# Rajeev Madhavan

> Rajeev Madhavan is a Series A investor at Clear Ventures backing Information Technology. See 23 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Clear Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clear-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 23
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajeev-madhavan

Rajeev Madhavan is a Co-Founder and General Partner of Clear Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that provides startups capital, connections and company-building assistance from the earliest stages of company creation so their visions can grow intro market-leading companies. Clear Ventures launched its debut fund with $120 millioncommitted capital from a world-class investor base and an active portfolio that includes early positions in Cyphort, Espresa, Falcon, Paysa, Reflektion, Robin Systems, Swift Navigation, and Vera.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.6M–$6.8M |
| Series A | $7.2M–$25M |
| Series D | $15M–$50M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 5 | 22% |
| Software | 4 | 17% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 9% |
| Semiconductor | 2 | 9% |
| Machine Learning | 2 | 9% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 7 | 30% |
| Seed | 6 | 26% |
| Series D | 2 | 9% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 4% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 8 | 35% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 4% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Opsera | 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 |  |
| Atmosic | A fabless semiconductor company, designing lowest power wireless solutions to dramatically reduce battery power. | $40M | Series D | Mar 03, 2025 |  |
| Evidently | Evidently is a creative agency that renders content, digital campaigns, animation and brand planning services. | $15M | Series A | Dec 09, 2024 |  |
| Arrcus | 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 |  |
| Kognitos | Kognitos is in stealth mode. | $20M | Series A | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Opsera | 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. | $12M | Series A | Oct 04, 2023 |  |
| Arrcus | 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. | $15M | Series D | Jul 10, 2023 |  |
| Arrcus | 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. | $50M | Series D | Feb 09, 2023 |  |
| Kognitos | Kognitos is in stealth mode. | $6.8M | Seed | Feb 07, 2023 |  |
| Avicena Tech | It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs.Avicena’sultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects. | $25M | Series A | Aug 02, 2022 |  |

10 of 23 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Prosperity7 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prosperity7-ventures-d527) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Liberty Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liberty-global) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Hitachi Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hitachi-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

## About Clear Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Clear Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm focusing on investing in startup companies.

5 contacts available at Clear Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rajeev Madhavan | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rajeev-madhavan |
| Christopher Rust | Co-Founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-rust |
| Glenn Gow | Marketing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/glenn-gow |
| Noor Kamruddin | Vice President, Investment Operations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noor-kamruddin-6bbb |
| Zachary Poley | Chief Technology Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zachary-poley |

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## FAQ

### What does Rajeev Madhavan invest in?

Rajeev Madhavan invests primarily in Information Technology, Software and E-Commerce startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 23 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 Rajeev Madhavan's check size?

Rajeev Madhavan typically joins rounds of $1.6M–$6.8M at Seed, $7.2M–$25M at Series A and $15M–$50M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rajeev Madhavan participates in.

### When did Rajeev Madhavan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rajeev Madhavan closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 23 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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