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Clear Ventures

Founders Chris Rust Rajeev Madhavan

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Total investments 65
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$12M
Portfolio companies 47
Rounds per year 7.22
Lead investments 19
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.28
Exits 20
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Information Technology
  • Enterprise Software
  • Computer
  • Manufacturing
Summary

Clear Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2014. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The venture was found in North America in United States.

This organization was formed by Chris Rust, Rajeev Madhavan. We also calculated 4 valuable employees in our database.

The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 4 or 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Swift Navigation, Wootcloud, Falcon Computing Solutions. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Data Center, Enterprise Software. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Clear Ventures, startups are often financed by Rajeev Madhavan, Raj Sandhu, Hasso Plattner Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Hasso Plattner Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Homebrew. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by USAA, Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA), Nexus Venture Partners.

The top activity for fund was in 2017. The real fund results show that this VC is 0 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other companies. The average startup value when the investment from Clear Ventures is 10-50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kognitos

$20M29 Nov 2023 -

Espresa

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$23M31 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Wherobots Inc.

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Geospatial
Software
$5M13 Jun 2023 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Kognitos

$6M07 Feb 2023 -

Frore Systems

Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$100M01 Dec 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

AICrete

Civil Engineering
$4M21 Sep 2022 Richmond, California, United States

Avicena Tech

Electronics
Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$25M02 Aug 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Tignis

Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$7M12 May 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Concentric AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
$14M11 May 2022 San Jose, California, United States
News
Robin.io Raises $38M in Series C Funding

– Robin.io, a San Jose, CA-based leader in Kubernetes-based cloud-native 5G, edge and enterprise application management, closed a $38M Series C funding round.
– The round was led by Rakuten Capital and joined by Clear Ventures, Emory University, Raine Next-Gen Communications and current investors.
– This latest major backing for the company comes as bookings growth at Robin.io has surpassed 400% quarter-over-quarter when comparing the first two quarters of the current fiscal year.

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Total investments 65
Average round size 12M
Rounds per year 7.22
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 19
Follow on index 0.28
Exits 20
Group Appearance index 0.63

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Kognitos

$20M29 Nov 2023 -

Espresa

Employee Benefits
Enterprise Software
Human Resources
SaaS
Software
$23M31 Oct 2023 Palo Alto, California, United States

Wherobots Inc.

Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Data Services
Geospatial
Software
$5M13 Jun 2023 Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Kognitos

$6M07 Feb 2023 -

Frore Systems

Manufacturing
Mechanical Engineering
$100M01 Dec 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

AICrete

Civil Engineering
$4M21 Sep 2022 Richmond, California, United States

Avicena Tech

Electronics
Industrial Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Semiconductor
$25M02 Aug 2022 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Tignis

Information Services
Information Technology
Machine Learning
Software
$7M12 May 2022 Seattle, Washington, United States

Concentric AI

Artificial Intelligence
Network Security
$14M11 May 2022 San Jose, California, United States
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