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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The Rifkin's prior company, Burstly, sold its mobile app testing service, TestFlight, to Apple back in 2013. Upfront Ventures--formerly known as GRP Partners--was the lead investor in Burstly. Evan Rifkin also was the founder of TagWorld/Social Project, which he sold to MTV. READ MORE>>.

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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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MAY 21, 2013

Santa Monica-based app testing and anlytics developer Burstly has opened up access to its mobile monetization platform, extending access to its SkyRocket product via a self-serve offering. Burstly announced the move this morning, in addition to reorganizing its corporate structure around its multiple mobile app services. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Prior investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Matrix Partners and GRP Partners also participated in the funding. In addition to the new funding, the company also said it has acquired Los Angeles-based Jarvus , which develops an app to people capture and share experiences, events and moments together. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The acquisition is not a surprise to Apple app developers, who have widely adopted the company''s tools. The company has said that over half the apps in the Apple App store use its tools. Burstly was venture backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective, and was led by Evan Rifkin.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

According to GumGum, Matt Weisbecker has been appointed Vice President, Western Sales for GumGum, a new position for the company. Director National Sales & Strategy for Amazon Media Group, working on the entertainment vertical for such properties as Amazon Mobile, IMDb, IMDb Mobile and Kindle/Kindle Fire.

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we have a great city for building technology companies.

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JULY 31, 2013

The startup, which is backed by Upfront Ventures (which also just went through a renaming effort, from GRP Partners), did not say exactly why it decided to rename itself. As part of the rebranding, the company said it has named Stephanie Grossman as SVP, Business Development, Sales and Marketing. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2009

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 -- Online and Mobile Video. The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA), invite you to an exciting panel discussion with top digital media executives and venture capitalists followed by a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center.

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APRIL 25, 2013

in a funding round, led by GRP Partners and Mark Suster, and which also included Greycroft Partners , Daher Capital and Google Ventures. Moonfrye ''s mobile product provides digital photos, stickers, and activities for parents and children (think sticker collecting, activity books). READ MORE>>.

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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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JULY 20, 2012

Mobile video sharing app developer. most active in investing in local companies here -- were GRP Partners , with 10 investments; followed by Siemer Ventures. were Qualcomm Ventures , Rincon Venture Partners , Baroda Ventuers , and crosscut Ventures. Viddy , with $30.7.M raised, also were among the top fundings.

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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. He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

The new firm will offer pay-for-performance ads on television, radio, print, and online, including mobile phones, social media, and more. The two companies said that RingRevenue's technology is being used to create dedicated toll-free phone numbers and URLs to track consumer response to specific ad campaigns.

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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). LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Did we miss a big story over the holidays?

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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. The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

had added support for MySpace in June, shortly after Twitter said it would not allow other companies to automatically include advertising into Twitter. Twitter has rolled out its own mobile applications in competition with third party Twitter clients; its own link shortener; and its own advertising service. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Funds were contributed by returning investor GRP Partners along with Double M Capitol, Karlin Ventures, LaunchPad LA and Daher Capitol, all local investors. As the pioneer of Facebook ordering, ChowNow has created opportunity for all types of restaurants by integrating online ordering into social, mobile and viral spaces.

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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. Burstly is located in Santa Monica. What is Burstly?

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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. Or if you did something really interesting / innovative in a startup company. And none of our partners actually worked for any of these firms. What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

Yesterday, we spoke with Mark Suster of GRP Partners. For today's contribution, we spoke with Jim Armstrong , a venture capitalist at Clearstone Venture Partners. It has to be the momentum of many of our companies including a bunch of exits. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? I am focused on two.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

A number of companies in the portfolio delivered very strong operating results in 2010, which is exciting. Also, we had an investment in a company that went public this year, BroadSoft, which is one of 2010's best-performing IPOs. 1) Mobile web. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? 2010 was very good to us.

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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). BuildOnline (the company I founded) has just announcement plans to be more aggressive in growing in the US.

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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. We cater to mobile phone developers--right now the iPhone, and coming soon to Android. What is Burstly?

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JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Includes content mobile guides, ie.

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JUNE 20, 2012

We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners. For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. Then, it turned out, all of those companies did really well.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). Which is one of the reasons I invested in Ad.ly – a company that is a market leader in “in-stream advertising.&# The theory is simple: our attention is moving from search to stream.

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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. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. " In fact, 3 of the 10 selected companies from the past two years has followed this business model. Photo credit: Elizabeth Weinberg.).

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JULY 14, 2011

And for many companies a good deal of their business is still closed over the phone–through their call centers. This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc.

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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. Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. For those of you who may not know about StartupDemo, it is an event that TechZulu and Schmoozd have partnered up to bring you some of the hottest startups around.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

TechZulu captured the entire VC/Angle panel and we also had a chance to interview every StartupDemo startup company that participated. Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. The Sponsors.

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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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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. accessibility. authenticity.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’ve always been a big believer that just a couple of key individuals make all of the difference in a company’s success. Your highest priority right now is hiring the 1 or 2 people that are going to join your company and make a difference. Patron Companies. The ingredients are all here.

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