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JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Competitors: Google (Invite Media) , MediaMath , X+1. And it carries no inventory.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

Santa Monica-based Anthem Venture Partners has scored two exits in the last week, as Los Angeles-based Demand Media hit a homerun with its IPO Wednesday, and San Diego-based Plixi was acquired by Lockerz Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The firm was originally known as CarsDirect, the automotive buying site of Idealab, and was headed by Scott Painter--who is now head of both Zag Automotive and TrueCar. The firm changed its name to Internet Brands in June of 2005, and hit the markets with its IPO in November of 2007. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

1366% Carlsbad Hany Massarany 99 TrueCar, Inc. Ashour 328 ACTIVE Network 231% San Diego Matt Landa 330 (mt) Media Temple 230% Culver City Demian Sellfors 346 MyLife.com 219% Los Angeles Jeffrey Tinsley 369 Endologix, Inc. Brown 438 Volcano Corporation 163% San Diego Scott Huennekens 445 Demand Media, Inc. Frost, Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. You can register for the event at Digital Family Reunion.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. But many people forget that we have 2 relatively recent IPOs that are substantive companies: TrueCar (Upfront backed) & Cornerstone OnDemand. We have our emerging tentpole companies like SnapChat, Oculus, TrueCar and large investments and teams from Google, Facebook & Microsoft.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

GroupOn, Living Social, AdMeld, Gilt Group, Demand Media, ShoeDazzle, Tumblr, FourSquare, etc. Our biggest returns were outside Silicon Valley: Overture (LA), CitySearch (LA), BillMeLater (Baltimore), Ulta (Chicago), Envestnet (Chicago), HDI (Las Vegas), PF Changs (Arizona), TrueCar (LA). But of course that’s horse puckey.

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