> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://buildingfor.vc/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# People Data Providers

> Providers for founder, team, and employee information.

## Overview

People data is critical for evaluating teams. You need information about founders (background, previous experience, education), executives (who's leading the company), and employees (team size, hiring patterns, talent quality).

## What You're Looking For

**Founder and executive profiles:**

* Work history and previous companies
* Education and credentials
* Previous exits and successes
* Board positions and advisors

**Team composition:**

* Employee count over time
* Department breakdown (engineering, sales, etc.)
* Leadership team changes
* Key hires and departures

**Talent signals:**

* Where people are moving from/to
* Hiring from strong companies
* Founder quality indicators

## Providers

Coverage across these providers is relatively similar: not as large a gap as with company data providers. Choose based on which data points matter to you, how timely updates are, and quality of support.

| Provider                                            | Strengths                                                                                             | Weaknesses                                                         | Price |
| --------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----- |
| [People Data Labs](https://www.peopledatalabs.com/) | Support has been great (personal experience). Free "cleaner" APIs have been useful in data pipelines. | Uses Elasticsearch SQL which can make filtering difficult via API. | \$\$  |
| [Coresignal](https://coresignal.com/)               | Recently improved, "cleaned" datasets.                                                                |                                                                    | \$\$  |
| [Mixrank](https://mixrank.com/)                     | Offers managed SQL databases for easier integration.                                                  | API can be difficult to work with.                                 | \$\$  |

## Considerations

**Data privacy:** People data has privacy implications. Understand what data you're getting and how it was collected. Some regions and websites have strict rules about processing personal data.

**Accuracy varies:** Professional profiles may be outdated. Current employer might be stale. Test data quality by comparing with your portfolio or verifying manually.

**Enrichment use cases:** People data is often used to enrich signal data (add founder backgrounds to company records, building a holistic view of a company's leadership team, etc.) rather than as a primary source.

See [Considerations](/guide/part-3-technical-foundations/data-providers/considerations) for cost and vendor relationship guidance.