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Clearco

Clearco
Michele Romanow
Michele Romanow

Co-Founder & President, Clearco

Andrew D'Souza
Andrew D'Souza

Co-Founder & CEO, Clearco

Ruma Bose
Ruma Bose

Chief Growth Officer, Clearco

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Clearco is a suite of performance financing products & services tailor-made to help founders win. A pay-as-you-grow pioneer and the world’s largest ecommerce investor, our mission is to remove the barriers between brilliant ideas, and brilliant businesses.

Clearco has invested $2.5 billion into 5,500+ companies using data science to identify high-growth funding opportunities in less than 24 hours. This data-driven approach takes the bias out of decision-making and helps Clearco fund 8x more female founders than traditional VCs across 6 countries.

Clearco’s portfolio spans small businesses across the United States, Canada, UK, Australia, and the Netherlands to some of the biggest brands today, like unTUCKit, Vanity Planet, Andie Swim, Haus, and Farmgirl Flowers. 30% of Clearco’s portfolio are people of colour.

Founded in 2015 by Michele Romanow of CBC’s “Dragons’ Den” (Canada’s “Shark Tank”), Andrew D’Souza, Ivan Gritsiniak, Charlie Feng, and Tanay Delima, Clearco is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The company has raised $520 million to date and investors include Oak HC/FT, Highland Capital, Emergence, Founder’s Fund, and Inovia. For more information, visit clear.co and @getclearco.

Company Snapshot

TYPEPrivate
ESTABLISHED2015
HEADQUARTERSCanada
EMPLOYEES501 - 1,000

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The Debrief | Why So Many Direct-to-Consumer Brands Are for Sale Right Now

As the economy weakens and funding dries up, digital brands may face pressure to sell from investors. To do so, they’ll need to prove they’re more than just another money-losing start-up.


Partner Content

Reimagining Funding to Democratise Fashion Entrepreneurship

Clearco has invested more than $2.4 billion in over 6,000 businesses, leveraging AI to remove the bias. Its portfolio has eight times more women-founded businesses than traditional VC firms and 30 percent of founders are people of colour.

Partner Content

Reimagining Funding to Democratise Fashion Entrepreneurship

Clearco has invested more than $2.4 billion in over 6,000 businesses, leveraging AI to remove the bias. Its portfolio has eight times more women-founded businesses than traditional VC firms and 30 percent of founders are people of colour.