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MAY 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm backed by Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity Fund, announced this morning that it has acquired SiteScout , a Seattle-based firm providing malware security technology. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Advertising Web Equity 164

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JUNE 28, 2010

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , which operates an online vacation lodging site and related tools for vacation rental and other alternative vacation lodging providers, said over the weekend that it will be launching a new "Vacation Pricing Snapshot" list. LeisureLink said it will be providing the list on its site ABetterStay.com.

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Pricing Clearstone Report Mission Ventures 150

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Santa Monica-based ThisNext , the online social shopping and product discovery site now being run by Matt Edelman, has raised $1.2M Clearstone Venture Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. Clearstone Venture Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. in a round of funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm today.

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Funding Anthem Clearstone Santa Monica 153

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JULY 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based social shopping site ThisNext announced this morning that it has raised a new round of funding, and inked a partnership with online advertising firm Federated Media. Clearstone Venture Partners and Anthem Venture Partners also participated. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Anthem Clearstone Advertising 145

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JANUARY 28, 2010

Santa Monica-based ThisNext , which operates an online social shopping site and community, has raised another $1.2M No details on the funding have been announced by the firm, however, the filing indicates that Clearstone Ventures Suman Mandal and Anthem Ventures' Bill Woodward remain on the company's board.

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Anthem Clearstone Santa Monica Venture Capital 133

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APRIL 14, 2010

product allows publishers to gain transparency on the level of geographic region, partner, site, and price. Rubicon is backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and Peacock Equity Fund. According to Rubicon, the new Permission Control 2.0

Product 140

Product Clearstone SaaS Advertising 140

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites. The firm is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia. READ MORE>>.

Advertising 145

Advertising Clearstone Santa Monica Sales 145

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JUNE 1, 2012

Pasadena-based LeisureLink , the venture-backed provider of a vacation rental marketing system and operator of online booking travel site ABetterStay.com , has made a trio of new hires this week. LeisureLink is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Internet Brands Mission Ventures Pasadena 150

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MAY 10, 2012

Rubicon develops software which automatically optimizes the ads displayed on web publisher's web sites to increase revenues for those sites.

Ticketmaster 133

Ticketmaster Clearstone Yahoo Web 133

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NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm backed by Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity, said today that it has enhanced its "Certified Inventory" program with a partnership with AdSafe Media.

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Advertising Equity Sites 124

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APRIL 20, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the developer of online advertising optimization tools funded by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and Peacock Equity Fund, said today that it has rolled out a new product called REVV for demand. READ MORE>>.

Product 133

Product Clearstone Advertising Demand 133

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2009

Rubicon Project provides online Internet advertising infrastructure for publishers, which optimizes the advertising placed on their web sites. The firm is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 133

Clearstone Santa Monica Advertising Sales 133

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Rubicon said that the new funding round came from News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. As part of the announcement, Rubicon said it will have over $100M in revenues in 2010. READ MORE>>.

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Networking Clearstone Santa Monica News 147

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MARCH 24, 2009

Marina Del Rey-based ActionAllStars.com , which develops virtual worlds for kids from six to 14 years old, said this morning that it has linked up with Candystand.com , an online gaming and entertainment site. According to the firms, ActionAllStars.com's sports entertainment will be available directly from Candystand.com's web site.

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Marina Del Rey Clearstone Entertainment Sites 113

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. One of the more interesting new features is that the site now takes into account social signals. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community.

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Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

According to Six Degree, the site will allow kids to participate in virtual games centered on such sports as basketball, baseball, football, and snowboarding. Among features of the site are ways for kids to earn "experience points" and tokens which are redeemable for virtual MLB and NBA sports jerseys. READ MORE>>

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Marina Del Rey Clearstone Sites Media 113

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

Santa Monica-based equity crowdfunding site Crowdfunder is making it easier for it to work with investors, saying on Monday that it has just received its broker-dealer license to sell securities directly to accredited investors. Crowdfunder said the move will help create a "more seamless solution" for its customers.

Clearstone 113

Clearstone Draper Santa Monica Venture Capital 113

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MAY 14, 2009

According to LeisureLink, the resort has implemented its booking engine on its web site. LeisureLink provides online travel booking software used by vacation rental and specialty lodging operators, and is venture backed by Mission Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners. Financial impact of the win was not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

Silver Lake 100

Silver Lake Clearstone Mission Ventures Pasadena 100

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the venture-backed startup which is developing photo-realistic avatar technology, has exited its beta and officially launched its site. The firm had launched a beta of its site in August. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Clearstone Southern California Mission Ventures 100

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

LeisureLink's vacation property service markets vacation rentals, timeshares and other properties through online travel sites and travel agents. The company is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, the Pasadena Angels, the Tech Coast Angels, and others. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Clearstone Pasadena Angels Mission Ventures 100

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Rubicon, which is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures, and Mayfield, said that it has hired on Josh Wexler as Director of Strategic Publisher Acquisition, who will head up its New York offices. The new location is in addition to the company's existing offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Santa Monica Advertising Web 100

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Rubicon, which is backed by Clearstone Ventures, Mayfield, and IDG Ventures, publishes its market report every quarter, examining the online advertising industry. Rubicon Project develops automated software and services which optimizes the CPM paid to online advertisers, by choosing the best online advertising to run on publisher web sites.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Advertising Report Entertainment 100

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APRIL 13, 2009

The investment included $5M in equity funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia, and also included $8M in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. Rubicon Project operates a service which helps online publishers optimize which advertising networks to use on their web sites, to improve their CPMs. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Equity Advertising Research 100

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JANUARY 16, 2009

Visitors to our web site are most likely familiar with our Insights and Opinions section, where we share advice, opinions, insights, and more from our readers. Frank Peters , of the Frank Peters Show, talks with Clearstone Ventures' Jim Armstrong about Trouble in Venture Capital.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Web Orange County Mixergy 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Site launched in October and CEO stated ad impressions are increasing ~200% month; now at 15 billion impressions/day. Current round: $4.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users. READ MORE>>

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. ProNoise (People’s Republic of Noise) built their indie music site (launching soon) with 3 developers, and will launch a less than two months after joining StartEngine.

Incubator 91

Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com).

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site ! Bitcoin and the closure of nefarious exchange site, Silk Road.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

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MARCH 24, 2011

Rubicon Project is headed by Frank Addante, and develops ad optimization technology for web publishers, helping them to pick the best ad networks to optimize revenue on their web site. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 113

Clearstone Oracle Web Advertising 113

socalTECH

AUGUST 7, 2012

Groupize operates an online site which allows travel planners to book five or more rooms at special group rates, and also provides group and social management tools for those bookings. LeisureLink is backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, and Wyndham Worldwide, and is headed by Erik Hovanec. and Canada.

Clearstone 153

Clearstone Mission Ventures Pasadena Web 153