Jim Armstrong

nationwide and focuses on information technology investments, with particular interest in consumer Internet, application software, and Internet enabled market places. On several occasions, Forbes Magazine has recognized Jim on its “Midas List” as one of the top Venture Capitalists in the United States. Jim co-founded March Capital in 2014 and has been at Clearstone Venture Partners since 1998. Jim worked with Idealab, the incubator, in the late 90s and started his career at Austin Ventures in 1995. Jim's investments at March Capital Partners include Branch, SpyCloud, Lexicon and Vyng.

Jim led Clearstone’s ACTIVE investments in SupplyFrame, Vast, and UserTesting, and is on the board of two incubators - The Hive (big data) and The Fabric (cloud networking). Jim actively represented Clearstone’s early stage, “pre-revenue,” investments in former portfolio companies PayPal (acquired by eBay as a public company), United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), Internet Brands (NASDAQ:INET before being taken private), Integrien (acquired by VMWare), Jump Networks (acquired by Microsoft), Comet Systems (acquired by Miva), TriVida (acquired by BeFree) and Composite Software (acquired by Cisco). Jim is an angel investor in and advisor to many companies, and he sits on the board of the Los Angeles Venture Association.

Jim holds a BA in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and an MBA from the McCombs School at the University of Texas at Austin.