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Deep Research for People

Clado puts 200 million+ people profiles (and growing) at your fingertips with simple, agentic search. If you’re interested in a global people search for sales, spreadsheets, hiring, and more, try our product.
Active Founders
Eric Mao
Eric Mao
Founder
Hello, my name is Eric and I used to study Computer Science and Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Now I build internal social networks for communities with cracked alumni.
Tom Zheng
Tom Zheng
Founder
Originally came from Canada to study aerospace @ UCSD. Found out non-citizens couldn't build in defense and pivoted to teaching myself software development. I'm now building a new search algorithm and interaction medium for people at Linkd.
Clado
Founded:2025
Batch:Spring 2025
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Pete Koomen
Company Launches
Clado: Deep Research for People
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Clado puts 200 million+ people profiles (and growing) at your fingertips with simple, agentic search.

If you’re interested in a global people search for sales, spreadsheets, hiring, and more, let’s talk: https://cal.com/clado/chat

We’d love for you all to try Clado out live! https://clado.ai

https://youtu.be/NEqtIFNZJoU

❌ The Problem: Keywords, Filters, Data

Finding the right people is broken. Current methods of people search are made up of endless filter menus, incomplete data sets, and keyword search. It takes tremendous effort and time to find people for sales and hiring, as current search methods rely on fuzzy filters in limited datasets.

✅ Solution: Clado uses agentic search to find exactly who you're looking for. Just describe the qualities you want, and we will deploy hundreds of thousands of agents to find them.

These example searches are time-consuming to execute with standard filtering tools and elude traditional keyword filters.

"AI Engineers I can poach for my pharmaceutical startup/interested in biology in Copenhagen."

An even harder one:

“Every exec (Owner/CEO/COO/CFO/Partner/Head of Growth/CTO) at accounting firms in the US and UK between 250 - 2000 employees"

After internally benchmarking our people search engine against other platforms, our model achieves SOTA performance. 

What good is finding the right person if you can’t easily contact them? We’re also able to achieve SOTA performance on contact delivery information retrieval given any Linkedin URL (provided for every result in our search).

Testing Conditions: https://pastebin.com/98PVVN9b

The Team:
Tom (UCSD) & Eric (UPenn M&T) are both ambitious freshmen who met in elementary school. They previously founded a nonprofit and won Canada’s largest data science & physics competitions.

They’ve also sailed over 300 nautical miles over 10 days, canoed 100km over 6 days, walked around Toronto hanging up posters for their first business for two weeks straight, and traveled to Sri Lanka on a three-day notice to present at a conference together. 

Try clado: https://clado.ai

📅 Book a meeting: https://cal.com/clado/chat

📧 Email us: founders@clado.ai