Rajeev Madhavan

Rajeev Madhavan is a founding Partner of Clear Ventures, where he focuses on early stage technology investments. Rajeev has operational experience of running companies from formation to a public company. He has been a venture investor in over 35 companies. Rajeev’s operational specialties include recruiting, software-oriented technology, product definition, sales acceleration, and scaling.

Prior to founding Clear in 2014, Rajeev founded three successful startups. The most recent, Magma Design Automation, became the 4th largest Electronic Design Automation company in the world under his leadership.

Rajeev served as Magma’s Chairman and CEO from when he co-founded the company in 1997 through its acquisition by Synopsys in February 2012 for $680 million. Magma was listed on Nasdaq in 2001 and was ranked as the 2nd fastest growing Technology Company in 2005 by Forbes. Magma provided core infrastructure software to mobile pioneers such as TI, Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung, which was used to design the core processors and low power designs at the heart of the smartphone era.