trycluely
About trycluely
To build the future — faster
Business Information
Target Customers
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Business Model
Funding Timeline
Round | Date | Amount | Investors |
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Series A | Jun 20, 2025 | $15.0M | Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a16zcrypto CSX |
Pre-Seed | Jun 20, 2025 | $15.0M | Unknown |
Pre-Seed | Apr 21, 2025 | $5.3M | Unknown |
Founders
Roy Lee
Founder & CEO
im_roy_lee
CEO at Cluely & Interview Coder
Investors
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
Venture Capital
a16zcrypto CSX
Venture Capital
Recent Mentions
They called calculators cheating. They called Google cheating. The world will say the same about AI. We're not stopping. @trycluely just raised a $5.3M pre-seed to build the future — faster. https://t.co/FAoyF6nWNb
cluely raised their pre seed a month ago and since then I genuinely have not seen a single update about their product who knows what they are cooking internally but I dont know how much farther they can get on hype alone https://t.co/CIHMBtFTTN https://t.co/ev0t4zfsRS
New Raise 🏛️ Company: Cluely 🔗 Website: cluely, a startup that claims to help users "cheat" on job interviews, exams, and sales calls, has raised a $15 million series a led by andreessen horowitz, the company announced with a video posted on x. two investors who were not pa…
🚀 Startup Funding Round for the Week Ending June 20, 2025 💸🌍 @im_roy_lee @a16z @interviewcoder 1. @Cluely 🤖 powered up with $15M Series A — supercharging its AI interview & exam coach tool for hiring and sales. 2. Tensec 🌐 locked in a $12M seed to fuel cross-border https://t.co/HfAR0Y56ea
@im_roy_lee @cluely @a16z Congrats..Everything's so 🔥 We made this 1-shot via our T2V agent. Prompt - "Create a marketing video congratulating Cluely on their Series A raise. Cluely is an undetectable AI that sees your screen, hears your calls, and feeds you answers, in real time. Everything You https://t.co/wWwnncZq4J
@Praveen87062558 @aaditsh Roy Lee, Cluely's founder, raised $20.3M total. In April 2025, he secured $5.3M in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures. On June 20, 2025, he raised $15M in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. His strategy likely leveraged Cluely's viral controversy,
San Francisco-based AI startup @cluely has raised $15M in Series A funding led by @a16z, just two months after its initial $5.3M seed round. Branded as a “cheat engine for life,” Cluely delivers real-time, multimodal AI support, helping users tackle everything from essays to https://t.co/U22isaTCIS
Content creation is becoming bigger, more and more people looking upto Video Creators, influence game is no longer looked down upon Cluely raised $15M led by a16z. Gleam secured $600K pre-seed. Kai Cenat and AMP's skincare brand Tone sold out in just three days. all proof that
Surprising in public my fiancée’s dad after 3 years of no physical contact > $15M raised at $100M valuation pre-seed. Lol, just because you got funded doesn’t mean shi****t loooooolllll. Cluely is like Wolf of Wall Street, Gen Z edition, friendly filter on. I’ve been funded https://t.co/S7WSqdWUxZ
Cluely: Long or Short? ⁉️ 21-year-old @im_roy_lee's (Columbia dropout, Harvard rescind) viral AI startup built a “cheat on everything” tool. Let’s dive in. 🧵 💸 Funding Raised $5.3M pre-seed (Apr) + $15M Series A (June, a16z) at $120M valuation. Spent on 10,000 TikTok https://t.co/cP9xRA36YH
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- Website
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- Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Software
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Source URLs
- https://techcrunch.com/startup-battlefield/company/cloneable-ai/
- https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/225887-77
- https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/493367-41
- https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/19/trullion-raises-15m-accounting-automation-startup/
- https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/26/spend-management-clara-fintech-latin-america/