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Ad.ly Confirms Funding

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Los Angeles-based social, celebrity advertising startup Adly confirmed the company''s recent $2M funding round today, officially announcing the funding from GRP Partners and Siemer Ventures. adly venture capital funding social celebrity advertising' The firm disclosed the funding last week. READ MORE>>.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. Pretty cool.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Social Media: Snapchat. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media.

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

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Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD.,

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. startup scene so hot.