📝 Cluely raises $5.3M

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April 23, 2025

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Cluely, a controversial AI startup co-founded by 21-year-old ex-Columbia students Chungin “Roy” Lee and Neel Shanmugam, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding to scale its tool that helps users “cheat on everything”—from job interviews to exams—via a hidden browser assistant. The tool, born out of a viral post that got them suspended from Columbia, has already hit $3 million in annual recurring revenue and positions itself as a natural evolution of tools like calculators and spellcheck. Though critics compare it to Black Mirror, Cluely is leaning into the provocation with a bold marketing strategy and ambitions to disrupt traditional evaluations across industries.

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