CLODO YC Application

Summer 2025Active

CLODO went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2025
Industry: B2BSales
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Sid RajaramFounder
Rithvik ChuppalaFounder

What CLODO does

Clodo is the planet's best people discovery. Used in GTM, Recruiting, Marketing, and Ops at AI Natives, B2Bs, and Fortune 500s in SaaS, Manufacturing/Industrials, BioTech, Healthcare, Fintech, Compliance, and more

CLODO's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

CLODO, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

CLODO

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Planet-scale people discovery

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built a people discovery platform that helps teams in GTM, recruiting, marketing, and operations quickly find and qualify the right people at scale. Our product integrates AI to sift through vast datasets across industries like SaaS, bioTech, healthcare, and manufacturing, helping users surface prospects and candidates that traditional tools miss.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live in San Francisco, CA, and will base the company here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where we live and has the talent and network we need to build and sell CLODO. It's central to our target customers and the AI community we engage with.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real CLODO YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from CLODO's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like CLODO would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.