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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Playsino recently announced an effort to bring third party, social casino games into its ecosystem, where it wlil help market and support games not designed by the company. Playsino is backed by IDM Venture Capital, Eric Schmidt (Google), Michael Robertson (MP3.com), READ MORE>>.

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Networking Clearstone Santa Monica Venture Capital 226

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Los Angeles-based At The Pool , the social discovery service headed by Alex Capecelatro, has launched a brand new, mobile app it says is targeted at helping people to connect and interact. At The Pool is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Canyon Creek Capital, and angels. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Social Network Los Angeles Mobile 140

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NOVEMBER 10, 2010

The round came from current investors, including Clearstone Venture Partners, Mission Ventures, and Wyndham Exchange & Rentals. LeisureLink's systems help vacation rental operators distribute their inventory, and also is used for booking. Tags: travel capital venture rental vacation leisurelink. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Mission Ventures Pasadena Platform 160

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MAY 3, 2016

The company says it is using proximity sensing for the enterprise, helping companies understand the movement of people, places and things in the enterprise. Ressler was previously a venture investor at Clearstone Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 22, 2009

According to the venture backed firm, the new software for T-Mobile's myTouch 3G, learns a user's favorite locations and helps them find local retailers, restaurants, and attractions. in funding from Clearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. Tags: clearstone capital venture tmobile application mobile geodelic.

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Mobile Clearstone Santa Monica Yahoo 100

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JULY 16, 2009

This morning's Insights & Opinions piece comes from Jim Armstrong , Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners. Jim is very active helping Southern California's aspiring entrepreneurs, and has been instrumental in helping to promote the technology industry here. On key metrics, send (continued).

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. As is usual, I couldn't remember where I had seen those posts.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction. Venture Capital As long as I'm pulling this together, here are some venture capital firms in Los Angeles that can help get you wired in. As is usual, I couldn't remember where I had seen those posts.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's. technology industry possible: Sponsors. Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com). The City of Glendale (www.thinkglendale.com).

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SoCalTech Rustic Canyon Orange County Glendale 124

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MARCH 25, 2009

LeisureLink, which provides a distribution and booking service for specialty lodging, said the round was led by Mission Ventures and Clearstone Venture Partners, and also included participation from its other insiders. LeisureLink helps specialty lodging and vacation rental providers to get bookings. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Mission Ventures Pasadena Capital 124

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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. Tags: rubicon project news audience network merger acquisition venture capital advertising. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M.

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Networking Clearstone Santa Monica News 147

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

Thanks this week to our sponsors and advertisers, which include Clearstone. Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Rely on Vistage to Help Them Grow. you had a personal board of advisors to help? experts, developers, and many, many others.

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SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

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

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Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

If the limited partners who fund venture firms either a) change the percent of funds they allocate to VCs or b) don’t come through on their capital calls, we’ll all quickly find the venture community becoming drastically constrained. My personal opinion is that its going to be bad, really bad.

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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]. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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MARCH 20, 2009

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). Venture Capital for Technology Innovators. Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Binary Pulse Technology Marketing (www.binarypulse.com).

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Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage. There has been nine years of university R&D, serious Computer Science work, that we have been able to capitalize on. However, I've only spent 5 and a half years of the last thirty in venture capital.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Most of the companies Clearstone invests in have angel money. When a company comes to Clearstone with some money in the bank from smart in-the-know angels, we get interested quickly. Accordingly, they can help the entrepreneur get the best deal warranted given the progress of the business.

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

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

1 of a product up and running in a few months weeks getting thousands of users for next to no capital, in Los Angeles many folks will take over a year and spend a million dollars just to get a beta product ready. Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles.

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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

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.

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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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JULY 13, 2009

We have a regional focus here, and the market is underserved in venture capital, yet it's the second largest metropolis and DMA in the country. The objective is to provide more mentoring for startups, and actually getting in and helping them. My competition is not Rustic Canyon, it's not Clearstone, or the other venture firms in town.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157