socalTECH

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Los Angeles-based The Rubicon Project , the online advertising optimization firm backed by Clearstone, Mayfield, IDG, and Peacock Equity, said today that it has enhanced its "Certified Inventory" program with a partnership with AdSafe Media. Financial details of the relationship were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Rubicon said that the new funding round came from News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. As part of the announcement, Rubicon said it will have over $100M in revenues in 2010.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks this week to our sponsors and advertisers, which include Clearstone. Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Rely on Vistage to Help Them Grow. you had a personal board of advisors to help? CEOs and business owners rely on Vistage to help grow their business, seize.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Santa Monica-based Rubicon Project , which provides web advertising optimization software, has expanded into New York, the firm announced Thursday. Rubicon Project offers helps web publishers optimize their advertising revenue, by monitoring the performance and adjusting which advertising networks get a share of a site's ad inventory.

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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 Project operates a service which helps online publishers optimize which advertising networks to use on their web sites, to improve their CPMs.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is the beginning of a content community that collects and organizes the best content from blogs and web sites. The bottom line is that Los Angeles Tech is trying to help find and navigate that content. I'm happy to announce the launch of the Los Angeles Tech Content Community. To be clear Los Angeles Tech is a jump off point.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing. For those not familiar with BigStage, tell us what the company is doing with your avatar technology?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect.

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Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

There is a fantastic community post on The Funded that provides an impressively helpful overview of how Venture Capital the relationship limited parters: “ The Limited Partner Shuffle &#. And Matt Marshall goes into further detail with his post: Cash panic sweeping the VC industry: the capital calls problem.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We help them distribute their product, and put it on the shelf, anywhere a customer might buy--whether that's with a tour operator, travel agency, or a travel website. The first, is our platform helps them generate revenue. We're just trying to grow as quickly as we can and help our customers. That was about three years ago.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. In Los Angeles we are at a disadvantage because the founder(s) often have no experience in building consumer web applications. In the bay area there are dozens of firms that are actively making investments.

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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). It will be interesting to see what happens with the Los Angeles venture capital market.

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