Cluely
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$20.3M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$15M
Venture round · Jun 2025 · 16 mo ago
Team
14
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025
Hiring now
3
open roles
Backers
3
Andreessen Horowitz, Abstract
The money's age
Due for its next round
16 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 12, 2025
Released an app Cluely: AI Notetaker · App Store
Jun 21, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $15M · led by Andreessen Horowitz · Business Insider
Apr 22, 2025
Raised a round Venture round $5.3M · Business Today
2025
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.83%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.7 ★
556 ratings
Hacker News stories
9
best: 12 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jun 2025 | $15M | Andreessen Horowitz lead | Business Insider |
| Venture round | Apr 2025 | $5.3M | — | Business Today |
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How Cluely hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
Cluely scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
News
Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year
The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.
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Roy (@im_roy_lee) on X
eh kinda, here's our stripes from june 2025got a random cold call from some woman asking about numbers and told her some bs, did not expect an article about ithere's what we were doing at the time: consumer arr 2.7m, run rate 3.8m enterprise arr 2.5m, run
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22-year-old quits 2.7 crore 'dream job', says 12-hour workdays drained him
The Chief Marketing Officer of Cluely has quit the AI startup, citing 12-hour workdays among his reasons
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How to Cheat at Conversation
A new AI tool promises to improve social interactions but instead makes them worse.
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montano (@lucas_montano) on X
I made Cluely, but like, local LLM support! we're talkin' offline vibes, zero latency, and privacy so tight it makes a VPN look like a screen door on a submarinebtw: ZERO VC money
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The cofounder of the AI 'cheating' app Cluely says engineers can't make viral content and that's why their startups flop
Cluely's cofounder, Chungin "Roy" Lee, says engineers can't make viral content - and that's why most startups fail to get noticed.
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I was rejected from internships and had no coding skills. But one thing got me a job at viral AI 'cheating' startup Cluely.
Daniel Min used social media to create his own demand and landed a job at viral AI 'cheating' startup Cluely right after graduation.
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The Cluely Thesis on Virality and Hype, by Roy Lee
150k followers and hundreds of millions of views in six months. Roy Lee's complete thesis on virality, hype cycles, and growing companies through attention.
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Roy (@im_roy_lee) on X
startup "truth" i disagree with: don't pay high cash compwe now pay 250k-350k base for designers and 300k-1m base for software engineersthread on why everyone is wrong (except me and zuck):
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Vijay Tupakula (@vijaytupakula) on X
I don't have $15M from a16z like @cluely. I'm not a YC-backed founder butjust a solo dev who couldn't figure out what was so
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
33% ▼
Customer Success
33% ▼
Early Careers
33% ▼
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
2 open roles 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff $350k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, Early Careers
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$250k – $350k per year • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
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