SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Clearstone Ventures: Focus On Enterprise & Infrastructure Software, Wireless Network, Services, Business & Consumer Internet And Communications' April 12, 2007

SVASE Event: 'VC Breakfast: Clearstone Ventures: Focus On Enterprise & Infrastructure Software, Wireless Network, Services, Business & Consumer Internet And Communications'

Event: 'VC Breakfast: Clearstone Ventures: Focus On Enterprise & Infrastructure Software, Wireless Network, Services, Business & Consumer Internet And Communications'

Date: Thursday, April 12, 2007 At 08:00
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Contact Info:
CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693 Email: jai@vigyana.com
URL: svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=855

The featured VC will be Vish Mishra, Senior Venture Partner, Clearstone Ventures. www.clearstone.com

EVENT LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431

This event is co-sponsored by Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. www.townsend.com.

Clearstone Ventures

We're Builders and We're Looking for Ideas in the major computing and internet sectors. 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.

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.

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 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.

Vish Mishra

Vish joined Clearstone in March 2002 with over 30 years of leadership and management experience in the high tech industry including software, Internet, networking and telecommunications. He is a founder and served as a board member of Telera, a cutting edge voice web infrastructure company funded by Accel and Sequoia, which was sold to Alcatel for $140 million in 2002. Vish was also co-founder of Excelan (1983), which was funded with $7.3 million in venture capital, went public in 1987, sold for $225 million in 1989 and went on to contribute $1 billion to Novell’s revenue in subsequent years.

Vish prides himself in being a mentor capitalist who sits or has sat on boards of many venture-backed companies such as Abeama, Cofix, Onjibe, PostMedia Group, Quantros, Ramp Networks (sold to Nokia), SloMedia, Verano, and Xalted IP Networks. His prior experience includes founding VP of Operations of Excelan and VP Novell and EVP of iPlanet (a unit of Sun Microsystems and AOL), and CEO of four start-ups: Info-Objects, Mindworks, IntelliMatch and Ace Software.

Vish holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Institute of Technology at Benares Hindu University, an MS in Electrical Engineering from North Dakota State University and MBA work from the University of Minnesota. He is a very active Director and Charter Member of TiE who has dedicated himself to the growth of the organization since its inception.

Vish's focus at Clearstone is deal flow, syndicate networking, portfolio company support and executive coaching. His vast network in Silicon Valley, extended globally through TiE, is an invaluable asset to entrepreneurs and to us. Vish serves on the board of Novariant (formerly IntegriNautics).

COST: $25 SVASE Members; $39 Affiliates; $49 Non-members. This event is for ENTREPRENEURS ONLY, BY PREREGISTRATION ONLY.

This event is co-sponsored by Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. www.townsend.com.

CONTACT: VCBC Chair: Jai Kumar, contact no. - 408-406-4693

LOCATION: Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, 379 Lytton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301-1431

Official Website: http://svase.org/index.php?option=com_extcalendar&Itemid=149&extmode=view&extid=855