socalTECH

JULY 10, 2013

SurfAir said it will connect Santa Barbara with nonstop service to Silicon Valley, with the first flight leaving this morning at 8:15 a.m. Surf Air launched its service between Burbank and San Francisco in June. The company said that Santa Barbara is part of a planned expansion of routes throughout California. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 12, 2012

FileTrek's software allows for file sharing, with the twist that the cloud-based service also handles managing tracking of revisions of documents, and includes a number of team workflow features.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Cocodot is venture backed by Anthem Ventures, the Mailroom Fund, and Rincon Venture Partners. The firm has been pushing its cards to the celebrity set, saying that celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Brooke Shields, David Arquette, Giada De Laurentiis, David Stark, Courteney Cox and Colin Cowie all use its service. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2009

Amount of that funding was not released. 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. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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 in a funding round. Tags: automobile auto venture funding capital. However, the deal was disclosed by TechCrunch earlier this evening.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag has finally revealed the total invested in its latest, strategic round of funding, saying Thursday that it raised $37.4M. The round came from USAA, and included Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRP Partners and Anthem Venture Partners.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

To address that, Los Angeles-based FileTrek (www.filetrek.com) announced a funding round for its cloud-based software for sharing enterprise and business files yesterday. We spoke with Dale Quayle , the firm's CEO, about the funding and company. Is this a mobile application, web service, or how does it work? What is FileTrek?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

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. Paul talked about Neuhaus Partners, a 65 million Euro fund with the remit to invest in German-speaking countries. 406 Ventures.

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From the Venture Trenches

MARCH 27, 2013

If Groupon remained a bootstrapped entity or a business built on the back of funds raised from friends and family, Mason would still be firmly entrenched as founder and Chief Executive. Many service businesses or eTailers can quickly grow to five or ten million in revenues but struggle to expand further. What is your exit strategy?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

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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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

The only other sector seeing an increase was IT Services, up 17 percent to $1.8 For Southern California as a region, funding totaled $485M in 74 deals for the quarter, a significant drop from both Q4 of last year, which had $829M and 102 deals; and also from the prior quarter, when there was $779M invested in 84 deals. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

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. That law helped kick-start the modern tech transfer field. The results? Notable university spinouts include Angel Learning, Endocyte, and Marcadia Biotech.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Especially when he’s surrounded by Danny Rimer (who funded Skype, MySQL, Last.FM PLUS RELATED FUNDING …. 2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. My take: Never bet against Bill Gross. Other Deals.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

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.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Last week, Altadena-based AdventureLink (www.adventurelink.com) announced that it raised a Series A funding round, for the firm's adventure travel reservation network. The round came from Anthem Venture Partners and the Mail Room Fund. Speaking of the economy, how difficult was it to get funding given the economy?

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