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MARCH 3, 2021

Santa Monica-based NextCar, the newest automotive-focused startup led by startup veteran Scott Painter, is gearing up for the launch of the company, saying this week that it has named a senior management team.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2011

in an equity funding round. Scott Painter is the CEO of TrueCar/Zag, and was also previously CEO of CarsDirect, and has been incubating a number of companies out of his Santa Monica-based BrightHouse incubator. No details on that funding have been announced by the company. SharesPost had originally been based in Santa Monica.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands , which operates a suite of online, advertising driven websites across a wide range of verticals, said Monday that it would go private in a $640M, private equity deal, bucking the trend of Southern California companies filing to get to the public markets. Internet Brands had gone public just three years ago.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

GRP's investments include TrueCar, GOGII, Ad.ly, GumGum, among others. According to the filing, the fund is being managed by Steven Dietz, Brian McLoughlin, Yves Sisteron, and Mark Suster, and has just started fundraising efforts. GRP last closed on a fund--GRP III, L.P.--in READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

LAVA inducted Mayor Riordan--who had a long and involved career in venture capital and private equity before his efforts in politics--into its LAVA Hall of Fame. Other finalists were Clicker.com , Truecar , and Zumbox.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

According to the email from Painter, the funding is the company's first external equity financing. Painter has a long history in Southern California's technology industry, and previously founded such companies as Fair, TrueCar, SharesPost, and others.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

The company said that Fair is acquiring Uber's lease portfolio using both equity and debt funding, which was secured in Fair's recent funding round. Scott Painter was most recently founder and CEO of TrueCar, and prior to that, was founder and CEO of CarsDirect.com. for drivers seeking vehicle access for 30 days or longer.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created two new generation LA startups (Zag and TrueCar, both backed by GRP Partners).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Local exits: TrueCar, Gravity, Maker Studios. a month, and which gives you access to this information, company profiles, contact names, and much more for local technology companies, venture investors from around the world, private equity, angel investors, and many others. Upfront Partners - 11 deals. Greycroft Partners - 10 deals.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Locally, those are companies like LegalZoom, GameFly, TrueCar, and ShoeDazzle. Instead, after a private equity firm offered to buy YLighting, we negotiated to keep the technology that we had developed. We sold it to a private equity group. What kind of customers are using the tool? There are lots of e-commerce companies.

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

In recent years we’ve had big wins across all of our long term partners (Yves: Envestnet), (Steven: TrueCar), (Me: Maker Studios). So they will have allocations to US public equities, international public equities, emerging market public equities, real estate, mining, minerals and so forth. Who gave you the money?

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