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84 Articles match "Clearstone"
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Monday, February 1, 2010
ThisNext said the Series C funding round came from Clearstone Venture Partners, Anthem Venture Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. 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.
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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. Santa Monica-based ThisNext , which operates an online social shopping site and community, has raised another $1.2M in venture funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday.
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Also on Thursday, the Founder Institute , an effort by Adeo Ressi of TheFunded to help incubate and mentor startups–with local efforts headed by Ken Rutkowski , is launching at a local event at Clearstone Venture Partners.
...Tags: This week is shaping up to be one of the busiest tech-event weeks so far this year yet, making me think again that a clone would help to actually get to all of these. Among the events happening this week are:
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners is the lead investor in a Northern California firm focused on the blogging and publishing industry, Apture . Apture said this morning that Clearstone was the lead investor in a $4.1M, Series A investment in the firm, which develops tools which allows publishers to add multimedia to their articles and web pages. David Stern and Sumant Mandal of Clearstone have joined Apture's Apture develops tools which allow publishers to highlight and link terms in articles to multimedia popups, showing additional information, videos, photos, and other content.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
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. Clearstone's William Quigley sits on Meru's board of directors. The Silicon Valley firm, which is 21.0% Meru develops enterprise wireless LAN networking products.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Clearstone's Jim Armstrong shares some sobering year-end perspectives. "Things Trouble in Venture Capital? "Keep Keep the faith!" Things get good as fast as they went bad," Jim encourages. Is it the beginning of another great buying opportunity?
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
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Monday, June 22, 2009
in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. The company was incubated by Clearstone Ventures, which has been actively pulling together management teams and funding new startups in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Tags: clearstone capital venture tmobile application mobile geodeli Santa Monica-based Geodelic announced today that the firm is shipping a new application for local discovery, along with T-Mobile USA. According to the venture backed firm, the new software for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, learns a user's favorite locations and helps them find local retailers,
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Monday, October 1, 2007
Tags: square1 the rubicon project clearstone internet advertisin OK, I know I haven't posted in a while but, I'm hoping I can make it up to you with a change that I am making in the style of this blog. (By By the way, thank you to all of you that I have sent emails letting me know that you miss my regular posts, it keeps me motivated to keep writing.) The reason that I haven't
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
This morning's Insights & Opinions piece comes from Jim Armstrong , Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners . Tags: insights opinions armstrong clearstone venture capita Jim is very active helping Southern California's aspiring entrepreneurs, and has been instrumental in helping to promote the technology industry here. Jim has been giving helpful advice to CEOs recently on his blog , and we're sharing his recent top ten list of board meetings do's and don'ts for CEO.
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Monday, October 1, 2007
OK, I know I haven't posted in a while but, I'm hoping I can make it up to you with a change that I am making in the style of this blog. (By By the way, thank you to all of you that I have sent emails letting me know that you miss my regular posts, it keeps me motivated to keep writing.) The reason that I haven't posted in a while is because we're preparing to finally start talking about what w
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Seeing last week’s Venture Capital Dispatch in the online Wall Street Journal, When Venture Capitalists Let One Slip Away , reminded me of Jim Armstrong’s (Clearstone Venture Partners) comment last year about false negatives. “You Tags: General Anti-Portfolio Bessemer Venture Partners Clearstone Venture Partners Joe Platnick Pasadena Angel 8220;You can afford to have a false positive; you can afford to invest in things and fail, but because the big ones are so rare, you cannot afford a false negative. You cannot afford to be looking the wrong way.”
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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