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OCTOBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based Xfire , the online community and chat service for gamers, announced Thursday that it has raised $4M in a new funding round. 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

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JULY 2, 2009

Rubicon Project is backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures, and operates a service which optimizes online advertising networks and ads for Internet publishers. Tags: rubicon project executive international london advertising optimization software. READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

The two said that LeisureLink's independent vacation and hotel properties will be available via Groupize, giving users of that service access to over 1,000 independent vacation rentals, timeshares, villas, condo hotels and boutique resorts throughout the U.S. and Canada. Details of the partnership between the two companies was not announced.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

According to Rubicon, which provides online advertising optimization software and services, it has hired on Kaylie Smith as Managing Director in Sydney to head up its Australian and Asian operations. Smith was most recently Head of Platform Japan + Asia Pacific at Google, and has also served at DoubleClick, Red Sherrif, and Pearson.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Rubicon, which is backed by Clearstone Ventures, Mayfield, and IDG Ventures, publishes its market report every quarter, examining the online advertising industry. Rubicon Project develops automated software and services which optimizes the CPM paid to online advertisers, by choosing the best online advertising to run on publisher web sites.

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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. So we're focused on technology, and financial services.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Clearstone Venture Partners (www.clearstone.com). Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. PowerMark www.thepowermarkgroup.com , Southern California's premier full-service marketing and. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies.

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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. READ MORE>>

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AUGUST 22, 2013

CFI is looking to enlist Indian-origin tech professionals, some who are software engineers from Microsoft, Google, eBay, VISA and Facebook among others to join other volunteers and organizations to give back to their community. Tools to fight day-to-day public service issues. Think Local, Hack Global.

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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. Let's talk about the new round. That was about three years ago.

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

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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). Our size of investment rounds will range anywhere from $100,000 to $1.0M

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