Clera

Clera is an AI-powered talent agent that sources, vets and introduces candidates to startups for specific roles. Its product flags suspected fake applicants before a first call, works inside Claude and ChatGPT, and makes intros directly, including through Slack.

Customers are startups, mainly at Seed to Series C stage, that hire for engineering, sales and founder-adjacent roles. Candidates use the service free. Companies pay a 15% fee of first-year base salary only when a hire is made through Clera; contract and fractional hires are charged 15% over 12 months.

Clera was founded in 2025 according to its website and is led by co-founders Sebastian Scott (CEO), Alexander Farr (COO) and Daniel Wintermeyer (CTO). The team is described as about a dozen people working from a house in San Francisco. The legal entity is Clera Labs, Inc., with a registered address in Dover, US. The website cites 240,000+ candidates, 2,000+ open roles and 900+ startups. The job list provided for the company includes 40 roles tagged with Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Karlsruhe.

Product: AI talent agent that sources, vets and introduces candidates to startup roles; candidates are free and companies pay a 15% success fee on hire.