May 6, 2025 11:21 AM Eastern Standard Time

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 6, 2025 — GenLab, a venture studio specializing in AI, autonomy, and critical infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with Klear Inc., the Capital Intelligence™ platform transforming supply chain finance. Together, they will launch a new venture studio focused on building AI-native companies that deliver transformative solutions across industrial finance and infrastructure.

This collaboration comes at a pivotal moment, as the explosive growth of private equity and private credit reshapes global capital markets. The GenLab-Klear venture studio aims to capitalize on this shift—applying artificial intelligence to capital formation, deployment, risk management, and analytics with unprecedented speed and precision.

By combining GenLab’s proven venture-building capabilities with Klear’s real-time capital intelligence infrastructure, the studio will create and scale companies that embed AI, financial automation, and data-driven decision-making at the core of industrial sectors such as aerospace, energy, and advanced manufacturing.

“In an era of increasing geopolitical volatility and economic complexity, supply chains have become strategic terrain,” said Daniel Riedel, CEO of GenLab.

“Together with Klear, we’re building the systems—financial and informational—that industrial economies need to operate faster, smarter, and more securely.”

Klear’s platform integrates operational telemetry with automated working capital tools, enabling businesses to dynamically manage liquidity and performance. GenLab contributes a deeptech venture architecture designed to accelerate companies at the nexus of infrastructure, autonomy, and AI security.

“The founders on our platform are experts in astrophysics, robotics, bioengineering, autonomous manufacturing, and new energy systems,” said Christopher Hale, CEO of Klear. “Our partnership with GenLab is more than financial—together, we augment founder expertise with Capital Intelligence to turn breakthrough ideas into durable, scalable companies.”

Initial areas of studio focus include:

• Real-time trade risk forecasting
  
  
• Intelligent capital systems for industrial suppliers
  
  
• Supply chain observability and anomaly detection
  
  
• Data fusion platforms for operational performance and resilience
  
  

The new venture studio will prioritize sectors where financial innovation and technical infrastructure intersect to deliver strategic advantage for the U.S. and allied economies.

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About GenLab
GenLab is a San Francisco–based venture studio building AI-native companies to secure and empower the future of infrastructure, autonomy, and global resilience.

About Klear
Klear is a Capital Intelligence™ company redefining how businesses access and manage working capital across complex industrial supply chains. Its platform combines financial tools and operational insight to unlock new forms of agility for mission-critical industries.