socalTECH

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.

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OpenX CTO Hire GRP Partners CIO 223

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

TestFlight's product provides iOS developers with information on an app's audience, revenue, engagement, and other metrics. Burstly is backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank, and announced a $5.5M Financial terms of the buy were not disclosed. funding round in November. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners Metrics Advertising Mobile 154

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. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners Redpoint Santa Monica Web 178

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2013

To that end, Venice-based Epoxy announced this morning that it has raised $2M in a funding round, to help build out its product suite to help grow, engage, and monetize online video channels. The new round was led by GRP Partners, which adds Mark Suster to Epoxy's board of directors.

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Bertelsmann Downey GRP Partners Southern California 191

socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The round came from GRP Partners, True Ventures, and Mousse Partners. According to Pose, it will use the new funding to develop its product and grow its engineering team. GRP's investment in the firm was led by Mark Suster. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile GRP Partners Santa Monica Funding 157

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

The firm said companies like Progrexion Marketing--which markets the credit repair product Lexington Law--has been seeing success with pay-per-call using its products. RingRevenue is venture backed by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners.

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Services GRP Partners Santa Barbara Technical Review 189

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based startup Little Black Bag , a new e-commerce startup backed by GRP Partners and DCM, said this week that it has launched its online shopping site--a play on the Japanese concept of "fukobukuro". The startup said it lets shoppers buy and trade "mystery" fashion shopping products, tailored to their interests.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2011

The funding came from GRP Partners, True Ventures, and Founder Collective, along with angel investors Dave Morin and Shawn Fanning. GRP's Mark Suster and True's Jon Callaghan join the firm's board as part of the funding.

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GRP Partners Santa Monica Venture Capital Mobile 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

LeadClick has been piloting Ring Revenue's products since mid-2009. RingRevenue is venture backed by Great Pacific Capital, GRP Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners; Spievak is the former CFO of CallWave. The firm said that LeadClick Media, which is a subsidiary of First American Corp., READ MORE>>.

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Media GRP Partners Santa Barbara Email 159

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. As part of the investment, Burstly said that it is opening up access to its advertising tools and exiting beta for its product. in a venture funding. READ MORE>>.

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Tool Mobile GRP Partners Advertising 157

socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2009

San Diego-based EMN8 , a developer of self-service, restaurant kiosks, said Monday that the firm is in a agreement with IBM, where the two will jointly manufacture, market, and support its products. EMN8 said it will transition production of its OrderM8 4000 kiosk hardware to IBM. EMN8 is backed by GRP Partners, Sid R.

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IBM IBM GRP Partners San Diego 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

According to Lehmbeck, in an interview with socalTECH, the company's software takes key specifications from products such as televisions and other consumer electronics, and applies them to ads automatically, so that instead of just advertising a big screen television an ad might contain key terms and information about those products.

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Yahoo Paid Search GRP Partners SoCalTech 145

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

According to Burstly, its new Storefront product allows local businesses and other advertisers to directly buy mobile advertising from developers. Burstly is venture backed by Founder Collective, GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, and SoftBank Capital.

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Mobile Services CPC GRP Partners 171

socalTECH

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 Los Angeles-based Ad.ly , the Twitter advertising firm headed by Sean Rad, is announcing today that it has raised $5M in a new round of financing.

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GRP Partners SoCalTech Advertising Venture Capital 154

Both Sides of the Table

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

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

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. and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. Jackson, Tumblr, and Dick Clark Productions. The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

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. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor). If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. I’m sure others have, too.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

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

Both Sides of the Table

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). ” So Ethan went to work as a product manager at Google Video. I think it’s a beautifully designed site and product.

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CTO Coach Google CTO Hire Yammer 359

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Brenner has served at 1-800-CARSEARCH, PromiseMark, and CARFAX; Pributsky joined Zag in 2006 and served at eVox Productions and Malldecker Media; Easterby was most recently at Yahoo!; The firm is backed by Anthem Venture Partners, Capital One Auto Finance, GRP Partners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.

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Zag Arcturus GRP Partners Anthem 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Zag has developed a software product which allows users to fully configure and price cars for car buying programs and affinity groups; the firm's software is already being used by a number of other AAA clubs. Santa Monica-based Zag, which is developing software for auto buying programs, has signed on another AAA group as a customer.

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Zag CarsDirect Arcturus GRP Partners 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

Of course he wanted to talk a lot about his product and company – he was looking for money after all. When I joined GRP Partners in 2007 I was offered a role as a General Partner. The compensation at the time was much less than what others told me a general partner at a VC firm would get. He would send deals.

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Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

socalTECH

JULY 9, 2009

in a venture round Wednesday, telling socalTECH that the Series A-1 round was led by GRP Partners , with participation by First Round Capital. Tanz said that GRP's Mark Suster will be joining the firm's board along with the funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. I run the recruiting process for my VC firm, GRP Partners. What about VC’s and Risk?

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Entrepreneur Startup Venture Capital CTO Hire 293

Both Sides of the Table

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 founded a company and tried to persuade me to use his product (and invest). I told him that he needed to ship product before we could fund it.

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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

Both Sides of the Table

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]. The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

It also has to be said that bad apples on teams bring down productive even if that person is individually a superstar. I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRP Partners (now Upfront Ventures)! Luckily we had history together.

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CTO Hire Startup CTO Coach Venture Capital 320

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A round investor implies they are the “first institutional money in the deal.&# GRP Partners is stage agnostic. What IS relevant about the size of a VC’s fund?

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Get your product/market fit working before you ramp up your costs (or raise too much money). My action item – I will soon announce the GRP Partners CEO Summit. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. Nail it before you scale it” – I missed who said this but I love this quote.

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Startup Venture Capital Tips Custom Development 279

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 5, 2010

My personal favorite and best fit for GRP Partners was Thumbtack. Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. The game then interacts with the physical world product. Their product direction and demo increased 10x. Pretty cool.

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Angel Technical Review Software Review Platform 254

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 18, 2012

Mark is a Partner at GRP Partners and authors one of the most widely read startup blogs, BothSidesOfTheTable. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime.

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Entrepreneur Startup Conference Santa Barbara 272

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners. We're investing in incredible teams that have built minimum viable product and need our help with game changing, bizdev deals, fundraising connections, or mentorships. You need to build that minimum viable product. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about?

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socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2013

Burstly is headed by Evan Rifkin, and backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective. Ben Satterfield: Burstly is the blanket company for three products. Our latest product is FlightPath, which is a mobile analytics solution. Burstly is located in Santa Monica.

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Startup Mobile Outsource Development Tool 262

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

I was here to see one of our LPs (limited partners are the people who invest money in VC funds) called Fort Washington. They’ve been a long-term investor in our fund – GRP Partners – and it was important to me to spend time with them in their home market and meet the people with whom they deal locally. Yeah, that’s tempting.

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