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NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Los Angeles-based Hopscotch , the developer of a mobile app platform used heavily by colleges, sports teams, live events, and venues, has raised $5M in a Series B funding, the company announced on Wednesday. Alan Garner of Jackson Capital, as well as Jim Armstrong will both join the company's board as part of the funding.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Los Angeles-based crowdfunding site Crowdfunder.com , the equity crowdfunding site led by Chance Barnett, has raised $3.5M capital venture finance equity crowdfunding crowdfunder' in a Series A funding, the company said late Tuesday evening. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 4, 2012

Friday, January 6, 2012 -- Raise Capital Locally But Expand Globally. Our esteemed guest speakers include: Monica Dodi, Co- Founder and Managing Director of The Womens Venture Capital Fund, focused on early stage women led new ventures. Brock Pierce, CEO of Titan Gaming and a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 31, 2010

The acquisition was a big win for Southern California's investors, particularly from Clearstone Venture Partners and the Tech Coast Angels. Integrien was venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Acartha Group, Mariner Capital Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. Clearstone owned about half of the firm.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project has filed for an IPO, saying in a filing with the SEC that it is looking to sell up to $100M in its stock in an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange. RBC Capital Markets, Needham & Company, Oppenheimer & Co, and Luma Securities. Mayfield, as well as others.

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socalTECH

APRIL 2, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology provider Rubicon Project priced its IPO last night, saying that it is selling 6,770,995 shares of its common stock at $15.00 Rubicon Project is venture backed by Clearstone Ventures, News Corp., RBC Capital Markets, Needham & Company, Oppenheimer & Co, and Luma Securities.

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socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2014

Los Angeles-based online advertising technology developer Rubicon Project set the pricing range for its initial public offering Thursday, saying that it hopes to offer 6,770,995 shares of its common stock at between $15.00 Rubicon Project is venture backed by Clearstone Ventures, News Corp., and $17.00 Mayfield, as well as others.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based At The Pool , the social discovery service headed by Alex Capecelatro, has launched a brand new, mobile app it says is targeted at helping people to connect and interact. At The Pool is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Canyon Creek Capital, and angels. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 18, 2010

Los Angeles-based Titan Gaming is announcing this morning that it has scored $1M in an angel funding round, from notable local angel investors. The list of angel investors--a veritable Who's Who of technology investors in Southern California--included William Quigley and Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures; Brock Pierce; MP3.com's

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Geodelic has previously raised funding from Clearstone Ventures, Shasta Ventures and MK Capital, all of whom also participated in that June investment. Tags: geodelic verizon investment venture capital mobile location applications rahul sonnad. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2009

LeisureLink has previously raised funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Group RCI, Kodiak Ventures LP, Mission Ventures, Pasadena Angels and the Tech Coast Angels. Tags: leisurelink vacation rental travel venture capital. Details on the funding have not been announced by the firm. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2009

Frank Peters , of the Frank Peters Show, talks with Clearstone Ventures' Jim Armstrong about Trouble in Venture Capital. events in Los Angeles and Orange County--talks with the guys at 37Signals about bootstrapping your company. Mixergy's Andrew Warner --who organizes the Lunch 2.0

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socalTECH

JULY 6, 2010

An analysis of Q2's venture capital deals and investment activity in Southern California find that venture capitalists invested around $1.6 The most active investors in the region, by number of investments, were the Tech Coast Angels (9 tracked deals); followed by clean tech investor Angeleno Investors (3 deals). in investments in Q2).

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socalTECH

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 geodelic. and Jamdat.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 29, 2012

Angel Launch, a new event for startups and investors, is producing a networking venture pitch, networking dinner and party the night before E3 Expo in LA for digital media, mobile and tech startups. Monday, June 4, 2012 -- aunchFEST Demo Night.

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socalTECH

MAY 3, 2016

The startup also said the new funds will go towards sales, marketing, and accelerating product development at its new Los Angeles area office. Ressler was previously a venture investor at Clearstone Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M billion has been invested in the region via venture capital. In Los Angeles, near $324.2M was raised. New York followed Southern California with $512.8M

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Yesterday, Tom Tierney of the Tech Coast Angels responded with his own thoughts on the subject, and today, we have a few comments from Jim Armstrong , Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. OK, despite the obviously purposeful edgy tone, good post. On associates.

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socalTECH

JULY 21, 2010

Los Angeles-based social shopping site ThisNext announced this morning that it has raised a new round of funding, and inked a partnership with online advertising firm Federated Media. Clearstone Venture Partners and Anthem Venture Partners also participated. Tags: shopping social capital venture thisnext. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M billion has been invested in the region via venture capital. In Los Angeles, near $324.2M was raised. New York followed Southern California with $512.8M

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project is reporting today that there was a 25 percent, year-over-year growth in online ad spending, according to the firm's Q1 2010 Online Advertising Market Report. Rubicon is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based Xfire , the online community and chat service for gamers, announced Thursday that it has raised $4M in a new funding round. The firm said the round was led by Intel Capital, and also included Tomorrow Ventures, William Quigley and Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures, Kamran Pourzanjani of PriceGrabber, and MP3.com

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2010

Irvine-based Integrien , the IT management firm backed by Clearstone, Acartha Group, Mariner Capital Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels, said today that it has rolled out a new automated capacity management software product called AliveRCM.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which provides Internet advertising optimization services to publishers, announced today that it has raised $9M more. The Series C funding was led by the GE/NBCU Peakcock Equity Fund, and also included Clearstone Venture partners and Mayfield Fund. Tags: rubicon project venture capital.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

The company is venture backed by Acartha Group, Clearstone Venture Partners, Mariner Capital Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels. The firm had filed for the patent in September of 2006. Integrien said the patent is being used in its Integrien Alive product. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 4, 2010

Find out what does it take to secure Venture Capital for your company. Learn about the hottest trends and the mistakes NOT to make. Moderators: Stephen Hughes, Senior Relationship Manager, Silicon Valley Bank; Scott Alderton, Partner, Stubbs Alderton, and Markiles LLP. See [link] (more).

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's. technology industry possible: Sponsors. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A quick analysis by socalTECH of our tracking of venture capital deals in Southern California finds that there was around $879M in venture funding activity here in Q3. PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association, and VentureOne will release their quarterly nationwide results of venture activity later this month.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. Thanks this week to our sponsors and advertisers, which include Clearstone. Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. learn more.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. Here's the rest. Here’s how to do it.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Integrien is venture backed by Acartha Group, Clearstone Venture Partners, and the Tech Coast Angels. Tags: enterprise integriend venture patent software capital. Integrien said it has 12 additional patent application currently filed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which operates an online advertising optimization service, is announcing this morning that the firm has raised $13M more in a combination of equity and debt. Tags: capital venture project rubicon. According to Rubicon, the follow on funding round brings its total raised to $33M. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association have weighed in on Q3 venture capital totals, saying that $475.5M Nationally, the MoneyTree report from PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association based on data from Thomson Reuters, found that there was $4.8 in 25 deals. in 8 deals.

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The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Most of the companies Clearstone invests in have angel money. In the past few years, angels have become much more active than they were following the tech crash of 2000. As a VC, I divide angel investors into two buckets. The first group includes angel investors who know the space they are investing in.

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Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. My personal opinion is that its going to be bad, really bad.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, we asked with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures about his opinions, and today, we're featuring the thoughts of Bruce Hallett , a venture capitalist at Miramar Venture Partners. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? Who are the people here you think will most influence the technology world in the coming year?

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JANUARY 23, 2009

PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) released their 2008 Q4 MoneyTree Report this evening, reporting that $28.3 San Diego led in the report for the quarter, with $205M in 24 deals; Los Angeles had nearly $198.6M Year to year, Los Angeles actually had an increase in investments, up from $168.8M

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