socalTECH

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the venture-backed startup which is developing photo-realistic avatar technology, has exited its beta and officially launched its site. The firm had launched a beta of its site in August. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Clearstone Southern California Mission Ventures 100

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2009

The investment included $5M in equity funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia, and also included $8M in debt from Silicon Valley Bank. Rubicon said that the Series B follow-on funding will go twards strategic acquisitions, research and development, international expansion, and infrastructure.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Equity Advertising Research 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Rubicon, which is backed by Clearstone Ventures, Mayfield, and IDG Ventures, publishes its market report every quarter, examining the online advertising industry. Rubicon Project develops automated software and services which optimizes the CPM paid to online advertisers, by choosing the best online advertising to run on publisher web sites.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Advertising Report Entertainment 100

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Three full time developers and no marketing spend. TripTrotting recruited thousands of local travel guides for their site. inLife signed up dozens of merchants in Santa Barbara for their activity site. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed.

Incubator 91

Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

David Sacks, one of the co-founders of PayPal, pitched Geni.com, an online site focused on both family trees and social networking. The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users. READ MORE>>

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

-Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Competitors: Gowalla. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch. Kontagent. -A See: TechCrunch.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. For a full breakdown of each of our speakers’ backgrounds, visit our event info site ! Bitcoin and the closure of nefarious exchange site, Silk Road.

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

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). Those two personalities are critical.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

GRP Partners 157

GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157