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Andreessen Horowitz Backs AI Startup With Slogan ‘Cheat at Everything’

Andreessen Horowitz Backs AI Startup With Slogan ‘Cheat at Everything’

2025-06-28Business
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Andreessen Horowitz, a prominent venture capital firm, has led a $15 million funding round for a new artificial intelligence (AI) startup named Cluely Inc. This significant investment underscores a notable backing of a company with a highly controversial public image and a founder with a contentious past.

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Andreessen Horowitz, a prominent venture capital firm, has led a $15 million funding round for a new artificial intelligence (AI) startup named Cluely Inc. This significant investment underscores a notable backing of a company with a highly controversial public image and a founder with a contentious past.

Andreessen Horowitz led a $15 million funding round for an artificial intelligence startup called Cluely Inc., famous on social platforms like X for controversial viral marketing stunts and the slogan “cheat on everything.” The startup was co-founded by 21-year-old Roy Lee, who was booted from Columbia University earlier this year for creating a tool called Interview Coder that helped technical job candidates cheat on interviews using AI.

At the time, he wrote on LinkedIn, “I’m completely kicked out from school. LOL!”

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Andreessen Horowitz led a $15 million funding round for an artificial intelligence startup called Cluely Inc., famous on social platforms like X for controversial viral marketing stunts and the slogan “cheat on everything.” The startup was co-founded by 21-year-old Roy Lee, who was booted from Columbia University earlier this year for creating a tool called Interview Coder that helped technical job candidates cheat on interviews using AI.

At the time, he wrote on LinkedIn, “I’m completely kicked out from school. LOL!”

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