socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
TrueCar said that it has launched a Best Local Price tool, which will allow car shoppers to search for the best local deals on a vehicle. According to TrueCar, the firm said that the search tool will provide a "Lowest Certified Price" for a car, a no-haggle price which will be honored by participating dealers in its program.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
In recent months, a dozen accelerators and incubators have emerged in the Southern California area, looking to help take the new generation of technology startups to funding and beyond. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out. Part II: The In-house Incubators. What is an in-house incubator?
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. While Zag is not a dealer if you measured it in terms of cars sold it would be in the top 5 auto dealers in the country. And it carries no inventory. Current round: $4. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman.
socalTECH
MARCH 6, 2013
SharesPost , the private company marketplace headed by Greg Brogger, which had been incubated and started in Santa Monica via Brighthouse, the startup incubator run by Brogger and Scott Painter, is in a joint venture with NASDA OMX , the two said this morning. Brogger was at CarsDirect with Scott Painter, who heads up TrueCar.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
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 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.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising). Ethan Senturia , Dealstruck (San Diego, crowdfunding). Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising).
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