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What does ClearLight Partners invest in?
ClearLight Partners says it invests in Cloud Computing, Software and Venture Capital & Private Equity.
ClearLight Partners highlights
- 01
1 rounds on record
- 02
Sole investor in 1 rounds, median undisclosed
What they do
We’ve been investing in private companies for over 20 yearsFrom their own website
- Type
- Private equity (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $10M – $50M as they say
- Stages
- SeedSeries AGrowth
- Sectors
- Cloud ComputingSoftwareVenture Capital & Private Equity
- Based in
- Newport Beach, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1 appearances
- 2015
1 round
- Sept
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration5 named
AJAndrew John BrennanMemberiForm ADV
HQHuy Quang DangvuChief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance OfficeriForm ADV
JFJay F. ShepherdExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
MSMichael Stuart KayeExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
PJPatrick J. HaizExecutive OfficeriFiling they signed
We also hold 17 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$390Massets it managesOct 2026
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- Clearlight Partners Management, LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 157610
Funds on its Form ADV
2 private funds, $310M in gross assets · filed Feb 2024
- ClearLight Partners III, LLCPrivate equity2 investors$307M
- ClearLight Partners II, LLCPrivate equity2 investors$2.6M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
1 of 23 we have independently watched raise
WalkeradvertisingAdtApollo CollegeAppleandeveBocchilabsFuturelogicincGetgeneaHandelsicecreamIntoxalockKatzkinMoorelandscapesPaulfredrickPepperballPlanetfitnessPurewatertechRichardsonScs-refSwitchcraftTasigroupTechmdTheoutsourcegroupUseducationcorpWestern Career College
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Companies it bought
Acquisitions by the firm itself
SwitchcraftUndisclosedApr 2005