ClickUp

About ClickUp

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by ClickUp

All products by ClickUp reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

ClickUpProject Management

One app to replace them all — tasks, docs, goals, and more

From $7/mo7.0/10

How Our Review Panel Scores ClickUp

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed ClickUp's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.0 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Decision Maker the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who ClickUp competes with, and how they differ.

Asana

Asana leads with a cleaner, more opinionated UI for cross-functional work tracking, timelines and goals, targeting similar mid-market and enterprise teams at a comparable per-seat price, but lacks ClickUp's native docs, whiteboards and built-in chat in one workspace.

monday.com7.5/10

monday.com is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: MNDY) visual Work OS built around customizable boards and no-code automations; it competes on breadth of integrations and a marketing-heavy GTM rather than ClickUp's single converged-app strategy.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Notion6.6/10

Notion competes from the docs-and-wiki side, layering lightweight databases and task views on top of a flexible block editor, whereas ClickUp leads with deep task/project hierarchy and adds docs and chat around it.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Smartsheet7.9/10

Smartsheet is spreadsheet-native and skews toward enterprise IT/PMO buyers with heavier governance and reporting needs, commanding higher per-seat enterprise pricing than ClickUp's broader SMB-to-enterprise range.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Airtable6.9/10

Airtable positions itself as a no-code database/app builder for structured data workflows rather than task-centric project management, overlapping with ClickUp mainly in workflow automation and custom views.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Trello

Trello (owned by Atlassian) offers a simple kanban-only board model with a generous free tier, competing at the lightweight end of the market where ClickUp's configurability and feature depth are overkill.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in ClickUp's history, with sources.

1. May 21, 2026Milestone

   Laid off 22% of workforce (~290 employees) in AI-driven restructuring

   CEO Zeb Evans announced ClickUp cut about 290 of its 1,300 employees, framing the reduction as a shift toward an AI-driven organization with roughly 3,000 internal AI agents deployed and new $1M salary bands for remaining top performers.

   techcrunch.com
2. Feb 4, 2026Launch

   Launched AI Super Agents and hired 6 executives on path to $1B+ ARR

   ClickUp launched no-code "AI Super Agents" and announced six senior executive hires (from Klaviyo, Smartsheet, Looker/Clari and others) as it targeted crossing $1 billion in annual recurring revenue.

   finance.yahoo.com
3. Dec 22, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired Codegen to power AI "Super Agents"

   ClickUp acquired AI code-generation startup Codegen, whose CEO Jay Hack became ClickUp's Head of AI, to power autonomous "Super Agents" inside the platform; the standalone Codegen product was deprecated January 16, 2026.

   clickup.com
4. Nov 12, 2025Acquisition

   Acquired Qatalog, an AI-powered enterprise search platform

   ClickUp acquired London-based Qatalog, a $26M-funded AI work hub with permission-aware enterprise search technology, to deepen its AI convergence strategy.

   cityam.com
5. Sep 9, 2025Milestone

   Surpassed $300M in annual recurring revenue

   ClickUp announced it surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and now serves over 20 million users worldwide, citing 800% year-over-year growth in AI usage.

   finance.yahoo.com
6. Sep 17, 2024Launch

   Launched ClickUp Chat with built-in AI features

   ClickUp launched ClickUp Chat, integrating team messaging with native AI-driven features directly into its project-management platform.

   venturebeat.com
7. Jul 4, 2023Milestone

   Laid off 10% of workforce (~90 employees)

   ClickUp cut about 90 employees, roughly 10% of its ~900-person workforce, shifting some support roles to lower-cost regions as it positioned itself to be IPO-ready.

   techcrunch.com
8. Apr 26, 2022Acquisition

   Acquired Slapdash, its first acquisition

   ClickUp acquired search and command-bar platform Slapdash, its first-ever acquisition, adding the ability to search across 40+ connected applications such as Slack, Salesforce and Google Drive.

   sdtimes.com
9. Oct 27, 2021Funding

   Series C — $400M co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, $4B valuation

   ClickUp raised $400 million in Series C funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Meritech Capital Partners, valuing the company at $4 billion and bringing total funding to $535 million.

   clickup.com
10. Dec 15, 2020Funding

    Series B — $100M led by Georgian, unicorn valuation

    ClickUp raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Georgian with participation from Craft Ventures, reaching a reported $1 billion valuation and unicorn status; total funding to date reached $135 million.

    siliconangle.com
11. Jun 24, 2020Funding

    Series A — $35M led by Craft Ventures

    ClickUp raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Craft Ventures, with participation from Georgian Partners; Craft's David Sacks joined the board.

    clickup.com
12. 2017Founded

    Founded by Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski in San Diego, CA

    ClickUp was founded in 2017 in San Diego, California, by Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski.

    en.wikipedia.org