How Clay announced its Series D on X
226K views, ranked 1388 of the 1981 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.
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@Clay just raised a $115M Series D at a $7.1B valuation. Now, more than 17,000 teams build on Clay, including Anthropic, SpaceXAI, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, Visa, UPS — and 80% of the Forbes AI50. @nytimes just broke the news, but the story goes far beyond the raise. AI is
How it compares
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| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding announcement the same kind of announcement | 247 | 419K | 0.5x | 157 |
| 5K to 25K followers accounts of a similar size | 479 | 582K | 0.4x | 325 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 0.3x | 1388 |
What this launch shows
From an account with 5K followers, this reached 43.3 times the account's own following. That is close to the median for 5K to 25K followers, which is 50.8 times.
It ranks 325 of 479 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it is below the median of 688K views, at rank 1388 of 1981.
Quote posts led, 31 of them at 1.4 per 10,000 views against a median of 1.3.
People were adding their own take, which is how a launch gets argued about and carried into audiences the account does not have. Bookmarks: 127. Reposts: 33.
The first line is “@Clay just raised a $115M Series D at a $7.1B valuation”. It carries a 1:06 video against a directory median of 65 seconds.
Videos between 30 and 90 seconds have a median of 603K views in the directory. The copy runs 50 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41.
The body carries a link, so the post had somewhere to send the reader and paid a little reach for it. It went out on a Wednesday. Launches posted on a Wednesday have a median of 721K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.
How to announce a funding round covers this: the round is the news and the post has to turn it into customers and hires. For the next one, read developer marketing strategy: developers try before they read, so the post has to let them.
X analytics explained is the guide for it: what each of these numbers means, with benchmarks by account size. Every launch we track in Developer Tool is on that vertical's directory page.
Questions about this launch
When did Clay launch?
Clay posted the launch on X on 9 September 2026.
How many views did the Clay launch post get?
225,953 views at the last read, ranked 1388 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 43 times the account's following.
Who posted the Clay launch?
@clay, which has 5K followers.
Planning something like this?
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