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CARD.com Raises $3M For Prepaid Debit Cards

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The Series A funding was led by QED Investors, and also included Resolute Ventures, Anthem Ventures, and angels such as Adam Press and Greg Steiner (BeachMint, eHarmony). The company said it has now raised $4.7M in funding.

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Don’t go on a phishing trip!

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A successful attack can lead to you or one of your associates providing highly sensitive personal details of self, customers or employees – including social security numbers, usernames, passwords, and/or banking information. Anthem Blue Cross for example could be a phishing loser.

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StyleMint Opens Early Access

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The early access invite, send Wednesday afternoon, says that users can sign up to create a "style profile" to get access to custom T-shirt designs from the Olsens, which will cost $29.99 BeachMint is backed by Scale Venture Partners, Lightbank, New Enterprise Associates, Trinity Ventures, and Anthem Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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What Startups Can Learn From The Pizza Business: Samit Varma

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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. What is Pizza Studio? How did you go from venture capital to running a franchise restaurant chain?

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Intercasting Acquired By Good Technology

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Intercasting was backed by Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead; its flagship software is ANTHEM, which connected mobile users to social networking sites like MySpace, and was sold by telecom carriers. The firm's customers included AT&T, Boost Mobile, Spring, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin MObile, and others. READ MORE>>.

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Zag: 50,000 Cars Sold

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Zag's technology provides a level of customization and detail on "fleet" style, pre-negotiated sales of autos, down to the accessory level; the firm has deals with USAA, Capital One, Overstock.com, AAA groups, and others to provide its service. over MSRP on their autos. Painter is the former CEO of CarsDirect.com. READ MORE>>.

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Zag Adds Another AAA Group

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Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer. Zag is headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, and is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Capital One Auto Finance, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund. READ MORE>>

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