ClearVector is a technology company.
ClearVector provides identity-driven detection and response solutions for production environments, enabling organizations to quickly identify and respond to security threats.
ClearVector has raised $16.0M across 2 funding rounds.
ClearVector has raised $16.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
ClearVector has raised $16.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
ClearVector's investors include Across Capital Partners, BackBone Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, C2 Investment, Flourish Ventures, Hetz Ventures, Menlo Ventures, monashees, Glenn Solomon, Okta Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Propel Venture Partners.
# ClearVector: Identity-Driven Cloud Security
ClearVector is an identity-driven cloud security company that detects and responds to threats by mapping all activity to human, machine, third-party, and AI identities across production environments.[4] The company addresses a critical visibility gap in modern cloud security by building adaptive risk models that track behavioral signatures across AWS, GCP, GitHub, Kubernetes, and container runtimes.[1][3]
ClearVector serves organizations operating in cloud-native and containerized environments where traditional perimeter-based security models fail.[3] The platform enables security teams to answer "who did it" in seconds to minutes rather than hours, and provides single-click isolation of compromised identities and resources without disrupting production.[4] The company targets detection and response teams (DART, CIRT, SIRT) and security leadership in sectors requiring strong cybersecurity measures and compliance requirements.[1]
ClearVector was founded in 2020 and is based in Reston, Virginia.[1] The company emerged from recognizing that cloud security requires a fundamentally different approach than legacy infrastructure protection. Rather than chasing endless alerts across disconnected tools, the founders built a platform centered on identity as the organizing principle for security—the insight that every action in a cloud environment can be traced back to a specific identity with a behavioral signature.[3]
The company has demonstrated early traction sufficient to raise $13 million in funding to advance its identity-driven security platform.[3] This capital injection reflects investor confidence in the company's approach to solving visibility and attribution challenges in modern cloud environments.
ClearVector rides the wave of cloud-native architecture adoption and the shift toward identity-centric security models. As organizations migrate workloads to AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes, they face a fundamental mismatch: security tools designed for static, perimeter-based networks cannot track identities moving across distributed, ephemeral infrastructure.[3]
The timing is critical because AI and third-party integrations are expanding the identity landscape beyond human users—machines, automation, and external services now require the same behavioral tracking and risk assessment.[1][3] Traditional SIEM and log analysis tools struggle with this complexity, creating an opportunity for purpose-built identity-driven platforms.
ClearVector's influence extends beyond its direct customers: by demonstrating that identity attribution can be the organizing principle for cloud security, the company is shaping how the broader industry thinks about detection and response in production environments. This approach challenges vendors still anchored in alert-centric or log-centric models.
ClearVector is positioned to capture significant market share in the cloud security space as enterprises prioritize faster incident response and measurable risk reduction. The company's focus on identity—a concept that will only become more complex as AI agents and automated systems proliferate—gives it a durable competitive moat.
The next phase likely involves expanding beyond detection and response into identity governance and access control, where the same graph technology could power real-time privilege management. As cloud-native architectures become the default rather than the exception, ClearVector's ability to provide instant answers to "who did it" will become table stakes for security operations. The company's challenge will be scaling adoption while maintaining the simplicity that makes single-click mitigation possible—a balance that, if achieved, could make it a foundational layer in modern security stacks.
ClearVector has raised $16.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $13.0M Series A in May 2025.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2025 | $13.0M Series A | Across Capital Partners, BackBone Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, C2 Investment, Flourish Ventures, Hetz Ventures, Menlo Ventures, monashees, Glenn Solomon, Okta Ventures, Pareto Holdings, Propel Venture Partners, Quona Capital, Yousuf Khan, Scale Venture Partners, Snowflake Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, Roland Brack | |
| Dec 1, 2022 | $3.0M Seed | Accel, Across Capital Partners, BackBone Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Ballistic Ventures, C2 Investment, Flourish Ventures, Karim Faris, Liquid 2 Ventures, Luv Ventures, Menlo Ventures, monashees, Aaron Jacobson, Norwest Venture Partners, Glenn Solomon, Pareto Holdings, Propel Venture Partners, Quona Capital, Snowflake Ventures, Trajectory Ventures, True Ventures, Dheeraj Pandey, Roland Brack |