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Our Companies

Zerto

Zerto

Brothers Ziv and Oded Kedem successfully sold their first company, Kashya, to EMC in 2006 after establishing the global standard for appliance-based business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) for enterprise infrastructure. After leaving EMC, the Kedem brothers started with a clean sheet of paper and went back to first principles, founding Zerto in 2010 to re-invent BC/DR for the cloud computing era. Economies of scale and ease-of-use were driving the adoption of cloud-based services at an aggressive rate, but traditional BC/DR solutions were not efficient for modern virtualized data center infrastructure. Today, with headquarters in Boston, MA and Herzliya, Israel, Zerto has over 4,000 customers in 40 countries and is the gold standard for BC/DR for private and public clouds.

  • Founded: 2010
  • Round Partnered: Series B
  • Year Partnered: 2011
  • Fund: Prior Investments
  • Clear Partner(s): Chris Rust
  • Status: Acquired by Public Company
  • Acquirer: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Chris has invaluable knowledge of the business technology market from SMBs to the largest enterprises. His market knowledge is helping us to build a better product and meet our business goals. His input is direct, honest, and constructive. We get tremendous value from working with him.
Ziv Kedem, CEO

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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