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OCTOBER 19, 2012

billion has been invested in the region via venture capital. billion in investments; followed by New England, with $826.1M in investments; with Southern California taking third with it $694.5M in investments. was invested across 48 deals; San Diego has $241.5M invested, in 11 different investments.

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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 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners --which has been very active in the local technology startup market--has made its latest investment, in an interesting industry: mortgage lending. GRP is the lead investor in Skyline Financial , a Calabasas-based provider of mortgage banking and lending.

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MARCH 17, 2010

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. But we have a great city for building technology companies. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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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. After that you could tell that Greg was really “all in” on the LA technology community. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. You won’t regret it.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. When I started investing the US advertising market was $300 billion with only 10% of it ($30 billion) of it being online and measurable. We can technology enable offline advertising. Thus, we click!

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JANUARY 8, 2013

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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GRP Partners Startup Mobile Los Angeles 157

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JANUARY 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture capital Association MoneyTree survey, which is based on data from Thomson Reuters, tallies $738.34M invested in Southern California in Q4 of 2011. raised in Q4 of 2010, and up from the $652M invested in the region last quarter. The amount is up from $528.0M

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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

OnTech made canned beverages which used quicklime and water self-heating technology to warm up drinks by just pulling a tab, and were distributed through Wal-Mart, Kroger, Sam's Club, and other retailers. The firm was venture backed by GRP Partners, Fort Washignton Investment Advisors, and DFJ Frontier.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 25, 2011

He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Come hear him talk about about SoCal startups, entrepreneurship and the investment scene. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC.

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Burstly is venture backed by Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank Capital. GRP's investment in Burstly was overseen by omnipresent technology investor Mark Suster, and Jim Andeleman was the lead on Rincon's investment in the company. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Services CPC GRP Partners 171

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JULY 19, 2011

in funding, and San Diego $198.18M in investments. Quarter to quarter, investments were up from Q1, when $585M was invested in the region. Investments were slightly down from Q2 of 2010, when the region saw $856M in funding. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $7.5M billion invested across 814 deals.

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MAY 11, 2010

The round comes from GRP Partners, Greycroft Ventures, and Matt Coffin, the founder of LowerMyBills. Singh was most recently EVP of Product, Technology, and Operations at News Corp.'s Mark Suster led GRP's investment in the company, with Dana Settle leading Greycroft's involvement. s Fox Audience Network.

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GRP Partners SoCalTech Advertising Venture Capital 154

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MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). Optimization technology is not new.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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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. The chosen candidate will probably have worked for a very reputable firm that is either in technology, consulting, investment banking, media or a startup. Often these jobs aren’t even publicized.&#. Are you merging?

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JUNE 13, 2013

Mark is a frequent blogger, conference speaker, and thought leader in the technology industry, and a venture capitalist at GRP Partners. But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. Its a philosophy, really.

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JUNE 27, 2013

However, one, longtime local fund-- GRP Partners --appears to have found the right formula for venture success, and has just raised a brand new, $200 million fund. It''s good news for us, but it''s also good news for Los Angeles technology. As you probably know, two thirds of our investments go into Los Angeles.

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JUNE 3, 2010

helps celebrities, musicians, and other social influencers monetize their Twitter and other activity streams with advertising; the firm is backed by GRP Partners, Greycroft Partners, and LowerMyBills' Matt Coffin. squarely into a multi-way intersection of who's who in Southern California's blog and technology world.

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Advertising Userplane GRP Partners Mahalo 168

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AUGUST 1, 2010

There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment.

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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. billion was invested in Southern California start-ups with 220 new companies launching in Los Angeles. Silicon Beach Fest takes place June 19-22, 2013 in Santa Monica.

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JULY 15, 2010

Investments by venture capitalists in Southern California were up, both in terms of deals and dollars in Q2, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). in 91 investments, up significantly from the $451.8M in 91 investments, up significantly from the $451.8M

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JUNE 10, 2009

Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online auto buying technology firm headed by Scott Painter, said Wednesday that the firm has sold its 50,000th car through its online auto-buying affinity programs. Zag has received funding from USAA, Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRP Partners and Anthem Venture Partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 14, 2014

Last year, the humbly brilliant and veteran entrepreneur (I totally signed up for www.MoviePass.com the second I saw it), joined Upfront, as a venture partner. Business Culture Entrepreneurship Investment behavioral health Hamet Watt innovation Technology Upfront Ventures Venture Capital'

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GRP Partners Startup Incubator Venture Capital 87

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JULY 24, 2012

I told him that our market was absolutely booming and was worthy of a commensurate investment. Not that I’ll take credit for what I’m about to announce, but I knew that if somebody could commit to building out LA and making the investments required to kick ass in this market it would be Cooley. Invest they have.

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Venture Capital Startup Los Angeles GRP Partners 299

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JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. At the time of that investment I had exchanged notes with Dave McClure who also invested. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang. ” “Sam?

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Startup Course Ideas Invest 372

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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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GRP Partners Santa Monica Email Sales 100

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JUNE 27, 2013

Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. What’s up with that? See what we did there? That seems pretty superficial!”.

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Funding Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 343

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NOVEMBER 22, 2009

I myself recently covered the topic when I spoke about why GRP Partners invested in Ad.ly. GRP Partners invested in GoTo.com which rebranded as Overture. But our investment and the thesis of the team led to huge leaps of innovation that all consumers now benefit from. I assure you Ad.ly

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Advertising Technical Review GRP Partners Google 277

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APRIL 2, 2010

VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. They raise money from institutions who want to have some allocation of their investment dollars in a category known as “alternatives,&# which is supposed to mean higher risk, higher returns. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm.

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

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. 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.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

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JUNE 12, 2013

But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. Todd Gitlin is one of the best executive recruiters the technology & startup market in Los Angeles. When I joined GRP Partners in 2007 I was offered a role as a General Partner.

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Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

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JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. So the people who invest in VC funds have two problems.

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Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding Rustic Canyon 311

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JUNE 8, 2010

My action item – I will soon announce the GRP Partners CEO Summit. It amazed me just what a force Facebook has become for brands who invest in building a major presence in FB and spend significant money driving traffic and engaging audiences there. The Greycroft event was a 10 out of 10 so I’ve diligently taken notes.

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Startup Venture Capital Tips Custom Development 279

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JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners. We're not investing in ideas and trying to turn them into companies.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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JUNE 22, 2011

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). So people sell or at least don’t invest.

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Pricing Marketing Startup Venture Capital 309

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Social Enterprise: Hub LA.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

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JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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Startup Venture Capital Conference Social Media 248