The meeting with Seshu Madhavapeddy and Surya Ganti started with me telling them, “We’re staying away from investment-heavy semiconductor companies.” I only took the meeting because Seshu was a prior customer, but forty-five minutes later the entire Clear team joined us in the conference room. We decided to invest in the company and two days […]
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I am often asked why some startups succeed in a world where most fail. Conventional wisdom is that three quarters of venture-backed startups fail and that under half of businesses make it to their fifth year. Why is consequential success as a new company builder so elusive and difficult? What are the big factors that […]
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By using A.I. and real-time digital counterparts of physical processes, U.S. chipmakers can catch up with Asia, says Clear Ventures founder Chris Rust. […]
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At CLEAR Ventures, we are excited to announce our investment in AICrete, the company that aims to reduce the cost and environmental impact of concrete by using artificial intelligence (AI) and automation. AICrete touches on three specific investment themes that we believe will be critical to the future of investing: sustainability, AI for X, and […]
Robotic process automation (RPA) has been widely advertised as a panacea for relieving humans of repetitive business processes. But as evidenced by several studies, RPA for the most part has failed to live up to the promise. As an example, a survey by EY found that 30-50% of initial RPA projects fail, and most of those that […]
Innovative CLEAR EDGE Approach Brings Capital, Resources and Intelligence to Researchers, Supercharging Go to Market Plans for Breakthrough AI-Based Solutions PALO ALTO, Calif. – December 9, 2021 – Today Clear Ventures announced a new investment initiative to fund and support AI startups emerging from academic research institutions. The new initiative leverages Clear’s innovative CLEAR EDGE […]
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The Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet of Things continues to develop with advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. New solutions offer cost savings, efficiency gains and improved yield that were not possible before. Startups like Tignis are leveraging these advances to optimize industrial operations and make Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning available to almost […]
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Rajeev Madhavan, founding partner at Clear Ventures, shares his career as a 3x successful entrepreneur. He shows how an entrepreneur changes his skeptical view and convinces him in 20 minutes. More […]
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Below is an email from the CEO of one of our portfolio companies. We are sharing this with you so you are aware of some testing options and how things work. Those of us at Clear want you and your employees to be safe. Testing is part of that approach to safety Team, I just […]
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