DiligenceSquared Inc. (Founding)
Funding Details
Awarder
YCombinator
Date Award
November 5, 2025
Vertical
B2B,Analytics
Company Info
Founding Year
2025
Market
B2B
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Coinvestors
YCombinator
Company Description

DiligenceSquared delivers AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions - like the $1M McKinsey reports, but automated, auditable, and at a fraction of the cost. When Private Equity funds evaluate deals, they pay firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain $500K-$1M for market due diligence. The process takes weeks, and the output is a static PowerPoint that's impossible to audit. A single large-cap PE fund can spend >$30M annually on this and the total market is $10B+ per year. Our AI agents conduct expert interviews and synthesize insights with every claim linked to source transcripts. No black box, no "trust me" slides, and no 10x mark-up for human labor. Frederik bought these reports as a Principal at Blackstone. Soren sold them as a Principal at BCG. Harshil is a repeat founder and former Software Engineer at Google. We've seen both sides and know what matters in due diligence - and now we automate it. Our clients already include two of the world's five largest PE funds, and several mid-market funds - demonstrating broad appeal of our technology. Potential clients with users on our platform represent 60% of the top-30 PE funds globally.

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