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ClickUp

Application

Project-management and productivity platform whose Brain² AI layer answers from a workspace's own tasks, docs and connected apps, drafts writing and dashboards, and runs named autonomous agents that complete whole tasks end to end.

Total funding$535M

Valuation$4B

Employees1,300

Founded2017

HeadquartersSan Diego, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

Inside ClickUp

• Brain² Agent platform Paid add-on to the parent

  ClickUp's company-wide AI layer: routes each request across GPT, Claude and Gemini, answers from a workspace's own tasks, docs, chat and connected apps (Slack, GitHub, Figma, Salesforce and more), and runs named autonomous agents (Slides, Finance, Design, Research and others) that complete whole tasks rather than only draft text. Also ships a desktop/mobile client, "Brain MAX," that extends the same subscription's search and voice dictation outside ClickUp itself.

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NNotionPrivate · $11BClickUp's own comparison hub lists Notion as a column/comparison target on its official /compare page. Both Notion AI and ClickUp Brain carry search-internal-documents.6 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleSourced competitorSearch our internal documentsCompareSSmartsheetPrivate · $8.4BClickUp's own /compare hub names Smartsheet as a comparison target. Both Smartsheet AI and ClickUp Brain carry query-my-own-data.4 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandSourced competitorAsk questions of my own dataCompareAAsanaPublic · $2.1BAsana's own dedicated comparison page names ClickUp and directly contrasts AI Teammates against ClickUp Brain by name. automate-a-process is the need both products carry.4 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeSourced competitorAutomate a repetitive processCompareAAirtableAcquired ($2.3B deal)ClickUp's own /compare hub names Airtable as a comparison target. Both Airtable Omni and ClickUp Brain carry automate-a-process.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSourced competitorAutomate a repetitive processCompareMmonday.comPublic · $3.9Bmonday.com's own FY2025 20-F names ClickUp directly among project/work-management competitors. Both monday work management and ClickUp Brain² carry automate-a-process.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerNamed in filingAutomate a repetitive processCompareGGlean (Glean Technologies)Private · $7.2BClickUp's own /compare hub names Glean directly as a comparison target, an unusual cross-market pairing (workspace AI vs. enterprise search). Both Glean and ClickUp Brain carry search-internal-documents.4 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandSourced competitorSearch our internal documentsCompare

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similar scale (public); ships application rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareVSVerint SystemsAcquiredBrain² and Verint Da Vinci AI and Bots do comparable work on summarization; Verint Systems is acquired, with no independent scale.5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeCompareTTwilioPublic · $36.5BBrain² and Conversation Intelligence do comparable work on summarization; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareLLightOnPublic · $29.6MBrain² and LightOn Enterprise do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; smaller scale (public); ships API service and application rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSmaller scaleCompareRRingCentralPublic · $2.3BBrain² and AI Conversation Expert (ACE) do comparable work on summarization; similar scale (public); ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareAHAmbience HealthcarePrivate · $1.3BBrain² and Ambience do comparable work on summarization; 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both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (private); ships AI agent, API service and 3 more rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerLarger scaleCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)Brain² and Grok do comparable work on summarization; both also serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale; ships AI agent, API service and 2 more rather than the same layer.3 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerCompareIIBMPublic · $216.6BBrain² and IBM Watson Assistant both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; larger scale (public).5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product typeLarger scaleCompareLLegoraPrivate · $5.6BBrain² and Legora Editor both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; ships AI agent and application rather than the same layer.2 of 7 capabilitiesDifferent layerSame scale bandCompareCCopy.aiAcquired ($13.9M deal)Brain² and Copy.ai Brand Voice both serve buyers who need to draft and edit written content; 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Sources

Total funding

News reporting · 27 Oct 2021

TechCrunch, 2021-10-27, quoted verbatim: "the company has now raised $535 million." Sum of Series A $35M (2020-06-24), Series B $100M (2020-12) and Series C $400M (2021-10-27) as reported at the time of the Series C close. No later equity round found as of 2026-09-18.

Valuation

News reporting · 27 Oct 2021

TechCrunch, 2021-10-27, quoted verbatim: "ClickUp has raised $400 million, a Series C funding that the company confirmed values it at $4 billion post-money." No later priced round found as of 2026-09-18.

Employees

News reporting · 18 May 2026

Fortune, 2026-05-18, direct quote: "his 1,300 employees." A ~22% workforce cut was announced by CEO Zeb Evans days later (2026-05-21) as part of an AI-restructuring, but no report states the resulting total headcount, so the last company-attributed figure is recorded rather than a derived number.

Founded

Wikipedia · 18 Sep 2026

Wikipedia infobox: founded 2017 by Zeb Evans (CEO) and Alex Yurkowski (CTO). Matches ClickUp's own About page timeline (clickup.com/about).

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