CLI Ventures

CLI Ventures is a global venture capital and private equity investment firm, with $1 billion under management and offices in Palo Alto, New York, Boston, San Diego, Beijing, and Shenzhen. CLI and affiliates have invested in in more than 200 portfolio companies. ​

Zhi Li

Managing Partner

Jeffrey Su Ph.D

Partner and Chief Strategy Officer

23 past transactions

Sentieon

Series B in 2021
Sentieon develops and commercializes cloud-based bio-informatics solutions for the life sciences and clinical market. They develop and supply a suite of bioinformatics secondary analysis tools that process genomics data with high computing efficiency, fast turnaround time, accuracy, and consistency. Some of the released products include Sentieon DNAseq, a germline DNA pipeline; and Sentieon TNseq, for tumor-normal somatic variant detection. The company’s tools are scalable, deployable, upgradable, and software-only solutions. The Sentieon tools achieve their efficiency and consistency through optimized computing algorithm design and enterprise-strength software implementation. The company was founded by Jun Ye in 2014 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Synlogic

Series C in 2017
Synlogic is a biotechnology company that develops synthetic biotic medicines to perform metabolic functions to treat diseases. The company's lead programs target patients with rare genetic metabolic diseases, including phenylketonuria and secondary hyperoxaluria. Synlogic is also hard at work on synthetic biotics to address more prevalent conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease, cancer, and other metabolic conditions.

Immune-Onc Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Immune-Onc Therapeutics is a newly established bio-pharmaceutical company that focuses on developing innovative therapeutic antibodies for cancer treatment. The company applies the latest scientific insights and expertise in drug development to advance novel immuno-oncology products and bring new treatment options to cancer patients.

Eonite Perception

Seed Round in 2016
Eonite is on a mission to enable machines to understand the real world – to give computers the advanced perception necessary for the future of VR, AR, robots and drones. They are looking for people who will help us build, refine, and deliver the tech that achieves their goals. They offer competitive salaries, great equity packages, and full benefits. They are always looking for smart, talented people who are nice adults motivated to make a difference. They’re based in Palo Alto, but their team is global. So reach out, even if the openings aren’t a perfect fit..

Medigo

Series A in 2016
Headquartered in Berlin, Medigo enables global access to quality healthcare. As a third party administrator (TPA), Medigo helps organisations navigate healthcare across the globe with an international provider network, tech-driven cost containment, and an excellent member experience. Medigo is supported by leading VCs such as Accel Partners and Atlantic Labs, and employs a driven team of 50+ people from 25 countries.

Aria Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2015
Aria Pharmaceuticals is a preclinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel small molecule therapies for complex and hard-to-treat diseases. Too many patients today are in need of breakthrough treatments across many complicated diseases – they can't wait. That's why at Aria, we have redefined the drug discovery approach, saving years in the process and increasing success rates 30 times higher than traditional methods. At Aria, we've shown promise across a diverse range of therapeutic areas with the ability to address over 1,000 diseases.

Civil Maps

Convertible Note in 2015
The Civil Maps sensor-agnostic platform enables high-accuracy, low-cost 3D HD mapping and localization at scale. Auto OEMs, mapping companies, and mobility providers use our technology to advance their autonomous driving initiatives by integrating our localization technology with their decision-making stack and sensor configurations of choice. Civil Maps enables vehicles to develop and leverage their own “mental model” of the world; they can can create, utilize, and create maps with the industry’s most cost-effective, scalable, and robust methods available today. Civil Maps’ proprietary Fingerprint Basemap Technology is at the core of our offerings in sensor fusion, 3D mapping, centimeter-accurate localization at scale. While empowering vehicles with full environmental awareness and enhanced safety, Civil Maps is able to dramatically reduce the cost, compute, and energy requirements involved in continental-scale deployment of delivery bots and autonomous vehicles.

Skydrop

Seed Round in 2015
Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone. The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service. Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

Genalyte

Series C in 2015
Genalyte, Inc. is a life sciences company developing and commercializing innovative next-generation multiplexing technology. Genalyte has developed a new approach to immunodetection using silicon chip manufacturing methods. Its Maverick platform uses a technology called silicon photonics to directly measure protein binding between antibodies and antigens or hybridization of nucleic acids.

iMicrobes

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Industrial Microbes designs and builds microbes that produce better chemicals with lower costs and lower carbon emissions. We use greenhouse gases as the raw materials, including biogas, natural gas, and carbon dioxide. We scale our process with global chemical producers.

CoPromote

Series A in 2015
CoPromote is a social exchange platform to help people grow their audience. Users are content creators ranging from artists, bloggers, brands, businesses, musicians, tastemakers, websites, and more. CoPromote is for people of all interest types.

Propel(X)

Seed Round in 2015
Propel(x) is an angel investing platform focused on funding early-stage companies that are built around scientific discovery. The company is driven by a mission to help propel mankind by enabling investments in technologies that matter. Propel(x) was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

InsideMaps

Seed Round in 2015
InsideMaps Inc. creates 3D models and floor plans of home interiors that help potential home buyers to visualize the interior of a home, and homeowners to try furniture and make home improvements in their virtual home. Its 3D models and floor plans help in virtual interior designing; changing paint; flooring; adding furniture; visualizing future residence; and viewing and arranging retailers' furniture in own homes and customize its fabric and finish. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Aria Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2015
Aria Pharmaceuticals is a preclinical-stage pharmaceutical company discovering and developing novel small molecule therapies for complex and hard-to-treat diseases. Too many patients today are in need of breakthrough treatments across many complicated diseases – they can't wait. That's why at Aria, we have redefined the drug discovery approach, saving years in the process and increasing success rates 30 times higher than traditional methods. At Aria, we've shown promise across a diverse range of therapeutic areas with the ability to address over 1,000 diseases.

HireTeamMate

Seed Round in 2015
HireTeamMate is an employment agency developing a recommended tool throughout the recruiting community.

Voxel

Seed Round in 2015
Voxel makes mobile ads exciting and engaging. By bringing the experience to the beginning of the app discovery process, users get to "try before they buy". This means that every visit to the app store through a Voxel epxerience is purposeful and creates a higher lifetime value user.

Publet

Seed Round in 2015
Publet is a content marketing solution that amplifies B2B white papers and collateral through social and mobile to generate sales leads.

CStorePro

Series A in 2015
CStorePro simplifies retail operations management by providing operators an easy to use Saas platform to streamline back-office tasks. It seamlessly combines operational and sales data to become the retailer's system of record and enable to optimize pricing, purchasing, inventory, HR, taxes, and regulatory compliance. The company believes every store should have simple, easy-to-use, modern tools to manage inventory, price books, vendors, and employees so, thousands of store owners and operators use the mobile and cloud product to do just this. CStorePro was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.

Droplet Robotics Inc.

Convertible Note in 2015
Droplet is a smart sprinkler system that combines the latest technology in robotics, cloud computing and connected services to transform the way sprinkler systems function. Droplet keeps your plants healthy without wasting water by drawing upon a vast system of data to intelligently determine how best to care for your plants.

Arthena

Seed Round in 2014
Arthena is a venture-backed financial technology company which has pioneered quantitative strategies for asset acquisition, allowing for targeting investment decisions. Arthena is committed to bringing transparency to art investing, enabling investors to view and learn about acquired assets and artists.

popSlate

Convertible Note in 2014
popSlate is a smart, digital case connected to apps on your phone. Take any image – from the gallery, camera, your friends, popSLATE artist channels, or even Instagram – and pop it to the always-on popSLATE ePaper screen in the back of your phone. Pop what you love whenever you like.

Weft

Seed Round in 2014
Much of the world's cargo travels from port to port and then on to rail and road in more than 20 million containers. Today only 77,000 containers are actively tracked. By 2016 this number is expected to increase to 1 million. Through the Weft platform, which integrates with Weft sensors as well as sensors from other providers, and with ERP and CRM systems, users log in to get the current status and to set alerts for out-of-bounds conditions (location, temperature, moisture, shock/vibration) and stages completed. Through predictive analytics, Weft takes the current location and planned route of all shipments on the platform and combines this information with historical data to identify likely bottlenecks and alert shippers to potential problems before they occur. Shippers can then adjust routes and schedules to increase the likelihood of on-time delivery. Weft is available through ERP providers, telecommunications companies, and shipping and logistics companies. The company is participating at SAP TechEd in Las Vegas on October 21, 2013. More information about Weft is at http://weft.io and via e-mail to hello@weft.io.

Ntirety

Series B in 2008
Managing security and compliance is a strategic, economic imperative that directly impacts business outcomes. Ntirety is the only company that embeds compliant security throughout your IT and company culture. Protect the entirety of your enterprise through a comprehensive compliant security solution from a single relationship. With over 20 years of experience and deep security expertise, our three 24x7x365 US-based security operations centers (SOCs) simplify your risk management program with a comprehensive protection, recovery and assurance suite of services. Our approach helps you build resilient, adaptive operations throughout all your organization. Discover the award-winning Ntirety Compliant Security Solution that’s tested, proven, and trusted globally. Learn more at ntirety.com.
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