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Clear Ventures
Clear Ventures
Type
Private
Industry Venture capital
Founded 2016 Founders Christopher Jeffery Rust and Rajeev Madhavan
Headquarters Palo Alto, California, United States
Key people Glenn Gow (Marketing Partner), Tina Nuss (Office Manager), Erin Codd (Finance Manager) Website www.clear.ventures
Clear Ventures is a venture capital firm located in Silicon Valley. The firm was established in 2016 and manages an initial $121 million in investment capital.[1][2]
The firm was founded by Christopher Jeffery Rust[3] and Rajeev Madhavan[4]. The two founders invested in more than 65 companies together prior to founding Clear Ventures. With nearly 60 years of combined company building and technology venture investment experience, Madhavan and Rust came together to fund new companies disrupting business technology and services.[5][6]
The team’s venture capital exits cover many innovation cycles and include seed/early-stage investments in Apigee[7], GoPro[8], Virident[9], Yume[10], Magma[11], Groupon[12], Dune (acquired by Broadcom)[13], Mellanox[14], LVL7 (acquired by Broadcom)[15], Syndesis (acquired by Subex Azure)[16], Telera (acquired by Alcatel)[17], VxTel (acquired by Intel)[18], LogicVision[19], Ambit (acquired by Cadence)[20], SwitchOn (acquired by PMC Sierra)[21][22], Avanex[23], and Abrizio (acquired by PMC Sierra).[24][25][26] The first 35 VC exits, including eight IPOs and 25 acquisitions have produced $52B of market capitalization.[6]
Clear Ventures typically invests in early stage startups primarily located in the San Francisco Bay Area. It focuses on investing in cloud, mobile, business technology and services, Internet of things, and data companies, with the goal of guiding them through their early stages. Clear’s current portfolio includes Atmosic[27], Arrcus[28], Reflektion[29], Robin Systems[30], Swift Navigation[31], Vera Security[32], Waterguru[33], and Wootcloud[34] . The Clear co-founders are also early-stage venture investors in GoEuro, LivSpace[35], Peel, Toast, and Zerto.
References
edit1. “Silicon Valley VC firm Clear Ventures launches with $120M fund for early-stage startups”. Venture Beat. June 1, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 2. “SEC Form D”. US Securities and Exchange Commission. June 2, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 3. “Christopher J. Rust”. Bloomberg. Retrieved June 11, 2018. 4. “Rajeev Madhavan, General Partner/Co-Founder, Clear Ventures”. Bloomberg. Retrieved June 11, 2018 5. “Clear Ventures, run by veteran investors, launches debut fund with $120 million”. Tech Crunch. June 1, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2018 6. “New Silicon Valley tech investor Clear Ventures closes first $120m oversubscribed fund”. Alt Assets. June 1, 2016. Received May 16, 2018. 7. Apigee. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 8. GoPro. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 9. Virident Systems. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 10. YuMe. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 11 Magma. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 12. Groupon. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 13. Dune. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 14. Mellanox Technologies. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 15. LVL7. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018 16. Syndesis. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 17. Telera. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 18. VxTel. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 19. LogicVision. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 20. Ambit Design Systems. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 21. SwitchOn Networks. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 22. SwitchOn Networks Organizations or People. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 23. Avanex. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 24. Abrizio Systems. Crunchbase. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 25. Abrizio Networks Organizations or People. Crunchbase. Received May 16, 2018. 26. “Clear Ventures Launches New $120 Million Venture Capital Fund”. Market Wired. June 1, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 27. Atmosic. Received June 11, 2018. 28. Arrcus. Received June 11, 2018. 29. Reflektion. Received June 25, 2018. 30. Robin Systems. Received June 13, 2018. 31. Swift Navigation. Received June 13, 2018. 32. Vera. Received June 13, 2018. 33. Waterguru. Received June 13, 2018. 34. “Our Portfolios”. Clear Ventures. Retrieved May 16, 2018. 35. LivSpace. The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
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