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  "markdown": "Co-founder and CBO.\n\nNeel 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.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/\n- X: https://x.com/BalarNeel\n\n## What Neel builds\n\n- [Clueso](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/clueso-video.md), graded F, 36.3/100, in Video generation. 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 2026-10-27.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Akash Anand](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/akash-anand/), Co-founder and CEO\n- [Prajwal Prakash](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/prajwal-prakash/), Co-founder and CTO\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [f7 Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/f7-ventures/)\n- [Dharana Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/dharana-capital/)\n- [Founders Future](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/founders-future/)\n- [Neotribe Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/neotribe-ventures/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Neel Balar?\n\nNeel 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.\n\n### What does Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso) make?\n\nAnchor 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.\n\n### Who has invested in Desklamp, Inc. (doing business as Clueso)?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, f7 Ventures, Dharana Capital, Founders Future and Neotribe Ventures.\n\n### How are Neel's tools graded?\n\nClueso is graded F, 36.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clueso\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1159730-akash-anand\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/theakashanand/\n- https://twitter.com/realAkashAnand\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1156693-neel-balar\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/neelbalar7/\n- https://twitter.com/BalarNeel\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/1156437-prajwal-prakash\n- https://www.linkedin.com/in/prajwalprakash2000/\n- https://www.clueso.io/\n- https://help.clueso.io/getting-started\n- https://www.clueso.io/contact\n- https://help.clueso.io/\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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