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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based GRP Partners is one of the lead investors in a developer of social media analytics software, Awe.sm , Awe.sm has raised $4M in a round which was led by Foundry Group and GRP Partners, and which also included Neu Venture Capital and kps+p Ventures. said Thursday.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners announced this morning that it has raised a fourth fund, worth $200M, and also renamed the firm Upfront Ventures. GRP has been quite active in the local technology industry, having founded accelerator LaunchpadLA. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has just chalked up an IPO for its portfolio, with the IPO this morning of Redwood City-based Qualys. GRP Partners owns 8.3% Qualys priced its IPO last night at $12.00 per share, and was slightly up in morning trading.

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DECEMBER 22, 2010

Today, we spoke with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. Yesterday, we heard from Scott Painter of TrueCar. The IPO of EnvestNet.

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JULY 13, 2009

This morning's interview is with Mark Suster , a venture capitalist at GRP Partners (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. What's your thoughts on the local venture market?

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APRIL 15, 2010

Southern California venture capital investments totaled $686.5M in 29 venture capital deals for Q1. Tags: venture capital financing investment quarterly moneytree nvca. According to the report, released today, Southern California investments totaled $686.5M received in the region in Q1 of 2009. across 31 days.

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JULY 19, 2011

Southern California companies raised $739M in venture capital in Q2 of 2011, according to the latest numbers from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) based on data from Thomson Reuters. According to the MoneyTree report, released last night, Orange County led fundraising, with $319.3M

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Tuesday, September 14, 2010 -- Raising Capital Today. What does it take for a San Diego company to raise a round of capital in today's market? Specific to the software, communications and IT sectors - what is of interest to capital sources. What is the market environment like for companies, and VCs? See [link] (more).

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M billion has been invested in the region via venture capital. in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M was raised. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 25, 2013

GumGum is backed by NEA, GRP Partners, First Round Capital and Crosscut Ventures. GumGum''s in-image advertising serves up advertising within photos embedded on a publisher''s sites; those ads typically show up when a user mouses over an image they like, allowing them to click to another site or view additoinal related content.

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JANUARY 10, 2013

in funding, which was led by GRP Partners, and also included Baroda Ventures , Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , Daher Capital , Double M Capital , Karlin Ventures , Launchpad LA, as well as angels. Online advertising firm YieldMetrics said Thursday morning that it has raised $1.7M

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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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AUGUST 24, 2010

Bass & Associates and Allegis Capital participated in this funding round, and continue to have representatives on the firm's board; the firm has also raised funding in the past from GRP Partners, and Fort Washington Capital. Tags: emn8 venture capital kiosk retail. It appears that Sid R.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners --which has been very active in the local technology startup market--has made its latest investment, in an interesting industry: mortgage lending. GRP is the lead investor in Skyline Financial , a Calabasas-based provider of mortgage banking and lending. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

ChowNow has previously raised funding from Daher Capital, Double M Partners, GRP Partners, Karlin Ventures and Velos Partners, and was part of LaunchpadLA. chownow venture capital food ordering launchpadla mobile tablet' Details on the funding have not yet been announced by the company. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The company--which provides call tracking technology for the affiliate marketing industry--said in the filing that the funds would be used for working capital. Investors in the round have not yet been announced, however, the firm has raised funding in the past from Great Pacific Capital, GRP Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

RingRevenue is venture backed by Great Pacific Capital, GRP Partners, and Rincon Venture Partners. RingRevenue develops technology which tracks phone calls, allowing affiliate networks and others to track purchases and leads made by phone. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report were released today, finding that a total of $683.7M billion in venture capital. was invested across Southern California in Q4 of 2012. That total was less than the $859.6M That total was less than the $859.6M in funding.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Los Angeles seems to be cementing itself in as the capital of celebrity and e-commerce, with the latest deal being Moonfrye , a new, "celebrity mom" startup featuring Soleil Moon Frye, best known to the rest of us as Punky Brewster. capital venture frye moon soleil brewster punky ecommerce celebrity moonfrye' READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 11, 2013

ChowNow is venture backed by Daher Capital, Double M Partners, GRP Partners, Karlin Ventures and Velos Partners. chownow venture capital mobile restaurant ordering solomo food facebook' The round is targeted at $2M. Chownow lets users order food via their mobile phone or Facebook. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 4, 2010

Los Angeles-based Burstly , the mobile ad management firm run by Evan Rifkin, said this week that it has added SoftBank Capital and Founder Collective to its Series A funding round. investment from Rincon Venture Partners and GRP Partners. Tags: burstly softbank mobile advertising venture capital. 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. 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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JUNE 11, 2012

One of the portfolio companies of Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners has filed for an IPO, according to a filing with the SEC late Friday. GRP Partners owns around 10.94 percent of Qualys before the IPO; the firm's other co-investor in the company, Trident Capital, owns 27.41

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MAY 31, 2012

The round was led by GRP Partners, and also included Michel Daher, a Lebanese entrepreneur. The firm said that Mark Suster of GRP Partners will join the company's board along with the funding. in a seed funding last year from YCombinator, Ashton Kutcher, Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Aviv Nevo, and others.

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MAY 24, 2013

more in funding, from GRP Partners and Siemer Ventures. adly celebrity advertising partners venture capital social media twitter' Los Angeles-based celebrity advertising firm Ad.ly disclosed Thursday that it has raised $2.0M helps match up celebrities with social media advertisers. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based venture firm GRP Partners is backing a prepaid card firm, Wave Crest Holdings Limited , based in Gibraltar. in a Series B funding round led by GRP Partners, which also included Park Ventures. As part of the funding, Brian McLoughlin of GRP Partners joins the firm's board of directors.

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MAY 29, 2013

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. adly venture capital funding social celebrity advertising' The firm disclosed the funding last week. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Los Angeles-based venture capital firm GRP Partners is looking to raised $250M in its newest fund, GRP IV L.P., GRP last closed on a fund--GRP III, L.P. according to a regulatory filing from the firm this week.

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OCTOBER 27, 2014

Apple''s TestFlight service comes courtesy the acquisition earlier this year of Los Angeles-based Burstly , which was venture backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, and Founder Collective. Burstly, which was led by Evan Rifkin, acquired TestFlight back in 2012. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 9, 2012

GumGum , the provider of in-image advertising services which is backed by GRP Partners, First Round Capital, New Enterprise Associates and Crosscut Ventures, has signed a deal with a Canadian firm, in its first deal out of the country, according to the company Wednesday.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

Prior investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Matrix Partners and GRP Partners also participated in the funding. textPlus , the maker of the popular texting application by the same name, said today that it has raised $18M in a new funding round, led by The Raine Group.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M billion has been invested in the region via venture capital. in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M was raised. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

The funding was led by GRP Partners, and also included Redpoint Ventures and August Capital. Santa Monica startup, Gravity --headed by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur--announced this morning that it has raised $10.6M in a Series B financing round for its personalization technology.

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JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica-based Gradient X , the programmatic mobile advertising startup backed by GRP Partners, Rincon Venture Partners, Crosscut Ventures, Founder Collective, Double M Capital, Baroda Ventures, Siemer Ventures, Walter Kortschak (Summit Capital), and Mark Suster, said today that it has exited its beta.

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MAY 10, 2013

The Irvine-based startup also now has $2M in the bank to help it with that goal, announcing this morning that it has raised a Series A funding from GRP Partners, Fraser McCombs Capital, along with others. As part of the funding round, GRP''s Steven Dietz has joined the board of uParts. The firm is led by Alex Adegan.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2012

NuORDER , a developer of e-commerce software for fashion brands and retailers, has scored a round of funding led by GRP Partners, the company said this morning.

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MAY 2, 2012

Los Angeles-based venture capital investor GRP Partners has re-upped its investment in social data analytics firm DataSift , in a Series A follow-on announced this morning. DataSift said that existing investors GRP Partners and IA Ventures invested $7.2M GRP's investment in DataSift is managed by Mark Suster.

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