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Clearstone Venture Partners — 2000 Investments

1 investments dated 2000 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

PayPalpaypal.cominNASDAQ: PYPLSeries B · Jan 2000 · $23M

PayPal is the payments company that came out of the March 2000 merger of Confinity — founded in 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek and Ken Howery to beam money between Palm Pilots — and Elon Musk's online bank X.com.

San Jose, US

Max Levchin(Founder)inPeter Thiel(Founder)inLuke Nosek(Founder)inKen Howery(Founder)inElon Musk(Founder)inAlex Chriss(President and Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsA*BlueRun VenturesDG Daiwa VenturesMercury FundRRE VenturesSequoia Capital+6 more

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.