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.
clado used to be linkd, a natural language search engine over alumni databases for schools. we launched this consumer platform for students because we believed that current alumni systems are fundamentally broken, despite being the most powerful aspect of a university.
we saw this at our respective alumni platforms at ucsd & upenn:
> disconnected sites with outdated alumni profiles that people don't fill out
> direct messages that are never answered due to inactivity
why is so much potential locked behind an inactive system?
when we first launched at upenn with just 2000 profiles and a simple vector database with semantic search, we were ecstatic to see what people would search for.
> alumni working in investment banking, ai engineers at google, etc.
we then scaled up with each launch at u of toronto, columbia, stanford, and berkeley. we saw more creative searches:
> find me every angel investor at berkeley.
> grad students at stanford working on ai/ml at nvidia (a student found the person sitting across from them at lunch).
with each launch, we saw more and more requests to bring clado to more schools (and we loved the people building their own versions of clado at their schools!). we knew we couldn't scale one school at a time, and decided to work on releasing them all at once.
we believe every student, regardless of where they're at school, should have access to the powerful group of alumni that came before them. we hope this achieves that. (IF YOUR SCHOOL ISN'T HERE, please message me and we'll add it for you).
we're also serving hundreds of thousands of people profiles via search results to enterprises. please dm me if this is interesting as well.
thank you for reading, i hope you enjoy clado!
I signed up and entered the verification code I received in my inbox (strangely from introduction@uselinkd.com) but got "access denied" when I tried to login.
How do you see Clado evolving over the next few years to reshape the way students and alumni connect, not just within universities, but possibly across industries and regions too?
This feels really thoughtful. Love how you’re making the process of growing and supporting early-stage startups a little less lonely and a lot more accessible. Great job—and big congrats to the team on the launch
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@ericmao06 This is honestly what alumni systems should’ve been from the beginning.
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we built clado to help you find anyone. happy searching!
This kind of thorough search capability looks so useful!
Can you add the University of Utah though?:)
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Launch video looks 🔥
Any plans to open an API for Clado?
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I signed up and entered the verification code I received in my inbox (strangely from introduction@uselinkd.com) but got "access denied" when I tried to login.
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@rrhoover last minute name change! but thats weird will fix it asap
How do you see Clado evolving over the next few years to reshape the way students and alumni connect, not just within universities, but possibly across industries and regions too?
Really cool work!
thanks @ericmao06 and @toomzheng for saving my family from a burning building and lending me 1M dollars cash.
Very useful. Very cool.
Going to revolutionize alumni search. So simple but so helpful.
Haye
I don't know what the purpose of this button is. After entering the homepage, it can't be clicked
This seems perfect for me!
Will change the world
Perfect for sales teams, recruiters, and data pros looking to find key contacts without the usual hassle.
Den
Clado is the only people search I use anymore. Totally replaced apollo and all of the other tools we were previously using. Congrats on the launch!
HaHa Crypto
really interesting to see the unique data you use here!
Den
this was a chatgpt moment for me. really made a search bar that could find any human being on the planet lol
so exciting. hope to get some wonderful clado merch or pro access! can’t wait to use this for my personalized needs
This feels really thoughtful. Love how you’re making the process of growing and supporting early-stage startups a little less lonely and a lot more accessible. Great job—and big congrats to the team on the launch