Founder of a listed tool
Neel Balar
Co-founder and CBO, named behind the Clueso listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Neel builds
Clueso creates editable videos and supporting articles from agent instructions. Its hosted MCP server can manage projects, clips, voiceovers, media, templates and exports within a signed-in workspace.
Co-founder and CBO, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Akash Anand Co-founder and CEO
- Prajwal Prakash Co-founder and CTO
Backed by
Y Combinator f7 Ventures Dharana Capital Founders Future Neotribe Ventures
Questions
Who is Neel Balar?
Neel Balar is co-founder and chief business officer of Clueso, a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company building AI tools for product videos and documentation. Before Clueso, Balar built a note-taking app that reached more than 20,000 users, studied engineering design and data science at IIT Madras and led a student Hyperloop team that competed in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition.
What does Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Clueso from Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso). Clueso creates editable videos and supporting articles from agent instructions. Its hosted MCP server can manage projects, clips, voiceovers, media, templates and exports within a signed-in workspace.
Who has invested in Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso)?
The sources our research read name Y Combinator, f7 Ventures, Dharana Capital, Founders Future and Neotribe Ventures.
How are Neel's tools graded?
Clueso is graded F, 36.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (13)
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clueso
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1159730-akash-anand
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand/
- https://twitter.com/realAkashAnand
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1156693-neel-balar
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/
- https://twitter.com/BalarNeel
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1156437-prajwal-prakash
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000/
- https://www.clueso.io/
- https://help.clueso.io/getting-started
- https://www.clueso.io/contact
- https://help.clueso.io/
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