We're Builders and We're Looking for Ideas in the major computing and internet sectors. Every year, we can say the world has changed. Every decade, what's changed about the world is easily seen. Are you among those changing it? If you are, let's talk. If you're not, what's stopping you?
Do you need a partner whose ambition matches yours? A partner with the imagination, insight and foresight to improve your chances of success? We're builders, compelled to create companies and guide them to big results. At Clearstone, we build with you, and we know the path to results.
Want proof? A track record of IPOs and large companies. Talk about change. PayPal took risk and doubt out of payments between strangers for online commerce. Overture invented the performance-based targeted online advertising models that now underpin the economics of the Web. United Online closed the digital divide with fast internet connectivity nearly anyone can afford. CarsDirect tilted the information advantage to consumers in automotive purchasing. All were guided to market-changing impact by imaginative thinking from Clearstone.
Clearstone's investment preferences are simple. We're attracted to big ideas over small, build companies for large rather than niche markets, and we value integrity in business practices above all else. We relish our role as enablers and catalysts for entrepreneurs to create and build great companies of lasting value.
Financing Innovation Others Miss
Clearstone Venture Partners provides venture capital for technology and business model innovators. With offices in Santa Monica and Menlo Park, California, and Mumbai, India, our coverage of the richest sources of wealth-building innovation is second to none. We have over $650 million of committed capital raised in three funds, for investment across the horizon of technology markets, including software, enterprise infrastructure, storage, communications, security, wireless, semiconductors, advanced optics and both consumer & business Internet.
Building companies "the right way"
Clearstone's considered approach to investing extends to its board participation and governance of portfolio companies. We prefer to see companies financed for 18 - 24 months worth of working capital between rounds of financing, and operating on a business plan to support that proposition. We work to foster intimate communications between the company's entire management team and its board as part of the practice of regularly evaluating management for performance.
We work hard to build an ecosystem of expertise around our companies
We leverage our external networks and our internal operating executives, who have built companies in the past. We look for leaders in the technology community who can lend expertise and judgment, as well as their networks, and get them involved with the companies their backgrounds best match. Clearstone's active guidance approach to technology investing combines deep knowledge of technology markets, a proven analytical approach, extensive networks, internal operating expertise and an appreciation for communication and rapid problem-solving to shepherd our companies to success in their chosen markets.
