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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based Launchpad LA , the business acceleration program headed up by Mark Suster of GRP Partners, said today that it has expanded the program, and added $50,000 in funding for startups in the program, plus actual physical office space. The acceleration progrma has set up space in Santa Monica.

GRP Partners 145

GRP Partners Startup Funding Santa Monica 145

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Of these 19 have received funding (10 have received significant amounts of VC funding) and 5 have been acquired (2 for more than $30 million).

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Today marks another great day for the LA startup community as one of the city’s prominent mentoring programs , Launchpad LA, received VC funding – for each startup.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Funding Idealab 74

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Today marks another great day for the LA startup community as one of the city’s prominent mentoring programs , Launchpad LA, received VC funding – for each startup.

Venture Capital 65

Venture Capital GRP Partners Funding Idealab 65

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo. June 17: Silicon Beach Fest: Pasadena Day , Hosted by Idealab. At least 100 companies secured funding of at least $1 million, and 43 were acquired. In 2012 over $3.2

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

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JULY 1, 2010

Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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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). At at time where nearly all advertising was purchased on a CPM (cost per thousand) basis and not very measurable this was a huge innovation that should be credited to Bill Gross, the founder of IdeaLab.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284