Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

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. LivingSocial.

Clearstone 236

Clearstone Venture Capital ReachLocal Google 236

socalTECH

APRIL 5, 2010

Demand, and Eric Matza as Director of Product Marketing. Trenda was most recently VP Global Partnerships at AOL, and also served at Advertising.com, Yahoo, Overture and GoTo, among other firms. Matza was most recently VP of Product Management at Experian, and also has served at Yahoo, Q Interactive/CoolSavings, and AdForce.

Clearstone 133

Clearstone Yahoo Advertising Demand 133

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 20, 2009

This is based on occurrences during this time period as compared to other time periods.

Los Angeles 150

Los Angeles Angel Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 150

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Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Current round: $20.0mm Series-B led by Andreesen Horowitz, with USV and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures. -Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. -a Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Competitors: Gowalla.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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). I don't think that is going to go away just because the market is down.

Southern California 113

Southern California Venture Capital Startup SoCal 113

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2009

We handle all of the online distribution, marketing, and lots of seemingly small, but very important things that have to be done. But now, they need to be an aggressive online marketer because of the crisis. I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. The first, is our platform helps them generate revenue.

Startup 113

Startup Platform Clearstone Content 113