# People Data Labs

> People Data Labs is a data-as-a-service company that sells clean, structured B2B data through developer-friendly APIs. Instead of selling dashboards or seats, it sells the raw material - billions of professional and company records that engineers, data scientists, and product teams use to build their own tools for recruiting, sales, marketing, identity verification, and AI. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company positions itself as the data layer underneath other companies' products rather than a competitor to them.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Sean Thorne (Co-founder, former CEO (stepped down 2025)), Henry Nevue (Co-founder, former President (stepped down 2025)), Joe Campbell (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** Approximately 80-92 employees
- **Products:** Person Enrichment API, Person Search API, Company Enrichment & Search API, IP Enrichment API, Job Posting Data
- **Notable:** Built and maintains a dataset of roughly 3 billion B2B records., Raised a $45M Series B led by Craft Ventures in November 2021., Backed by top-tier investors including Founders Fund, 8VC, and Flex Capital.

## Products & services

- **Person Enrichment API** — Takes partial identifiers and returns a fuller professional profile - title, employer, skills, contact attributes.
- **Person Search API** — Query the full person dataset with structured filters to build targeted audiences and prospect lists.
- **Company Enrichment & Search API** — Firmographic data on companies - size, industry, location, funding - for lead scoring and account research.
- **IP Enrichment API** — Maps IP addresses to company information for de-anonymizing website visitors and account-based marketing.
- **Job Posting Data** — Structured job listing data used for hiring signals, market intelligence, and trend analysis.
- **Supporting APIs** — Cleaner, Autocomplete, Skill Enrichment, and Job Title Enrichment endpoints that normalize and standardize messy inputs.

## Achievements

- Built and maintains a dataset of roughly 3 billion B2B records.
- Raised a $45M Series B led by Craft Ventures in November 2021.
- Backed by top-tier investors including Founders Fund, 8VC, and Flex Capital.
- Grew from a Y Combinator-era recruiting idea (TalentIQ) into core data infrastructure for B2B products.
- Distributes data through major cloud marketplaces including AWS.

## Latest updates

- **2021-11** — Raised $45M Series B led by Craft Ventures to expand its B2B data APIs.
- **2025-08** — Co-founders Sean Thorne and Henry Nevue stepped back from day-to-day CEO/President roles; Ben Eisenberg leads as CEO.

## Links

- Website: https://www.peopledatalabs.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/peopledatalabs
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/peopledatalabs
- GitHub: https://github.com/peopledatalabs
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peopledatalabs

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Last updated: 2026-06-13