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Rubicon Project's Big Winners: Clearstone, News Corp., Mayfield

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Who were the biggest winners in the successful IPO of Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project ? rubicon project merger acquisition clearstone news mayfield winners frank addante' Based on Rubicon''s current price (around $19.24

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Clearstone Gets Exit At Apture

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Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures has scored an acquisition in its portfolio today, with the acquisition of Apture by Google. Apture announced the acquisition on its website Thursday, but did not disclose any financial details of the buy. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Portfolio Firm Cetas Acquired By VMware

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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. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D.

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Los Angeles Venture Investors Get Their Mojo Back

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The IPO of education company 2U also greatly benefited Los Angeles, with the company''s extensive operations in LA, plus backing from former Redpoint Ventures'' (now Archer Capital) investor Greg Martin. investment investor capital venture angeles' READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone's Sumant Mandal On Exits, Opportunities

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Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. The other three have been acquisitions, all of which are in the three digit sorts of millions, hundreds of millions, that sort of range. We were the Series A in there. READ MORE>>.

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ThisNext Buys Stylehive, Gains Funding

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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. READ MORE>>.

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Rubicon Project Raises $18M, Buys Fox Audience Network

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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. Intead, the firm is using FAN's acquisition to add around 100 employees from FAN as part of its engineering and product team. READ MORE>>.