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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware. Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). AwarePoint ($4M, San Diego, real time patient location systems). Surf Air ($2.6M, Los Angeles, subscription aircraft service). Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories.

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Building A Dream Team For Mobile Advertising, with Gradient X

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Gradient X is backed by Rincon Venture Partners, GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures), CrossCut Ventures, Founder Collective, Siemer Ventures, Baroda Ventures, and Double M Partners. Michael Lum: We were all semi-independently looking at mobile, due to the growth projection and potential there. What is Gradient X?

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack.

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

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Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. How startup can leverage social media to get investors attention. Moderator: Giang Biscan , PhD., The Sponsors.

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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We would like give a huge thank you to Social Media Week and the supportive startup community here in Los Angeles. Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Topic discussion: Impact of social media on startups and on funding leads for investors. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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TechCrunch, Forbes, PandoDaily, and other national and local media covered the fest, centered in Santa Monica and Venice at venues with views of the beach on picture-perfect sunny days. Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. Kindling’s: L.A.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). So did the media. was the “static&# web. was the 2-way web.

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