socalTECH
JULY 31, 2018
Glendale-based LegalZoom , which provides legal services and documents for the small business and family market, announced on Tuesday that it has sold a $500M secondary stake in the company to a set of private equity investors. The secondary stock sale reportedly values LegalZoom at more than $2 billion. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2013
The round was led by GRP Partners, and also included angels such as Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, and Jay Weintraub. GRP's Mark Suster said the round was worth $3M, with GRP putting up most of the funds.
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socalTECH
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
However, local companies seem to have been pursuing a much easier route to liquidity lately -- one of the companies most talked about for an IPO in the last few years was LegalZoom, which ended up dropping its IPO bid in favor of a sale to private equity investor Permira. READ MORE>>.
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 11, 2013
Lee is a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in such companies as LegalZoom and ShoeDazzle. sale products baby ecommerce subscription actress celebrity alba jessica company honest' The Honest Company offers up a variety of eco-friendly baby- and kids- products via subscription. The Honest Company has now raised $58M in funding.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
We thought it would be worth hearing about where the firm is today, as well as Carey's strategy to create something similar to LegalZoom, but for attorneys. I see us compared with a LegalZoom, which has done phenomenally well. Folks like LegalZoom have taken commoditized documents, for things which don't necessary need an attorney.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 3, 2015
and tech veteran Brian Lee (LegalZoom, Honest Co., The funding came from Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and others. Hollar's executives were previously at Honest Co., including David Yeom (CEO, formerly in Business Development at Honest Co.) ShoeDazzle), who serves as Executive Chairman of the company. READ MORE>>.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. Each of these companies exited for more than $500 million and several north of $1 billion.
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