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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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It is 12,000 sq ft of indoor /outdoor space and we’re building into a community work environment. Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. We chose a location that fit our style. What’s up with that? So what changed?

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3 billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He had joined a young startup in LA called HauteLook and was interested in getting to know the local tech community. After that you could tell that Greg was really “all in” on the LA technology community. Community builders. So why Greg and why now? I first met Greg about 4 years ago or so. Open & transparent.

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

The two businesses that operate within our corporation are Best in Class Education and Middle School Dances, a business I started with my son to provide social activities for the kids in our local area when we noticed a gap in the market. My business name is Kids Win, Inc. because I want to help kids win at life. Photo Credit: Andi Graham.

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Details of Upfront Ventures New $400 Million Fund

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And Stuart Lander is also a partner and runs all operations and platform teams. We’ve had billion dollar exists in Chicago, Baltimore, London, San Francisco and Los Angeles an well as enormous winners also in New York and Las Vegas. And anybody who works with us of course knows Kerry Bennett who runs marketing and our CFO Dana Kibler.

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Will Millennials Change Manufacturing?

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In a research study conducted by IndustryWeek earlier this year and sponsored by Emerson, manufacturing respondents said the industrial IoT will improve operations through real-time access to information and more tightly connected supply chains, but they pointed to personnel as the most important factor for success. ”

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Hemafuse

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She is the primary inventor of a modular centrifuge that operates with or without electricity. Yarina spoke about the meaning of Sisu in Finnish, the importance of building community, and what she loves about being in Baltimore. Tell us your favorite thing about being based in Baltimore. and Indian companies.