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Clueso raised a $10M Series A led by Dharana Capital to expand AI agents that record, script and update product tutorial videos for software companies.
Key Takeaways
- Clueso closed a $10M Series A on October 13, 2026, led by Dharana Capital; valuation was not disclosed.
- Existing backers supplied more than 80% of the round, and total funding now stands near $12M.
- The company reports more than 1,000 paying customers, including Atlassian, GitLab and Zendesk.
Lead
Clueso, a Y Combinator-backed startup headquartered in San Francisco with most of its staff in India, announced a $10M Series A on October 13, 2026. Dharana Capital led the round. Founders Future and Neotribe Ventures joined as new investors, while Y Combinator and f7 Ventures returned. The company did not disclose a valuation or revenue.
The product turns the production of tutorial, onboarding and training videos into a task for software agents. Clueso says the system now serves more than 1,000 paying customers, up from a company that began as a screen-recording and documentation tool.
What Does Clueso Actually Sell?
Clueso sells a platform in which AI agents operate a customer's real software, capture the footage, write the script, add a voiceover, captions and motion graphics, and assemble the edit. A browser-based editor remains for human corrections. The company's "Clueprints" feature stores brand templates so output stays consistent across a video library.
The more consequential claim is maintenance. When a customer ships a new interface, the agents can rerun the capture and regenerate the affected videos. For software vendors that release weekly, outdated help videos are a recurring cost, and Clueso is pitching an answer to that cost rather than to the initial filming.
Who Is Backing the Company, and How Big Is the Round?
The round is $10M, and the lead is Dharana Capital. Existing investors supplied more than 80% of the new money, according to the company's announcement. That ratio is a mixed signal: it shows continued conviction from people who have seen the metrics, but it also means fewer outside investors priced the deal.
Total funding is now about $12M. An earlier seed round, reported at roughly $1.4M, came from f7 Ventures. A Series A that is five times the size of the seed is conventional for a company with a paying customer base, though the absence of a disclosed valuation or revenue figure leaves the pricing of that growth unclear.
Who Uses It, and Where?
Clueso names Atlassian, GitLab, Zendesk, Gainsight, PhonePe, Zoho and MoEngage among its customers. Roughly 65% of customers are in the US, 20% in Europe and between 10% and 15% in India. More than 70% of the videos produced are customer-facing, which is a harder use case than internal training because errors are visible to buyers.
Zendesk has reported a fivefold gain in productivity and an 80% reduction in video production costs. Those figures come from the customer's own use and have not been independently audited.
The founders are Akash Anand, who serves as CEO, Prajwal Prakash and Neel Balar, all alumni of IIT Madras. The company lists a team of about 35 to 39 people, most of them in India with a significant presence in Bengaluru, and plans to reach about 50 by the end of 2026.
How Crowded Is the Market for AI Video Tools?
The market is crowded at the generic end and thinner at the enterprise end. General-purpose tools such as ChatGPT and ElevenLabs can produce scripts and voiceovers, while established screen-capture products already serve software documentation. Clueso's position depends on being able to drive real product interfaces reliably, a task where agent errors compound over multi-step workflows.
The company argues that consumer tools lack the enterprise controls, brand governance and integrations that large software vendors require. That argument is plausible but untested at scale, and larger platforms with existing distribution could add similar agent features.
What Will the Money Fund?
Clueso plans to spend the funds on enterprise sales and marketing, development of its AI agents, improvements to video editing and integrations with business systems. The sales push matters most: a customer base of more than 1,000 firms is broad, but the company has not said how much of it is large-contract revenue versus small team subscriptions.
Outlook
The round gives Clueso enough capital to pursue larger software vendors, with a headcount target of 50 by year-end. The next checkpoints are disclosed revenue, enterprise contract sizes and evidence that its agents keep videos accurate across frequent product releases. Without those numbers, the Series A is a vote of confidence from insiders and one new lead rather than a market-wide verdict.
