The recruiters page says Clado is no longer being developed and will shut down in 2 months, with users directed to clodo.ai for transition.
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Clado is a Y Combinator-backed AI people-search and profile-enrichment platform for recruiting, sales, and VC workflows. Its primary product is Clado Atlas, which uses agentic search plus enrichment to find and rank people across large profile/record datasets; the public site also says the product is no longer being developed and is scheduled to shut down in about two months as of July 2026, with users being transitioned to clodo.ai.
Primary product
Clado Atlas, an agentic people-search and profile-enrichment platform
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI people search / profile enrichment / recruiting tech
Offices
0 jobs at Clado
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Business model
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$2.5M
Latest round
Seed · Nov 2025
Latest amount
$2M
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder
Co-Founder & CTO
Chief Scientist
Chief Product Officer
Investors
Very small, technical, experiment-driven team. Public writing emphasizes iterative model training, benchmark-driven evaluation, reinforcement learning, and fast shipping over process-heavy org design.
Pricing
Usage-based credit system: each credit costs $0.01, and search/enrichment endpoints are charged per successful result or operation.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
≈$660K ARR (2025 estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
35K
Traffic estimate as of May 2026
Entrepreneur UK · Nov 2025
Covers the founders’ background, the pivot from student/alumni search to enterprise recruiting, and the Jaimy acquisition that added Rohin Arya and Jefferson Ding to the team.
The SaaS News · Nov 2025
Summarizes the seed round led by Valor Equity Partners, investor participation from David Schmaier, and Clado’s recruiting and sales use cases.
BetaKit · Nov 2025
Reports Clado’s $2M seed round, the Jaimy acquisition, the SF/Toronto team split, and customer examples such as Turing and Mercor.
Clado Team · Nov 2025
Clado describes its RL-based model training stack, including a three-model architecture, OpenPipe ART, RULER, DSPy, Weights & Biases, and large GPU training on Runpod.
Product Hunt · May 2025
Launch page for Clado’s people-search product, highlighting the natural-language search experience and its positioning for sales and hiring workflows.