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Two Los Angeles area venture capital firms have re-upped their investments in a provider of identity management software. Other investors, aside form Anthem and DFJ Frontier, were RPM Ventures, Tim Draper, and Square 1 Bank. JanRain said it has raised $15.5M in its new round of funding, which was led by Emergence Capital Partners.
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Santa Monica-based Zag , the online auto buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, has raised $11.1M Zag is developing auto buying and configuration software used by groups such as the AAA, USAA, Overstock.com, and other groups to provide their members with pre-negotiated fleet and group rates on new automobiles.
Biopharmaceuticals continues to drive the investment totals in Southern California, with $222M in investments; followed by Medical Devices, with $120M in investments, and Software, with $119M. Interestingly, only Redpoint, Domain, Anthem, and DFJ Frontier have local offices in Southern California. in deals tracked by our database.
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Newport Beach-based Vital Data Technology , a developer of artificial intelligence software for the clinical informatics area, said this week that it has named Alan Spiro as its new Chief Medical Officer in Residence.
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Bauch and Mesic--who were previously at Anthem Venture Partners--apparently are aiming at early growth capital investment in software companies. A new, venture capital firm, founded by Jon Bauch and Brian Mesic, has emerged in Los Angeles, called Ankona Capital.
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San Diego-based Interacasting Corporation , a provider of mobile social networking software, has been acquired by Good Technology, the firms said this morning. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The firm's customers included AT&T, Boost Mobile, Spring, T-Mobile, Verizon, Virgin MObile, and others. READ MORE>>.
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San Diego-based Email Copilot , which develops visualization, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of email deliverability data, has been acquired by Return Path , a New York-based developer of email data software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Al Bsharah, was co-founder and CEO of Email Copilot.
Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer. According to Zag, AAA Mid-Atlantic has just unveiled a auto buying program which is powered by the firm's software. million members. The deal includes both providing new and used cars for AAA Mid-Atlantic.
Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , a developer of programmatic video advertising software, said Friday that it has opened up offices in New York, Chicago, and Detroit, and also has hired a new VP to head up its eastern region sales. VideoAmp also said it and expanding its current office in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.
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Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made. Zag develops software used for configuring and pricing new and used automobiles, which it provides on a white-label basis to affinity buying programs. a number of hires and a promotion.
Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Software provides intelligent, real-time data analytics across a wide variety of disparate, unstructured enterprise content types. Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. -Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.;
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Varma is actually a former technology investor at Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Anthem Ventures, and we thought it would be great contrasting his experience starting and running a restaurant franchise with the technology startup world. Samit Varma: The franchise model is a lot like the software royalty model. READ MORE>>.
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. READ MORE>>.
The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. We took the recent round, because Jake and I feel very passionately about our social missions, and, about four years ago, we started developing the software to create software. So, we're pretty connected with the community.
We seem to receive lots of pitches from companies looking to attack the mobile market with their mobile software applications, but few who have deployed on-deck with carriers. Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device.
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. What our software does, is it allows that collaboration to take place, but also keeps track of that. Dale's last firm, Integrien, was sold to VMware in 2010.
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