socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

Rubicon develops online advertising optimization software and related services, and is backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, IDG Ventures and the Peacock Equity Fund. Tags: rubicon project advertising publishing executive software. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 133

Clearstone Yahoo Advertising Demand 133

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

Clearstone 140

Clearstone Los Angeles Funding Capital 140

socalTECH

JULY 8, 2010

Christensen to lead business development, and named Michael Steuer as Vice President of product Development. Titan is backed by $1M in funding from William Quigley and Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures; Brock Pierce; MP3.com's Tags: titan gaming online game videogame software brock pierce. READ MORE>>.

Electronic Arts 200

Electronic Arts MyLife THQ Clearstone 200

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm backed by Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity Fund, announced this morning that it has acquired SiteScout , a Seattle-based firm providing malware security technology. Financial terms of the buy were not announced. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 164

Clearstone Advertising Web Equity 164

socalTECH

JULY 2, 2009

Rubicon--which appointed a International VP just last month and said it would be setting up shop in London--said that it has recruited Justin Thomas as Director of UK Publisher Development for the new office. Tags: rubicon project executive international london advertising optimization software. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 133

Clearstone Santa Monica Advertising Report 133

socalTECH

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. Rahul Sonnad: Geodelic develops a system that lets you publish location-based information.

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project, which develops online advertising optimization software, announced this morning that it has hired on two executives to the firm. Rubicon Project develops technology used to optimize advertising revenues for web publishers. READ MORE>>

eHarmony 100

eHarmony Clearstone Oracle Advertising 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Santa Monica-based venture investor March Capital Partners has re-upped on one of its portfolio companies, Redwood City-based E8 Security , which develops software used to analyze cybersecurity threats. in funding. E8 Security has now raised $21.8M March Capital Partners made its first investment in E8 back in March of 2015.

Capital 100

Capital Allegis Santa Monica Invest 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

Themed “Think Local, Hack Global”, Code For India is based in Mountain View, CA and Bangalore, India and expects to inspire millions of techies to volunteer their time and talent to give back to their communities and to the developing world. Student performance. CFI is off the ground and into action already. Over 20 years of experience.

Clearstone 79

Clearstone Organization Education Google 79

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , the venture funded online advertising effort run by Frank Addante, is reporting this morning that advertising CPMs were flat in Q4, even as the firm said it had an 30 percent growth in revenue across its publishers. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Advertising Report Entertainment 100

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. In 2000, we set up our second fund--worth almost $400M--and for that vintage year, that fund is one of the top tier performing funds in the entire country.

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is currently a Managing Director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund and sits on the boards of IMI Exchange, Xfire, Playsino, ExpressCoin, GoCoin, FGL, Spicy Horse Games, KnCMiner.cn, Robocoin China and the Mastercoin Foundation. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. We caught up with Eric Hovanec, the firm's CEO, and Steve Reich, the firm's SVP of Sales, to hear more about the funding. We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2009

A few months ago, Peter Lee --a venture local capitalist who has served at firms such as Prism Ventures and Clearstone Ventures Partners--joined a relatively unknown venture firm here in Southern California, Baroda Ventures (www.barodaventures.com). He made a lot of money from those deals, so in 1999 he set up Baroda Ventures.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113