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APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. Our space is pretty young.

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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. Never say never – GRP Partners is actually looking very closely at a company in its A round that is raising a large sum of money.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

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MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

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MARCH 27, 2011

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). So you developed a product for the mommy community? First, you’ll need a platform. accessibility.

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Blogging Startup Writing Venture Capital 373

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. In San Diego you have Qualcomm so an entire mobile industry has been spawned. Now let’s think about retention. Get over it.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. The Importance of Twitter. I kept seeing my friends play this or that in “chillout room” on Turntable.fm.

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