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JUNE 11, 2013

Los Angeles-based mobile food ordering startup ChowNow has raised $1.19M more in an ongoing funding round, according to a regulatory filing by the firm last week. ChowNow is venture backed by Daher Capital, Double M Partners, GRP Partners, Karlin Ventures and Velos Partners. The round is targeted at $2M.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Los Angeles-based mobile food ordering startup ChowNow has raised $708,414 as part of a new funding round, according to regulatory filing by the firm this week. ChowNow has previously raised funding from Daher Capital, Double M Partners, GRP Partners, Karlin Ventures and Velos Partners, and was part of LaunchpadLA.

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JUNE 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile ad management firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has added SoftBank Capital and Founder Collective to its Series A funding round. investment from Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners. Tags: burstly softbank mobile advertising venture capital.

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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. Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based textPlus , the free text messaging service which is operated by GOGII, has made a number of updates to both its iPhone and Android apps. GOGII is venture backed by Matrix Partners, GRP Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund; the firm's founder, Scott Lahman, was a co-founder of JAMDAT Mobile.

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Gogii GRP Partners Mobile Los Angeles 193

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JANUARY 17, 2013

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?

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MARCH 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising technology firm headed by Evan Rifkin, said today that it has acquired TestFlight , a developer of a real-time dashboard which provides mobile advertising and revenue analytics for iOS apps. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. funding round in November.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising startup headed by Evan Rifkin, has raised $5.5M The round came from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank. in a Series B round, according to reports. Rifkin is the former founder of Tagworld. in March of 2010.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Los Angeles seems to be cementing itself in as the capital of celebrity and e-commerce, with the latest deal being Moonfrye , a new, "celebrity mom" startup featuring Soleil Moon Frye, best known to the rest of us as Punky Brewster. The new startup revealed today that it has raised $2.5M The company has yet to launch its first products.

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MARCH 15, 2012

Los Angeles-based textPlus , the developer of the popular free texting app on the iPhone and Android, has rolled out Windows Phone support, the company said yesterday. textPlus is the latest venture of JAMDAT Mobile founder Scott Lahman. textPlus offers up an app which lets users send texts for free to users in the U.S. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the developer of app analytics and testing software, has quietly been acquired by Apple. Burstly was venture backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective, and was led by Evan Rifkin. Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Los Angeles-based GOGII , the text messaging app developer behind textPlus , said Tuesday that it has started offering up free phone numbers for texting in Canada. GOGII is venture backed by Matrix Partners, GRP Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 17, 2010

Los Angeles. 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). TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year. People either love it our hate it.

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JANUARY 8, 2013

Are you looking for free mobile data, text, and calling? Two, Internet-enabled communications startups, FreedomPop , and TextPlus said this morning that they are working together to introduce a 100 percent free mobile data, text and calling service, by combining plans and technology from the two companies. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners Startup Mobile Los Angeles 157

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising startup, is further looking to diversify its service from Twitter, saying this week that it has added support for Facebook. Twitter has rolled out its own mobile applications in competition with third party Twitter clients; its own link shortener; and its own advertising service.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based Pose , a developer of mobile, social shopping applications, said last week that it has raised $1.6M Pose is headed by Dustin Rosen, formerly an associate at Los Angeles-based venture capital firm The Mail Room Fund. in a funding round.

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GRP Partners Santa Monica Venture Capital Mobile 133

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based GOGII , the developer of text messaging applications headed by three of the founders of JAMDAT Mobile, reported late last week that it has sent over 10 billion text messages from its textPlus texting app.

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Gogii GRP Partners Mobile Los Angeles 133

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JULY 20, 2012

The region saw the most investments in Los Angeles, with $329.0M Los Angeles most mostly flat quarter-to-quarter in terms of dollars invested, with both Orange. Mobile video sharing app developer. most active in investing in local companies here -- were GRP Partners , with 10 investments; followed by Siemer Ventures.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Comment below! READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2013

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. It also includes things like rewards and currency in games.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

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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). And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 360

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

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. The current incarnation of the mobile web changes what the Internet IS to users, and the manner in which it is incorporated into their lives. (2) I'll list three, not necessarily in order. (1)

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

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APRIL 1, 2010

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Burstly (www.burstly.com) announced that it had raised $1.8M 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. What is Burstly?

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Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Los Angeles. There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). There are no $600 million funds in Los Angeles. Let me use LA as an example.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 314

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners.

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MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne.

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 241

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MAY 5, 2011

In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 319

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JULY 14, 2011

We’ve partnered with most of the leading networks in the space, so I don’t imagine that it’s a very attractive market segment for someone else to compete in. They are also often looking for more cost effective ways to advertise to mobile users. Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners ).

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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. 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. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is an opportunity to get frank feedback from VCs, angels, peers and the technolust. Mixergy and AsAble are also joining us to bring you an amazing VC/Angel Panel. Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Stewart Roberts , President of Orange County of Tech Coast Angels. Mark Suster , GRP Partners.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. For those who ever said there is no startup community in Los Angeles I most certainly beg to differ. VC/Angel Panel. Adrenaline Fueled Angel. Mark Suster , GRP Partners.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

While Google fights on the edges, Amazon is attacking their core - Chris Dixon , May 22, 2010 Google is fighting battles on almost every front: social networking, mobile operating systems, web browsers, office apps, and so on. 8211; are mostly a loss leaders for Google. I know I do. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248

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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. Many of these Tweets will have information about the user’s location that makes increases the value of the data enormously.

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