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Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRPPartners has backed a provider of cloud-based databases, MongoLab , in its Series A funding. MongoLab said it has raised $3M in a Series A funding led by The Foundry Group, and including Baseline Ventures, GRPPartners, Freestyle Capital and Bullet Time Ventures. READ MORE>>.
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This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRPPartners (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. My own background, is I built and sold two software-as-a-service companies.
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The new round was led by GRPPartners, which adds Mark Suster to Epoxy's board of directors. Other investors in the funding include Greycroft Partners , Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , Advancit Capital, Allen DeBevoise, Ynon Kreiz , among others.
Independa ($5M, San Diego, software for senior independence). In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). 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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Specific to the software, communications and IT sectors - what is of interest to capital sources. Mark Suster, Partner, GRPPartners * Quinn Li, Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures * Ralph Mayer, Past President of Tech Coast Angels * Mike Krenn, Managing Director, DLA Venture Pipeline.
Even more interesting is that at GRPPartners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! million to launch a SaaS software company and we took $2.5
The Industrial/Energy sector ranked second, with $95.16M in investments, followed by Software, with $63M in investments, and Medical Devices and Equipment, with $60.3M in investments in the quarter.
The round came from USAA, and included Capricorn Investment Group, LLC, GRPPartners and Anthem Venture Partners. USAA is an affinity group which is using Zag's automotive configuration software and services. Tags: venture software capital automotive. READ MORE>>.
Gradient X is backed by Rincon Venture Partners, GRPPartners (now Upfront Ventures), CrossCut Ventures, Founder Collective, Siemer Ventures, Baroda Ventures, and Double M Partners. Instead, our software looks at each impression, and our bidding technology decides which impression to buy. What is Gradient X?
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Santa Monica-based Zag, a venture-backed developer of online car buying software, said this morning that it has made. Zag said it has promoted Bernie Brenner to Executive Vice President in charge of the firm's consumer initiatives, named David Pributsky as VP of Partner development. a number of hires and a promotion. READ MORE>>
But then I got a call from my lead investor (coincidentally it was GRPPartners where I now am a partner) and they told me not to lose confidence. It was the worst year in history to be selling Enterprise Software and worse yet we were selling SaaS software, which was still experimental in buyers’ minds.
And oddly it took an investor in New York to highlight to me Cornerstone OnDemand – one of the most successful software company in my home town of Los Angeles! Don’t be surprised if you see me bagsie that idea for GRPPartners. billion market cap so he has a history of weighing in early and being right.
I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRPPartners. I then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD). I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. I had to laugh a bit reading it.
Ben Satterfield is the co-founder of TestFlight, an immensely popular piece of software for iOS (and now Android) which lets developers distribute beta copies of their apps to their users. Burstly is headed by Evan Rifkin, and backed by GRPPartners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective.
Santa Monica-based Zag.com , the online car buying software firm headed by Scott Painter, announced this morning that it has inked a deal with the AAA, to power a new service called AAA Automaker. Zag is venture backed by Anthem Venture Partners, USAA, GRPPartners, Arcturus Capital, Callaway Cars and the Skoll Fund.
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My personal favorite and best fit for GRPPartners was Thumbtack. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. There wasn’t a bad company tonight but I had a clear favorite. Thumbtack is marketplace for local services.
I know that I have not yet earned these kudos based on investment returns (although my partners have. GRPPartners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). Do you have sales productivity software? I chose for my blog to be independent of my firm, GRPPartners.
I started working with David when I was an entrepreneur and he was an associate with a VC firmed called … wait for it … GRPPartners (now Upfront Ventures)! Tim can match up with any Silicon Valley product manager and has been doing the role for global software businesses for 20 years. Back together.
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. For folks who haven't used ChowNow, what does the software do?
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