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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Los Angeles-based Arcturus, a developer of 3D video editing tools, said Wednesday afternoon that it has raised $11M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Cloudtree Ventures, and also included Autodesk and Epic Games. The startup is led by CEO Kamal Mistry.

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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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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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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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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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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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