# DiligenceSquared

> DiligenceSquared is a New York AI company that automates commercial due diligence for investors. Its AI agents run expert interviews with customers, competitors, and market specialists, then synthesize the findings into interactive reports where every claim links back to a source transcript. Founded by two ex-Blackstone and ex-BCG private equity operators plus a former Google engineer, it delivers consulting-grade market research for a fraction of the $500K-$1M that firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG typically charge.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** New York, United States
- **Founders:** Frederik Kofoed Hansen (Co-Founder & CEO), Soren Biltoft-Knudsen (Co-Founder & President), Harshil Rastogi (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~10
- **Products:** AI-powered commercial due diligence, AI-moderated expert interviews, Interactive, traceable reports
- **Notable:** Raised a $5M seed round led by Relentless within months of launching., Completed diligence projects for several of the world's largest private equity firms and mid-market funds., Serves clients representing over $2 trillion in combined assets under management.

## Products & services

- **AI-powered commercial due diligence** — AI agents conduct expert interviews with a target company's customers, competitors, and market specialists, then synthesize the findings into a diligence report for investment teams. Every claim links back to the original transcript, and human experts review the output to keep it investment-grade.
- **AI-moderated expert interviews** — Voice and text AI agents run structured interviews at scale, replacing the slow, expensive manual expert-network calls that traditionally bottleneck diligence.
- **Interactive, traceable reports** — Instead of a static 200-page deck, deliverables are interactive reports where any insight can be traced to the source transcript and market data behind it.

## Achievements

- Raised a $5M seed round led by Relentless within months of launching.
- Completed diligence projects for several of the world's largest private equity firms and mid-market funds.
- Serves clients representing over $2 trillion in combined assets under management.
- Selected for Y Combinator's Fall 2025 (F25) batch.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Announced a $5M seed round led by Relentless, with participation from Y Combinator, Amino Capital, Founder Factor, Multimodal Ventures, and Twenty Two Ventures.
- **2025-10** — Publicly launched via Y Combinator as part of the Fall 2025 batch.

## Links

- Website: https://diligencesquared.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diligencesquared

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Last updated: 2026-07-31