socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners --which has been very active in the local technology startup market--has made its latest investment, in an interesting industry: mortgage lending. GRP is the lead investor in Skyline Financial , a Calabasas-based provider of mortgage banking and lending.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

TrueCar said the financng round included USAA, Capricorn Investment Group and GRP Partners, all existing investors in the firm. Other invetors in the round include GR Match, LLC (affiliated with Guthy-Renker, LLC), McCombs Family Partners, DealerTrack Holdings, GSV Capital Corp.

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socalTECH

JUNE 11, 2012

One of the portfolio companies of Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has filed for an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC late Friday. GRP Partners owns around 10.94 percent of Qualys before the IPO; the firm's other co-investor in the company, Trident Capital, owns 27.41 percent.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has scored an exit at one of its portfolio firms, Las Vegas-based HealthDataInsights. GRP Partners owned 30% of HealthDataInsights. HealthDataInsights provides technology which is used to detect fraud and billing errors in Medicare and other insurance programs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

Acquisition of note: Nexsan Acquired For $120M, by Imation. Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). AwarePoint ($4M, San Diego, real time patient location systems). Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware. Did we miss a big story over the holidays?

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

Burstly is backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank, and announced a $5.5M Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. TestFlight's product provides iOS developers with information on an app's audience, revenue, engagement, and other metrics. funding round in November. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. One of his biggest accomplishments there was championing the acquisition of StubHub. You won’t regret it. He was stubborn.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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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). RedBeacon went on to sell to HomeDepot in what was considered a very successful acquisition on all sides. Let me not bury the lede.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Teleflip was venture backed by GRP Partners, and apparently went out of business sometime in August after failing to find additional capital. HTGC said that the firm received $650,000 from the sale of Teleflip, which the firm said occurred this month. HTGC had invested $1M in debt financing in June of 2007 to Teleflip.

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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]. And it carries no inventory. Foursquare. -A Competitors: Gowalla.

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MARCH 5, 2010

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. Still, I think that to succeed they really need to focus on vertical niches where they can differentiate and have more focus on content quality and user acquisition. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Messenger : Rob Duva , Co-Founder, COO RingRevenue, prior Director of Customer Acquisition, CallWave. At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). This no doubt led to the acquisition of AdMob by Google and Quattro by Apple. So if this shift happens it really will lead to a disruption in billions of dollars of online spend.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. It fuels our bonus payments, our quarterly earnings, our growth rate, our value at acquisition time. I had to laugh a bit reading it. I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not. It’s how we move products.

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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. We didn’t have the resources to do it all.

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