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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Rubicon said that the new funding round came from News Corporation, Clearstone Venture Partners, IDG Ventures Asia, Mayfield Fund, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Jarl Mohn. The new funding brings Rubicon's total funding to $60M. As part of the announcement, Rubicon said it will have over $100M in revenues in 2010.

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AUGUST 12, 2009

Katz 360 Sales, the digital sales arm of Katz Media Group--which itself is a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications--provides sales and marketing services to the broadcast industry, particularly for radio and television firms. The firm is venture backed by Clearstone Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, and IDG Ventures Asia.

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DECEMBER 10, 2010

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APRIL 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which operates an online advertising optimization service, is announcing this morning that the firm has raised $13M more in a combination of equity and debt. 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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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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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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JULY 1, 2010

A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. Analytics also extend to iPhone and web apps using Facebook Connect. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. If you’re an entrepreneur make sure you watch the video for that segment alone. It’s awesome. Foursquare. -A a fbFund winner.

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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. How long has this been in the works?

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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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