socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2010

investment from Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners. Burstly is developing a free ad management platform for the mobile phone market, and specifically the iPhone and Android operating systems. Size of the additional investment was not disclosed. Burstly recently announced a $1.8M READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2013

Los Angeles-based GumGum , which provides an in-image advertising platform for publishers, said Friday that it has added Ryan Schinman, CEO of Platinum Rye Entertainment, to its advisory board. GumGum is venture backed by NEA, GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures), First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Gravity said the new funds will help it expand its operations in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco, as well as scale its publishing partners and deploy its platform.

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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. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Health Data Vision , a new startup based in Burbank, said this week that it has raised a Series A funding round, to go towards its software-as-a-service platform for medical records analysis. The round was led by GRP Partners and Redhills Ventures. The firm is led by Michael Klotz.

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Software GRP Partners Burbank Platform 159

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

is planning on using Ring Revenue's platform in 2010 to improve the performance of its email, display, and offline campaigns. RingRevenue is venture backed by Great Pacific Capital, GRP Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners; Spievak is the former CFO of CallWave. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed.

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socalTECH

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. Los Angeles-based Burstly announced Tuesday afternoon that the firm has raised $1.8M in a venture funding.

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MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. Never say never – GRP Partners is actually looking very closely at a company in its A round that is raising a large sum of money.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

GradientX, led by Brian Baumgart and co-founded by Julie Mattern and Michael Lum, said the new funding round came from Rincon Venture Partners, GRP Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Walter Kortschak, Jim Willenborg, Clark Landry, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Siemer Ventures and Baroda Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 5, 2010

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

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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 ). So what about the ad management business excites me? Enter Burstly.

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socalTECH

JULY 8, 2013

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: Programmatic buying enables an advertiser, using our platform, to bid on impressions on an impression-on-impression basis.

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Advertising Mobile OpenX Software Review 253

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JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , which is developing an in-stream, advertising platform for Twitter, has raised $500,000 in a funding round. The round came from GRP Partners. GRP's Mark Suster sits on the firm's board. has performed very well," Suster told socalTECH, saying that the round was a seed round.

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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. He used the 500Startups platform to uber network in the Bay Area where he was living. Nice kid, but I see lots of nice kids.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). MyTime aims to be the first industry-wide platform to help create consistency across the SKUs in services businesses.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

APRIL 1, 2010

in a venture round from GRP Partners and Rincon Ventures, for the firm's mobile ad management platform. Mark Suster lead GRP's investment in the firm, and Jim Andelman led Rincon's investment. Evan Rifkin: Basically, we are an open and free ad management platform. Our space is pretty young.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

We spoke with Christopher Webb, the firm's CEO, to hear about how ChowNow's goal is to make mobile, social orders something any restaurant can afford and implement--and how a new $3M funding round from GRP Partners, Double M Capital, Daher Capital, Karlin Ventures, and Velos Partners is helping it to deliver on its mission.

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Mobile Startup Platform GRP Partners 197

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MAY 19, 2010

Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. We also talked a lot about Stickybits (who uses the SimpleGeo platform) and Occipital who has the red-hot RedLaser scanning product. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform. OTHER DEALS: 1. Go Boulder!

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

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JUNE 21, 2014

And the fact that we’ve all worked for a decade with Dana Kibler who is our long-time CFO and now helping run Investment Operations & Platform Services we have a truly senior & killer internal team. Neither is very strategic nor in the best interest of either set of customers that VCs have (portfolio companies & LPs).

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

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MARCH 27, 2011

I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). I chose for my blog to be independent of my firm, GRP Partners. First, you’ll need a platform.

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OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly People rightly recognize that comments on blogs are just a form of a stream and thus the growth of open commenting platforms like Disqus and IntenseDebate. It creates free innovation on your platform that drives user growth and engagement.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : “Ringrevenue’s call performance marketing platform enables ad networks, agencies, advertisers & publishers to generate more inbound sales calls.”. At RingRevenue we’ve created a call performance marketing platform that at its core is all about getting more high-value calls to advertisers who want them.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

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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). We have an analytics platform that helps advertisers discover information about the demographics of the follower base and the effectiveness of their campaigns.

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Advertising Invest RSS CPC 284

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Facebook now accounts for a staggering 25% of all display impressions (up from 9% last year), and Facebook and its advertisers are finally beginning to understand how to leverage the platform's unique capabilities. 3) Cloud computing offerings as an enabler to lean startups. There are lots.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow , the turnkey interactive food ordering platform, just raised $3 million in additional funding to launch new products and expand national operations. Funds were contributed by returning investor GRP Partners along with Double M Capitol, Karlin Ventures, LaunchPad LA and Daher Capitol, all local investors.

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GRP Partners Email Incubator Platform 73

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

And despite what I keep hearing from others – these are not content “hit businesses&# they are “content production platforms&# that are producing scale like I’ve never seen and at a cost structure that is astounding. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners).

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Venture Capital Google Southern California Startup 313

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is headed by Evan Rifkin, and backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective. You''re at a place where you can see what''s happening with Android and iOS--what''s your perspective on where the future is in mobile platforms? Burstly is located in Santa Monica.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. If that’s news to you, here are eleven of Los Angles’ best and brightest. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

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MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? But as I look at the GRP Partners returns we’ve made a lot of money investing in companies in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Arizona and Seattle. Are you going to do all of this?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Mixergy 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Mark Suster , GRP Partners. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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Social Media Technical Review Tech Coast Angels Venture Capital 60

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners in Los Angeles, spoke with Fastcompany.com about what makes L.A.s startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups? Lets start with the basics. If you look at Google in the way they operate, you have two products, one is called AdWords, one is called AdSense, okay?

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 14, 2008

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? However, these platforms could be interesting for prototype and pilot solutions. The other conclusion was that you need to have a migration path from the platform. Must design your application differently to live on top of the platform. It's funny.

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JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. The Importance of Twitter. That is what I Tweeted when I saw DataSift present as a finalist at TC Disrupt last year.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. What are some examples of successful companies that were started here?

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