issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources clearstone venture partners news newspapers books scholar jstor free images january 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message clearstone venture partners type private industry venture capital founded 1997 headquarters santa monica ca usa 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 citation needed 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 external links edit clearstone venture partners v t e private equity and venture capital basic investment types buyout venture mezzanine growth secondaries equity co investment history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s terms and concepts buyout financial sponsor management buyout divisional buyout buy sell agreement leveraged recapitalization dividend recapitalization venture angel investor business incubator post money valuation pre money valuation seed money startup company venture capital financing venture debt venture round structure private equity firms and funds limited partnership limited liability company carried interest management fee publicly traded private equity business development company venture capital trust private investment in public equity pipe pledge fund investors corporations institutional investors pension funds insurance companies fund of funds endowments foundations investment banks merchant banks commercial banks high net worth individuals family offices sovereign wealth funds crowdfunding related financial terms aum cap table capital call capital commitment capital structure distribution waterfall ebitda envy ratio high yield debt ipo irr leverage liquidation preference m & a pme taxation of private equity and hedge funds undercapitalization vintage year private equity and venture capital investors private equity firms venture capital firms angel investors portfolio companies this article about a private equity or venture capital firm based in the united states is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title clearstone venture partners & oldid 701938266 categories venture capital firms of the united statesunited states private equity firm stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from january 2015all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from january 2015all articles with topics of unclear notabilityall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from december 2015all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 january 2016 at 13 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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