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Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at ClearstoneVenture Partners today on TWiVC. It was especially fun for me because we got the chance to talk about the VC industry and how entrepreneurs should think about the VC industry in addition to discussing deals. the funding and market coverage.
CalPERS (the California Public Employees' Retirement System), one of the biggest limited partners in venturecapitalfunds, has released its best and worst performing venturecapital and private equity funds as of December 31st, showing that two Southern California venturefunds were tops in terms of internal rates of return (IRR).
Santa Monica-based venturecapital firm ClearstoneVenture Partners currently tops the list for the best performing fund within CalPERS private equity funds, according to recently released figures from CalPERS. Tags: clearstone calpers venturecapitalfund performance.
Santa Monica-based venturecapital firm ClearstoneVentures was among the big winners Wednesday in the IPO debut of Sunnyvale-based Meru Networks , a developer of virtual wireless LAN products. Clearstone was the biggest shareholder in Meru before the IPO, with 20.9 NeoCarta Ventures, Bluestream Ventures, D.E.
rubicon project merger acquisition clearstone news mayfield winners frank addante' Based on Rubicon''s current price (around $19.24 Rubicon''s President, Greg Raifman, now holds a stake worth $11.96M; and CFO and COO Todd Tappin''s stake is worth $10.0M.
Santa Monica-based venturecapital firm ClearstoneVentures is backing a Bay Area gift card-based, payment network, Openbucks , as part of a Series A funding for Openbucks. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M
William Quigley , a venture capitalist at ClearstoneVenture Partners, is making the argument that venturecapital returns are set to return superior returns in the coming years, due to the disinterest of institutional investors. Disclosure: Clearstone is a sponsor of socalTECH). READ MORE>>.
Santa Monica-based venturecapital investor ClearstoneVentures has re-upped in a developer of biometric identity verification technology. The firm said the funding will go towards product development, sales and marketing. READ MORE>>.
Santa Monica-based ClearstoneVenture Partners has upped its investment in Mumbai, India-based Games2Win , an online developer of casual and other games. According to Games2Win, it has raised $6M in a Series B financing roudn, which also included SVB India Capital Partners. READ MORE>>.
Santa Monica-based venturecapital firm ClearstoneVentures has backed a developer of an online social dating and games firm, CupidsPlay. CupidsPlay said it received seed funding from Clearstone. Financial details of the investment were not disclosed. CupidsPlay is based in Bellevue, Washington.
The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National VentureCapital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M billion has been invested in the region via venturecapital.
Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced this morning that it has acquired fashion and beauty site Stylehive , and raised a Series C round of funding. The firm did not disclose amount of the funding, however, a regulatory filing by the firm last week indicated the funding round was worth $1.2M. READ MORE>>.
Addante said the firm--which has taken $42M in venturecapital from Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity fund--is on track to achieve the "ultimate test of success" for any startup, profitability.
But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by ClearstoneVentures in 2008. Used by hedge funds, the intelligence community and multiple government agencies.
Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based ClearstoneVentures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. Clearstone itself was an incubated entity, out of Idealab, it was Idealab Capital. If you have a billion dollars under management, you can't be a venturefund.
Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the venturecapital investment firm founded by venture investment veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery, said this morning that it has had a final close on its first fund, at $240M.
The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National VentureCapital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M in funding in Q3, up in terms of dollars from Q3 of last year, when $670.9M billion has been invested in the region via venturecapital.
in a funding round. Details on the funding have not been announced by the firm. LeisureLink has previously raised funding from ClearstoneVenture Partners, Group RCI, Kodiak Ventures LP, Mission Ventures, Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. READ MORE>>.
Geodelic has previously raised funding from ClearstoneVentures, Shasta Ventures and MK Capital, all of whom also participated in that June investment. Tags: geodelic verizon investment venturecapital mobile location applications rahul sonnad. READ MORE>>.
The funding came from MK Capital, ClearstoneVentures, and Shasta Ventures. The funding brings the company's total raised to around $10.5M. Tags: geodelic venturecapital mobile phone. READ MORE>>.
A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venturecapital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venturefunding activity here in Q3. The biggest are for venture activity in the quarter was Biopharmaceuticals, which was $299.13M of the quarterly total.
An analysis of Q2's venturecapital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 PricewaterhouseCoopers/National VentureCapital Association, and VentureOne will release their quarterly nationwide results of venture activity later this month.
Santa Monica-based venturecapital investor March Capital Partners --the new investment firm led by longtime Southern California venturecapital veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken, and Jamie Montgomery--has made an investment in cloud application infrastructure developer Appcito. READ MORE>>.
in a funding round, part of an ongoing $7.475M fundraising effort, according to a recent regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. Tags: integrien venturecapital software. Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of enterprise, IT monitoring software, has raised $6.5M
in a Series A funding, the company said late Tuesday evening. Los Angeles-based crowdfunding site Crowdfunder.com , the equity crowdfunding site led by Chance Barnett, has raised $3.5M
Marina Del Ray-based Six Degrees Games , which runs the ActionAllStars.com virtual world focused on six to 14 year olds, has raised $7M in an additional funding round. The round was led by Time Warner, and also included prior investors ClearstoneVenture Partners and Prism VentureWorks. READ MORE>>.
in a new funding round. According to the firm, the round was led by ClearstoneVenture Partners, and also included Acartha Group and Mariner CapitalVentures. Integrien said the new funding will go to accelerate growth in both its direct and indirect sales channels. READ MORE>>.
A new, Altadena-based startup, Rexter , has scored some funding to help it build its software algorithms and tools to help manage a user's professional relationships. The company--co-founded by Andy Wilson (Momentum Venture Partners, Yahoo) and John Slade (Yahoo)--apparently recently raised a round which included Siemer Ventures.
in venturefunding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. No details on the funding have been announced by the firm, however, the filing indicates that ClearstoneVentures Suman Mandal and Anthem Ventures' Bill Woodward remain on the company's board. in funding. READ MORE>>.
For several years, the phrase "Los Angeles Venture Capitalist" had almost become an oxymoron. Local investments funds have had issues raising their new funds, and venture investors had started to hunker down with their portfolios, waiting for some sign of a thaw in the exit environment.
The Series C funding was led by the GE/NBCU Peakcock Equity Fund, and also included ClearstoneVenture partners and Mayfield Fund. Rubicon said the new funding will go towards strategic acquisitoins and international expansion. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $42M. READ MORE>>.
Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project said this morning that it has raised $18M in additional funding, and acquired the Fox Audience Network (FAN) from New Corporation. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. Tags: rubicon project news audience network merger acquisition venturecapital advertising.
Beverly Hills-based Baroda Ventures , an early stage venturecapitalfund, has hired on Peter Lee as a new Partner at the firm. Lee joins the firm from Prism Ventures. Lee has also served at ClearstoneVenture Partners, Fortis Partners, Goldpocket Interactive, and McKinsey & Co.
in new funding, according to regulatory and other sources. The firm's prior backers were Time Warner, ClearstoneVenture Partners, and Prism VentureWorks; it's unclear who backed the firm in the latest funding. Marina Del Rey-based Six Degree Games , the developer of online virtual worlds, recently raised $4.0M
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in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm late Friday. No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company, which is run by Minard Hamilton. The firm has previously raised funding from ClearstoneVenture Partners, Prism VentureWorks, and Time Warner. READ MORE>>.
For today's Insights and Opinions section today, we have a post from Jim Armstrong , Managing Director at ClearstoneVenture Partners , who talks about some of the issues behind the super angel trend. To be sure these super angel funds do indeed properly fit into the new trends around company creation.
in an initial funding of a $4.0M Details on the funding have not been released. The firm has previously raised funding from such companies as ClearstoneVenture Partners, US Venture Partners; CommerceNet is also now listed as an investor. Tags: supplyframe venturecapital electronics.
in a Series B funding round, the company said last week. The funding was led by DRW VentureCapital, and also included Mobile Financial Partners. Santa Monica-based Sixgill , a developer of Internet-of-Things, sensor software, has raised $27.9M
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We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venturefunded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at ClearstoneVentures. You're funded, correct? First, for folks who haven't heard of Geodelic, what do you do?
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