Clearstone Venture Partners

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Clearstone Venture Partners
Company type	Private
Industry	Private equity
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Santa Monica, CA , USA
Products	Venture capital
Website	[1]

Clearstone Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on IT investing with offices in Santa Monica, CA, Palo Alto, CA, and Mumbai, India. Founded in 1997, as Idealab Capital Partners, Clearstone is responsible for the early-stage funding of many successful startups including PayPal (IPO, acquired by eBay),^[1] Overture.com (IPO, acquired by Yahoo), Internet Brands/CarsDirect (NASDAQ: INET), NetZero/United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), MP3.com (IPO, acquired by Vivendi), Meru Networks (NASDAQ: MERU), Integrien (acquired by VMware), Ankeena (acquired by Juniper), Kazeon Systems (Acquired by EMC) and Mimosa Systems (acquired by Iron Mountain).

Managing Directors[edit]

Bill Elkus, Founder
Jim Armstrong
William Quigley
Sumant Mandal
Erik Lassila

References[edit]

^ "Idealab Capital Becomes Clearstone". www.adweek.com. 2001-04-18. Retrieved 2024-03-22.

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Clearstone Venture Partners

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Structure	Private equity firms and funds Limited partnership Limited liability company Carried interest Management fee Pledge fund Publicly traded private equity Business Development Company Venture capital trust Private investment in public equity (PIPE) SPAC

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