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Enterprise SaaS

# Clever

Clever is a single platform for all of your digital learning programs. Founded in 2012, Clever was started by educators and technology professionals who knew that schools, teachers, and students could all benefit from the amazing learning software that was available, but key challenges stood in the way of accessing the technology. Today, half of K-12 schools in the U.S. use Clever to give students and teachers single sign-on access for any resource or file they need, and to automate software acc

sources

2

Evidence entries preserved.

affiliations

2

Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator

competitors

6

Mapped from High Signal graph features.

status

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artifact cache

last updated

2026-07-15

17:19 UTC

source evidence

Why this company exists here

## Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #773

[official source](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clever)

## Andreessen Horowitz

a16z-investment-list #198

[official source](https://a16z.com/investment-list/)

generated read

High Signal interpretation

Clever is classified as **Enterprise SaaS** from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction

Product facets

amazing learning softwaretechnologyK-12 schoolsschoolsCleverCleverstudentssingle sign-on access

mapping method

Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

## Companies similar to Clever

Enterprise SaaS · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

[### Nimble match 87Nimble uses predictive analytics to give every K-12 student access to excellent teachers. Our smart applicant tracking system (ATS) leverages a predictive model to help school districts identify and hire the best educators for their classrooms.shared extracted concept terms: 12, school, student; shared product terms: educator, school, teacher, student; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/nimble)[### RocketLit match 61RocketLit gives all students better access to learning and educators access to the data they need to be most impactful. Our first product, RocketLit, is an adaptive and personalized learning platform that serves reading to students at their independent level. Students read the same content at different levels of complexity and fluidly move up reading levels as they improve. InnerOrbit is our new Science Assessment platform, giving students, teachers and administrators the practice and data they shared extracted concepts: students; shared product terms: educator, teacher, student, give; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/rocketlit)[### Brite match 59Brite is disrupting the employee benefits education space by building a platform that allows employee benefits brokerages to build digital benefit guides that drive employees to enroll in the right plans and understand their benefits better. To those who are in the industry...we are the "Employee Navigator" of benefits education software.shared extracted concept terms: school; shared product terms: benefit, digital, who, school; shared affiliation: Y Combinator](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/brite)[### Musicbuk match 47Musicbuk is a virtual learning platform that gives students access to trusted, vetted, professional music instructors for 1-on-1 music lessonsshared extracted concepts: students; shared product terms: professional, student, give, acces; same category: Enterprise SaaS](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/musicbuk)[### blueflite match 34Benefits of a helicopter, speed and access, but at the cost of operating a conventional vanshared extracted concept terms: acces; shared product terms: benefit, acces, but](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/blueflite)[### TeacherTalent match 28Intelligent hiring for teachers and schools.shared extracted concepts: schools; shared product terms: teacher, school](https://highsignal.app/case-studies/teachertalent)

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