Clear Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Clear Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focusing on investing in startup companies.
- Total investments:
- 96
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
- Fund size:
- $180M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Clear Ventures invests in
Stages Clear Ventures invests in
Countries Clear Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.6M–$6.8M
- Series A
- $7M–$25M
- Series B
- $8M–$45M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 24 (25%)
- Enterprise Software 10 (10%)
- Information Technology 10 (10%)
- Artificial Intelligence 8 (8%)
- Semiconductor 7 (7%)
Stage
- Series A 29 (30%)
- Seed 24 (25%)
- Series B 9 (9%)
- Series C 5 (5%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (4%)
Country
- United States 46 (48%)
- Canada 1 (1%)
- Germany 1 (1%)
- Pakistan 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Rajeev Madhavan
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 26 | Find email | |
Christopher Rust
Co-Founder & General Partner
|
Co-Founder & General Partner | Total investments: 51 | Find email | |
Glenn Gow
Marketing Partner
|
Marketing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Noor Kamruddin
Vice President, Investment Operations
|
Vice President, Investment Operations | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Zachary Poley
Chief Technology Officer
|
Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frore Systems develops and supplies advanced thermal management technologies for electronic systems that require efficient heat dissipation without conventional cooling mechanisms. The company’s product portfolio includes AirJet, a solid‑state active cooling chip used in consumer devices, industrial embedded systems, edge AI platforms, and IoThardware to remove heat silently and support compact designs without fans or moving parts. It also produces LiquidJet, a direct‑to‑chip liquid cooling plate designed for high‑performance computing environments such as data centers to address heat removal challenges for modern GPUs and AI workloads.Frore’s technologies aim to replace or augment traditional heat sinks and fans by integrating semiconductor manufacturing techniques into thermal solutions that fit into thinner, lighter, and more rugged device architectures. Its cooling systems are configured to match specific power maps of processors and deliver thermal performance improvements that enable hardware to sustain higher throughput under workload stress. | $143M / Series D / Mar 16, 2026 | ||
| Cynch AI is a fintech company that offers reasoning, machine learning, and generative AI to help people make financial decisions. | $9M / Series A / Dec 10, 2025 | ||
| Opsera provides an AI-powered DevOps platform that automates and streamlines the software delivery process. The company offers tools for CI/CD pipeline automation, DevSecOps, release orchestration, and toolchain management, aiming to enhance productivity, accelerate innovation, and improve security for software teams. Its AI-driven approachintroduces autonomous AI agents that dynamically analyze, adapt, and optimize software delivery in real-time. | $20M / Series B / Apr 02, 2025 | ||
| A fabless semiconductor company, designing lowest power wireless solutions to dramatically reduce battery power. | $40M / Series D / Mar 03, 2025 | ||
| Evidently is a creative agency that renders content, digital campaigns, animation and brand planning services. | $15M / Series A / Dec 09, 2024 | ||
| Wherobots builds a cloud-native spatial data analytics experience for customers. The company helps users to collect, analyze, visualize, integrate, store, and manage geospatial data as it offers data analytics, data integration, and data processor services. These services serve the transportation, health, insurance, IT, and emergency managementindustries. | $21.5M / Series A / Nov 26, 2024 | ||
| Concentric’s Semantic Intelligence solution delivers data risk insights across the entire inventory of sensitive documents in the cloud and on-premises. Its deep learning technology examines each document’s content and context for efficient actionable security. It scans the documents, identifies sensitive or business-critical data, evaluates therisk each document poses, and highlights critical concerns that need immediate attention. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. | $45M / Series B / Oct 24, 2024 | ||
| CloudFabrix is a leading provider of AIOps, observability, and IT operations automation solutions designed to modernize and simplify IT operations for enterprises. The company’s flagship platform leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to deliver actionable insights, predictive analytics, and end-to-end automation, enablingorganizations to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and accelerate digital transformation. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, CloudFabrix leverages cutting-edge Gen & Agentic AI technologies to deliver data-driven insights, predictive analytics, and seamless automation for IT infrastructure and operations teams. | $7M / Series A / Sep 01, 2024 | ||
| Arrcus offers hyper-scale networking software that provides software-powered network transformation for the interconnected world. The company's software improves human experiences by connecting people, machines, and data, and it provides simple-to-use software that spans the infrastructure, from routers to switches to servers, allowingbusinesses to unify manageability and control with the ease of a single network solution that works across the entire network infrastructure and simplifies operations.Arrcus was established in 2016 in San Jose, California by Devesh Garg. | $30M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jul 18, 2024 | ||
| Frore Systems develops and supplies advanced thermal management technologies for electronic systems that require efficient heat dissipation without conventional cooling mechanisms. The company’s product portfolio includes AirJet, a solid‑state active cooling chip used in consumer devices, industrial embedded systems, edge AI platforms, and IoThardware to remove heat silently and support compact designs without fans or moving parts. It also produces LiquidJet, a direct‑to‑chip liquid cooling plate designed for high‑performance computing environments such as data centers to address heat removal challenges for modern GPUs and AI workloads.Frore’s technologies aim to replace or augment traditional heat sinks and fans by integrating semiconductor manufacturing techniques into thermal solutions that fit into thinner, lighter, and more rugged device architectures. Its cooling systems are configured to match specific power maps of processors and deliver thermal performance improvements that enable hardware to sustain higher throughput under workload stress. | $80M / Series C / May 29, 2024 | ||
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FAQ
What does Clear Ventures invest in?
Clear Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 96 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Clear Ventures's check size?
Clear Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$6.8M at Seed, $7M–$25M at Series A and $8M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Clear Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Clear Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Clear Ventures?
The team at Clear Ventures includes Rajeev Madhavan (Co-Founder & General Partner), Christopher Rust (Co-Founder & General Partner) and Glenn Gow (Marketing Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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