MTS(@MTSlive):SITUATION EXPLAINED: @avipat_ recently went viral for posting a video saying that General Catalyst backed Luel AI, a 1:1 rip-off of his company, Kled. "TL;DR on the drama is, a couple of days ago I was scrolling Twitter and I saw a post from General Catalyst saying that they backed Luel AI." "I clicked the website and I don't think I've been that angry at something in my entire life. I started immediately crashing out." "I posted [a video] showcasing almost an exact one-to-one on our website." "The data they're collecting is all coming from Nigeria. They have 113 people on their website in organic traffic. The rest of it is all paid. It's pretty egregious stuff."

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SITUATION EXPLAINED: @avipat_ recently went viral for posting a video saying that General Catalyst backed Luel AI, a 1:1 rip-off of his company, Kled. "TL;DR on the drama is, a couple of days ago I was scrolling Twitter and I saw a post from General Catalyst saying that they backed Luel AI." "I clicked the website and I don't think I've been that angry at something in my entire life. I started immediately crashing out." "I posted [a video] showcasing almost an exact one-to-one on our website." "The data they're collecting is all coming from Nigeria. They have 113 people on their website in organic traffic. The rest of it is all paid. It's pretty egregious stuff."

Avi Patel@avipat_

2026.05.15 20:25

General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.