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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (www.grpvc.com). GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009.

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Burstly Adds SoftBank, Founder Collective

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investment from Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners. Rifkin was the founder of TagWorld/Flux, which he sold to MTVN in 2008. Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile ad management firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has added SoftBank Capital and Founder Collective to its Series A funding round.

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Burstly Snags $1.8M For Mobile Ad Tools

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The funding round came from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures. Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. Burstly was formerly known as AppAds, and is headed by Evan Rifkin, former founder of TagWorld/Flux, which was acquired by MTVN/Viacom in September of 2008.

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Burstly Opens Up Mobile Ad Service

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Burstly is venture backed by Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank Capital. Rifkin is the former founder of Tagworld, which he sold to MTVN in 2008.

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SoCal Gets $739M In Venture Capital In Q2

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The report said that the investment level was the highest total in a single quarter since Q2 of 2008. active firms (all with three deals each) being Rustic Canyon Partners , DFJ Frontier , the Tech Coast Angels , Amgen , GRP Partners , and Mission Ventures. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $7.5M

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SoCal Venture Deals Up In Q2

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billion, the strongest quarter since the third quarter of 2008. Quarter-to-quarter growth was also good, going from $627.4M and 80 deals in Q1. Nationally, venture deals in the U.S. totaled $6.5 Los Angeles saw $407.2M in 45 deals, Orange County saw $279.5M in 21 deals, and San Diego saw $170.6M invested in 24 deals.

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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