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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica. But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. We have long wanted to move but wanted to wait for the perfect space.

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Gil Elbaz On Factual's New Warchest

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Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Gil Elbaz: A few weeks ago, we did a blog post about companies using our local data, including Facebook Places. In the case of the U.S.,

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. not near the beach): Factual, founded by Gil Elbaz who built AdSense [Century City]. Maker Studios, leading YouTube producer, generating hundreds of millions of video views every month [Los Angeles, near Culver City]. My views are pretty well known.

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