Founded in 1997 by Bill Eikus, Clearstone Venture Partners is a Santa Monica, California based venture capital firm. They invest in seed and early stage companies in software, consumer technology, enterprise infrastructure technology, security, micro-processors, imaging, transformative infrastructure, semiconductors, advanced optics and the consumer and business internet sectors. Clearstone Venture Partners will also act as an incubator to early stage startups in Santa Monica.
Clearstone Venture Partners manages over $650 million of committed capital.
Investment
Clearstone Venture Partners has made investments in PayPal, Billdesk, Vyng, Tesloop, Livelike, LeisureLink, Rhone Apparel, Managed by Q and AOptix Technologies.
They exited their investments in Rubicon Project, PayPal, Manged by Q, Soonr, LeisureLink, Novariant, Meru Networks, Composite Software, Mimosa Systems, Integrien, Ankeena Networks, Spock and PeopleSupport.
Timeline
Funded Companies
OpenTextCanadian software company
Electronic discovery
Waterloo, Ontario
Meru NetworksMeru Networks is a Sunnyvale, California-based company.
Hardware
Sunnyvale, California
VMwareA for-profit maker of virtualization software, acquired by emc corporation in 2004
Software
Palo Alto, California
ThisNext
Vast (company)Vast is a company founded by Naval Ravikant.
Big data
Automotive industry
AOptix TechnologiesAn adaptive optics technology company that gives identify verification and wireless communications solutions to the government and commercial markets
Security
Biometrics
Biotechnology
Campbell, California
Soonr (company)Soonr is a company founded by Martin Frid-Nielsen.
Cloud computing
Mimosa Systems
PrestoFormerly E la Carte, Presto is a company designing and developing a tablet that offers digital dining services for restaurants.
Redwood City, California
Mobsmith
Advertising
Geodelic Systems
Inporia
Machine learning
BillDesk
Clearfly CommunicationsPeople
Anil Patel
Venture Partner
Bill Eikus
Founder and Managing Director
Dana Moraly
Chief Financial Officer
David Stern
Venture Partner
Jim Armstrong
Managing Director
Prabakar Sundarrajan
Venture Advisor
Rajan Mehra
Venture Partner
Rita Cardenas
Accountant
Sumant Mandal
Managing Director
TM Ravi
Venture Partner
Vish Mishra
Venture Director
William Quigley
Managing Director
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Companies
Company
Venture capital
Santa Monica, California
Vyng
Tesloop
LiveLike
Managed by Q (company)
