socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2012

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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Clearstone Santa Monica UCLA Incubator 150

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

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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Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Foursquare. -A

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248