Clario Launches with $6M Seed Funding to Rid Enterprises of Garbage Data
New platform targets enterprise data ROT – redundant, obsolete, and trivial files silently inflating costs and undermining AI performance
Clario, the first platform built to eliminate enterprise data ROT, launched from stealth today with $6 million in seed funding. The round is led by Preface Ventures, with participation from Foster Ventures, Golden Sparrow, High Sage Ventures, Moment Ventures, Mentors Fund, Page One Ventures, Rain Capital, Ridge Ventures, and Transform VC, as well as angel investors Michael Callahan and Baris Aksoy.
78% of all stored enterprise data is unstructured, and conservative industry estimates suggest more than a third is effectively garbage: redundant, obsolete, and trivial. Enterprises are pouring billions into AI and sabotaging their own results with duplicate files, decades-old documents, and files in legacy formats no one can open anymore. Models are only as good as the data they’re fed, and most enterprise data hasn’t been touched, audited, or questioned for years. Gartner estimates that 60% of AI projects will be abandoned by the end of this year due to poor data quality.
Clario addresses this issue by connecting directly into existing file and content systems or unstructured data environments, including Google Drive, SharePoint, OneDrive, Box, and Confluence, to scan metadata and surface all garbage. When a file or article is flagged, Clario activates intelligent workflows via Slack and Teams, prompting customers to keep, archive, or delete the data – and only gets paid when customers make one of these decisions. Over time, Clario learns from these decisions to build an autonomous system that routinely cleans, organizes, and maintains unstructured data.
