title: Clarity Partners
text: # Clarity Partners
  
  Clarity Partners, LP is a private equity firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California that focuses on investments in media, telecommunications and business services. Clarity Partners also manages an affiliated China investment private equity fund.
  
  Clarity Partners was founded in 1999. The firm has over $1 billion of assets under management and is among the largest media and telecom focused funds in the Western United States.
  
  Senior Investment Professionals at Clarity Include: David Lee, Barry Porter, Stephen Rader, Rudolph Reinfrank, Joshua Gutfreund, Clinton Walker, Erez Barnavon, and Leo Griffin.
  
  ## Notable past and present investments
  
  * Oxygen Media, a women's cable channel
  * ImpreMedia, a Hispanic newspaper publisher in the US, publishing newspapers such as La Opinión, El Diario and Hoy
  * Village Roadshow, a producer of movies such as The Matrix and Happy Feet
  * Modern Luxury Media, a publisher of city magazines
  * MetroPCS, a flat rate mobile telephony provider
  * Opnext, an optical laser component supplier, spun out of Hitachi and listed on NASDAQ
  * TelePacific Communications, a CLEC in California
  