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MAY 23, 2012

In what is a huge blow to Silicon Beach, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the software-and-technology-meets-employee-perks startup run by Paige Craig, told its users today that it is sunsetting its site on May 31st. BetterWorks--and Paige Craig--have been one of the companies driving the growth in Santa Monica's Silicon Beach.

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APRIL 23, 2021

The new fund is being managed by Erik Huberman, Tony Delmercado, and Managing Partner Drew Leahy, along with angel investor Paige Craig. Hawke Ventures, a new, venture capital fund that is part of marketing company Hawke Media, said Friday that it has raised $5.6M for its first, venture capital fund.

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MARCH 27, 2018

Bird recently hired on well known LA angel investor Paige Craig as its Head of U.S. Bird is venture backed by Valor Equity Partners, Index Ventures, Craft Ventures, Goldcrest Capital, Tusk Ventures and Upfront Ventures. The company's CEO is Travis VanderZanden. City Operations. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 9, 2018

As part of the funding, Bird said it has named angel and venture investment veteran Paige Craig as its new Head of U.S. Craig was previously General Partner and Founder of Arena Ventures, and has been an angel investor in such companies as Lyft, Postmates, Twitter, AngelList, as well as a who's who of startups in Los Angeles.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , a stealth mode startup headed by well known angel investor Paige Craig, has raised around $1.5M Craig has recruited the co-creater of Zynga's Farmville game, Sizhao Yang, as well as George Ishii, who was co-founder of Geni.com and Yammer, as co-founders. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 23, 2011

The firm--headed by Paige Craig--helps provide employee benefits and perks using web-based software and technology. Craig's co-founders include Zao Yang, the creator of Farmville, and George Ishii, co-founder of Geni and Yammer. BetterWorks did not give a timetable for opening up in New York and Boston.

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MAY 17, 2012

The move is an abrupt shift from feast to famine for BetterWorks, the high profile employee fringe benefits startup headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig. Just nine months ago, the firm had over fifty open positions , and Craig had huge expansion plans.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee perks and benefits startup headed by Paige Craig, said Wednesday that it has updated its product, adding new perk discovery features, and advanced ordering of perks. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee benefit and perks startup headed by angel investor Paige Craig, said Tuesday that it has added a slew of new vendors to its service.

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MARCH 27, 2014

Klout''s investors include Silicon Beach angel investor Paige Craig; San Diego angel investor Howard Lindzon; Tom McInerney, a regular investor in Silicon Beach startups; and Greycroft Partners, which has a big presence in Southern California. The deal is reportedly worth $200M.

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JULY 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee fringe benefits services provider headed by Paige Craig, has tapped LA technology advocate Nicole Jordan as its head of Communications. Craig is a well known angel investor and entrepreneur, and the firm's other co-founders include Zao Yang, creator of the popular FarmVille social game.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the provider of a system for managing employee benefits and perks programs headed by Paige Craig, said this morning that it has updated its product, and added a new Personal Services category to its offerings. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 20, 2013

The funding came from Plus Capital, MM Capital, Paige Craig, Eric Hann (Netscape), and other angels. Los Angeles-based Prevoty , a developer of security tools for preventing cross-site scripting (XSS), a security issue for websites, has raised $700,000 in seed funding, the firm disclosed today. The firm is part of Launchpad LA.

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JULY 27, 2018

The company's angels include Plus Capital, MM Capital, Paige Craig, Eric Hann (Netscape), and others, and the company was part of the Launchpad LA startup incubator program. Prevoty's software helps protect enterprise applications from attacks, and is used in the DevOps area. Prevoty's CEO is Julien Bellanger. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2013

The new funding came from Javelin Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and Paige Craig. Los Angeles-based Uncovet , the online fashion deals and discovery site backed by Science, Inc., said it has raised $1.3M this morning.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Testifying to the rapid growth rate at which local startups operate, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the online employee benefits and perks firm headed by Paige Craig, revealed Tuesday that it is expecting to expand its team to over 80 people, after inking a round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

in seed funding for its service, from such angels as Aaron Batalion (LivingSocial), Ben Huh (The Cheezburger Network), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Paige Craig, Jillian Manus, Mike Walsh, and Structure Capital, along with Double M Capital, Venture51, Expansion, and Karlin Ventures. Honk also revealed that it has raised $1.8M

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based BetterWorks , the employee benefits platform provider headed by Paige Craig, announced today that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. According to the firm, the round was led by Redpoint Ventures, and will go towards hiring, expansion, and continued development of its platform.

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JULY 27, 2011

According to TroopSwap--which is led by two Airborne Rangers who met at Harvard Business School--it received $925,000 in a new round of funding from such investors as Frank Monestere, President/COO of Los Angeles-based LegalZoom.com; Paige Craig, Founder and CEO of BetterWorks.com; and Kelly Perdew, CEO of FastPointGames.com.

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JUNE 18, 2015

StackSocial is backed by 500 Startups, Siemer Ventures, EchoVC Partners, Amplify LA, as well as angels Paige Craig, Tim Draper, Penny Black, Jim Pallotta, Rick Merrill, Josh Resnick, Mark Schwartz, and Jeff Lapin. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The firm--which the Tech Coast Angels revealed last week that it had funded in 2010--also has the backing of well known angel investor Paige Craig, who also sits on the firms advisory board.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Prevoty, which is venture backed by US Venture Partners, Plus Capital, MM Capital, Paige Craig, and others, developers cross-site scripting security tools to prevent security breaches in web apps.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Gigit has quietly scored angel funding from such prominent investors as Paige Craig to work on its project. A Los Angeles startup, Gigit --still in early beta--thinks so, and has begun offering up event planners and others a way to tap into a marketplace of bands and other musicians who will play live.

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JULY 11, 2011

The firm's advisors include Paige Craig, CEO of BetterWorks and well known angel investor; attorney Antone Johnson; Nathan Beckord on VentureArchetypes.com; Dan Boberg; and Brian Clark, according to the firm's profile on AngelList.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Retention Science is venture backed by Baroda Ventures, Mohr Davidow Venutres, Double M Capital, along with angels Paige Craig, Clark Landry & Bong Koh. Retention Science develops software which uses big data to help analyze and predict the behavior of consumers on a web site, which can be used to drive offers to those customers.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

The funding came from Cue Ball Capital, plus angels Dave McClure, Tony Hsieh, Chamath Palihapitiya (Social+Capital Partners), Rohan Oza, 500 Startups, Matias de Tezanos, Rhodium Ventures, Walter Kortschak, Troy Carter, Crosslink Capital, Summit Series, Nala Investments, Paige Craig, Ed Wilson, Tom McInerney, Zac Zeitlin, Venture 51 and Bruce Leak.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Join Mark Suster, Scott Painter, Paige Craig and 300+ entrepreneurs. Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- The Startup Conference LA. The Startup Conference is coming to Los Angeles on November 15th, 2011. See [link] (more)

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MAY 3, 2011

According to Troopswap.com, based in Hampton Road, Virginia, it has scored $585,000 in private funding from investors that include Frank Monestere , President/COO of Legalzoom.com, Paige Craig , CEO of BetterWorks.com, and Kelly Perdew , CEO of FastPointGames. All three have a background in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

The company--led by UCLA Anderson grad Sunil Rajaraman--had originally raised funding from such local LA investors as Jody Mulkey (Shopzilla), Paige Craig, Keith Richman, and actor/director/writer Edward Burns.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

The company has invested in dedicated staff and a studio at its Santa Monica offices to film the short business advice snippets, which have come from Jason Nazar, Paige Craig of BetterWorks, Ryan Scott of CauseCast, Scot Richardson of TicketMob, Matthias Galica of ShareSquare, and many others.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Judges of the event were Naval Ravikant (Angel List), Scott Sangster (TechCoast Angels), Matt Thompson (Microsoft), Paige Craig (BetterWorks), and Jim Andelman (Rincon Venture Partners). Other companies who pitched at the event included Aadroid , Badgeville , Foodme , Nevolution , Sharethrough , Sonicangel , and Wanelo.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

BetterWorks is headed by Paige Craig, one of the most prolific angel investors in the Los Angeles area, and is venture backed by Redpoint Ventures. Booyah, Brightroll, Chegg, Evernote, Dailybooth, Formspring, Get Satisfaction, Inner Circle Labs, Klout, Miso, Nokia, Parisoma, Plancast and Twilio. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee fringe benefits startup headed by Paige Craig, looks to be ramping its employee recruitment effort, and is sponsoring a developer "hack-fest" this weekend at Coloft.

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JULY 18, 2012

Retention Science is using big data techniques to help model online visitors, and figure out how to convert them into cusotmers. The firm was co-founded b YJerry Jao and Andrew Waage.

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MAY 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the startup run by Paige Craig, which is developing a service to help companies manage and offer employee benefits and perks, has upgraded its product features.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

BetterWorks is headed by Paige Craig. The new feature provides charts, graphs, and other insights into how employees are using fringe benefits providers from BetterWorks. The company said the information will help companies build the best solution for their particular company culture. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 23, 2012

BetterWorks, which is headed by Paige Craig, is backed by Redpoint Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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