Overview
News
Salaries
Products
People
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Financials

Funding and backers

Latest round
Seed
2025 · 15 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
AIX Ventures, Vi Partners
The money's age
Due for its next round
15 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Dec 20, 2025 On the Hacker News front page Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN · 313 points Jan 28, 2025 On the Hacker News front page Show HN: DeepSeek Your HN Profile · 121 points 2025 Raised a round Seed Apr 21, 2024 On the Hacker News front page Has Llama-3 just killed proprietary AI models? · 103 points Jul 3, 2023 On the Hacker News front page Show HN: JobLens – AI-powered job search for 'Who Is Hiring' · 108 points Apr 20, 2023 Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Generate Web Scrapers for Any Website with GPT 2023 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
2 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed 2025 — — startupticker.ch
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Adrian KrebsCo-founder & CEO
Johannes EnglerCo-founder & CTO
Tavis LochheadCo-founder & CRO
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Kadoa builds a web data platform for hedge funds, asset managers, sell-side firms and data providers that need data from websites, filings and other unstructured sources. AI agents create, monitor and repair the extraction pipelines, and the data is delivered as alerts, datasets or feeds into Excel, Google Sheets, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, S3 and AI assistants, with more than 30,000 pipelines in production. The Zurich company was founded in 2023 by Adrian Krebs, Johannes Engler and Tavis Lochhead and raised a seed round led by Vi Partners in 2025.

News

News kadoa.com 26 days ago
Show HN: A website that tracks US food prices every day
Food prices today for onions, potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, avocados and strawberries: USDA wholesale and shipping point quotes with price charts, change against a year earlier, grocery ad prices by region and daily updates. Latest report 25 Sep 2026.
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Report
News kadoa.com 1 year ago
White House News Today - Presidential Actions & Executive Orders POTUS Tracker
Today's White House news, presidential actions, and executive orders, each summarized and linked to the official release. Updated in real time.
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Report
News kadoa.com 1 year ago
AI Agents: We Need Less Hype and More Reliability
Beyond all the flashy demos, AI agents need to deliver reliable automation for real business value.
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Report
News kadoa.com 1 year ago
AI Bots vs. Humans
The rise of AI is leading to a costly arms race of bot protection and circumvention. We explore the challenges and potential solutions for a web where bots outnumber humans.
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Report
News kadoa.com 1 year ago
Is fine-tuning LLMs still worth it in 2025?
Lets explore if and when LLM fine-tuning is still worth it in 2025.
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News kadoa.com 2 years ago
AI Agents: Hype vs. Reality
AI agents show promise for automating repetitive tasks, but they are too early, too expensive, too unreliable (for now).
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News kadoa.com 2 years ago
Build vs Buy: LLM Adoption for Web Scraping in Finance
We spoke with 100+ data leaders at top investment firms about their web scraping operations and how theyre navigating LLM adoption.
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Report
News kadoa.com 2 years ago
Unstructured Web Data Workflows
See how Kadoa uses AI to extract structured web data with zero maintenance. Built for reliability, scale, and compliance.
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News kadoa.com 2 years ago
Llama 3.2 may have just killed proprietary AI models
Meta's release of Llama 3.2 marks a turning point where open-source AI models match and even surpass proprietary models.
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Report
News kadoa.com 2 years ago
How to Generate Faster Alpha from Web Data with LLMs
LLMs are transforming web data extraction, enabling investment firms to gain faster, deeper insights and maintain a competitive edge in todays financial markets.
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Products

Datasets
Curated large-scale web datasets for investment strategies, delivered to warehouses and spreadsheets.
kadoa.com
Monitors
Real-time alerts on filings, prices and website changes for investment teams.
kadoa.com
Pipelines
Self-healing web data pipelines built and maintained by AI agents. Kadoa reports more than 30,000 pipelines in production.
kadoa.com

People

Adrian Krebs
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founded Kadoa in 2023 and leads the company.
Johannes Engler
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founded Kadoa in 2023 and leads engineering.
Tavis Lochhead
Co-founder & CRO
Co-founded Kadoa in 2023 and leads revenue.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Zurich Switzerland
HQ
10-50 est. staff
company site

Financials

Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Investors
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2025 — Details
Key Investors
Vi Partners Seed
Vi Partners is a Swiss venture capital firm that led Kadoa's seed round.
vipartners.ch