DFX Intelligence
Venture Capital Intelligence
Firms, funds, partners, companies and rounds from sworn filings, firm sites and announcements, kept as a graph with a date and a source on every edge. Facts, inferences and estimates are labelled as such. A fund target is never a close, GAV is never dry powder, and a round size is never an investor’s check.
Firms / Clear Venture Management, LLC
Clear Venture Management, LLC
both early and growth/opportunity families, reported GAV $391M
Importance
33
moderate
Active deployment
0
low
Emerging
0
low
Completeness
75
high
Freshness
100
high
Research priority
4
low
Identity and regulatory footprint
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CAadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Office address
- 2209-2215 EL CAMINO REAL, Palo Alto, CA, 94306adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Business phone
- 866-253-2714adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Website
- HTTP://CLEAR.VENTURES
- SEC adviser type
- exempt reporting adviseradviserinfo.sec.gov
- SEC exemption claimed
- venture capital fund adviseradviserinfo.sec.govItem 2.B(1): advises solely venture capital funds
- Latest Form ADV
- Mar 27, 2026
- Private funds reported
- 3 (3 venture capital funds)adviserinfo.sec.gov
- Private fund gross assets
- $540Madviserinfo.sec.govreported GAV of the funds, the adviser's own number; not fund size, not dry powder
- business phone
- 866-253-2714adviserinfo.sec.govpublished by the subject
Stated thesis versus observed behaviour
2 observed deals
Stated (the firm’s website)
- Sectors
- ai, deep tech, devtools
- Stages
- seed, early
- Geography
- global, silicon valley, united states
- Check size
- not stated; DFX does not estimate checks from round sizes
Observed (from deals on record)
Stage at participation: no observed deals yet
Stage at first entry: no observed deals yet
Sectors
Other 50%Other Technology 50%
lead rate n/afollow-on rate n/anew logos, 12 months 0
Funds and vehicles
3 reported
| Vehicle | Type | Vintage | Lifecycle | Reported GAV | Owners | Form D sold | Latest Form D |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clear Ventures Growth I, L.P. | Growth fund | 2022 adv first reported | Active deployment | $37.2M Mar 21, 2024 | 15 | $0 of $30.0M | Feb 1, 2021 |
| Clear Ventures II, L.P. | Fund | 2020 adv first reported | Mature | $211M Mar 21, 2024 | 51 | $0 of $175M | Feb 14, 2019 |
| Clear Ventures, L.P. | Fund | 2015 form d first sale | Harvest | $143M Mar 21, 2024 | 47 | $121M of $121M | Jun 3, 2016 |
GAV is the gross asset value the adviser reported on Form ADV for the vehicle, never the fund’s committed size and never dry powder. Form D sold is the amount sold as of the latest filing, never a final close.
Investment team
37 current, 2 departed
Dan Maloney
Founder or executiveZEPL - CEO
Howard Charney
Founder or executiveFormerly President's Counsel of Cisco
Jerry Weissman
Founder or executiveSuasive - Founder & CEO, world-class presentation mentor
Rodrigo Liang
Founder or executiveSambaNova Systems - Co-Founder & CEO
Rajeev Madhavan
General partnerGeneral Partner & Co Founder
Lee Schweichler
Managing partnerSchweichler Price Mullarkey & Barry - Managing Partner
Hemam Muthyala
OtherGlobal Head of Security and Privacy at SPAN
Michael Davis
OtherPhysician executive and academic hospitalist
Christopher J. Rust
PartnerPartner
Christopher Jeffery Rust
PartnerManaging Director Of Clear Venture Partners, Llc · since Oct 1, 2015
Howard Miller
PartnerCIO at UCLA
Noor Kamruddin
PartnerPartner
Rajeev Madhavan
PartnerManaging Director Of Clear Venture Partners, Llc · since Oct 1, 2015
Sumit Johar
PartnerCIO at Blackline
Zachary Poley
PartnerPartner & CTO
Ali Khan
Platform and operationsSVP & Chief Data Officer, Experian
Aman Sirohi
Platform and operationsVP CISO & Platform, People.ai
Andrew White
Platform and operationsAssistant Chief Clinical Information Officer at UW Medicine
Aysha Khan
Platform and operationsCIO and CISO at Treasure Data
Brad Pollard
Platform and operationsChief Technology Officer at SHI International
Full Stack Swe
Platform and operationsOperations
Hemanta Swain
Platform and operationsChief Information Security Officer at LUCID Motors
Kt Moore
Platform and operationsVP Marketing at Cadence Design Automation
Linda Liguori
Platform and operationsExecutive Assistant and Operations Manager
Lynn Simon
Platform and operationsPresident, Healthcare Innovation and Chief Medical Officer at Community Health Systems
Noorjehan Nizar Kamruddin
Platform and operationsChief Compliance Officer · since Apr 1, 2020
Pramod Raghavendran
Platform and operationsGroup Director, Customer Data Platform at Walmart
Sanjay Srivastava
Platform and operationsGenpact - Chief Digital Officer
Shardul Kazi
Platform and operationsFormerly SVP and CMO/COO of Toshiba
Somnath Banerjee
Platform and operationsChief Data Scientist
Brent Bilger
PrincipalVerizon - Director Technology
Khalig Howard
PrincipalPrincipal
Tina Cho
PrincipalPrincipal
Doug Burger
Vice presidentCorporate VP of Microsoft Research Core at Microsoft
Dr. Lew Tucker
Vice presidentFormerly VP and CTO of Cloud Computing at Cisco
Pere Monclus
Vice presidentVMWare - VP/CTO Network & Security
Rusty Atkinson
Vice presidentVP Technology at Clearway Health
2 departed (kept with end dates)
- Erin Thao Codd · Chief Compliance Officer · Oct 1, 2017 to Mar 25, 2021 Inference
- Matt Herich · Operations · ? to Sep 16, 2026 Inference
Investments on record
2 edges, 2 companies, 2 partner-attributed
| Company | Round | Role | Partner | Round size | This investor | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kognitos, Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | Rajeev Madhavan (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Apr 8, 2025 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
| Opsera, Inc. | board seat | unknown · board | Rajeev Madhavan (strongly supported) | unknown | unknown | Feb 21, 2025 | Inference SEC EDGAR Form D data sets (quarterly) |
“This investor” is the amount disclosed for this investor alone; it is unknown unless a source said it. The round size is the whole round.
Co-investors
1 relationships from shared deals, counted for the whole firm
Limited partners
0 disclosed
No LP commitment on record. An LP edge needs a public disclosure with a quote: a pension report (see Limited partners for the plans read), a fund announcement naming the LP, or a Form ADV owner. The fund page carries the LP’s reported performance.
Timeline
9 dated events
- Sep 16, 2026Matt Herich (Operations) no longer on the team page of Clear Venture Management, LLCPerson leftPeopleInferenceMatt HerichVenture organization websites (about, team, portfolio, thesis, news pages)
- Sep 15, 2026Clear Venture Management, LLC: INSTITUTIONAL_VC -> MULTI_STAGE_VC (both early and growth/opportunity families, reported GAV $391M)Classification changedClassificationInferenceno URL
- Mar 29, 2022Clear Ventures Growth I, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Clear Venture Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $33,013,796Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactClear Ventures Growth I, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Mar 25, 2021Erin Thao Codd (Chief Compliance Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Clear Venture Management, LLC
- Apr 1, 2020Noorjehan Nizar Kamruddin joined Schedule A of Clear Venture Management, LLC as Chief Compliance Officer
- Mar 12, 2020Clear Ventures II, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Clear Venture Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $177,465,810Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactClear Ventures II, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Oct 1, 2017Erin Thao Codd joined Schedule A of Clear Venture Management, LLC as Chief Compliance Officer
- Jun 13, 2016Clear Venture Management, LLC first filed Form ADV (ERA, venture capital fund adviser exemption)First SEC adviser filingOrganizationFactSEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
- Jun 13, 2016Clear Ventures, L.P. first reported on Form ADV by Clear Venture Management, LLC (Venture Capital Fund), GAV $54,150,000Fund first reported on Form ADVFundsFactClear Ventures, L.P.SEC Form ADV filing data 2011 to 2024 (every filing, Schedule D 7.B.(1) private funds, Schedules A/B)
Classification history
- Sep 15, 2026Multi-stage venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)both early and growth/opportunity families, reported GAV $391M
- Sep 12, 2026Institutional venture firm (confirmed, 95%, cls-1)venture manager, reported GAV $180M across 2 vehicles
Evidence
50 observations from 3 sources