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.

Zag 100

Zag Arcturus GRP Partners 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. Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer.

Zag 100

Zag CarsDirect Arcturus GRP Partners 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Total raised: $5.0mm.

Venture Capital 225

Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. We spoke with Dale Quayle , the firm's CEO, about the funding and company. One of the investors, Anthem Ventures, is here in Los Angeles, which is how I got involved.

EC2 150

EC2 Los Angeles Web Anthem 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. Finally, I HATE the name.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

If Groupon remained a bootstrapped entity or a business built on the back of funds raised from friends and family, Mason would still be firmly entrenched as founder and Chief Executive. Wealth family officers, who manage family trust funds, are often seen as being passive investors. What is your exit strategy?

Venture Capital 45

Venture Capital Capital Anthem Startup 45

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. We're really focused on enterprise sales and carrier grade products.

Social Network 113

Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

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 Indiana’s life sciences sector touches the lives of people around the world. billion in exports during the 12 months ended Sept.

Patents 67

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

Company 111

Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. 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. So, we're pretty connected with the community.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And post production. I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. And make-up artists.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313