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Based in Portland, Oregon, Clickety developed software tools that integrated with email and calendar applications to help managers and executives track personnel relationships, conversations, and action items. Positioned as a specialized project management platform for human interactions rather than traditional tasks, the company targeted professionals such as chief executives, analysts, journalists, and lawyers before ceasing operations in September 2021. Prior to its closure, the startup operated with a dedicated team of six employees and planned to implement a commercial subscription model priced at $250 per year. The firm secured $2 million in initial seed funding from a syndicate of institutional investors that included Founders' Co-op, Flying Fish, Oregon Venture Fund, Liquid 2 Ventures, and former executives from Atlassian. The personnel management software startup Clickety was officially founded in 2019 by Luke Kanies.
Clickety has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round.
Clickety has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Clickety has raised $2.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $2.0M Seed in August 2021.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2021 | $2M Seed | — | Accel, Bond, JAY Simons, Kenny VAN Zant, Flying Fish Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Oregon Venture Fund | Announced |
Clickety has raised $2.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Clickety's investors include Accel, Bond, Jay Simons, Kenny Van Zant, Flying Fish Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Oregon Venture Fund.
Clickety is a technology company building software tools to empower leaders and managers with their "People Work"—managing relationships, interactions, and commitments.[1][5] Its first product acts like Trello or GitHub but for people, integrating with email and calendar apps to capture conversations, visualize work by person rather than task, track follow-ups, and prioritize attention based on interaction history.[1][2][5] It serves managers and executives frustrated by fragmented tools like LinkedIn or CRMs, solving the problem of poor tooling for non-sales relationship building by emphasizing privacy, no data selling, and context-specific activity feeds.[1][5]
Growth momentum was nascent but halted: founded by Puppet's creator, it garnered early investor interest from Oregon Venture Fund before shutting down in September 2021.[6]
Clickety was founded by Luke Kanies, the founder and former CEO of Puppet, a configuration management tool used by hundreds of thousands of sysadmins worldwide.[1] A self-described "tool junkie" from childhood—helping his dad remodel houses—Kanies built his career on developer tools like Puppet but found a void in CEO-level tools for people management.[1] The idea emerged from his frustration as CEO: no great software existed for "People Work," despite its importance over task-based tools.[1][2]
Launched around 2021, it gained initial traction with features connecting email/calendars to track discussions, promises, and actions, plus a security audit.[1][2] Backed by Oregon Venture Fund, it represented Kanies' pivot to leadership tools but ceased operations after two funding rounds, marked "Dead" on September 1, 2021.[6]
Clickety stood out in people management software through these key features:
Unlike LinkedIn (knows "who" but not "what/when/why") or CRMs (sales-focused), it targeted holistic relationship execution.[1]
Clickety rode the rise of manager-focused productivity tools amid remote/hybrid work trends post-2020, where fragmented apps (email, calendars, CRMs) hindered "People Work" amid talent shortages and burnout.[1][2][5] Timing aligned with devops-to-leadership shifts, leveraging Kanies' Puppet cred to address a gap in human-centric ops tools—paralleling how GitHub/Trello transformed code/team workflows.[1]
It influenced the ecosystem by highlighting underserved "people ops" needs, paving for successors in relationship intelligence (e.g., AI-enhanced CRMs), though its shutdown underscores market challenges for niche B2B tools competing with incumbents.[6]
Clickety's promise to software-enable leaders flickered brightly but extinguished in 2021, leaving a blueprint for people-first tools in a manager-tool-starved world.[6] What's next? No revival evident, but its DNA—contextual tracking, privacy rigor—fuels trends like AI agents for relationships and workflow automation in HR tech. As hybrid work evolves, expect its influence in platforms prioritizing human context over tasks, evolving from Kanies' vision to broader ecosystem tools that keep leaders "on top of it." This ties back to empowering managers, proving even failed bets sharpen the edge for what's next.[1][5]
