Astride Research, Inc.
Provide a planet-scale, AI-driven people search platform that enables GTM teams to find and engage with niche personas using natural language.
At a Glance
- B2B Sales
- Recruiting
- Marketing
- Venture Capital
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Products & Services
Planet-scale, AI-driven people search platform using natural language prompts.
Programmatic access to enriched people data and search capabilities.
Hyper-personalized, multi-step email sequencing and automation.
Market Position
Differentiates by focusing on hyper-personalization ('Your voice, not AI slop') and seamless prompt-to-outreach workflows without manual configuration.
Leadership
Founders
Sid Rajaram
Co-Founder & CEO. Previous experience includes software engineering at MinIO, John Deere, and Samsung Electronics. Research intern at Stanford AI Lab. Education: UC Berkeley.
Rithvik Chuppala
Co-Founder & CTO. Previously a Software Engineer at Databricks. Internships at Google, Nvidia, Citadel, and Verkada. Graduate Student Researcher at UC Berkeley.
Arnav Verma
Co-Founder. Previously a Solutions Engineer at Databricks and Solutions Architect at AWS. Education: UC Berkeley. Currently at Anyscale.
Executive Team
Sid Rajaram
Co-Founder & CEO
Background in engineering at MinIO and Samsung; UC Berkeley grad.
Rithvik Chuppala
Co-Founder & CTO
Former Software Engineer at Databricks; UC Berkeley grad.
Founding Story
Founded by UC Berkeley alumni Sid Rajaram, Rithvik Chuppala, and Arnav Verma. The team initially set out to help real estate agents manage leads before expanding into a comprehensive AI-driven people discovery and GTM platform.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Subscription-based (SaaS) and API usage fees.
Pricing Tiers
Deep search, automated outbound, contact enrichment. 5-day free trial.
Large-scale outbound, custom signals, CRM integrations, SAML/SSO, white-glove support.
Target Markets
- B2B Sales
- Recruiting
- Marketing
- Venture Capital
- Real Estate
- Sales prospecting and pipeline generation
- Niche recruiting (e.g., ML engineers)
- Venture deal sourcing
- Compliance and risk identification
- Event lead generation
- Transitioning users from Clado
- GTM teams