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A VC’s “No”, What is it good for?

By Ted Driscoll / October 12, 2010 / 0 Comments

Last year, Claremont Creek Ventures was exposed to over 500 startup ideas and entrepreneurs. As is probably typical in most early stage technology Venture Capitalists, we ultimately invest in less than 1% of the deals we see. That means we are saying “no” at least 99 times for every time we ultimately say “yes”. It […]

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The Future is Now – an interview with Ted Driscoll

By Claremont Creek Alerts / October 7, 2010 / 0 Comments

October 6, 2010  source: PrivateEquityCentral.net (registration required for site access) This interview with Ted Driscoll was originally published on the Private Equity Central website. The Future is Now Bionic limbs may sound like something out of the future, but it is not. It is here. Now. Claremont Creek Ventures, a firm with $310 million in […]

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Early Stage Investing Is Alive and Well

By Randy Hawks / October 1, 2010 / 1 Comment

What a difference a year makes. In 2009, with the nation’s economic storm raging with gale-force winds, most venture capitalists pulled in their horns, trimmed the size of their startup portfolios and only rarely invested in new startups, whether they were promising or not. When they did invest, it was mostly in later-stage rounds. Some […]

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Andy Grove Misfires: Challenging His Argument About Job Creation

By Randy Hawks / July 13, 2010 / 0 Comments

Andy Grove takes Thomas Friedman, a columnist for  the New York Times  to task in Grove’s recent Business Week article “How America Creates Jobs”.   Andy Grove argues that Friedman is wrong in claiming in his column that “if Washington wants to create jobs it should back startups”.  Grove states that startups are wonderful things, but […]

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Claremont Creek Ventures ‘LifeCycle’ venturing model attracts a solid flow of energy deals

By Claremont Creek Alerts / June 18, 2010 / 0 Comments

February 10, 2010 source: Vator.tv Claremont Creek Ventures is one of the only VC firms in the East Bay.  That’s  a good thing for Nat Goldhaber, one of the managing directors at the Oakland-based firm.   Deal flow in clean tech is accelerating Claremont Creek Ventures ‘LifeCycle’ venturing model attracts a solid flow of energy deals Claremont […]

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Meet our team

Claremont Creek Ventures was founded in 2005 by Nat Goldhaber, John Steuart and Randy Hawks to pursue early stage investing in exceptional technology startups.

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NAT GOLDHABER

Nat Goldhaber is a co-founder of Claremont Creek Ventures. 

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BRAD WEBB

Brad is focused on the role of genomics and biomarker data analytics in driving the next generation of diagnostics and drug development.

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RANDY HAWKS

Randy Hawks is a co-founder of Claremont Creek Ventures.

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