Shomit A Ghose – Partner at Clearvision Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm
3105 Etcheverry Hall
August 31, 2026 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT-
Society’s greatest power demands today are being relentlessly driven by the computational needs of AI. The provisioning of electricity to AI is perhaps its greatest bottleneck, and may also become the primary driver for renewing the supply of — and investment in — nuclear power technologies. Investors are equally focused on reducing AI’s power demand through the advent of new computing technologies, both in hardware and software. We review some of these new computing technologies and where investment and start-up opportunities may next appear.
BIO-
Shomit Ghose is a partner at Clearvision Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund focused
on energy and infrastructure sustainability. Previously, he was general partner at ONSET
Ventures, also in Menlo Park, where he led investments in early-stage, data-centric start-ups
from 2001 through 2021. Prior to entering venture capital, Shomit spent 19 years as a start-up
entrepreneur, serving in virtually all functional roles from engineer to CEO, and participating in
multiple successful exits, including Sun Microsystems, Broadvision and Tumbleweed. He has
held an appointment as a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering since 2018, teaching
about data and AI, a dual appointment as entrepreneurial advisor at UC – Riverside, and has
also been, since 2018, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University
of San Francisco. Shomit has served on both public and private boards, and multiple scientific
advisory boards, in both the US and Europe. He received his degree in computer science from
UC Berkeley, where he also played attack on Cal’s WCLL champion Men’s Lacrosse team for 4
years.
Shomit Ghose is a partner at Clearvision Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital fund focused
on energy and infrastructure sustainability. Previously, he was general partner at ONSET
Ventures, also in Menlo Park, where he led investments in early-stage, data-centric start-ups
from 2001 through 2021. Prior to entering venture capital, Shomit spent 19 years as a start-up
entrepreneur, serving in virtually all functional roles from engineer to CEO, and participating in
multiple successful exits, including Sun Microsystems, Broadvision and Tumbleweed. He has
held an appointment as a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering since 2018, teaching
about data and AI, a dual appointment as entrepreneurial advisor at UC – Riverside, and has
also been, since 2018, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at the University
of San Francisco. Shomit has served on both public and private boards, and multiple scientific
advisory boards, in both the US and Europe. He received his degree in computer science from
UC Berkeley, where he also played attack on Cal’s WCLL champion Men’s Lacrosse team for 4
years.