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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee perks and benefits startup headed by Paige Craig, said Wednesday that it has updated its product, adding new perk discovery features, and advanced ordering of perks.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee benefit and perks startup headed by angel investor Paige Craig, said Tuesday that it has added a slew of new vendors to its service.

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MARCH 27, 2014

A number of Southern California angel investors, and one of its venture firms, have scored an exit over at social media influence measurement startup Klout , as the San Francsco company said Thursday that it is being acquired by Lithium Technologies. The deal is reportedly worth $200M.

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JULY 12, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee fringe benefits services provider headed by Paige Craig, has tapped LA technology advocate Nicole Jordan as its head of Communications. Craig is a well known angel investor and entrepreneur, and the firm's other co-founders include Zao Yang, creator of the popular FarmVille social game.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the provider of a system for managing employee benefits and perks programs headed by Paige Craig, said this morning that it has updated its product, and added a new Personal Services category to its offerings.

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JULY 27, 2018

The company had announced about $21.7M The company's angels include Plus Capital, MM Capital, Paige Craig, Eric Hann (Netscape), and others, and the company was part of the Launchpad LA startup incubator program. Prevoty's software helps protect enterprise applications from attacks, and is used in the DevOps area.

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Trident Capital Incubator Software Development Capital 100

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AUGUST 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based BetterWorks , the employee benefits platform provider headed by Paige Craig, announced today that it has raised $8M in a Series A funding round. The round brings the company's total raised to $10M. As part of the funding, Redpoint's Satish Dharmaraj joins the company's board of directors.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In a long tradition of local companies tying the business of ticketing for various events into the online world, a new startup, LaughStub has quietly been establishing its place providing tickets for comedy clubs locally and nationwide.

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West Hollywood Tech Coast Angels Angel Ticketmaster 199

socalTECH

JULY 11, 2011

The firm's advisors include Paige Craig, CEO of BetterWorks and well known angel investor; attorney Antone Johnson; Nathan Beckord on VentureArchetypes.com; Dan Boberg; and Brian Clark, according to the firm's profile on AngelList. Kelly Perdew, CEO of FastPoint Games, also lists himself as a new investor in the company.

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MARCH 18, 2013

Gigit has quietly scored angel funding from such prominent investors as Paige Craig to work on its project. The company has not said when it plans to exit its private beta, but currently is signing up artists, event organizers, and even music fans on its site. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 1, 2014

The company--led by UCLA Anderson grad Sunil Rajaraman--had originally raised funding from such local LA investors as Jody Mulkey (Shopzilla), Paige Craig, Keith Richman, and actor/director/writer Edward Burns. The company is now in San Francisco.

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AUGUST 15, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the employee fringe benefits management service, said late Friday that it has added a new company metrics dashboard to its product. The company said the information will help companies build the best solution for their particular company culture. BetterWorks is headed by Paige Craig.

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MAY 3, 2011

According to Troopswap.com, based in Hampton Road, Virginia, it has scored $585,000 in private funding from investors that include Frank Monestere , President/COO of Legalzoom.com, Paige Craig , CEO of BetterWorks.com, and Kelly Perdew , CEO of FastPointGames. As part of the funding, Kelly Perdew joins the company's board of directors.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

The company has invested in dedicated staff and a studio at its Santa Monica offices to film the short business advice snippets, which have come from Jason Nazar, Paige Craig of BetterWorks, Ryan Scott of CauseCast, Scot Richardson of TicketMob, Matthias Galica of ShareSquare, and many others.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The startup, headed by Matt Sandler, was voted tops out of eight total companies who pitched their startups to attendees and judges at the Los Angeles area technology event. Other companies who pitched at the event included Aadroid , Badgeville , Foodme , Nevolution , Sharethrough , Sonicangel , and Wanelo.

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MAY 18, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the startup run by Paige Craig, which is developing a service to help companies manage and offer employee benefits and perks, has upgraded its product features.

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JULY 26, 2011

Among local companies who have used the service are EcoMom , headed by Jody Sherman; MomentFeed , the location analytics firm run by Rob Reed; AffordIt , the service headed by Wil Schroter; Movieclips the movie clip site founded by Richard Raddon and Zach James; and BetterWorks , run by Paige Craig. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the developer of employee an perks and benefits service which is headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig, said today that it has launched a new feature called "Bonus Bucks".

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Santa Monica Services Product Angel 145

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2011

Los Angeles-based GameSalad , the developer of software which makes it easy to create iPhone and other iOS games, has named Steve Felter as the new CEO of the company. Felter previously was COO and CFO of DigiSynd, before it was acquired by The Walt Disney Company. Felter joins the firm from Disney. READ MORE>>.

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Steamboat Ventures Software Los Angeles Angel 157

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JULY 20, 2011

In another attempt by a Southern California company to attract talent, Santa Monica-based BetterWorks just became the latest firm to dangle a cash bounty to people for product or engineering hires. product or engineering positions -- plus provide one free year of Betterworks services to that person's company or organization.

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Southern California Startup Santa Monica Los Angeles 191

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 28, 2012

We'll conclude with a 15-min keynote presentation by a Paige Craig, CEO of BetterWorks. Presenting Companies: ParkMe, Sam Friedman CEO; Organic Authority, Laura Klein, Publisher; Vloggo, Luke Wojnowski, CEO, Co-Founder; - OneGoodLove.com, Frank Mastronuzzi, Chief Love Officer and Founder.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The company said it has added a new search box for users logging into the site, which will allow them to search for perks, restaurants, cities, and other information on the site, and also added new ways to browse and search for perks by category. READ MORE>>.

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Santa Monica Sites Los Angeles Software 140

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JULY 24, 2012

Hints of the funding came out earlier this month when the firm showed up on Siemer Ventures' list of portfolio companies. The firm, headed by Josh Payne, develops a way for web publishers to integrate e-commerce into their websites. READ MORE>>.

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Draper Seed Funding Commerce Software Development 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 6, 2011

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 -- Silicon Beach Hotties: An evening on the beach in Santa Monica with some of LAs fastest-growing Internet Companies. The hottest young companies in the Consumer Internet space are experiencing unprecedented growth. Come hear their founders discuss how they achieved it and how they plan to sustain it.

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LAVA Santa Monica Entrepreneur Company 100

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JANUARY 10, 2012

Los Angeles-based BetterWorks , the employee perks and benefits firm headed by Craig Paige, has expanded its platform again today, saying that it is now handling in-office catering through its system.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2014

HONK is backed by high visibility angels Paige Craig, Aaron Batalion (LivingSocial), Ben Huh (The Cheezburger Network), Naval Ravikant (AngelList), Jillian Manus, Mike Walsh, and Structure Capital, along with Double M Capital, Venture51, Expansion, and Karlin Ventures. Yet, the actual towing company only makes $23.00

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Startup Services Southern California Mobile 173

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Here is this year''s list of the socalTECH 50 , and their current companies. John Tabis , The Bouqs Company. to try to shine some light on folks who people. might not have heard of, but should, or will. Michael Slavin , Privlo. Laurence Sotsky , Wilshire Axon Sports. Leura Spielman , Laurelandwolf.com. Jason Spievak , Invoca.

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Southern California SoCalTech Technical Review USC 279

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 3, 2010

What role do angel fund and incubators like Ycombinator and Techstars play in nurturing entrepreneurs to build better, bigger companies? What is the new business of investing  startups are getting funded at rapid speeds, if venture is broken, whos doing the investing?

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GRP Partners Clearstone Funding Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2011

You’ll be hearing from; Brady Brim-DeForest , Daniel Paul , Hunter Owens , Paige Craig , Sean Percival , Zak Kukoff and many more speakers to be announced shortly. The company was founded on the premise that entrepreneurship doesn’t happen at a certain age, or a certain location — it happens everywhere!

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Los Angeles Conference Entertainment Resource 80

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2010

The funding also included individual investors Paige Craig, Paul Bricalt, Tom McInerney, Josh Resnick, and Mark Suster. According to Founder and CEO Michael Agustin, the funding will go towards more marketing for the firm, as well as to expand the company's team.

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Funding Steamboat Ventures Startup Content 140

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JUNE 5, 2012

Garrett was most recently a venture capitalist at Crosscut Ventures, who helped identify and fund ShoeDazzle--co-founded the company with Beal, a fashion industry insider who was introduced to Garrett by prolific Los Angeles angel investor Paige Craig. The two sat down with us to explain the idea behind the company.

Startup 182

Startup Commerce Design Media 182

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MARCH 14, 2011

LaughStub is backed by a number of notable angels in the Los Angeles area, including Mark Suster and Paige Craig. How did the company start? Scot Richardson: I spent the previous eight years as a live comedy promoter, which grew into a live comedy promotion company, the largest in the country, ComedyJuice.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

in the company's efforts to start a commercial space tourism industry. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. It looks like people either loved, or really hated, the companies we featured. Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies - Also in November, we published.

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Southern California Thousand Oaks Incubator SpaceX 211

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JANUARY 24, 2011

For this morning's company profile, we thought we'd connect with ShareSquare (www.getsharesquare.com), a newly funded Los Angeles startup focused on QR barcodes -- 3D barcodes -- focused on musicians and entertainers. We caught up with Matthias Galica , the firm's founder, to hear more about the company.

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Startup West Hollywood Metrics Entertainment 220

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MARCH 2, 2010

We sat down with Alec the other day to hear more about the company and what it's try to do. I immediately started at a company called Abrams artist industry, which I subsequently ran for nearly seven years. It seems there are few companies that have figured it out. At a high level, what does Gotcast do?

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Hollywood Startup Sites SEO 252

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2013

You got to keep the name of the new company – ecomom. I didn’t so much want to see a baby products company make money as I wanted to see you succeed. I remember reading about Paige Craig’s skiing accident. You had a new plan. You had renegotiated your way out of that agreement. I always did.

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JULY 27, 2012

That's exactly what Retention Science (www.retentionscience.com), the latest firm out of the MuckerLab acceleartor, helps e-commerce companies do. Retention Science is venture backed by Baroda Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Double M Partners, as well as a long list of local angel investors (Paige Craig, Bong Koh, Clark Landry, many others).

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Commerce Platform Southern California Customer 196