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JULY 21, 2011

Hollywood-based ZestCash , a startup offering up short-term, consumer loans online, has scored $19M in funding today, including $11M in a Series A equity round plus $8M in venture debt. The firm's founder and CEO is Douglas Merrill , the former CIO and VP of Engineering of Google. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 17, 2012

ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Deviant Art, led by Angelo Sotira, which is one of the largest online communities on the Internet [Hollywood]. Here’s a short list that are decidedly East of the 405 freeway (i.e.

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MARCH 17, 2010

We will never be Silicon Valley in the way that Toronto will never be Hollywood. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

My daily coffee meetings are not surrounded by the Hollywood elite with discussions of scripts, scenes and casting. And of course you have Hollywood. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones. Let me use LA as an example.

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