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Clover

415 N Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, United States

Overview

Clover is building the open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform. They partner with the world's largest payment processors, developers, and hardware manufacturers to bring point-of-sale products to market. They use Android as the client platform, which enables the use of inexpensive devices, both off-the-shelf and purpose-built.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
6

Sector focus

  • Mobile
  • Open Source
  • Payments
  • Software
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Investment portfolio

  • Getinside

    Participated · Equity · Feb 2026

    Getinside provides software that lets medium-sized online retailers sell advertising inventory—known as retail media—by pooling their audiences so they can attract larger advertisers. The platform incorporates AI to automate campaign set-up and management, enabling the company to scale to thousands of merchants and advertisers without proportionally increasing headcount. Getinside currently works with more than 250 e-commerce merchants and 300 active advertisers that have executed 950 campaigns. The company generated €1.6 million in revenue in 2025 and is targeting €3 million by 2026. To support this growth, management plans to double its eight-person team and expand its advertising formats to include email post-purchase placements, product sampling, and social-media publications. By giving advertisers an alternative to GAFAM channels and allowing regional retailers to monetize traffic, Getinside positions itself as a democratizer of retail media.

  • GetMint

    Participated · Seed · Dec 2025

    Founded in 2025, GetMint AI develops technology for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), the emerging analogue to traditional SEO for AI-powered interfaces such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Its platform analyzes conversational search patterns and tailors content so that brands surface more prominently in these new query environments. The founding team previously built fintech products at Bankin’ and Bridge, giving them prior experience in scaling digital platforms. With the recent capital injection, the company plans to accelerate product development and expand go-to-market efforts aimed at enterprises keen to maintain discoverability as generative AI reshapes online search. No user, revenue or other operating metrics have been disclosed to date. The startup positions itself as an early mover in the GEO category and aims to capitalize on the rapid shift from classic SEO to AI-centric search.

  • Satori

    Participated · Seed · May 2022

    Satori is a San Francisco, CA–based provider of a decentralized on-chain derivatives platform for the Polkadot ecosystem. The exchange is built for both retail and institutional investors and is geared toward experienced traders, offering dedicated derivatives access working with parachains, market makers, and retail users. Co‑founded by Rahim Noorani (previously at Goldman Sachs and Scale Ventures) and George Wu (previously at Optiver), the team emphasizes financial and trading expertise. Satori will launch to the public in the coming weeks and will be available across Moonbeam, Acala, Parallel, Astar, and Clover. The company intends to use the $10M seed to expand engineering headcount and build out security and reliability teams to support institutional‑grade derivatives.

Team

  • Mark Schulze

    Co-Founder Clover, VP Business Development

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  • Sam Gimbel

    Senior Director of Product Management

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  • Alex Kuzmin

    Quality Director

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  • James Durrant

    Engineering Manager

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