Clear Ventures adds partner

New Clear Ventures partner Vijay Reddy was formerly a partner at Intel Capital.

Vijay Reddy, former partner at Intel Capital, has joined the Clear Ventures team as its newest partner.

Some of Reddy’s deals at Intel Capital included Sambanova, DataRobot, Lilt, Joby (Nasdaq: Joby), Aeye (Nasdaq: LIDR), Hypersonix, KatanaGraph, Landing.ai, BabbleLabs (Acquired by Cisco), Matroid, Avaamo, Opaque and Common Sense Machines. He began his career as an entrepreneur when he co-founded his first start-up.

Founded by Chris Rust and Rajeev Madhavan, Clear Ventures focuses on early-stage enterprise IT companies, including those with AI applied to a specific industry or function.

The firm said that Reddy has a well-established reputation as a leading AI and frontier technology investor, having invested in 20 AI and frontier technology start-ups, including four unicorns and two IPOs.

Source: Press release