Minnie Ingersoll has already had an enviable career. After 12 years at Google, working as product manager and later principal with Google.org, she cofounded the venture-backed online car marketplace Shift in 2013, then she left to join the nonprofit Code for America, where she learned entirely new skills, including managing finance and marketing and recruiting. […]
View More Minnie Ingersoll, cofounder of the fast-growing car marketplace Shift, just became a VC in L.A.Category: TenOneTen
Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5 million for Ordermark, a takeout order management service
Alex Canter knows the restaurant business. The scion of Los Angeles’ famous first family of the deli business — the owners of the eponymous Canters restaurant — Canter has been in the food business longer than many seasoned restauranteurs twice his age. While some people had a Bar Mitzvah party, the thirteen year old Canter […]
View More Canters restaurant royalty raises $9.5 million for Ordermark, a takeout order management serviceKinder, gentler debt collector TrueAccord raises $22 million
Bringing debt collection into the age of the soft touch, email and text-based world of the 21st century has netted TrueAccord $22 million in a new round of funding.
I first wrote about the company three years ago (time flies) and since then the company has added a 70 new customers and is managing the debt of roughly 1.8 million individuals and businesses (to the tune of approximately $1.6… Read More