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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.
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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