socalTECH
DECEMBER 12, 2013
Santa Monica-based online car buying technology provider TrueCar said this morning that it has raised $30M in a new round of funding, from Vulcan Capital, the venture funding arm of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. TrueCar said the new funds will go towards market expansion, product development, and to build its brand.
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JULY 1, 2010
The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Competitors: Gowalla.
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socalTECH
AUGUST 5, 2019
The company said it added Jay Trinidad as the company's Chief Product Officer, Pat Wilkinson as its GM of Exclusive Uber Program, and John Pierantoni as SVP of Finance and Risk. Wilkinson also had served at Lehman Brothers and Barclays as an investment banker in addition to his time in venture capital. READ MORE>>.
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NOVEMBER 13, 2014
Investment experience (5 years a VC at Battery Ventures). Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3
socalTECH
JUNE 27, 2013
Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners announced this morning that it has raised a fourth fund, worth $200M, and also renamed the firm Upfront Ventures. upfront ventures partners venture capital fund startup msuster suster launchpadla' READ MORE>>.
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MARCH 12, 2013
Because my role as a VC requires me to take and endless stream of meetings I long ago decided I need to learn as much as I can from the meetings I attend so I often just ask tons of questions and assimilate knowledge. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Yesterday, we heard from Scott Painter of TrueCar. Today, we spoke with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners. I am looking at low cost video production and distribution, and I'm looking at new models of consumer consumption of video. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The IPO of EnvestNet.
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