socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

According to TrueCar, it will provide information about new car pricing, using the actual price people have paid for cars. The firm said it has scored Series A funding from Zag, Anthem Venture Partners, Global Retail Partners, Capricorn, Capital One Auto Finance, ARcturus Capital, Scott Painter, and co-founder Tom Taira.

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Zag Truecar CarsDirect Arcturus 133

socalTECH

JULY 15, 2009

Santa Monica-based TrueCar , the automotive pricing spinout of Zag Automotive, disclosed Wednesday that the firm has inked distribution deals with five automotive websites. According to TrueCar, it will provide its price reports on Pricequotes.com , Carbuyingtips.com , Carzen.com , Carpricesecrets.com , and Cardevotion.com.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online automotive buying firm headed by Scott Painter, announced Thursday that the company has reached an agreement with Mercedes-Benz USA to offer an additional $5000 off pricing of new Mercedes-Benz cars to members of USAA, one of the affinity groups using Zag's auto pricing and purchasing services.

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Zag GRP Partners Anthem Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

JULY 1, 2009

The company said Cleckler will work on aiding in development of car pricing tools on the site. TrueCar is a car pricing site which was spun out of automotive software firm Zag; the firm is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Global Retail Partners, and Capricorn. Cleckler has also served at Stamps.com. READ MORE>>.

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Truecar Edmunds Zag Anthem 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Pricing engine helps publishers ascertain ad inventory pricing by analyzing ad transaction data from the market/exchanges. Data reports include following sample fields: real-time suggested price for specific unit of ad inventory, ad server data, order insertion data, behavioral targeting data, conversion data, etc. MetaMarkets.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2009

Zag provides the technology to power affiliate car buying services, allowing members of associations like the AAA to get fully configured, exact quotes on new cars at pre-negotiated prices. 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

JUNE 10, 2009

The firm, which develops technology that allows consumers to fully configure and price autos from affinity groups like credit unions, AAAs, and other groups, claimed that the firm has saved its buyers over $83.5M Zag has received funding from USAA, Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRP Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Zag GRP Partners Anthem Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2009

Zag has previously received funding from Anthem Ventures, Arcturus Capital, Capital One, Capricorn Management, GRP Partners, and the Tech Coast Angels. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site. READ MORE>>.

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Zag Funding Tech Coast Angels Arcturus 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2009

Zag is venture backed by Anthem Ventures, Arcturus Capital, Capital One, Capricorn Management, GRP Partners, and the Tech Coast Angels, along with USAA. The firm recently spun out True Car, an automotive pricing information site. READ MORE>>.

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Zag Tech Coast Angels Arcturus GRP Partners 100

Xconomy

JANUARY 24, 2017

One of the nation’s major health insurers has placed limitations on access to the first-ever approved drug for the rare spinal muscular atrophy, validating patient fears that the high price tag of the drug, nusinersen (Spinraza), might make it hard for some with the disease to get treatment.

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Anthem Pricing San Diego Blogging 40

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Zag develops software used for configuring and pricing new and used automobiles, which it provides on a white-label basis to affinity buying programs. The firm is backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Capital One Auto Finance, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.

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Zag Arcturus GRP Partners Anthem 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Zag has developed a software product which allows users to fully configure and price cars for car buying programs and affinity groups; the firm's software is already being used by a number of other AAA clubs. According to Zag, AAA Mid-Atlantic has just unveiled a auto buying program which is powered by the firm's software. million members.

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Zag CarsDirect Arcturus GRP Partners 100

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. Todd has a unique view, having worked both on the venture and high technology investing side at Anthem, as well as the architecture and construction industry now.

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Santa Monica Venture Capital Anthem Design 190

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Current round: $5.0mm in Series A by NEA and Anthem Venture Partners. Paul discussed his perspective having been at SAP Ventures. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. Total raised: $5.0mm.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M

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Social Network Anthem Mobile Java 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

2.6mm in Series A : Canaan , Anthem. The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10 is it not obvious to people to not name your company on somebody else’s product) can diversify and innovate maybe there’s room for growth. It’s core platform stuff.

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Venture Capital Capital Google Platform 271

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

My brother is actually at Anthem Ventures, working with Bill Woodward, and I was an intern there in business school. We've also been at a big discount to the other firms for the first seven years we were around, we were half the price of Kaplan and Princeton Review until last year, when they both dropped their prices to match us.

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Xconomy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

health insurer, UnitedHealthCare, has said it would cover the first-ever approved drug for the rare disease spinal muscular atrophy, a closely watched bellwether in the national debate over drug prices. Another major U.S.

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Anthem Pricing San Diego Blogging 40

Xconomy

JANUARY 6, 2017

But just after Christmas, she saw the price. More than a decade after his diagnosis, Mikhail only has the strength to take a few steps on his own. With the approval, Memedovich finally had hope. Cambridge, MA-based Biogen (NASDAQ: BIIB ), the drug’s. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Pricing Anthem San Diego Blogging 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2016

They believe that the benefits of sharing data are very much worth the price of providing access to their data. Continuing incidences of personal identity theft , as well major personal data breaches , including Heartland Payment System (2008), Target (2013), and Anthem (2015) still weigh heavily on their decision process.

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Social Media Tool Anthem Google 53

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 26, 2016

The issue of cyber-espionage, targeting companies like Target, Home Depot and Anthem Insurance, continues to be a concern. However, before these dreams become a reality, what price will the online consumer expect to continue pay for private carrier service as our online dependence increases? 10GB for what 5GB costs today).

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Commerce Mobile Technical Review Google 40

Xconomy

APRIL 20, 2017

Melissa Marotta pulled no punches to get her three-year-old son C.J., who has the genetic disease spinal muscular atrophy, access to nusinersen (Spinraza), the first approved drug for his condition.

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Anthem San Diego Pricing Blogging 73

Xconomy

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

At the same time, a handful of the industry’s top CEO’s flew to Washington for a meeting with the President, who promised to speed the drug approval process, lower drug prices, and overhaul the FDA. Meanwhile, the future of the Affordable Care Act remains undecided, and Tom Price’s controversial candidacy for the top healthcare.

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Pricing Anthem San Diego Blogging 40

Xconomy

JANUARY 27, 2017

It was a wild week in biotech and on Capitol Hill. A new study showed it may take another 40 years to achieve gender diversity in life sciences. Tensions continued to mount between drugmakers and payers over the rising costs of rare disease drugs.

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