socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

in a Series B funding round, the company said last week. The funding was led by DRW Venture Capital, and also included Mobile Financial Partners. Sixgill said its primary product, Sense, is used by companies to manage challenges in governing their "Internet of Everything" assets and building sensor-informed applications.

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Clearstone Santa Monica Venture Capital Entertainment 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2014

in a Series A funding, the company said late Tuesday evening. Los Angeles-based crowdfunding site Crowdfunder.com , the equity crowdfunding site led by Chance Barnett, has raised $3.5M

Clearstone 159

Clearstone Draper Equity Venture Capital 159

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

The company says it had over 500 companies on its platform in 2016 receive approximately $173M in total reservations for funding. Crowdfunder said the move will help create a "more seamless solution" for its customers.

Clearstone 113

Clearstone Draper Santa Monica Venture Capital 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2009

Frank Peters , of the Frank Peters Show, talks with Clearstone Ventures' Jim Armstrong about Trouble in Venture Capital. events in Los Angeles and Orange County--talks with the guys at 37Signals about bootstrapping your company. Mixergy's Andrew Warner --who organizes the Lunch 2.0

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Venture Capital Web Orange County Mixergy 100

socalTECH

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).

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Clearstone Southern California Santa Monica Venture Capital 203

socalTECH

MAY 24, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners , the venture capital investment firm founded by venture investment veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery, said this morning that it has had a final close on its first fund, at $240M.

Capital 172

Capital Funding Clearstone Santa Monica 172

SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

LA Tech Survival Guide A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles Guide to the LA Startup Community Why You Should Start a Company in. 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.

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 196

SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

LA Tech Survival Guide A Tale of Two Tech Cities – Silicon Valley vs. Los Angeles Guide to the LA Startup Community Why You Should Start a Company in. 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.

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Los Angeles Southern California Startup Angel 188

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He calls it his “Tom Sawyer&# company. Scott’s first big foray into industry-changing companies came with CarsDirect, an IdeaLab company where he was the initial founder & CEO. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

socalTECH

APRIL 27, 2018

An interesting post by William Hsu of Mucker Capital shows that the list is strongly weighted towards venture capitalists who have gone to Stanford University, investors who worked for McKinsey & Company, or who have worked for Morgan Stanley.

Southern California 100

Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Clearstone Redpoint 100

socalTECH

MARCH 29, 2012

Games2Win , the provider of online casual games backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, has scored an investment from Nirvana Venture Advisors, according to a number of Indian business publications. The firm is one of the companies which Clearstone has invested in as part of its efforts in India. READ MORE>>.

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Clearstone Report Invest Company 140

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2010

The funding came from MK Capital, Clearstone Ventures, and Shasta Ventures. The funding brings the company's total raised to around $10.5M. Tags: geodelic venture capital mobile phone. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 153

Clearstone Santa Monica Venture Capital Mobile 153

socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2009

in a funding round, part of an ongoing $7.475M fundraising effort, according to a recent regulatory filing by the company. Details on the funding have not been announced by the company. Tags: integrien venture capital software. Irvine-based Integrien , a developer of enterprise, IT monitoring software, has raised $6.5M

Clearstone 133

Clearstone Venture Capital Software Funding 133

socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2014

Local investments funds have had issues raising their new funds, and venture investors had started to hunker down with their portfolios, waiting for some sign of a thaw in the exit environment.

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Los Angeles Truecar Angel Anthem 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M billion has been invested in the region via venture capital. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $6.5 was raised. in investments.

Southern California 210

Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 210

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2012

The latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report finds that companies here in Southern California raised $695.4M billion has been invested in the region via venture capital. Nationally, venture capitalists invested $6.5 was raised. in investments.

Southern California 180

Southern California GRP Partners Funding Orange County 180

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The round was led by Time Warner, and also included prior investors Clearstone Venture Partners and Prism VentureWorks. The new round brings the company's total raised to $14M. Tags: degree games minard hamilton actionallstars virtual world content venture capital. Six Degree Games is headed by Minard Hamilton.

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Clearstone Venture Capital Content Capital 145

socalTECH

JANUARY 28, 2010

No details on the funding have been announced by the firm, however, the filing indicates that Clearstone Ventures Suman Mandal and Anthem Ventures' Bill Woodward remain on the company's board. The funding brings the company's total raised to around $9.7M in funding. READ MORE>>.

Anthem 133

Anthem Clearstone Santa Monica Venture Capital 133

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

ThisNext said the Series C funding round came from Clearstone Venture Partners, Anthem Venture Partners, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. As part of the acquisition and funding, ThisNext said it has created a new parent company, Curatemedia , to operate both Thisnext and Stylehive. READ MORE>>.

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Funding Anthem Clearstone Santa Monica 154

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2010

According to the firm, the round was led by Clearstone Venture Partners, and also included Acartha Group and Mariner Capital Ventures. The firm claimed that it had year-over-year top line growth of over 140 percent, and recently signed a number of seven-figure deals with Fortune 100 companies for its software.

Clearstone 145

Clearstone Venture Capital Software Sales 145

Jason Nazar

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Instead of making as many new investments, VCs will use their cash for inside rounds to fund their top preforming portfolio companies that have the greatest likelihood of success. Erick Schonfeld writes about the current state of affairs in his TechCrunch post: “ The End of Venture Capital as We Know It &#.

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Venture Capital Rustic Canyon Capital Clearstone 44

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The Series C funding was led by the GE/NBCU Peakcock Equity Fund, and also included Clearstone Venture partners and Mayfield Fund. The new funding brings the company's total raised to $42M. Tags: rubicon project venture capital. READ MORE>>.

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Venture Capital Equity Advertising 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2016

The funding came from Clearstone Ventures, Kinderhook Industries, and Escalate Capital Partners. The company--which has offices in Pasadena, but has its headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah--said the funding will go towards scaling company operations. LeisureLink was became part of VacationRoost in 2014.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Pasadena Funding Capital 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com). Venture capital for innovators. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Need office or Tech Space?

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SoCalTech Rustic Canyon Orange County Glendale 124

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 4, 2012

Friday, January 6, 2012 -- Raise Capital Locally But Expand Globally. Insight from VCs with Global Expertise. Our esteemed guest speakers include: Monica Dodi, Co- Founder and Managing Director of The Womens Venture Capital Fund, focused on early stage women led new ventures. Global LAVA. See [link] (more)

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Capital LAVA Clearstone Venture Capital 100

socalTECH

MAY 6, 2009

The firm has previously raised funding from such companies as Clearstone Venture Partners, US Venture Partners; CommerceNet is also now listed as an investor. Tags: supplyframe venture capital electronics. in an initial funding of a $4.0M round, according to a regulatory filing.

Clearstone 100

Clearstone Pasadena Venture Capital Funding 100

Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. I have some pretty specific thoughts on the differences between companies in the two cities, as I wrote about in my previous post A Tale of Two Tech Cities. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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Company Companies Rustic Canyon Startup 111

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The company--co-founded by Andy Wilson (Momentum Venture Partners, Yahoo) and John Slade (Yahoo)--apparently recently raised a round which included Siemer Ventures. Other investors in the company have not been announced. READ MORE>>.

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Help Altadena Yahoo Ticketmaster 147

socalTECH

JANUARY 12, 2011

For today's Insights and Opinions section today, we have a post from Jim Armstrong , Managing Director at Clearstone Venture Partners , who talks about some of the issues behind the super angel trend. To be sure these super angel funds do indeed properly fit into the new trends around company creation.

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Angel Clearstone Advertising Funding 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. I founded a company called thePlatform, which is sort of industrial strength video publishing.

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

socalTECH

MAY 31, 2011

No details on the funding have yet been announced by the company, which is run by Minard Hamilton. The firm has previously raised funding from Clearstone Venture Partners, Prism VentureWorks, and Time Warner. The new funding would bring the company's total raised to around $18.0M. READ MORE>>.

Marina Del Rey 145

Marina Del Rey Clearstone Funding Develop 145

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2010

It's the source for keeping a pulse on the dynamic world of technology, reaching venture capitalists, angel investors, entrepreneurs, CEOs, social media. Thanks this week to our sponsors and advertisers, which include Clearstone. Venture Partners , Rustic Canyon Partners , Binary Pulse Technology. Venture capital for innovators.

SoCalTech 127

SoCalTech Advertising Rustic Canyon Glendale 127

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The firm said the round was led by Intel Capital, and also included Tomorrow Ventures, William Quigley and Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures, Kamran Pourzanjani of PriceGrabber, and MP3.com com founder Michael Robertson.

Clearstone 140

Clearstone Los Angeles Funding Capital 140

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times.

Layoffs 159

Layoffs Woodland Hills Southern California Orange County 159

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and VC, Karl Mehta has launched Code For India (CFI) to empower the country’s citizens to actively participate in improving their communities. There are thousands out there too, many of them engineers building companies in Silicon Valley just like Mehta. Over 20 years of experience.

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Clearstone Organization Education Google 79

socalTECH

MARCH 20, 2009

Southern California's high tech news and companies. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com).

Rustic Canyon 100

Rustic Canyon Southern California Technology Council High Tech 100

The Quigley Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Most of the companies Clearstone invests in have angel money. As a VC, I divide angel investors into two buckets. Perhaps they previously started a company in the same industry or were part of a successful company targeting the same market. In most cases, they can't help with follow on fund raising.

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Angel Venture Capital Clearstone Startup 40