RM

Rajeev Madhavan

Founder and General Partner, Clear Ventures

Atherton, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

Skills

Semiconductors
EDA
Start-ups
SoC
TCL
ASIC
Executive Management
Integration
IC
VLSI
Integrated Circuit Design
Product Management
Xilinx
Algorithms
Magma
Microprocessors
Cadence
Mixed Signal
Analog Circuit Design
Timing Closure

Work Experience

  • Member Board of Directors

    2023

    Kognitos has built an OS for rapid automation and innovation fueled by AI and a Natural Language interpreter allowing humans to build automations and manage exceptions all in intuitive English.

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2022

2020

  • Member Board of Directors

    2020

    Opsera has built a platform that help organizations accelerate their DevOps adoption and reach peak innovation velocity.

  • Founder and General Partner

    2016

    Clear is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm and provides startups capital, connections and company building assistance from the earliest stages of company creation so their visions can grow intro market leading companies. Clear Ventures launched its debut fund with $120M committed capital from world-class investor base and an active portfolio that includes early positions in Espresa, Falcon, Paysa, Reflektion, Robin Systems, Swift Navigation, and Vera.

2017 - 2022

  • Member Board Of Directors

    2017 - 2022

    Enterprise security platform designed to automate device security at IoT scale. Acquired by Netskope.

  • Chairman, Founding Investor

    2013 - 2022

    Infrastructure optimizer for distributed applications on private, public and hybrid clouds. Early investor, BOD Chairman. Company acquired by Rakuten.

2012 - 2021

  • Chairman, Investor

    2012 - 2021

    Reflektion provides a predictive analytics platform for retailers and brands through a software-as-a-service model. The deep machine learning algorithms combines computationally efficient algorithms from chip design and applies these for accurate prediction. www.reflektion.com. Company acquired by Sitecore.

Falcon Computing

2015 - 2020

  • BOD Member

    2015 - 2020

    Early stage stealth startup investor, BOD member. Investors include Baidu. Company acquired by Xilinx.

UCLA

2017 - 2019

  • UCLA Foundation Board of Directors

    2017 - 2019

UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering

2005 - 2018

  • Dean’s Executive Board / Advisory Board

    2005 - 2018