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Zag Powers AAA Service

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Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online car buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with the AAA, to power a new service called AAA Automaker. Zag is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, USAA, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.

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Zag Raises Funding

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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. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site. READ MORE>>.

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Zag Raises $32.4M

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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 in a funding round. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site. READ MORE>>.

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Zag: 50,000 Cars Sold

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The firm, which develops technology that allows consumers to fully configure and price autos from affinity groups like credit unions, AAAs, and other groups, claimed that the firm has saved its buyers over $83.5M Zag has received funding from USAA, Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRP Partners and Anthem Venture Partners.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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in funding from Venrock, Avalon, and Masthead. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M What exactly are your mobile social networking applications?

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. 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.