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HealthDataInsights Sells for $400 Million. Big Win for GRP Partners.

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That’s why I’m proud to announce today that HealthDataInsights (founded by Victor Chaltiel), where GRP Partners was a 30% owner, has been acquired for $400 million. At GRP Partners our focus has always been on having a small number of investments in the industries we know well.

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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. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies.

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How ChowNow Delivers Mobile Orders For Restaurants, With Christopher Webb

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It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. One is the mobile app. What is ChowNow all about? It's designed just for our system.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). The world is going mobile. The Kindle has already revolutionized book reading.

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A Conversation with Ben Satterfield, Burstly

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TestFlight recently joined forces with Burstly (www.burstly.com) to create a suite of apps for mobile developers and publishers. We spoke with Ben about how Burstly is now creating a company to help mobile developers create, develop, distribute, and monetize their apps. For example, if you''re just a major crash on an iPad in Japan.

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What Mattered in 2010: Jim Andelman, Rincon Ventures

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Campus Explorer, Burstly, RingRevenue, Cocodot, ElephantDrive and DataPop are good examples. 1) Mobile web. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. I'll list three, not necessarily in order. (1) 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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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. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

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