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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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The new fund is focused entirely on technology companies. A large amount of this new fund, somewhere between 20 and 30 percent, is focused on technology in the financial services sector. So we're focused on technology, and financial services. That was quite a prominent exit for us. I'd like to see the community working together.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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We typically do not ask entrepreneurs to visit our offices in Santa Barbara, but Jeff wanted to meet with Kevin, an investor in our Fund who helped us vet opportunities and occasionally invested alongside of us. The net was that 's app is too sophisticated for the five verbs. <Note: billion) and ISS (sold to IBM $1.3