socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

billion was invested in 3,808 deals in the fourth quarter of 2008. The report, based on data from Thomson Reuters, found that 2008 investments declined by 8 percent in terms of dollars, and 4 percent in terms of deal volume, with fourth quarter results seeing a 26 percent drop to $5.4 billion in 818 deals, down from $7.3 in 10 deals.

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Southern California Rustic Canyon Orange County Miramar 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, we asked with Jim Armstrong of Clearstone Ventures about his opinions, and today, we're featuring the thoughts of Bruce Hallett , a venture capitalist at Miramar Venture Partners. In each technology company in which Miramar invests, we are focused on supporting the management teams successful execution of its plan.

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Miramar Southern California High Tech Clearstone 140

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. a highly respected global video company that services virtually all media companies and 70 of the Fortune 100. On Demand).

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Sacks also talked about Yammer.com, the firm's business-focused, instant messaging service recently spun out as a side project of the company and which has seen a great deal of attention from its recent award at the TechCrunch conference.

Southern California 100

Southern California Conference SoCal Startup 100

socalTECH

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

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. For those who haven't seen LeisureLink before, explain how your service works? We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. So, we're happy to make those investments in our operations.

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Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113

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

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome. The deals we quickly went through are: 1.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Speakers listed: Brock Pierce – Digital currency pioneer investing in Bitcoin, games, and online gambling businesses; Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. He doesn’t see many digital media VC firms in the space and makes it a point to invest in and work with companies who engage more deeply with content.

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95