About ClearSky
ClearSky is a venture capital firm founded in 2012. It is primarily based out of West Palm Beach, United States. As of Jun 2025, ClearSky is an active investor, having invested in 34 companies, with 3 new investments in the last 12 months. It primarily invests in Series B round in United States based startups. Its investments are spread across a wide range of sectors from Enterprise Applications to High Tech and Enterprise Infrastructure. Most recently it led the $56M Series B round of Guardz along with Hanaco Ventures. This round also saw participation from Fnx and other investors.
Overall, ClearSky portfolio has seen 2 unicorns, 1 IPO and 20 acquisitions including key companies like Nextracker, Harness and Autogrid. A lot of funds co-invest with ClearSky, with names like Rally Ventures sharing a substantial percentage of its portfolio.
ClearSky has team of 26 people including 12 partners.
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ClearSky's List of Top Investments
ClearSky has a portfolio of 34 companies, including 2 unicorns. Their most notable investments are in CloudGenix and ClimateTrade.Their portfolio spans across United States, Israel, CanadaÌý²¹²Ô»å 2 more locations. They have invested in Enterprise Applications, High Tech, Enterprise InfrastructureÌý²¹²Ô»å 12 other sectors, across stages such as Series A, Series B Ìý²¹²Ô»å 4 more. Here is the list of top investments by ClearSky:1. Nextracker
Provider of solar panel tracking software. Its monitoring and control software enables users to manage the solar energy panels. It offers real time analysis and diagnosis on solar panels. The analysis provides insights to mitigate risk of wethaer conditions such as hailstorms, snow, and hurricanes.
Key facts about Nextracker
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Fremont (United States)
- Annual Revenue: $2.5B as on Mar 31, 2024
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $42.6M
- Employee Count: 1,050 as on Mar 31, 2024
- Investors: Presidio Partners, Sigma Partners and 7 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jun 17, 2015, $10.5M
- Highlight: Public
2. Harness
Self service continuous application delivery platform. It provides capabilities for automatic build creation, testing, and deployment on the production servers for changes to the code. It leverages machine learning to detect errors in the deployment process. The entire process can be viewed through a central console. The product is available on a subscription basis.
Key facts about Harness
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Valuation: $3.7B as on Apr 26, 2022
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $425M
- Employee Count: 267 as on Oct 31, 2024
- Investors: Hercules Capital, Adage Capital Management and 28 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Conventional Debt, Oct 17, 2023, $150M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
3. Autogrid
Autogrid specializes in providing IoT-enabled distributed energy resource management solutions. Its offerings include AutoGrid Flex, AutoGrid Engage, and AutoGrid Energy Internet Platform. It offers solutions such as storage co-optimization, virtual power plant, DER ancillary services, residential behavioral & pricing programs, and others.
Key facts about Autogrid
- Founded Year: 2011
- Location: Redwood City (United States)
- Stage: Acquired
- Total Funding till date: $160M
- Employee Count: 132 as on Oct 31, 2024
- Investors: TriplePoint Capital, Foundation Capital and 22 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Oct 14, 2021, $85M
- Highlight: Acquired
4. AppOmni
Platform offering security solutions for the cloud application. It provides the facility to scan and monitor data of SaaS applications and enables the user to enforce role-based access control and define security rules for data access.
Key facts about AppOmni
- Founded Year: 2018
- Location: San Francisco (United States)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $123M
- Employee Count: 79 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Thoma Bravo, Scale Venture Partners and 10 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Dec 14, 2022
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
5. BigID
Cloud based platform offering data privacy management software. It leverages machine learning and provides a solution such as discovering PI across structured, unstructured and big data, finding hidden information and relationships, automating access right fulfillment, automating data flow mapping, tracking data access and identifying and prioritizing protection for PI with open access, automate policy checks, enforcement orchestration and measure data and privacy risk.
Key facts about BigID
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: New York City (United States)
- Valuation: $1.25B as on Apr 22, 2021
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $308M
- Employee Count: 110 as on Dec 31, 2022
- Investors: Glynn Capital, Silver Lake and 26 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Feb 08, 2024, $61.4M
- Highlight: Editors' Pick
ClearSky's Year-on-Year Investment Trends
ClearSky has invested in 34 companies over the last 13 years, with an average of 3 new investments annually in the last 10 years. In 2024, it made 1 investment, while as of Jun 2025, it has made 3 investments in this year. Its most recent first time investment was in Guardz and most recent follow-on round was in Mitiga.
Year | No. of Investments | ||
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1stÌý¸é´Ç³Ü²Ô»å | Follow-on | Total | |
2025 (YTD) | 2 | 1 | 3 |
2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
2022 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2021 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
2020 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
2019 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
2018 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
2017 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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ClearSky's Investments by Stage
ClearSky has made 11 investments in Series A stage with an average round size of $11.4M, 10 investments in Series B stage with an average round size of $27.3M and 3 investments in Seed stage with an average round size of $6.64M.Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Stage of entry | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Series A | 11 |
Series B | 10 |
Seed | 3 |
Series D | 3 |
Post IPO | 1 |
Others | 1 |
ClearSky's Investments by Sector
ClearSky has a diverse portfolio, with companies operating in the Enterprise Infrastructure, Enterprise Applications, Environment Tech, High Tech and Sustainability Tech. Notably, it has invested in 32 Tech companies, 31 Enterprise (B2B) companies, 23 Software companies and at least 12 companies focusing on Saas.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Sector | No. of Investments |
|---|---|
Enterprise Infrastructure | 21 |
Enterprise Applications | 19 |
Environment Tech | 4 |
High Tech | 4 |
Sustainability Tech | 4 |
Others | 18 |
ClearSky's Investments by Geography
ClearSky has made most investments in United States (24), followed by Israel where it has made 2 investments.
Note: We have considered here, only first round of investments
Country | No. of Investments |
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United States | 24 |
Israel | 2 |
Canada | 1 |
Denmark | 1 |
Spain | 1 |
ClearSky's recent investments
Here are the most recent investments by ClearSky:
Date | Company | Location | Round Details | Round Amount | Co-Investors |
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Jun 09, 2025 | Israel | Series B | $56M | Fnx [+5] | |
Mar 26, 2025 | United States | Series A | $13M | ||
Jan 21, 2025 | United States | Series B | $30M | SYN Ventures [+4] | |
Sep 26, 2024 | United States | Series D | $50M | Goldman Sachs [+2] | |
Apr 19, 2023 | United States | Series B | $75M | [+4] |
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Here is a list of unicorns in ClearSky's portfolio:
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75 | Self service continuous application delivery platform | 2017 | San Francisco | Series D | yptuziw | ||
67 | Cloud based platform offering data privacy management software | 2016 | New York City | Series D | nb{ciz{ |
IPOs and Publicly Listed companies in ClearSky's Portfolio
Here are ClearSky's portfolio companies that went public:
Company | IPO Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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Feb 09, 2023 | - | - | - |
Acquired companies in ClearSky's Portfolio
Here are ClearSky's portfolio companies that got acquired most recently:
Company | Acquisition Date | First Invested on | First Round of Investment | Round Size |
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May 05, 2025 | - | - | - | |
Dec 14, 2023 | Sep 10, 2018 | Series D | $32M | |
Jul 12, 2023 | Apr 18, 2017 | Series B | $20M | |
May 03, 2023 | Apr 07, 2020 | Series B | $15M | |
Jan 12, 2023 | Sep 23, 2019 | Series A | $10M |
Team profile of ClearSky
ClearSky has a team of 26 membersÌýincluding 12 Partners, 1 Venture Partner and 2 PrincipalsÌýlocated in United States, Australia and . ClearSky's team does not sit on the board of any company as of now.Here is a list of top team members in ClearSky:
Name | Designation | Location | Board Memberships | Contact details |
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Partner | North Palm Beach | - | ||
Partner | West Palm Beach | - | ||
Partner | Menlo Park | - | ||
Partner | Delray Beach | - | ||
Partner | West Palm Beach | - | ||
Partner | North Palm Beach | - | ||
Partner | West Palm Beach | - | ||
Partner | West Palm Beach | - | ||
Partner | North Palm Beach | - | ||
Partner | Philadelphia | - | ||
Partner | Palm Beach | - |
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Over the past 13 years, 197 investors have co-invested in ClearSky's portfolio companies.
- Invested before ClearSky:ÌýFoundation Capital, Blackstone and 79 others have invested in rounds before ClearSky. There are 2 companies where Foundation Capital has invested before ClearSky and 2 companies where Blackstone has invested before ClearSky.
- Top Co-investors of ClearSky:Ìý53 investors entered a company along with ClearSky. These include investors like Rally Ventures (4 companies).
- Invested after ClearSky:ÌýA total of 63 investors have invested in ClearSky's portfolio after their investments. Top Investors include ServiceNow (3 companies), Scale Venture Partners (3 companies) and Sorenson Capital (2 companies).
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