Daring to Dream and
Redefine What’s Possible

We have been the earliest investor with dozens of teams that have dared to pursue their vision—creating and leading new markets, and shaping the future.

Meet the companies that inspire us every day.

Our Companies

LILT

LILT

LILT was founded in 2016 by Stanford Phd CEO Dr. Spence Greene and UC Berkeley Phd CTO Dr. John DeNero. LILT is an AI company developing novel natural language processing (NLP) changing the unit economics of manual language translation. Lilt addresses a large $20B+ fragmented manual translation market that is ripe for disruption with ML. Excellent Google Translate alumni team.

  • Founded: 2015
  • Round Partnered: Series C
  • Year Partnered: 2022
  • Fund: Clear Ventures II
  • Clear Partner(s): Rajeev Madhavan, Noor Kamruddin
  • Status: Active

TEAM

  • Nigel Duffy

    Founder

  • Simon Wilkinson

    Head of Engineering

  • Ryan McMahon

    Chief of Staff

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.

The Clear investment team has funded over 70 companies, 90% as the first investors, and has had 54 exits valued at a $85 billion market cap.

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

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