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Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company ecoATM attracts $17 million in second round of investments

By Randy Hawks / May 1, 2012 / 0 Comments

 Congratulations to our portfolio company ecoATM, the award-winning San Diego start-up known for its commitment to the environment and its innovative kiosks that automate the buy-back of used mobile phones and other used portable electronics directly from consumers. It is closing its series B investment round today of approximately $17 million. Claremont Creek Ventures, Coinstar, […]

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Adura announces a Series B of $8.5M and adds Kaiser Center garage—Oakland marquee building as a customer.

By Nat Goldhaber / April 26, 2012 / 0 Comments

April 25, 2012 source: Adura Technologies press release ADURA GROWTH REPRESENTS A 273 percent jump in revenue in 2011 over 2010 Adura Technologies, one of our energy technology portfolio companies and a leading provider of wireless lighting controls and energy management systems, today announced that they added the 500,000 square foot Kaiser Center Garage, one […]

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Claremont Creek Ventures portfolio company Clean Power Finance selected as 2012 New Energy Pioneer

By Nat Goldhaber / March 19, 2012 / 0 Comments

March 19, 2012  source: Bloomberg Businessweek Today Bloomberg New Energy Finance announced that our portfolio company, Clean Power Finance, is a 2012 New Energy Pioneer! It was selected as one of ten out of hundreds of applications from around the world. Clean Power Finance is driving the mass-market adoption of residential solar by building an online […]

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“Be better, faster and cheaper and if I don’t get cheaper, I don’t invest!”

By John Steuart / March 6, 2012 / 2 Comments

On 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 […]

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Entrepreneur’s Perspective, part two: : Frank Richards, serial entrepreneur and former CEO of SmartZIP: The Building of a Company

By Claremont Creek Alerts / December 19, 2011 / 0 Comments

Guest Post by Frank Richards

The Building of a Company

As an avid fan and investor in real estate I identified a significant gap in the residential investment market around 2004. I noted that 15-20% of all homes sold in the US are for investment. But I also discovered that there were no national platforms or proprietary algorithms that could help people identify the best investment markets and the best properties. Essentially there was no Charles Schwab for the residential investment market. I realized there was a great opportunity for a private banking platform to help people research, plan, acquire and manage residential real estate investments nationwide.

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Early payouts to startup execs a troubling trend

By Nat Goldhaber / October 9, 2011 / 0 Comments

October  9, 2011  source: San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate  Venture capitalists have long been known to toss the occasional bone to an entrepreneur working 100-hour weeks on a meager startup salary. But we’re talking pay-down-the-mortgage money, not retire-on-a-private-island money. — Nat Goldhaber   Early payouts to startup execs a troubling trend by James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle […]

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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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