Cluely, a startup that claims to assist customers “cheat” on job interviews, exams, and gross sales calls, has raised a $15 million Sequence A led by Andreessen Horowitz, the corporate introduced on Friday with a video posted on X.
Two traders who weren’t a part of the deal inform TechCrunch they imagine Cluely’s post-money valuation is round $120 million. Andreessen Horowitz declined to touch upon that determine. Cluely CEO Roy Lee didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Cluely’s new funding comes roughly two months after it raised $5.3 million in seed funding co-led by Summary Ventures and Susa Ventures.
The startup was co-founded earlier this 12 months by 21-year-old Roy Lee and Neel Shanmugam, who have been suspended from Columbia College for growing an undetectable AI-powered device referred to as “Interview Coder” to assist engineers cheat on technical interviews.
Cluely is worthwhile, in accordance with Lee’s a number of posts on X and podcast appearances.
Lee’s provocative social media presence and extremely produced controversial movies have helped to attract consideration and create model consciousness for Cluely.
In April, for instance, as TechCrunch beforehand reported, Cluely revealed a slick however polarizing launch video of Lee utilizing a hidden AI assistant to deceive a lady about his age, and even his information of artwork, on a date at a flowery restaurant.
Earlier this week, Cluely hoped to throw a big after-party following Y Combinator’s AI Startup College, a two-day occasion. However the police shut down the festivities after round 2,000 folks tried to enter the venue, Lee informed TechCrunch. After they arrived, he informed TC, “We did some cleanup, however the drinks are all there ready for the subsequent celebration.”
