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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too.

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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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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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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. That require lots of cleaning an de-duping technology in order to use those billions of source records, and put them into a nice place database.