Cycle App is a technology company.
Cycle App has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round.
Cycle App has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Cycle App has raised $6.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Cycle App's investors include 20VC, AAF Management Ltd., Acadian Ventures, Accel, Alt Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, Boldstart Ventures, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Chalfen Ventures.
Cycle App is an AI-powered feedback management platform that serves product teams, support agents, and customer-facing roles by capturing, organizing, and actioning user feedback from multiple sources into a unified, collaborative workspace.[2][1] It solves the chaos of scattered product feedback—pulling insights from tools like Slack, Zendesk, Gong, Intercom, and surveys—through auto-tagging, AI summaries, custom workflows, and real-time collaboration, enabling teams to close feedback loops efficiently and boost metrics like NPS and retention.[2][1] Launched with a flexible, doc-based model, Cycle grew from 50 to 500 active companies post-2022 Product Hunt launch and secured $6M in funding before its acquisition by Atlassian, which integrates it into Jira Product Discovery.[1][4]
Cycle was founded in 2019 by Mehdi Boudoukhane, who identified the need for a single source of truth in product management after struggling with fragmented tools.[1][4] Partnering with eFounders—a startup studio behind successes like Front, Aircall, and Spendesk—the team aimed to reinvent product workflows from the ground up, starting with a natively collaborative document as the core unit instead of rigid tickets.[1] Early traction hit in July 2022 with a Product Hunt soft launch that earned Product of the Week status, driving thousands of signups and scaling active users from 50 to 500 companies shortly after.[1] Backed by investors like Boldstart Ventures and Base Case, Cycle announced version 1.0 alongside $6M funding, highlighting its feedback-to-shipping automation.[1] By 2025 or early 2026, Atlassian acquired it to enhance Jira's product discovery capabilities.[4]
Cycle stands out in feedback management through these key features:
Cycle rides the wave of AI-driven product-led growth (PLG) and customer obsession trends, where teams demand unified voice-of-customer (VoC) data amid exploding feedback channels from support, sales, and surveys.[2][1] Its timing aligns with post-2020 remote/hybrid work amplifying tool fragmentation, while AI advancements enable smart tagging and summaries that traditional tools like Jira lacked natively.[4][1] Market forces like rising churn sensitivity and retention focus favor it—investors noted its loop-closing boosts NPS and NRR—positioning Cycle to influence SaaS ecosystems by embedding feedback into dev cycles.[1] The Atlassian acquisition amplifies this, supercharging Jira for enterprise product discovery and setting a standard for AI-augmented collaboration in a $100B+ PM tool market.[4]
Post-acquisition, Cycle will likely deepen integration into Atlassian's ecosystem, evolving Jira into a full-spectrum feedback-to-ship engine with enhanced AI for enterprises.[4] Trends like agentic AI, multimodal insights (e.g., call transcripts), and public changelogs will shape it, potentially expanding to non-product teams like sales or CX.[2][1] Its influence may grow by standardizing collaborative VoC practices, helping more startups scale retention amid economic pressures—echoing its origin as the "gear" for product feedback, now turbocharged at Atlassian scale.[1][5]
Cycle App has raised $6.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $6.0M Seed in February 2023.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2023 | $6.0M Seed | 20VC, AAF Management Ltd., Acadian Ventures, Accel, Alt Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Bedrock Capital, Bling Capital, Boldstart Ventures, BoxGroup, Cambrian Ventures, Chalfen Ventures, Connect Ventures, Conversion Capital, Daffy, eFounders, Emergence Capital, Felix Capital, Highland Capital Partners, IA Seed Ventures, Indeed.com, Insight Partners, Kearny Jackson, Kima Ventures, L Catterton Growth, Mantis VC, Mischief Venture Capital, monashees, Pareto Holdings, Passion Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sarona Ventures, #SecretFund, Seedcamp, Slack Fund, SNR, Stride VC, Stripe, SV Latam Fund, TQ Ventures, Tribe Capital, TrueSight Ventures, TY, Ulu Ventures, Y Combinator, Adrien Miniatti, Amirhossein Malekzadeh, Anthony Pompliano, Antoine Martin, Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Murphy, Eric Nadalin, Garrett Koehn, Gokul Rajaram, Guillaume Luccisano, Guy Podjarny, Ilya Kondrashov, Jean-David Blanc, Jeffrey Wilke, Jérôme Le Feuvre, Jonathan Widawski, Kevin Weil, Lior Shiff, Liu Jiang, Mario Götze, Maximilian Tayenthal, Niklas Jansen, Othman Laraki, Peter Kazanjy, Riccardo Zacconi, Ron Pragides, Sam Altman, Scott Belsky, Thibaud Elziere, Youcef Es-skouri |