I was struck recently by a piece in The Wall Street Journal by Pui-Wing Tam, The $1 Billion Club Gets Crowded, which highlights the amusing rate at which closely held, private US companies in the social media sector are garnering $1 billion-plus valuations. With 20 companies already fetching a 10-figure price tag— 15 of them since the beginning […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday May 16 I will be presenting at the iMedicine & Mobile Life Sciences World Summit concerning smartphones as the next frontier in medical imaging, telemedicine and EMRs. I am presenting with Tobin Arthur of Cureus. Cureus is revolutionizing medical publishing and is founded by John Adler, a famous neurosurgeon at Stanford. Physicians today use […]
Read MoreMoshe Alafi will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship Award for 2012 by the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley on Tuesday, March 20th. Moshe has been a mentor to me and Claremont Creek Ventures is proud to be a sponsor of this event. You may register […]
Read MoreMarch 7, 2012 source: Angel Capital Association (ACA) AssureRx Health, Inc. Receives 2012 ACA Luis Villalobos Award for Innovation Angel Capital Association Recognizes Company For Industry-leading Personalized Medicine Solution Hats off to one of my portfolio companies, AssureRx today received the the 2012 Luis Villalobos Award from the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the trade association of […]
Read MoreOn February 22, I had the pleasure of speaking with Douglas Crawford, the associate director of QB3 the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences in Berkeley –. It was quite exciting to be the first guest on their new podcast, QB3 Bio Entrepreneurship. During our lively hour discussion, I had the opportunity to share my thoughts on […]
Read MoreKeep sweating — it’s good for your venture, and let us help connect you. by John Steuart Managing Director During the holidays, I’ve been listening to the biography of Steve Jobs on my iPhone, and I’m reminded yet again that innovation, brilliance and the power to change the world comes often from the most unlikely […]
Read MoreClaremont Creek Ventures was founded in 2005 by Nat Goldhaber, John Steuart and Randy Hawks to pursue early stage investing in exceptional technology startups.