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Clerk funding, valuation and investors

Drop-in authentication, user management, and session handling for web and mobile apps.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Series C

$50M · October 2025

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$80M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · San Francisco, California

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Menlo Ventures

Source links not recorded Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Clerk provides embeddable sign-up, sign-in, user profiles, organizations, and session management for React, Next.js, and mobile frameworks. Developers replace weeks of auth plumbing with pre-built components and APIs.

Why Clerk is interesting

Clerk won developer mindshare for polished auth UX — CRV and Menlo joined a16z across B and C rounds as identity becomes critical for AI agents too.

Product & use cases

Drop-in auth — sign-up, sign-in, MFA, organizations, and sessions via React/Next.js components.

  • Replace custom auth in Next.js apps
  • Multi-tenant B2B SaaS organization management
  • Identity infrastructure for AI agent applications

Key facts

  • Series C (Oct 2025): $50M led by Menlo Ventures and Anthropic Anthology Fund (Clerk blog)
  • Series B (Jan 2024): $30M led by CRV with a16z and Stripe strategic investment (TechCrunch)

Funding history (newest first)

Series C

2025-10 $50M

Series B

2024-01 $30M

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from Clerk's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

Andreessen Horowitz CRV Menlo Ventures

Competitive landscape

Edge: Clerk won developer mindshare for polished auth UX — CRV and Menlo joined a16z across B and C rounds as identity becomes critical for AI agents too.

Clerk operates in developer-tools, cybersecurity, enterprise-saas. Clerk won developer mindshare for polished auth UX — CRV and Menlo joined a16z across B and C rounds as identity becomes critical for AI agents too.

  • Auth0 incumbent

    Enterprise identity; Clerk wins on developer UX.

  • Supabase Auth direct

    Open-source auth with backend.

  • Firebase Auth incumbent

    Google free auth tier.

Notable stories

  • Stripe strategic investment in Series B.
  • Anthropic Anthology Fund in Series C for AI agent identity.

Industries

Developer Tools Cybersecurity Enterprise SaaS

FAQs about Clerk

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Clerk provides drop-in authentication and user management — sign-up, sign-in, multi-factor auth, organizations, and session handling — via React components and APIs so developers ship auth without building it from scratch.
Andreessen Horowitz (see /fund/andreessen-horowitz) backed early rounds. CRV (see /fund/crv) led the $30M Series B in 2024; Menlo Ventures (see /fund/menlo-ventures) co-led the $50M Series C in 2025.
Series C as of October 2025 ($50M). Prior Series B was $30M in January 2024. The company remains private.
Auth is table stakes for every app but expensive to build securely. Clerk's developer-first UX made it a default choice for startups — and identity infrastructure is increasingly relevant as AI agents need authenticated access.
No — Clerk remains a private company.
Headquarters not publicly disclosed in sources we index.
Founding year not publicly disclosed in sources we index.
Clerk has not publicly disclosed profitability.
See fundraising rounds and highlights on this profile for disclosed amounts.
developer-tools, cybersecurity, enterprise-saas
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