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TrueCar Links With Capital One On Loan Pre-Qualification

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar, which operates a digital marketplace for automobiles, says it has linked with Capital One to offer up pre-qualification for its buyers. According to TrueCar, the new link with Capital One allows eligible shoppers to pre-qualify for auto financing through participating lenders Capital One and Westlake Financial.

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TrueCar Buys Stake In Accu-Trade

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar announced late Thursday that it has acquired a 20 percent stake in Accu-Trade , a provider of vehicle apparisal technology. TrueCar said that it will use Accu-Trade to power its TrueCar Trade platform, which will offer up user-friendly, real-time valuations for consumers trading their cars into dealers.

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TrueCar Tops 200,000 Cars Sold

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the online car pricing site headed by Scott Painter, reports this morning that it has now sold more than 200,000 cars through its online car buying and pricing platform. TrueCar said the number comes less than a year from when it reached an initial, 100,000 car sales, which occurred earlier this year.

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SharesPost Hooks Up With NASDAQ On Private Shares Market

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According to the two companies, the move will create a new marketplace for private growth companies, which combines NASDAQ OMX's experience in the market and resources, and SharesPost's web-based platform for trading private stock. As part of the deal, NASDAQ will retain a majority stake in the new NASDAQ Private Market (NPM).

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a And it carries no inventory. a fbFund winner.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Reflections on 2020: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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Two new additions to our portfolio companies stand out in particular: NextCar (Scott Painters latest disruptive LA-based automotive market play) and Transmute (Karyl Fowlers Austin-based supply chain identity and credentialing platform).

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