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. Tags: burstly softbank mobile advertising venture capital. Burstly recently announced a $1.8M READ MORE>>.

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GRP Partners Venture Capital Mobile Advertising 169

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. READ MORE>>.

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Tool Mobile GRP Partners Advertising 157

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

A trio of online advertising vets are heading up a new, mobile advertising firm, Gradient X , which said this morning that it has raised $3.75M in a seed financing round. The firm said it will provide a demand side platform focused on advertising on mobile media. READ MORE>>.

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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. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television. This is exactly the brand that GRP Partners wants to embody.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Santa Barbara-based RingRevenue , the pay-per-call technology provider, says today that it has been seeing gains in the financial services industry with its platform. RingRevenue is venture backed by GRP Partners and Rincon Venture Partners.

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Services GRP Partners Santa Barbara Technical Review 189

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising&# company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? Advertising is great.

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Ideas Advertising Google Technical Review 286

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

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Mobile Invest Company Companies 282

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.”. Call tracking isn’t new, but the way that we’ve built it into our platform is. Who do you view as your biggest competition? You’re right.

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Marketing Advertising Paid Search Startup 209

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]. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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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Startup Platform Advertising GRP Partners 164

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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Seed Funding Venture Capital GRP Partners Funding 100

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. OTHER DEALS: 1. Total raised: $29.5mm. Go Boulder!

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Venture Capital Startup Platform Technical Review 240

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

2) Advertising in the Facebook ecosystem. 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.

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Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Many of the Valley tech firms saw advertising as “beneath them&# and many VCs in the first boom encouraged people to focus on eyeballs rather than dollars. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners). Zorik Gordon built & IPO’s ReachLocal. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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 Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 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 There's a Nap for That ); ADVERTISEMENT Sponsored Links Harvard Business School HBS prepares you to build success—one decision at a time. startup scene so hot. What makes L.A. a great place for startups?

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Both Sides of the Table

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. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly The Importance of Twitter.

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Platform News Startup Invest 307