From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

The fact is most start-ups that generate a positive return for their investors are acquired by corporations or financial institutions and the average time it takes a VC to make a return on their investment is more than eight years. So, whether an entrepreneur raises money or not, they have to have a long-term vision.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Surf Air said it would work over the next 90 days to transition the RISE brand and experience into Surf Air, and that it eventually plans to merge the two networks, although it did not give firm dates on that merged service.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based Cocodot , the online invitations service run by former MySpace exec Shawn Gold, has raised $4.25M out of an ongoing $6.0M The firm has previously received funding from Anthem Ventures, Mailroom Fund, and Rincon Venture Partners. funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm.

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MARCH 19, 2009

Denver-based Adventure Central provides a search engine and services for finding adventure travel. AdventureLink is also venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners and The Mail Room Fund. Tags: travel merger adventurelink acquisition venture capital allegis adventure. Amount of that funding was not released.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The funding came from Anthem Venture Partners and The Mail Room Fund. AdventureLink also said today that it is in a partnership with VAX VacationAccess to distribute its service to over 70,000 leisure travel agents in North America. Tags: travel adventurelink mailroom venture capital adventure fund. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 7, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online automobile buying service headed by Scott Painter, is reporting today that it had what is calls its "strongest sales so far this year" in June. The firm did not say what drove the growth, and did not provide any financial details on its sales or profitability.

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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. We were established in 1989.

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JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 The only other sector seeing an increase was IT Services, up 17 percent to $1.8 billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. billion in the third quarter.

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JULY 5, 2016

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. The results? Notable university spinouts include Angel Learning, Endocyte, and Marcadia Biotech.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. Now, despite bootstrapping, you actually have some connections to the venture capital world, don't you? That's a big part of it.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. Kelly Tompkins: Yes, in 1998, there was Away.com, iExplore, and there was significant venture capital thrown at that segment. Tags: tompkins travel interview entrepreneur adventurelink services kelly adventure. Thanks for the interview.

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