A portfolio firm of Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures , Meru Networks , filed for an IPO late Friday night, saying it is looking to go public on the NYSE. owned by Clearstone Ventures, said it would look to raise up to $86.25M in an IPO underwritten by BofA Merrill Lynch, Baird, Cowen and Company, JMP Securities LLC, and ThinkEquity LLC. MORE >>

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners has upped its investment in Mumbai, India-based Games2Win , an online developer of casual and other games. Rajan Mehra of Clearstone Ventures joins the board of directors of Games2Win along with the funding. Clearstone's efforts in India are run by Sumant Mandal and Rajan Mehra. MORE >>

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (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. Tags: ankeena exit financial idealab ventures clearstone capital venture interview mandal sumant Thanks! MORE >>

For today's contribution, we spoke with Jim Armstrong , a venture capitalist at Clearstone Venture Partners. clearstone armstrong capital venture opinions yearWe've been sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community all week, and will also do so next week. think we are there. MORE >>

Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas , a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. from UCLA. READ MORE>>. MORE >>