GRP Partners , the venture capital firm managed by Steven Dietz, Brian McLoughlin, Yves Sisteron, and Mark Suster, seems to be making good progress on its newest fund, GRP IV, according to a regulatory filing from the firm filed Wednesday. in committments for the $200M fund, which is still open to investors. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

Venture capital fund Redpoint Ventures , which has an outpost in Los Angeles, has some new cash in the bank, after announcing $400M in a new fund today, Redpoint V. The firm--which has investments in such local companies as Gravity, Chill, Sonos, and Machinima--said the new fund will go towards early stage investing. MORE >>

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. Is Funding a Worthy Announcement? There are reasons you may delay funding announcement but rarely reasons not to announce. Funding is news. MORE >>

So why is Funding Season over for the rest of the year?  VC’s are never really “off.&#   Just like entrepreneurs they take calls from vacations, do board calls, handle company emergencies and urgent financings.  This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. you need to have had your first meeting even earlier.)  MORE >>

always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies.   I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund.  companies versus the Web 1.0 Pose is no different.  Who knows. MORE >>