Venture-Backed Startups

Clerq is a payment platform that lets businesses accept guaranteed bank-account payments from customers in store or online, reducing card processing fees and chargeback risk. It serves merchants such as auto and powersports dealerships, enterprise retailers, and travel platforms, offering invoicing, payment tracking, reconciliation, and an API/SDK for custom integrations.

4 investors

Clerq is an AI tool for patent professionals that runs prior art research end-to-end and returns cited, reasoned reports under user direction. It offers agent-driven research, semantic patent search, landscape analytics, and an API/MCP server, all built on the NLPatent model for law firms and corporate IP teams.

2 investors

Cleva provides USD accounts and virtual USD cards for receiving international payments, with features including ACH/wire transfers, currency conversion, rewards programs, and point redemptions. The platform serves freelancers, remote workers, and small businesses seeking to receive payments from global clients and employers.

5 investors

ClevAir provides software that automates and optimizes HVAC and ventilation in commercial buildings in real time based on occupancy, air quality, and weather, aiming to cut energy use and CO₂ emissions while maintaining indoor climate. Its platform includes a dashboard, secure 4G gateway, and sensor integrations (BACnet, MQTT, LoRaWAN), working with or without an existing building management system, and enables demand response and grid participation.

1 investor

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Cleveland Clinic is an academic medical center providing patient care, including virtual visits, primary care, urgent care, and emergency services, along with medical education and research programs. It also offers resources for physicians and healthcare professionals, including referrals, clinical trials, and continuing education.

1 investor

Cleveland Clinic is a patient-centered academic medical center providing clinical care, research, and medical education. The organization offers services ranging from primary care and virtual visits to specialized treatment, clinical trials, and advanced medical research.

2 investors

2 investors

Cleveland HeartLab is a clinical laboratory company, part of Quest Diagnostics, focused on cardiovascular disease testing and diagnostics.

2 investors

Cleveland Kitchen makes fresh, naturally fermented foods including kimchi, sauerkraut, coleslaws, and sauces sold direct-to-consumer and in grocery stores nationwide. The products use live cultures and chef-crafted recipes marketed for flavor and gut-health benefits.

2 investors

Cleveland Diagnostics develops blood-based cancer diagnostic tests using its IsoClear platform, which measures structural changes in proteins to identify whether biomarkers came from cancer cells. Its first test, IsoPSA, targets prostate cancer detection to reduce unnecessary biopsies.

1 investor

Cleveland Electric Laboratories manufactures high-temperature thermocouples, industrial temperature sensors, and instrumentation for measuring extreme heat, pressure, and strain, including MgO, ceramic, platinum, and noble metal thermocouples. It serves industrial customers in sectors such as aerospace, power generation, petrochemical processing, and advanced manufacturing, and operates an ISO/IEC 17025-accredited temperature calibration lab.

1 investor

Clevenio is a sales intelligence platform that provides real-time data integration and a target group builder to improve prospect data coverage, along with multi-channel outreach, automated follow-ups, pipeline management, and analytics tools. It is aimed at sales teams looking to reduce time spent on list building and focus on selling.

1 investor

Clever.Care builds the Clever.Care Coordinator, a messenger-style communication and coordination platform for home care providers, their clients, relatives, and third-party providers such as pharmacies and physicians. The Swiss e-health tool supports structured messaging, appointment coordination, and medication/supply ordering, with encrypted communication and data hosting in Switzerland.

1 investor

Clever provides a data integration platform for schools that connects student information systems with educational applications and tools. The company serves K-12 schools and districts seeking to streamline data access and interoperability across their technology ecosystems.

9 investors

Clevergy provides a software platform for energy retailers and installers to manage customer relationships and centralize operations, offering energy advisory, self-consumption recommendations, home energy management (HEMS), advanced analytics, and features for energy communities and virtual power plants. The platform integrates with distributors and hardware brands without requiring additional hardware, aimed at energy companies in Spain.

2 investors

clever bioTechnologies develops software that uses AI and mechanistic (hybrid) models to help biogas plant operators optimize feeding schedules, run combined heat and power units on demand, and monitor reactor stability in real time. It targets biogas plant operators in Germany, aiming to keep plants profitable through market-oriented electricity production as subsidies decline.

1 investor

Clever Care is a culturally and linguistically sensitive Medicare Advantage health plan serving Southern California that integrates Eastern and Western medicine approaches. It connects members with bilingual physicians, hospitals, and acupuncturists to deliver personalized care aligned with each community's cultural traditions and values.

5 investors

Clever Carnivore develops cultivated meat — beef, pork, and chicken grown from animal tissue samples in a food production facility — as an alternative to industrial farm-raised meat. The company targets the consumer market with cultivated meat products, including a bratwurst, focused on low-cost, scalable production.

4 investors

Clever Cloud is a sovereign, fully managed cloud platform offering PaaS, DBaaS, IAM, and AI services, with Git-based automated deployment, managed hosting, high availability, and compliance features (ISO 27001, HDS, GDPR). It serves developers, software publishers, public sector organizations, industrial companies, and healthcare businesses, operating its own datacenters in France.

1 investor

Clever Design is a web design and development agency that builds websites and brand materials—including pitchbooks, one-pager PDFs, email templates, and logos—primarily for private equity and investment firms. The studio focuses on custom design, animation, and programming for financial services clients.

1 investor

Clever Girl Finance is a financial education platform providing free courses, mentoring, and community resources to help women build financial confidence and wealth. The platform covers budgeting, debt management, investing, and other personal finance topics for women.

1 investor

Clever Health offers "Smart Virtual Care," a telehealth service that uses an asynchronous AI-assisted questionnaire to connect members with board-certified physicians, plus a prescription price-comparison tool, mental health support (an AI chatbot, peer support, and licensed therapy), and virtual veterinary care. It sells to employers on a per-consult basis rather than per-member-per-month, positioning itself as a lower-cost alternative to traditional telehealth plans.

2 investors

Clever Offsets provides a database and platform for discovering, comparing, and analyzing carbon credit projects in voluntary carbon markets. The platform serves investors, project developers, and buyers seeking reliable data and transparency for carbon market transactions.

1 investor