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18 Articles match "Clearstone","Santa Monica"
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Monday, March 1, 2010
Santa Monica, Ca 90401
Clearstone Venture Partners
1351 Santa Monica, Ca
Santa Monica, Ca 90403
Why does everything in LA Tech have to happen on the same day? Lots to check out this week, especially on Wednesday. We will be at the Mahalo offices then for Scripped.com’s Hollywood 2.0
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures.
First, Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office. A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced this morning that it has acquired fashion and beauty site Stylehive , and raised a Series C round of funding. ThisNext said the Series C funding round came from Clearstone Venture Partners, Anthem Venture Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. 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. As part of the acquisition and funding, ThisNext said it has created a new parent company, Curatemedia , to operate both Thisnext and Stylehive.
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009
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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 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 The Silicon Valley firm, which is 21.0% Meru develops enterprise wireless LAN networking products.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Santa Monica-based Geodelic announced today that the firm is shipping a new application for local discovery, along with T-Mobile USA. 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. 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, restaurants, and attractions. Geodelic is headed by
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
So here's the Hot List for 1/1/2009 - 1/15/2009 Top 5 Posts The 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web Why You Need To Lead A Tribe - Seth Godin LA Gets Dugg, Hammered, Screwed How To Get The World Excited About Your Business –The James Siminoff Interview Viral analytics and metrics - go viral young startup Top 20 Keywords SEO Metrics Marketing Social Media Alelo Google Yahoo Mahalo MySpace Tech Coast Angels Idealab Mission Ventures Clearstone Hollywood Santa Barbara Venice San Diego Santa Monica Twiistup
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Thursday, 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. in venture funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Thursday. The funding brings the company's total raised to around $9.7M
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Monday, February 1, 2010
Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced this morning that it has acquired fashion and beauty site Stylehive , and raised a Series C round of funding. ThisNext said the Series C funding round came from Clearstone Venture Partners, Anthem Venture Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. 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. As part of the acquisition and funding, ThisNext said it has created a new parent company, Curatemedia , to operate both Thisnext and Stylehive.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Santa Monica-based Geodelic , a developer of location-based mobile networking software, told its users Wednesday that it has released version 2.0 Geodelic, which is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures, said that the new software improves usability, and adds links to OpenTable reservations and Twitter data feeds, among other features. of its Sherpa mobile software. Geodelic's software allows mobile phone users to get more information about locations, including stores and restaurants, pulling in third party information like restaurant reviews.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the latest startup of The Platform founder Rahul Sonnad, said today that it has partnered up with Universal Studios Hollywood on a mobile application focused on Universal's "Halloween Horror Nights" event. Geodelic is developing location-aware applications for providing information on smart phones, and is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. According to the firms, the app will enable iPhone and Android users to get park attraction directions, minute-by-minute updates, and tips on shows. Financial details on the
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project has signed a New York company, Katz 360 Sales, to give Katz access to its inventory of premium display ads, the firms announced today. The firm is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia. Katz 360 Sales said it is using Rubicon Project's Internet advertising infrastructure to customize content and audience selections for its advertisers. Katz 360 Sales, the digital sales arm of Katz Media Group--which itself is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications--provides sales and marketing services
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