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. The regulatory filing indicates GRP has raised $148.6M READ MORE>>. partners venture capital fund funding MORE >>

If you're Darth Vader, what do you do now that you are owned by Walt Disney Co. ? video just released by Walt Disney Parks imagines the result. Burbank-based Walt Disney bought LucasFilm , the company started by George Lucas and which owns Star Wars, for $4.05 billion Tuesday). READ MORE>>. walt disney lucasfilm video content merger acquisition MORE >>

Greentoe.com , a new online e-commerce marketplace, wants to let consumers set their own pricing for electronics products. The new company is led by Joe Marrapodi, who was most recently Vice President of Digital at LBI Entertainment, and also served at Intermix Media, according to his biography. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

DogVacay , the online peer-to-peer marketplace which lets people find and offer up pet sitting services, is recruiting its pet sitters to help market the service with a new program. DogVacay is venture funded by Science Inc., Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, Quest Venture Partners, Baroda Ventures, and a number of angels. READ MORE>>. MORE >>

SendGrid , the provider of email infrastructure for application developers which has operations in Anaheim, said today that it has launched on the new Windows Azure Store. SendGrid--whose three founders met at UC Riverside--handles transactional email delivery for application providers. READ MORE>>. MORE >>