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. What's your thoughts on the local venture market?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

The filing indicates the round target is $3.5M, an includes equity, debt, and warrants. Bass & Associates and Allegis Capital participated in this funding round, and continue to have representatives on the firm's board; the firm has also raised funding in the past from GRP Partners, and Fort Washington Capital.

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Allegis GRP Partners San Diego Venture Capital 174

socalTECH

JULY 21, 2011

Hollywood-based ZestCash , a startup offering up short-term, consumer loans online, has scored $19M in funding today, including $11M in a Series A equity round plus $8M in venture debt. The equity came from Lightspeed Venture Partners and GRP Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

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. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The founders previously ran another company together.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Santa Monica-based Teleflip, which operated a service which allowed users to send and receive email using text messages, has been sold to an undisclosed buyer, according to creditor Hercules Technology Growth Capital. HTGC had invested $1M in debt financing in June of 2007 to Teleflip.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

I recently read the book eBoys about the founding of Benchmark Capital and the founding of eBay. Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt? I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I guess that makes USV, Spark Capital, Foundry Group, Accel, Benchmark, Revolution (along with several others) pretty happy right now. source: Capital IQ. In any given year there are about 50 venture-backed companies or so that are bought for $100 million or more. source: Capital IQ. And well they should be.

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