About Us

With 20+ years of experience in investing, advising, and operating tech and Ecommerce businesses, we founded Clear Value to provide founders and owners of Australian Ecommerce companies the services we wish we had access to throughout our careers.

Our mission is to make it simple for founders and owners to realise life changing value. We do this by working together to plan, prepare and manage a first-class exit.

Meet the Team

  • Keven Chen

    TEAM LEAD

    Keven is a graduate from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Laws & Bachelor of Commerce (Finance). Prior to Clear Value, Keven worked as a management consultant and has advised a variety of large private and public sector clients in strategy and transformation. He is skilled in financial modelling, data analysis, deal structuring and advisory.

  • James Whalley

    CO-FOUNDER

    James’ career has been focussed on working with public and private technology and ecommerce companies. James is a co-founder at Clear Value and CEO and co-founder at FounderCo. James’ track record includes helping founders across M&A, trade-sale and private equity exits, IPOs, venture capital and corporate development. He has sector experience across software (SaaS and on-premise), IT services, ecommerce, marketplaces, media, marketing and games.

  • Ari Klinger

    CO-FOUNDER

    Ari has helped create value for founders as a board member, advisor and investor. Ari is a founder and investor at Clear Value, No Brand Holdings, and Right Click Capital. Ari has assisted a range of companies including Hipages, Mwave, HotDoc, Practice Ignition and ListedReserve. Ari previously founded iMega acquired by Enero Group, Online Marketing Group (OMG) acquired by Fairfax Media and Spring.me acquired by IAC/Match.

  • Curtis Minasian

    ANALYST

    Curtis is a graduate from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Laws & Bachelor of Commerce (Finance). Curtis’ experience spans across five years of venture capital investing, as well as working hand in hand with founders to help grow the value of their equity and work towards an exit. His core skills include complex data analysis, modelling, deal sourcing and execution.

We make it simple for founders of Australian Ecommerce businesses to Plan & Prepare and Manage a first-class exit

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We work towards a first-class exit

A first-class exit is about getting the best overall outcome for your business

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We aim to maximise value and minimise risk

Our focus is to increase your chance of success

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We know the importance of competitive tension

A competitive process can help to negotiate from a position of strength

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We focus on better data, for better decisions

We access and integrate industry and business data to enhance value

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We make it simple

Our 5-step process has been developed over 20+ years experience

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We are on your side

We work with sellers (not buyers), we tell it like it is, we care