United States securities and exchange commission logo April 5, 2021 Ted Jeong Chief Financial Officer Clene Inc. 6550 South Millrock Drive, Suite G50 Salt Lake City, Utah 84121 Re: Clene Inc. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed March 29, 2021 File No. 333-253173 Dear Mr. Jeong: We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following comment. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe our comment applies to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to our comment, we may have additional comments. Amendment No. 1 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, page 138 1. We note the revised disclosure in response to comment 1, and reissue the comment. Please identify the individual members of the board of managers that exercise voting and dispositive power over the General Resonance, LLC, shares or tell us why you do not believe they do not have beneficial ownership over the shares. We note General Resonance is a 26.8% shareholder offering all of their almost 16 million shares in this resale registration statement, and that your director Mr. Wilcox co-founded General Resonance. Tell us whether he is a member of the board of managers. Ted Jeong FirstName Clene Inc. LastNameTed Jeong Comapany April NameClene Inc. 5, 2021 April 25, 2021 Page 2 Page FirstName LastName Please contact Abby Adams at (202) 551-6902 or Celeste Murphy at (202) 551-3257 with any other questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Life Sciences cc: Ben James