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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. Let’s start with the fund. We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them.

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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. This is a pretty big round and is a lot of funding--what are you using it for? Gil, thanks for the time today. In the case of the U.S.,

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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An innovator in technology, especially monetization. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica.

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