socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2009
Los Angeles-based Zag , the online car buying software firm headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, has scored an investment from financial services firm USAA , USAA disclosed Thursday. USAA did not provide financial details behind the investment. USAA has been offering Zag's services to its members since 2007.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. Competitors: Skype.
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socalTECH
JUNE 17, 2009
Companies we've selected are those that are the most exciting, and high profile, that people will want to invest in. We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect. One of the interesting things about the site is our investment bank style analysts reports on the site.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). When you’re one fund and have $600 million to invest it’s easier to take that kind of risk.
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