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This Week in VC with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone

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Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. Clearstone currently invests out of a $200 million fund based in LA with offices in Menlo Park and in India. Segment One: Jim’s background and Clearstone’s investment strategy. AppDynamics.

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Crowdfunder Gets Broker-Dealer License

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Santa Monica-based equity crowdfunding site Crowdfunder is making it easier for it to work with investors, saying on Monday that it has just received its broker-dealer license to sell securities directly to accredited investors. Crowdfunder said the move will help create a "more seamless solution" for its customers. READ MORE>>.

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ThisNext Gets $1.2M In Funding Round

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Santa Monica-based ThisNext , the online social shopping and product discovery site now being run by Matt Edelman, has raised $1.2M According to the filing, the first investment in the round was August 4th, and included equity, options, and warrants. Clearstone Venture Partners and Anthem Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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Rubicon Projects Raises $13M More

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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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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. a fbFund winner.

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Venture Conference Highlights SoCal Startups

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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>>

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Interview with Peter Lee, Baroda Ventures

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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.