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JULY 1, 2010

In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them. He started a car washing business as a way to be able to drive other people’s fancy cars. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Let me start with the news that I’m excited to share with you. Startup CEO experience (Founded P.S. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye. billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing startup run by Scott Painter, is launching a new site today focused on used car pricing. TrueCar said that ClearBook will provide price guidance based on used car years, make, model, mileage, and conditions. TrueCar provides similar information for new cars.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Santa Monica-based Troy Capital Partners , a new venture investment firm led by Josh Berman, Brian Sullivan, and Samit Varma, has backed a veteran of TrueCar for a new startup called Rollick Outdoor. Rollick Outdoor is based in Austin, where Brenner was based while at Santa Moinca-based TrueCar.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing startup headed by Scott Painter, said yesterday that it has rolled out a new, monthly consumer price report. TrueCar is a spinout of Zag Automotive, and gathers its data from actual sales information from local dealerships. Tags: truecar automotive pricing shopping.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Santa Monica-based online car buying startup TrueCar announced today that it has named Chip Perry, the former CEO of AutoTrader.com, as its new President and CEO. Painter said in August that he would step down as CEO, after what had been a very contentious year between TrueCar and the auto dealership industry. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 18, 2014

Five startups have been named winners at the Siemer Summit , the tech confab which has been being held in Santa Monica for the past couple of days by local investment banking company and investor Siemer Ventures, highlighting some of the top startups in the region. TrueCar''s Scott Painter was also honored as part of the awards.

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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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JANUARY 17, 2014

Other large deals included United Capital Financial Partners ($38.0M); Achates Power ($35.2M); TrueCar ($30.0M); and JustFab (also $30.0M). billion invested across 3,995 deals for the year, which is up 7 percent in terms of dollar amount, and 4 percent more in deals than 2012. Nationally, the report found that there was $29.4

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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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.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Local investments funds have had issues raising their new funds, and venture investors had started to hunker down with their portfolios, waiting for some sign of a thaw in the exit environment.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

I recently returned from a 5-day visit to Ireland, my first time back in 10 years and the start of what I hope will be a more regular travel schedule there. Suddenly it was a hot ticket and many people started lobbying to get on the next year’s agenda. I thought by now he would have given up on me as a flake.

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JULY 10, 2019

Automakers and startups alike are increasingly offering services that give buyers new opportunities and greater flexibility around owning and using vehicles. In the first part of this feature , we explored the different startups attempting to change car buying. Cars-as-a-Service. But not everyone wants to buy a car. Don’t buy, lease.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2013

I researched the pricing of the car at TrueCar – not because we’re an investor – but because it gives you complete price transparency over what other people in your area paid for a car. The ones who lease expensive cars to look like they made made it while they rack up credit card bills. As many air bags as possible.

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MARCH 12, 2013

He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. So I started introducing him to portfolio companies. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence. The guy has knowledge. So why Greg and why now?

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

Santa Barbara-based RightSignature , online, software-as-a-service for collecting electronic signatures, took "Best of Show" at VentureNet Wednesday, after a day of presentations by thirteen Southern California startups. Tags: rightsignature venturenet saas prize startup entrepreneur. socalTECH.com was a media sponsor of the event.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based Fair --a technology-enabled startup which lets people get access to a car with none of the traditional limitations and handcuffs of a lease--is making it even easier for people to get a car through its service, saying it has started to let drivers choose how much they want to spend each month for a vehicle.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Santa Monica-based Fair , a startup offering up a mobile app which lets users find, purchase, and finance an automobile--started by automotive startup veteran Scott Painter--has raised $16M and launched its services. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2011

I love cars--I grew up in SoCal, and my father was really into cars, and didn't have sons. How long has the site been around, and when did it start? Tara Weingarten: We're starting our third week. Tara Weingarten: We had no metrics when we started, and even now, we had a big week with 1900 uniques on one day.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Can getting a car be as easy as opening up an app, scanning your driver's license, and inputting your credit card? Fair (www.fair.com), the latest startup by serial entrepreneur Scott Painter , does just that, letting users shop for a car, get approved, and pay for a car through a month-to-month payment--with no long term committment.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

The idea, according to the LACMII, is to use city-owned parcels to create community spaces and working environments to enable startups and businesses in those areas, using "tech-friendly amenties" to attract starutps to those locations. The group also said it plans to launch a new program called the Edge.LA

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

Santa Monica-based Fair , the new startup led by former TrueCar founder and CEO Scott Painter, said today that it has tied with auto insurance provider Assurant as its primary insurance partner.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

We sat down with Jeff to learn more about his background, his new startup, Convertro, and how Facebook's once offered more for his office lease than his startup was worth. Suddenly, we've created transparency to how things are really working, so that you can start spending money on those things and get customers others haven't gotten.

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JUNE 27, 2013

The 17-year old firm, which also said it will open up a brand new home at the center of Silicon Beach, signing a 10-year lease for a space on 7th Street in Santa Monica. upfront ventures partners venture capital fund startup msuster suster launchpadla' READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

ShoeDazzle.com , the online e-commerce startup headed by Brian Lee and whose co-founders include Kim Kardashian, scored top honors in the Best venture funding in digital media/e-commerce category. Other finalists were Clicker.com , Truecar , and Zumbox. Other IPO finalists were RealD , ReachLocal , and Inphi. and ServiceMesh.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Santa Monica-based vehicle subscription startup Fair , led by longtime automobile and startup veteran Scott Painter, is boosting its executive team, saying on Monday that it has added three new executives to its team. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. And many of the ones that do want to do startups are plotting their one YCombinator company.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

in revenues), TrueCar at number 209 (1,407%, $16.6M), RealD at 347 (843%, $149.8M), and San Diego's Covario , at number 420 with 704 percent growth and $15.3M Tags: business startups calfiornia southern. Other interesting firms on the list included Pasadena-based Central Desktop at number 180 (1,569%, $2.6M in revenues.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based NXCR, a new, subscription car startup led by automotive startup veteran Scott Painter, has raised $30M in a seed funding, based on an internal employee email obtained by socaltech. According to the email from Painter, the funding is the company's first external equity financing.

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MAY 5, 2021

Santa Monica-based NXCR ,the subscription vehicle startup led by auto- and startup-veteran Scott Painter, and auto analytics company J.D. Scott Painter was the founder of TrueCar, CarsDirect, and Fair.com. Power announced on Wednesday that the two companies are in a strategic alliance, which will link J.D.

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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. which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs. Amount: Varies. Science, Inc.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

Santa Monica-based car startup Fair.com is acquiring the auto leasing business of Uber , according to a report from the WSJ today. Fair operates an auto car shopping/financing service, which is led by longtime industry veteran Scott Painter (formerly of TrueCar). Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

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APRIL 14, 2014

A string of big acquisitions, public offerings, and a pipeline of growing young startup companies has venture investors saying “I love L.A.”

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fair , the automotive startup led by serial entrepreneur Scott Painter, has raised nearly $1 billion in a strategic funding, led by BMW i Ventures, along with Penske Automotive Group, Sherpa Capital, and others. The funding also included other, un-named strategic investors.

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MARCH 28, 2016

A new, Los Angeles startup, Pingo Solar --backed by technology veterans Jerry Slavonia, Kang Ahn, and others--said it is about to launch a new service to provide more transparency to the solar industry. The startup says is is releasing a DIY tool which will simply and automate the purchasing process for solar power.

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