Clinkle announced that it has received $25 million in its seed round of funding led by a new investor, Accel Management Co, Inc. on June 26, 2013. The round included participation from new investors, Andreessen Horowitz, Andrew Viterbi, Bob Joss, Wells Fargo, Diane Greene, Mendel Rosenblum, Dick Fredericks, Gordon Eubanks, Jim Breyer, Marc Benioff, Mehran Sahami, Owen Van Natta, Peter Crisp, Peter Thiel, Regis McKenna, Ross Perot Jr., bunch of Duplan's former Stanford professors, and other investors.

On June 26, 2013, Clinkle closed the transaction.