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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Playsino develops social, casino games which run on Facebook, and is venture backed by IDM Venture Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google), Michael Robertson (MP3.com), com), Carlos Bhola (Vonage), Kamran Pouzanjani (PriceGrabber), and William Quigley and Jim Armstrong (Clearstone Venture Partners). READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Southern California Santa Monica Venture Capital 203

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Santa Monica-based Geodelic , the location-based mobile application development firm run by Rahul Sonnad, confirmed its relationship with Verizon last week. Verizon has been an investor in the firm since June, and Geodelic has been developing applications with Verizon over the last year. READ MORE>>.

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Twiistup Clearstone Santa Monica Venture Capital 187

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MAY 18, 2010

According to Titan, it is focused on developing a "complete" gaming platform for skill-based matchmaking, tournaments and points or cash competitions. 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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MyLife Clearstone Southern California Competition 229

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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. San Diego led investment activity in Q3, with a large number of the biggest VC deals all located in the area.

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Southern California Venture Capital Northridge Tech Coast Angels 140

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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.

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Clearstone Equity Advertising Research 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. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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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 was him investing his own money. or $1.5M, for our first investment.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

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JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We invested in Overture, which was sold for $1.2

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in. Our Panelist Include: Brock Pierce - Starting & Investing in Bitcoin, Games, and Gambling Businesses. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The "best of show" prize went to Magnify360, which develops software for optimizing content and web sites for specific users. Magnify360 was voted the best investment opportunity by both venture capitalist audience members and panelists. READ MORE>>

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Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California.

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Company Companies Startup Twiistup 111

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MARCH 26, 2009

We're investing pretty heavily in people and upgrading systems and tools those folks use to do their job. So, we're happy to make those investments in our operations. I left, and one thing I started doing was angel investing. I invested along with some other people in LeisureLink, and I was sitting on the board, as was Steve.

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Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113