The Smart Way to Learn About People and Companies

AI generated profiles on People and Companies that combine all the news, mentions and websites that can be found online.

Our Story

At Distill, we recognized the frustration of spending countless hours searching for information on people and companies across the web.

Our Solution

We set out to create a solution that brings all relevant information into one place.

Our platform compiles data from various online sources, creating comprehensive profiles that highlight the most important details.

Relevant

Our profiles provide the most pertinent and valuable information, ensuring that users receive insights that are directly applicable to their needs.

Succinct

We distill vast amounts of data into clear and concise reports, making it easy to grasp essential details quickly.

Our Values

Accuracy

We ensure that all information is meticulously verified and cited, providing you with the most precise and trustworthy data.

How we do it
1
Being able to separate all the people with similar names to find information about the right person.
2
Looking through 100 search results and categorizing each as right or wrong, valuable or not.
3
Continuously examining profiles for issues and circling them out to be fixed.

Reliability

We ensure that all information is meticulously verified and cited, providing you with the most precise and trustworthy data.

How we do it
1
Being everywhere - email, calendar, search, conferences, CRM.
2
Crawling every corner of the internet looking for information.

Curiosity

We foster a culture of continuous learning and exploration, constantly seeking new insights and innovative solutions.

How we do it
1
Puzzling over ways to acquire more data & extract more value out of the data we have.
2
Visualizing things in multiple ways - as an individual, a part of a team, a part of a company, a collaborator on projects, and bringing it together.

Founders

Russ Heddleston

New York, NY
CEO

Russ Heddleston is the CEO of Distill, having previously founded and sold DocSend for $165 million with $15 million raised, scaling it to over $40m in ARR. Previously, he started and sold an HR tech startup Pursuit to Meta.

Russ holds a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard.
His work on identity at Meta and his passion for intuitive product design drive his commitment to Distill.
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Tim Su

Mountain View, CA
CTO

Tim Su is the CTO of Distill, known for founding Tandem, a YC alum project, where he raised $7.5 million from a16z. He also started and sold Astrid to Yahoo, scaling it to over 6 million users.

Tim holds a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.
His expertise in entity search at Yahoo and his love for productivity tools contribute significantly to his role at Distill.
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With Distill, we're leveraging LLMs to build a product we're proud of, aiming to positively impact to how people use identity online.

Russ Heddleston
CEO, Distill

Our Team

Mark Rampton

Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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Jainam Shah

Engineer
Mumbai, India
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Engineer
Brooklyn, NY
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Engineer
Greater Boston, MA
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Jürgen Brandstetter

Engineer
Linz-Wels-Steyr, Austria
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Richard Hwang

Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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Bri Rios

Operations
Salt Lake City, UT
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Jimmy Kim

UX Research
San Francisco, CA
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Mark Rampton

Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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Jainam Shah

Engineer
Mumbai, India
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Aiden Zegil

Engineer
Brooklyn, NY
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Aiden Zegil

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Jonathan Bass

Engineer
Greater Boston, MA
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Jonathan Bass

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Jürgen Brandstetter

Engineer
Linz-Wels-Steyr, Austria
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Richard Hwang

Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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Bri Rios

Operations
Salt Lake City, UT
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Jimmy Kim

UX Research
San Francisco, CA
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