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TrueCar Buys DealerScience

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar announced on Friday that it acquired DealerScience , a developer of digital retailing software for the automotive industry. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. As part of the deal, the founder of Dealerscience, Andrew Gordon, becomes VP of Digital Retailing at TrueCar.

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Reflections on 2019: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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The exit through acquisition by ReliaQuest is the first of what we expect will be many exits for our Fund 1 portfolio. We have invested in 13 companies out of our Fund 1 so far and are more bullish than ever on the amazing entrepreneurs we are meeting and the companies we are helping them build. Think Google Ad Words for podcasting.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand.

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LAVA Honors Richard Riordan, Local Technology Firms

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Other finalists were Clicker.com , Truecar , and Zumbox. In the Best venture funding in software/services, Edgecast , the content delivery network (CDN) provider, was the winner, with finalists including Eucalyptus Systems , Factual , and SV Network.

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Interview with Jeff Zwelling, Convertro

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Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. One of the core pieces of that technology was around marketing and customer acquisition. Though the company moved well beyond those days, it's essentially the software I had designed, the same product. What kind of customers are using the tool?

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