socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Viewdle , the developer of cross platform, facial recognition technology backed by Santa Monica-based Anthem Ventures, has scored another round of funding, worth $10M, according to Viewdle. The new round comes from Best Buy, BlackBerry Partners Fund, and Qualcomm, in addition to Anthem Ventures, which was the original investor in the company.

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Anthem Santa Monica Venture Capital Research 154

socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2017

A new, venture capital firm, founded by Jon Bauch and Brian Mesic, has emerged in Los Angeles, called Ankona Capital. Bauch and Mesic--who were previously at Anthem Venture Partners--apparently are aiming at early growth capital investment in software companies.

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Capital Anthem Southern California Venture Capital 113

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2010

The round was led by Canaan Partners and also included Anthem Venture Partners and un-named angels. Tags: tweetphoto venture capital twitter social networking software photo photography tweet. According to the firm, the new funding will go to introduce new products and to expand its developer relations program. READ MORE>>.

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Social Network Anthem San Diego Venture Capital 160

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

A quick analysis of venture capital deals in Q1, tracked by socalTECH, finds that there was around $1.4 Biopharmaceuticals continues to drive the investment totals in Southern California, with $222M in investments; followed by Medical Devices, with $120M in investments, and Software, with $119M. in deals tracked by our database.

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Southern California Santa Barbara Anthem Redpoint 160

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based FileTrek , a developer of cloud-based, enterprise, file sharing and tracking software, said today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Anthem Venture Partners, Telesystem, and the Ontario Emerging Technologies Funds. READ MORE>>.

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Anthem Los Angeles Content Software 145

socalTECH

JUNE 15, 2010

Santa Monica-based Zag , the online auto buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, has raised $11.1M Zag is developing auto buying and configuration software used by groups such as the AAA, USAA, Overstock.com, and other groups to provide their members with pre-negotiated fleet and group rates on new automobiles. READ MORE>>.

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Zag GRP Partners Anthem Santa Monica 154

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Santa Monica-based Zag, the online car buying software firm headed by former CarsDirect CEO Scott Painter, has spun out a new company called TrueCar, the firm said late Wednesday. According to TrueCar, it will provide information about new car pricing, using the actual price people have paid for cars.

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Zag Truecar CarsDirect Arcturus 133

SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I'd also recommend you subscribe to So Cal Tech Central. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 196

socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based VideoAmp, which provides video measurement software for the advertising industry, said today that it has named Cameron Meierhoefer as Chief Product Officer. Meierhoefer was previously CEO of SignalFrame, and also had been COO of Comscore, where he spent more than 17 years.

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Product Anthem Equity Advertising 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

For those that aren’t aware of the broader technology shifts of cloud computing, the trend is described in a post I did about changes in the software industry. Spark Capital, Flybridge, Founder Collective, NextView Ventures … all in Boston or Cambridge not west of the city. And with startups so go VCs.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. I'd also recommend you subscribe to So Cal Tech Central. It brings together events and content for Los Angeles.

Los Angeles 188

Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 188

socalTECH

JULY 14, 2017

San Diego-based StackIQ , a developer of "bare metal" provisioning software, has been acquired by Teradata , Teradata said on Thursday. StackIQ was venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Grayhawk Capital, Avalon Ventures, and crowdfunding site OurCrowd. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced.

Avalon 113

Avalon Anthem San Diego Acquisition 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

The round came from USAA, and included Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRP Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. USAA is an affinity group which is using Zag's automotive configuration software and services. Tags: venture software capital automotive. READ MORE>>.

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Zag GRP Partners Anthem Santa Monica 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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Venture Capital Google Web Sites 225

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer. According to Zag, AAA Mid-Atlantic has just unveiled a auto buying program which is powered by the firm's software. million members. The deal includes both providing new and used cars for AAA Mid-Atlantic.

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Zag CarsDirect Arcturus GRP Partners 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Santa Monica-based VideoAmp , a developer of programmatic video advertising software, said Friday that it has opened up offices in New York, Chicago, and Detroit, and also has hired a new VP to head up its eastern region sales. VideoAmp also said it and expanding its current office in San Francisco. READ MORE>>.

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Anthem Santa Monica Sales Equity 100

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2009

The firm--which is a spinout of automotive configuration software firm Zag--said it will provide consumers with a "Price Report" showing the full distribution of prices paid by other people, for the exact same vehicle, in a consumer's local area. The new service is free, and is based on automotive transactions within the last four weeks.

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Truecar Pricing Zag Sites 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

San Diego-based Email Copilot , which develops visualization, monitoring, reporting, and analysis of email deliverability data, has been acquired by Return Path , a New York-based developer of email data software. Financial terms of the acquisition were not announced. Al Bsharah, was co-founder and CEO of Email Copilot. READ MORE>>.

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Email Anthem San Diego Acquisition 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made. Zag develops software used for configuring and pricing new and used automobiles, which it provides on a white-label basis to affinity buying programs. a number of hires and a promotion. READ MORE>>

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Zag Arcturus GRP Partners Anthem 100

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online car buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with the AAA, to power a new service called AAA Automaker. Zag is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, USAA, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.

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Zag Services Arcturus GRP Partners 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2015

Varma is actually a former technology investor at Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Anthem Ventures, and we thought it would be great contrasting his experience starting and running a restaurant franchise with the technology startup world. How did you go from venture capital to running a franchise restaurant chain?

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Startup Anthem Venture Capital Technology 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. We never took a dollar of outside capital, from the founding until this round a couple of months ago. We wanted to be able to invest in our software and our learning tools. So, we're pretty connected with the community.

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Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Call him an optimist if you must, but San Diego Venture Group president Mike Krenn says venture financings for San Diego’s early stage tech startups are on a tear. “I I haven’t seen it this good since 2007,” he says.

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San Diego Venture Capital Startup Activity 70