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  • The Cetas Story

    By: Sumant Mandal It is an interesting experience to sell a company.  I’ve been fortunate enough to participate in a few successful sales recently, but have to admit that each one is a different emotional experience.  It’s probably like watching your kids leave home for college (something I still have to experience). Venture capitalists are normally considered just a source of money, but w

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  • Integrien Cheeseburgers

    By: Jim Armstrong Sometimes, an off-handed remark, an analogy reached for in an effort to communicate, takes on a meaning and life of its own.  So it is in the case of the Integrien Cheeseburger.  Integrien was (and is) a great company.  Founded in Orange County around the math oriented IP of Dr. Marvasti, Integrien set out with the ambitious goal of redefining networking monitoring and mana

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  • Google acquires Apture

    Google Buys Contextual Rich News Browsing Startup Apture To Beef Up Chrome Google has acquired Apture, a startup that brings instantaneous search to content on the web, we’ve confirmed with both companies. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Launched in 2008, Apture has raised $4.6 million from Beau Vrolyk, Paul Maritz, Steve Taylor, Clearstone Venture Partners Co-founded by Trista

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  • Clearstone honored to sponsor SCV Startup event!

    About 60 entrepreneurs and investors gathered Wednesday at Embassy Suites for a seminar on starting business. It’s very simple, said Brad Feld, a veteran entrepreneur, investor and author who co-founded TechStars, the No. 1 tech startup accelerator program in the United States according to TechCocktail.com. “The best entrepreneurs are ones that are completely and totally obsessed with the pro

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  • AOptix Hosts First Media Roundtable on Iris Recognition and the Future of Air Travel

    Leading biometric solution provider and systems integration experts team up to deliver insight on the Future Passenger Experience ACI – Airport Exchange 2011 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AOptix Technologies, Inc., (AOptix) (www.aoptix.com), a leading developer of advanced biometrics-based identity solutions, will present their recent iris recognition deployments in

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  • VMware acquires Clearstone portfolio company Cetas Analytics

    Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas, a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. from UCLA. The acquisition is the third acquisition involving either EMC or VMware fro

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