socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Zag , the online auto buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, has raised $11.1M in a new equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm Tuesday afternoon. Source and details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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Zag GRP Partners Anthem Santa Monica 154

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost.com , which recently launched a marketplace for private company shares, said Wednesday that the firm has inked a deal with Advanced Equities. Brogger and Painter put together the Brighthouse incubator to help spin out companies. READ MORE>>.

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Equity Zag Santa Monica Incubator 133

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

SharesPost , the online marketplace for private company stock founded by Greg Brogger, has raised $3.3M In a regulatory filing Wednesday, the company--which had been spawned out of the spawned out of Scott Painter's BrighHouse incubator--said it had raised $3.3M in an equity funding round. READ MORE>>.

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CarsDirect Zag Santa Monica Incubator 140

socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2009

Southern California Venture capital totals were up slightly in Q1 of this year from last quarter, to around $718M in deals, according to an analysis of socalTECH.com's proprietary venture database. However, venture funding totals were still well off the first quarter of 2008's nearly $1.2 billion in funding.

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Southern California SoCal Invest SoCalTech 113

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect.

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Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124