2025-06-21T00:30:38z
On Friday it was clearly announced that it had landed $15 million in funds led by Andreessen Horowitz. The startup was launched earlier this year with a pledge to help users “deceive everything.” Cluely aims to win 1 billion views on all platforms, said co-founder Roy Lee.
Cruley, the San Francisco startup, has pledged people to “deceive everything” and only stolen $15 million in the round led by Andreesen Horowitz, whose founder announced on X on Friday.
It was launched earlier this year as a tool to help software engineers get job interviews. Cluely CEO and co-founder Chungin “Roy” Lee went viral after being stopped by Columbia University with an early version of the tool.
Cluely then removed references to job interview fraud from its website. It is still positioned as an “undetectable” AI that looks at the user’s screen and gives answers in real time.
With cash, Lee will be taking part in the marketing. His main goal is to achieve 1 billion views on all platforms, he told BI.
“We do whatever it takes to do that,” he said.
Clay is certainly not used to marketing.
When it was released earlier this year, it posted a video of Lee’s tongue trying to use Clery to impress women on a date. (An attempt may be added, but failed.)
Cluely has announced plans to hire 50 “growth interns” who will have to post at least four Tiktoks a day.
Brian Kim, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, said Lee was “a founder with the audacity to rethink what is possible.”
“He supported Roy early because it brings a rare combination of vision and fearlessness,” Kim said in a statement provided to BI.
Former Cluely backers, Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures, who previously supported raising $5.3 million, were also taking part in the new round, Lee told Business Insider.
