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APRIL 15, 2010

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. mm in Series A; IdealLab ( Bill Gross ), Index Ventures ( Danny Rimer ), Revolution LLC ( Steve Case ), First Round Capital , BetaWorks , Jason Calcanis. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. He’ll discover the value. OTHER STUFF.

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JUNE 6, 2012

Surf Air says it already has signed up 500 founding members for the launch of its service, which it expects to launch in late summer of this this year. Surf Air is planning on offering it subscription plans for as low as $790 a month, with unlimited service on mid-sized executive aircraft. READ MORE>>.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2012

The startup airline--headed by Wade Eyerly and backed by such venture firms as Anthem Venture Partners, NEA, TriplePoint Capital, Siemer Ventures, Baroda Ventures, and a number of high profile angels--is currently working through the process of FAA certification. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2009

According to AdventureLink, the all-stock deal also included a new investment from Allegis Capital. 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. Amount of that funding was not released.

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

The recent firing of Groupon’s CEO Andrew Mason is a cautionary tale of the increased scrutiny and heightened expectations that come from accessing increasingly larger amounts of investment capital. Is outside capital really required? Does your business model scale? Groupon raised seven series of private equity before going public.

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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. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The round came from USAA, and included Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRP Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. USAA is an affinity group which is using Zag's automotive configuration software and services. Tags: venture software capital automotive. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 27, 2009

The new service is free, and is based on automotive transactions within the last four weeks. TrueCar is venture backed by Zag, Anthem Venture Partners, Global Retail Partners, Capricorn, Capital One Auto Finance, and Arcturus Capital. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 22, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag , which has developed an automobile configuration and buying service for affinity organizations like credit unions and automobile organizations, has a funding round of undisclosed size. Tags: automobile venture auto capital funding. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site.

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JANUARY 22, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag , which has developed an automobile configuration and buying service for affinity organizations like credit unions and automobile organizations, has raised around $32.4M Tags: automobile auto venture funding capital. in a funding round. However, the deal was disclosed by TechCrunch earlier this evening.

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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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JUNE 10, 2009

Zag's technology provides a level of customization and detail on "fleet" style, pre-negotiated sales of autos, down to the accessory level; the firm has deals with USAA, Capital One, Overstock.com, AAA groups, and others to provide its service. Painter is the former CEO of CarsDirect.com. READ MORE>>.

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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. We're somewhat vertically integrated.

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JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. Raised angel money from Rob Lord, Reid Hoffman, Benchmark Capital and others. Mobile gifting service. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Farb talks about how he did that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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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 818 deals, down from $7.3

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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. Warsaw, IN, is the “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”. 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. We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. 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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