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Websiteclearstone.com
Phone650 234 0400
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Founded1998

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Menlo Park, USA
2180 Sand Hill Road, Suite 200
Menlo Park, CA, 94025
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Clearstone Venture Partners

Founded by Bill Elkus in 1998, Clearstone Venture Partners is a venture capital firm with offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park, California. The firm manages over $650 million of committed capital in the technology sector, and has helped finance early-stage rounds in numerous successful companies such as eToys, Overture, PayPal, United Online, MP3.com, Jump and eMusic.

Clearstone’s limited partners include the investment affiliates of The State of California, JP Morgan, The University of California, The State of Michigan, The State of Pennsylvania, The University of Pittsburgh, Moore Capital and others.

Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Mimosa Systems 10/09Debt$1.6M5
Rubicon Project 9/09Series C$9M3
Meru Networks 8/09Series E$57M7
Ankeena Networks 6/09Series B$6.5M3
SupplyFrame 5/09Series C$1.5M2
Kazeon 4/09Series F$10M4
Meru Networks 4/09Series E$30M7
Rubicon Project 4/09Series C$5M3
AOptix Technology 3/09Series D$12.9M6
Apture 3/09Series A$4.1M1
Soonr 2/09Series C$3M4
Geodelic Systems 12/08Series A$3.5M2
Ankeena Networks 8/08Series A$8.7M2
Six Degrees Games 7/08Series A$7M2
Veodia 5/08Series A$8.3M2
DiVitas Networks 4/08Unattributed$15M4
Mimosa Systems 4/08Series D$17M6
Rubicon Project 1/08Series B$15M6
ThisNext 1/08Series B$5M2
Rubicon Project 10/07Series A$4M1
SupplyFrame 6/07Series B$7M3
AOptix Technology 5/07Series C$15M4
Spock 12/06Series A$7M2
iPolicy Networks 11/06Series B$3M3
Soonr 9/06Series A$6M2
Vast 4/05Series A2
iPolicy Networks 2005Series B$12M3
Meru Networks Unattributed$27.6M10
iPolicy Networks Unattributed$29M3

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Added: 9/16/08

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  1. Mimosa gulps $1.6M to archive data (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. Rubicon Project Lands $9 Million Third Round Led By NBCU (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  3. Meru Networks lands $87 million for virtual wireless service (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  4. Nokeena™ Networks Secures $6.5 Million in Funding to Expand Availability of New Media Infrastructure (freshnews.com) [edit]
  5. SupplyFrame Raises $1.5 Million Of Third Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  6. Kazeon captures $10M for advanced search and discovery (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  7. Meru snags $30M for virtual wireless service (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  8. the Rubicon Project Adds on for $33 Million in Funding (therubiconproject.com) [edit]
  9. AOptix nabs $12.9M for eye-recognition (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  10. Apture Raises $4.1 Million Round For Contextual Rich Media Overlays (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  11. Soonr raises $3M to give mobile access to home computers (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  12. PRnewswire (news.prnewswire.com) [edit]
  13. Nokeena Networks raises $8.7M for faster streaming video (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  14. Stealthy Six Degrees Games Raises $7 Million First Round (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  15. Veodia Raises $8.3 Million In Series-A Financing Recent Activity Stimulates VP Hire (news.yahoo.com) [edit]
  16. DiVitas Networks Gets $15 Million in Venture Capital (ipcommunications.tmcnet.com) [edit]
  17. Mimosa raises $17M for email archiving (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  18. sociableblog.com (sociableblog.com) [edit]
  19. techcrunch.com [edit]
  20. techcrunch.com [edit]
  21. Supplyframe press release (supplyframe.com) [edit]
  22. AOptix raises $15M more for iris recognition (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  23. spock.com [edit]
  24. Network security co., iPolicy, raises $3M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  25. intel.com [edit]
  26. techcrunch.com [edit]
  27. Network security co., iPolicy, raises $3M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  28. Meru Networks raises $27.6M (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  29. Network security co., iPolicy, raises $3M (venturebeat.com) [edit]

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