# Clarum

> Clarum is a San Francisco AI startup (YC W24) building the intelligence layer for private capital. It began as an AI associate that compresses private-equity due diligence from weeks into minutes, letting firms upload data rooms and questionnaires and get transparent, sourced answers to hundreds of questions. It has since broadened toward structuring a firm's proprietary documents - deal memos, diligence notes, returns data - into a unified model that AI agents can query, so investors can finally ask cross-portfolio questions that were previously buried in files.

- **Founded:** 2023
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Anton Otaner (Co-founder & CEO), Tommy He (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 2
- **Products:** AI due diligence associate, Document workflows in Office, Intelligence layer for private capital
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch, Reports cutting thorough due-diligence time by roughly 4x-5x, Onboarded a founding cohort of GPs and LPs

## Products & services

- **AI due diligence associate** — Firms upload data rooms and questionnaires; Clarum answers hundreds of questions transparently in minutes, with in-depth risk assessment and actionable insights, cutting thorough diligence time 4x-5x.
- **Document workflows in Office** — Operates inside Excel, Word and PowerPoint to generate screening memos, build returns analyses and financial models, create deep-dive decks, reconcile income statements, summarize legal documents and CIMs, flag inconsistencies, compare and benchmark deals, and categorize data-room contents.
- **Intelligence layer for private capital** — Structures a firm's internal documents - deal memos, diligence notes, partner notes, returns data - into a unified operational model that AI tools and agents can query, enabling cross-portfolio questions like shared concentration risk or diligence gaps in underperformers.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator Winter 2024 batch
- Reports cutting thorough due-diligence time by roughly 4x-5x
- Onboarded a founding cohort of GPs and LPs
- Founders won first place at a McGill University hackathon

## Latest updates

- **2024-03** — Launched publicly via Y Combinator as an AI-powered due diligence associate for PE firms.
- **2025** — Repositioned toward being the intelligence layer for private capital - structuring firms' proprietary data into a queryable model.

## Links

- Website: https://clarum.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clarum-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/clarum_ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-31