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Centerfield Buys Business.com and Savings.com

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Los Angeles-based Centerfield, a marketing and customer acquisition company backed by private equity investor Platinum Equity, says it has acquired both Business.com and Savings.com. The company was acquired by Platinum Equity in December 2019. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. for the domain name.

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SharesPost Ties With Advanced Equities

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Santa Monica-based SharesPost.com , which recently launched a marketplace for private company shares, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Advanced Equities. Brogger and Painter put together the Brighthouse incubator to help spin out companies. READ MORE>>.

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SharesPost Launches Private Equity Marketplace

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Santa Monica-based SharesPost , a new startup out of Scott Painter's BrightHouse incubator, said Tuesday morning that the firm has launched on online platform which will match buyers and sellers of private equity. Tags: brighthouse painter scott marketplace stock private equity sharespost. READ MORE>>.

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StartEngine Launches Crowdfunding Platform

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Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which was launched back in 2013 as a startup incubator, has pivoted its model, and has become an online equity crowdfunding platform called StartEngine Crowdfunding. READ MORE>>.

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Business.com Acquired By Purch

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Carlsbad-based Business.com , the online business directory and information site which was most recently in the hands of JMI Equity, has been sold to New York-based content publisher Purch , the two said Wednesday afternoon. Business.com has a long, corporate history, having started life in Santa Monica in 1999, as a $7.5M

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SharesPost Raising $3.3M

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In a regulatory filing Wednesday, the company--which had been spawned out of the spawned out of Scott Painter's BrighHouse incubator--said it had raised $3.3M in an equity funding round. SharesPost had originally been based in Santa Monica. No details on that funding have been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

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These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. These are not to be confused with incubators like YCombinator or IdeaLab which look to invest in your company and take equity positions.

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