Aditya Asgaonkar is the Founder and CEO of Click (YC S26), an AI-native research service built to meet users directly inside ChatGPT and Claude.

Aditya studied Computer Science at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, and spent 5 years as a blockchain researcher and open-source contributor at the Ethereum Foundation, playing a key role in developing Ethereum's proof-of-stake protocol through The Merge.

Aditya views the AI chat surface as the next great application platform, drawing a direct parallel to his earlier work helping build Ethereum as a platform for new kinds of applications.

After the Ethereum Foundation, Aditya joined Offchain Labs as a Research Scientist to advance the Arbitrum platform, before pivoting to found Click and join the YC S26 batch.

Click delivers live, source-backed context from professional networks, social platforms, financial data, and marketplaces directly into AI conversations, going far beyond what built-in web search provides.