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Cartesian Kinetics

Cartesian Kinetics

Cartesian Kinetics was founded by ex-IIT and MS and ME Stanford Engineer Jayendran Balasubramanian. Retail stores are struggling to keep up with market dynamics of instant delivery and omnichannel fulfillment, while competing with Amazon’s automated warehouses. Cartesian empowers retailers with a last mile logistics warehouse platform for storage and retrieval.

  • Founded: 2018
  • Round Partnered: Seed
  • Year Partnered: 2022
  • Fund: Clear Ventures
  • Clear Partner(s): Noor Kamruddin
  • Status: Active

Results Matter, Success Counts

Four of the companies our team co-founded produced over $1.7 billion of market cap from 2 IPOs and 2 acquisitions.

We have funded over 90 companies, 90% as the first investors, and have had 48 exits valued at $95B from 11 IPOs, and 37 acquisitions.

Before we became VCs, we had already founded 5 successful companies.

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