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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising tools firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has opened up a new way for mobile application developers to sell their own advertising space. Burstly is venture backed by Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank Capital.

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OCTOBER 21, 2011

Santa Monica-based Pose , a developer of mobile apps for shopping discovery, announced Friday morning that it has raised $3M in a Series A funding round. The round came from GRP Partners, True Ventures, and Mousse Partners.

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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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MARCH 30, 2010

The funding round came from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures. Mark Suster at GRP lead the firm's investment, with Jim Andelman heading up Rincon's involvement. Tags: rifkin evan advertising mobile capital venture burstly. Los Angeles-based Burstly announced Tuesday afternoon that the firm has raised $1.8M READ MORE>>.

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Tool Mobile GRP Partners Advertising 157

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JANUARY 9, 2014

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. ChowNow has previously raised funding from Daher Capital, Double M Partners, GRP Partners, Karlin Ventures and Velos Partners, and was part of LaunchpadLA.

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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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GRP Partners Incubator Mobile Venture Capital 174

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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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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. textPlus, which is based in Marina Del Rey, develops a combination of mobile apps and related services which allow users to text each other for free. READ MORE>>.

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Marina Del Rey Gogii GRP Partners Mobile 234

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Gradient X , the online mobile marketing and advertising technology developer backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, and others, has snapped up some talent from OpenX with its latest hire. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 5, 2011

Los Angeles-based GOGII , the venture backed provider of mobile social messaging services, has snagged MySpace exec Chandra Hill as its new Vice President of Monetization and Publishing. Hill was most recently VP of Mobile Monetization at MySpace. GOGII develops textPlus, a mobile social messaging application for the iPhone.

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Gogii GRP Partners Mobile Los Angeles 189

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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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JANUARY 17, 2013

It's a huge development task to develop your own mobile application, connect into Facebook, and create an online ordering system--unless you use the software from ChowNow (www.chownow.com), one of the newest startups to get funding here in Los Angeles. One is the mobile app. What is ChowNow all about? It's designed just for our system.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

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. He also has served at NBCUniversal and AOL.

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Sales GRP Partners Advertising Entertainment 178

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MARCH 5, 2012

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising technology firm headed by Evan Rifkin, said today that it has acquired TestFlight , a developer of a real-time dashboard which provides mobile advertising and revenue analytics for iOS apps. Burstly is backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank, and announced a $5.5M

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Burstly was venture backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective, and was led by Evan Rifkin. burstly apple merger acquisition evan rifkin tagworld testflight testing tools apps mobile' The company has said that over half the apps in the Apple App store use its tools.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

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. See [link].

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile advertising startup headed by Evan Rifkin, has raised $5.5M The round came from GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank. in a Series B round, according to reports. Rifkin is the former founder of Tagworld. in March of 2010.

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GRP Partners Advertising Los Angeles Mobile 150

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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. Grossman was previously at Demand Media and Scripps Networks Interactive, and was founder of mobile advertising firm Sidebar. READ MORE>>.

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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).

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APRIL 5, 2012

Marina Del Rey-based free text messaging app developer textPlus , said yesterday that it has launched its app on Android, in Canada, offering up free texting for users of mobile phones in that country. textPlus said the addition of Canada marks the beginning of an international expansion for the app.

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Marina Del Rey GRP Partners Mobile Develop 174

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JUNE 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile ad management firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has added SoftBank Capital and Founder Collective to its Series A funding round. investment from Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners. Tags: burstly softbank mobile advertising venture capital. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

went on to raise venture funds from Greycroft Partners, GRP Partners, and Matt Coffin. Hatch Labs is focused on developing new applications and mobile startups, and is backed by IAC. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

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 ). The world is going mobile. The Kindle has already revolutionized book reading.

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Gravity is backed by GRP Partners, Redpoint Ventures and August Capital, having most recently raise d$10.6M The new API effort extends Gravity's technology into use in mobile applications, tablet apps, in addition to the web. in a Series B funding round in October. READ MORE>>.

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Content GRP Partners Redpoint Santa Monica 168

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

GOGII is venture backed by Matrix Partners, GRP Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund; the firm's founder, Scott Lahman, was a co-founder of JAMDAT Mobile. The apps work by assigning a free phone number to users, which can be used for receiving text messages from others. READ MORE>>.

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Gogii GRP Partners Mobile Los Angeles 193

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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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GRP Partners Startup Mobile Los Angeles 157

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

textPlus said Android users in the US and Canada can make calls to any international mobile or landline number starting at two cents a minute. textPlus is led by Scott Lahman, a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded JAMDAT Mobile. READ MORE>>.

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Marina Del Rey GRP Partners Mobile Startup 159

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MARCH 15, 2012

textPlus, which is venture backed by Matrix Partners, GRP Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, said that the new version of the app for Windows Phone supports all of the features of its iPhone and Android versions. textPlus is the latest venture of JAMDAT Mobile founder Scott Lahman. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based GOGII , the developer of text messaging applications headed by three of the founders of JAMDAT Mobile, reported late last week that it has sent over 10 billion text messages from its textPlus texting app.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

Santa Monica-based Pose , a developer of mobile, social shopping applications, said last week that it has raised $1.6M The funding came from GRP Partners, True Ventures, and Founder Collective, along with angel investors Dave Morin and Shawn Fanning. in a funding round.

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GRP Partners Santa Monica Venture Capital Mobile 133

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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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AUGUST 10, 2011

The firm, which is headed by former JAMDAT Mobile co-founder Scott Lahman, said that the new features will allow users in Canada to have free, unlimited texting with anyone, whether they use textPlus or not. GOGII is venture backed by Matrix Partners, GRP Partners, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers iFund.

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Gogii GRP Partners IP Startup 160

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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. RingRevenue is venture backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and Great Pacific Capital.

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Santa Barbara GRP Partners Social Media Advertising 153

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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). Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine). Did we miss a big story over the holidays?

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Southern California Technical Review SoCal San Diego 168

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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. Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Twitter has rolled out its own mobile applications in competition with third party Twitter clients; its own link shortener; and its own advertising service. The firm is backed by Greycroft Partners, GRP Partners, and Matt Coffin. READ MORE>>.

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