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JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners announced this morning that it has raised a fourth fund, worth $200M, and also renamed the firm Upfront Ventures.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

That’s why I’m proud to announce today that HealthDataInsights (founded by Victor Chaltiel), where GRP Partners was a 30% owner, has been acquired for $400 million. My partner & mentor Yves Sisteron ( You can get to know Yves in this YouTube video ) has been active at HDI for years (as has our CFO, Dana Kibler ).

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

Today, we're featuring Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners , founder of LaunchpadLA , the startup accelerator, not to mention well read blogger and highly watched host of This Week In Venture Capital. The most significant news for GRP Partners in 2012 was the first close of our 4th venture fund.

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OCTOBER 11, 2012

Speaker: Mark Suster, GRP Partners. Wednesday, October 17, 2012 -- Paley Center For Media. See [link].

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Today, we spoke with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. Yesterday, we heard from Scott Painter of TrueCar. The IPO of EnvestNet.

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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.

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MAY 19, 2020

The startup--led by longtime Southern California startup and venture capital veteran Steven Dietz--said the funding was led by Alpha Edison, and also included Lightspeed Venture Partners. Dietz is the former managing partner of GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures), which he left in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

NuORDER , a developer of e-commerce software for fashion brands and retailers, has scored a round of funding led by GRP Partners, the company said this morning.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Upfront Ventures--formerly known as GRP Partners--has been in existence for 24 years now. The General Partner on the new fund is listed as Mark Suster. Upfront Ventures started raising $250M in a growth fund, Upfront Growth II, back in June of 2019, and raised its last core fund, Upfront VI, back in June of 2017.

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MARCH 28, 2011

I had lunch earlier yesterday with Mark Suster, General Partner at GRP Partners, blogger extraordinaire and overall cool dude. I am writing this entry at 4:00 AM. Mark’s kindness and insights moved me to roll out of bed, fire up.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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

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JUNE 27, 2013

Zappin claims breach of contract and fraud in removing him as CEO. The lawsuit, according to reports , seeks removal of the company''s board and monetary damages.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Apple''s TestFlight service comes courtesy the acquisition earlier this year of Los Angeles-based Burstly , which was venture backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective. Burstly, which was led by Evan Rifkin, acquired TestFlight back in 2012.

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JANUARY 18, 2013

in a funding round from GRP Partners and Crosscut Ventures. The report, from PandoDaily, said that the company shut down due to the high costs of delivering food anywhere in the country. The shutdown comes a mere seven months after the firm raised $1.7M READ MORE>>.

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MAY 31, 2012

The round was led by GRP Partners, and also included Michel Daher, a Lebanese entrepreneur. The firm said that Mark Suster of GRP Partners will join the company's board along with the funding. Grubwithus previously raised $1.6M

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JANUARY 9, 2014

ChowNow has previously raised funding from Daher Capital, Double M Partners, GRP Partners, Karlin Ventures and Velos Partners, and was part of LaunchpadLA. Los Angeles-based mobile food ordering startup ChowNow has raised $708,414 as part of a new funding round, according to regulatory filing by the firm this week.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

in funding, which was led by GRP Partners, and also included Baroda Ventures , Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , Daher Capital , Double M Capital , Karlin Ventures , Launchpad LA, as well as angels. Online advertising firm YieldMetrics said Thursday morning that it has raised $1.7M

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JUNE 11, 2012

One of the portfolio companies of Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has filed for an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC late Friday. GRP Partners owns around 10.94 percent of Qualys before the IPO; the firm's other co-investor in the company, Trident Capital, owns 27.41 percent.

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MAY 24, 2013

more in funding, from GRP Partners and Siemer Ventures. Los Angeles-based celebrity advertising firm Ad.ly disclosed Thursday that it has raised $2.0M helps match up celebrities with social media advertisers.

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MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners has re-upped its investment in social data analytics firm DataSift , in a Series A follow-on announced this morning. DataSift said that existing investors GRP Partners and IA Ventures invested $7.2M GRP's investment in DataSift is managed by Mark Suster.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has scored an exit at one of its portfolio firms, Las Vegas-based HealthDataInsights. GRP Partners owned 30% of HealthDataInsights. HealthDataInsights provides technology which is used to detect fraud and billing errors in Medicare and other insurance programs.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Mark Suster , the highly visible venture capitalist blogger at GRP Partners, has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. Suster, in announcing the deal on his blog, did not say if his firm, GRP Partners, participated in the round. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 28, 2013

GumGum is venture backed by NEA, GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures), First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures. Platinum Rye Entertainment books celebrity talent, models, recording artists, sports figures and other celebrities for ad campaigns and PR events. GumGum said the addition of Schinman will help its strategic growth plans.

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APRIL 25, 2013

GumGum is backed by NEA, GRP Partners, First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures. GumGum''s in-image advertising serves up advertising within photos embedded on a publisher''s sites; those ads typically show up when a user mouses over an image they like, allowing them to click to another site or view additoinal related content.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Upfront Ventures was previously known as GRP Partners. Upfront said that Hudson will work on deal sourcing, deal screening, deal support, portfolio analysis, and other similar activities. Hudson had previously been an Associate at the firm. READ MORE>>. upfront ventures hudson venture capital executive principal associate'

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MAY 29, 2013

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.

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APRIL 10, 2014

The legal documents filed by Zappin name not only Maker Studios, but venture capitalists Mark Suster and Dana Settle, as well as GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures). Disney said it would pay as much as $950M, including earnout, for Maker Studios on March 24th. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture firm GRP Partners announced Wednesday that it has hired a new, entrepreneur-in-residence for the company, Sam Rosen, who was formerly the founder of SpeakerGram in New York City, was involved in 500Startups in San Francisco, and also has been involved with ScoreBig.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The accelerator was founded by Mark Suster of GRP Partners, and recently graduated a class; the firm recently closed its applications for the next class, which starts in March. Katrowitz was previously co-founder at Gobbler, and also served as VP of Marketing at MySpace. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2013

ChowNow is venture backed by Daher Capital, Double M Partners, GRP Partners, Karlin Ventures and Velos Partners. 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. The round is targeted at $2M.

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APRIL 2, 2013

in a funding round, from GRP Partners, RRE Ventures, SV Angel, Novel TMT Ventures, Matt Coffin , Thomas Mclnerney, and Rachel Zoe. It looks like Los Angeles has become the hotbed of new fashion and e-commerce startups, with the latest being DailyLook , which disclosed Tuesday that it has raised $2.5M

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Investors in the round have not yet been announced, however, the firm has raised funding in the past from Great Pacific Capital, GRP Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners. RingRevenue is headed by Jason Spievak. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture firm GRP Partners is backing a prepaid card firm, Wave Crest Holdings Limited , based in Gibraltar. in a Series B funding round led by GRP Partners, which also included Park Ventures. As part of the funding, Brian McLoughlin of GRP Partners joins the firm's board of directors.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

Datasift said it raised $42M Tuesday morning, led by Insight Venture Partners and also including prior investors Scale Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, IA Ventures, Northgate Capital, Daher Capital and Cendana Capital. Upfront led Datasift''s first round , back in 2011, when it was known as GRP Partners. 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. textPlus , the maker of the popular texting application by the same name, said today that it has raised $18M in a new funding round, led by The Raine Group.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica-based Gradient X , the programmatic mobile advertising startup backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Walter Kortschak (Summit Capital), and Mark Suster, said today that it has exited its beta.

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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.

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