and price cars for car buying programs and affinity groups; the firm's software is already being used by a number of other AAA clubs. Zag has now signed up 14 AAA motor clubs, and also provides its technology to Capital One Auto Finance, Overstock.com, and other sites.

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Zag CarsDirect Arcturus GRP Partners 100

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now. It's a truly interesting product.

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Santa Monica Venture Capital Anthem Design 190

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; The firm is backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Capital One Auto Finance, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.

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Zag Arcturus GRP Partners Anthem 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. It’s a cool product and worth checking out. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University shared data that shows the state is the nation’s second-largest exporter of life sciences products , with $9.9 Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. Indiana’s life sciences sector touches the lives of people around the world.

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Patents Research Anthem Education 67

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission. We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And post production. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. In San Fran you find more recently established VCs like True Ventures, First Round Capital, Freestyle, Kii Capital and others. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313