HelloSky is an AI-powered talent intelligence platform built for executive search, private equity, and venture capital firms. Founded by CEO Alex Bates and based in San Diego, California, HelloSky gives these firms the technology to find, evaluate, and connect with top talent. By bringing talent, company, and investor data together in one place, HelloSky helps professionals spend less time on manual research and more time making decisions and building relationships.

HelloSky combines AI with continuously verified data to support the full talent search process. Instead of relying on one database or a single search method, the platform brings together talent, company, and investor information from multiple sources and checks the data on an ongoing basis. This helps firms build a clearer view of a market, including a candidate’s experience, company history, connections, and other details that may be spread across different sources.

Its tools help firms map talent markets, discover candidates, search across talent and company data, rank candidates against the needs of a search, and reach people with verified contact information. SmartRank compares candidates with a custom search scorecard and shows the information behind each recommendation, rather than providing only a black-box score. Beacon runs multiple search strategies at the same time to uncover executives who may be missed by a traditional search, including people with limited or no LinkedIn presence.

HelloSky also uses AI to help draft outreach, while giving firms the ability to review and control the message before it is sent. Together, these tools give executive search, private equity, and venture capital professionals a faster and more complete way to understand talent markets and make informed decisions.

HelloSky serves three main groups: executive search firms conducting C-suite, board, and senior leadership searches; private equity firms tracking talent and key people throughout the investment cycle; and venture capital firms supporting talent needs across their portfolio companies. Clients include Atomic, Caldwell Partners, Bespoke Partners, NEA, and Stanton Chase. HelloSky maintains a database of more than 100 million executive profiles, is SOC 2 compliant, and does not use client search data to train its AI models.