socalTECH
JULY 13, 2009
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. So we're focused on technology, and financial services.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2010
Campus Explorer, Burstly, RingRevenue, Cocodot, ElephantDrive and DataPop are good examples. Mobile app downloads went from 300mm in 2009 to 5 billion in 2010, Android ad impressions up over 2,000% as two examples. 2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. 3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups.
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socalTECH
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. You have advertising networks and mediation players, but you don't really have an ad management platform like ours. READ MORE>>.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 1, 2010
Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment. We already have one example, which is Ad.ly. Short summary of my posts: 1.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
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 ). it lets you sell your inventory directly and without any middle man taking fees.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
Let me use LA as an example. Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners). Los Angeles. I live in the city of Santa Monica.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories.
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