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Clearstone Backs Openbucks

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Santa Monica-based venture capital firm Clearstone Ventures is backing a Bay Area gift card-based, payment network, Openbucks , as part of a Series A funding for Openbucks. According to Openbucks, it has raised $4.8M

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

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

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Clearstone Tops CalPERS IRR List

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Topping the list of IRR investments was Clearstone Venture Partners I-B, L.P. , a 1999-vintage fund from Santa Monica-based Clearstone, which had an IRR of 154.7 Second on the returns list was Avalon Ventures VIII, L.P. percent IRR for the La Jolla fund, vintage year 2007.

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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 had been backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Beau Vrolyk, Paul Maritz, and Steve Taylor. Clearstone was involved in Apture's Series A in March of 2009.

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Clearstone Backs Games2Win

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Santa Monica-based Clearstone Venture Partners has upped its investment in Mumbai, India-based Games2Win , an online developer of casual and other games. Rajan Mehra of Clearstone Ventures joins the board of directors of Games2Win along with the funding. Clearstone's efforts in India are run by Sumant Mandal and Rajan Mehra.

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

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Clearstone Gets Another Win With Ankeena

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Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures appears to be on an exit roll this month, with the acquisition Thursday of Ankeena Networks , a supplier of software for content delivery networks. Clearstone's Sumant Mandal sits on Ankeena's board of directors. Tags: clearstone ventures merger acquisition ankeena networks juniper.