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Clarizen is a technology company.
Clarizen provides comprehensive collaborative work management software, enabling organizations to streamline project execution and portfolio management. Its core offering integrates project planning, workflow automation, and resource management, providing real-time visibility and control across complex initiatives. The platform is designed to facilitate cross-functional collaboration and optimize operational efficiency for enterprises.
The company was founded around 2005 by Avinoam Nowogrodski. His insight was the growing challenge organizations faced in coordinating diverse teams and projects, leading to siloed information and inefficient processes. Clarizen was thus conceived to centralize project data and communication, offering a unified platform for enhanced organizational agility and decision-making.
Clarizen primarily serves professional services delivery teams and Project Management Offices (PMOs) across various industries. It empowers these groups to effectively manage their work, resources, and project lifecycles, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. The company's long-term vision centers on continuously evolving its platform to meet the dynamic needs of modern work environments, fostering greater transparency and productivity in project delivery.
Clarizen has raised $101.0M across 7 funding rounds.
Clarizen has raised $101.0M in total across 7 funding rounds.
Clarizen has raised $101.0M in total across 7 funding rounds.
Clarizen's investors include Holger Staude, Aleph VC, Index Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, StageOne Ventures, Vertex Ventures Israel, Viola Ventures, Rami Beracha, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures, Opus Capital, Vintage Investment Partners.
# Clarizen: Collaborative Work Management Platform
Clarizen is a project management and collaborative work management software company that enables organizations to connect teams, automate workflows, and deliver projects with greater visibility and efficiency[1][2]. The platform serves organizations of all sizes across 79 countries, with thousands of global customers including Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), Siemens, De Beers, Ricoh, Box, and Shaw Industries[3].
The company addresses a fundamental business challenge: disconnected teams working in silos with limited visibility into cross-functional work. Clarizen solves this by providing a unified platform where project managers, PMOs, and professional services teams can track progress, automate repetitive processes, and collaborate in real-time. The platform combines project management capabilities, configurable workflow automation, and in-context collaboration tools designed to help organizations move faster and achieve objectives sooner[1].
Clarizen was founded as an Israeli-American software company and grew through venture capital investment, raising $35 million in May 2014 in a round led by Goldman Sachs, bringing total investment to $90 million[2]. The company's trajectory reflects the growing market demand for enterprise work management solutions that go beyond traditional project management.
In April 2020, the company appointed Matt Zilli as CEO, replacing founder Boaz Chalamish who transitioned to Executive Chairman[2]. This leadership transition marked a strategic evolution. The company's most significant milestone came in January 2021, when Planview acquired Clarizen to combine their complementary capabilities and create a more comprehensive enterprise work management platform[2][3]. Backed by TPG Capital and TA Associates, the acquisition positioned the combined entity to better serve enterprises seeking to accelerate strategy-to-delivery capabilities[3].
Clarizen operates within the expanding market for enterprise work management and professional services automation. The platform reflects several converging trends: the shift toward distributed and cross-functional teams, the need for real-time visibility in complex project environments, and the integration of AI into workflow tools.
The company's acquisition by Planview demonstrates the consolidation trend in the project management software space, where larger platforms are combining specialized capabilities to offer more comprehensive solutions. This reflects broader market dynamics where enterprises increasingly demand integrated platforms that connect strategy, planning, and execution rather than managing multiple disconnected tools[3].
The emphasis on collaboration and transparency addresses a critical pain point in modern organizations: the inefficiency created when teams work in isolation. By connecting work across departments and geographies, Clarizen enables organizations to optimize resource allocation and accelerate decision-making—particularly valuable for professional services firms, PMOs, and large enterprises managing complex, interdependent projects.
Clarizen's evolution from independent startup to Planview subsidiary positions it as a core component of a larger enterprise work management ecosystem. The integration of AI capabilities through Clarizen Bot signals the platform's direction toward intelligent automation and reduced friction in daily work processes.
Looking forward, Clarizen will likely continue expanding its AI-driven features to help teams make faster decisions with better data. The platform's strength lies not in being the most specialized tool for any single function, but in being the connective tissue that brings visibility and coordination to complex, multi-team initiatives—a capability that becomes increasingly valuable as organizations navigate distributed work and accelerating change.
Clarizen has raised $101.0M across 7 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $35.0M Series F in May 2014.