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Magma Design Automation was a provider of EDA software for designing low power, high performance ICs for mobile and high performance devices. With customers such as Nvidia, Apple, Qualcomm, and Samsung, Magma was instrumental in providing software that was used to design most mobile devices. Magma was acquired by Synopsys in 2012
Nigel Duffy
Founder
Simon Wilkinson
Head of Engineering
Ryan McMahon
Chief of Staff
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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