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Ad.ly Confirms Funding

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

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. It serves a similar role as Digsby (which I love using) albeit from a social media metaphor rather than an IM metaphor. In addition they are a platform (the OS part) where they’re encouraging developers to build third party apps on their platform.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

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. Social Media: Snapchat. If that’s news to you, here are eleven of Los Angles’ best and brightest.

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

Tech Zulu Event

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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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

Tech Zulu Event

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.,

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

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. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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