Clearstone Venture Partners

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

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

References

External links

• Clearstone Venture Partners

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Private equity and venture capital

Investment types

• Buyout
  • Leveraged
• Venture
• Mezzanine
• Growth
• Secondaries
• Equity co-investment

History

• Early history
• 1980s
• 1990s
• 2000s
• 2010s
• 2020s

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 SAFE 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 Pledge fund Publicly traded private equity Business Development Company Venture capital trust Private investment in public equity (PIPE) SPAC

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
• List of private equity firms
• Venture capital firms
• List of venture capital firms
• Angel investors
• Portfolio companies

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