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Rohan Parikh Is Teaching AI to Show Its Work
The Keye co-founder spent years inside the spreadsheets that drive financial decisions. Now he is building an AI diligence platform around a stubborn Wall Street rule: every important number must survive a second look.
Frederik Hansen Wants to Put a Source Behind Every Slide
After six years buying high-priced diligence reports at Blackstone, Frederik Hansen is rebuilding the process around AI interviews, human judgment and a stubbornly useful idea: every conclusion should show its work.
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.
Keye
Keye is a New York-based AI company (YC F24) building a due diligence platform exclusively for private equity. It converts raw deal files into structured, audit-ready analyses, using what the company calls deterministic AI - natural-language understanding paired with code-based execution - so that every number ties back to a source, formula, or quote. Funds representing more than $1.4T in AUM use it to cut days off each deal.
OffDeal
OffDeal is an AI-native investment bank that helps owners of small and lower-middle-market businesses sell their companies faster and for better prices. It pairs in-house human M&A advisors with proprietary software that automates the analyst-level grunt work - deal sourcing, buyer research, financial analysis, and transaction documents - so bankers can focus on strategy and closing. OffDeal targets an underserved segment (roughly $10-100M in revenue, $1-10M EBITDA) using a flat success-fee model instead of the retainers charged by traditional banks.