Clear Ventures

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VCMatch tracks Clear Ventures as an investor focused on AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, and Cloud Infrastructure companies, Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, San Francisco Bay Area, United States (East Coast), and Israel markets, and $100k to $5m check sizes. Upload your deck to compare your startup against the full private matching profile.

Check Size

$100k to $5m

Stages

Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A

Focus Areas

AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure

Geography

San Francisco Bay Area, United States (East Coast), and Israel

Investment Thesis

Clear is a Silicon Valley–based early‑stage investor that partners with founders from company creation, providing seed capital, connections and company‑building guidance to turn bold ideas into market‑leading companies. They believe in getting in early: “We invest early because we believe that’s what it takes to help fast‑growing businesses like yours win,” and focus on backing first‑wave innovators solving hard problems in nascent, high growth‑potential markets.

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Investment Focus

Who should take a closer look

Clear Ventures is most relevant for founders raising Pre-Seed, Seed, and Series A rounds in AI/ML, Enterprise SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data Infrastructure, especially across San Francisco Bay Area, United States (East Coast), and Israel, with public check-size signals around $100k to $5m.

Focus statement

Clear focuses on frontier technology and services—business technology and services, the connected world (5G, M2M, IoT), cloud & mobile, data as a strategic asset, and applications of AI/ML and NLP—preferring companies that aim to "lead high growth‑potential nascent markets or disrupt large industries." Their typical first check is between $100K and $5 million and they are partial to companies in the San Francisco Bay Area while investing globally.

Value Add

Consistent early‑stage lead: "We have been the first investors in 90% of our past portfolio companies."
Track record and capital base: team has funded over 70 companies, 54 exits representing ~$85 billion market cap, and manages ~$335 million of capital.
Hands‑on company building: provides seed capital plus "Clear Technology Partners"—mentoring, customer access, talent and scaling insights.
Follow‑on support experience: "Over 250 follow‑on rounds"—they emphasize helping portfolio companies achieve follow‑on financing success.
Founder‑friendly operational style: prefers thin board packages, short board meetings, and to be "part of the solution when pivots are required."
Clear, straightforward terms: "we prefer priced rounds to notes and support strong stock grants to hire well."