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TDI and the Art of the Deal You Don’t Make
A promising investment can survive a bad headline and fail a quiet inquiry. TDI sells the research, judgment and software that help businesses tell the difference.
HappyCo and the expensive art of doing things twice
A missing inspection record started HappyCo. Its bigger bet is that apartment maintenance gets cheaper when the people doing the work stop having to chase the information.
PropLogix and the House That Wasn’t Quite Paid For
A mortgage can be paid off while its paperwork lives on. PropLogix built a business around the awkward gap between a real estate closing and a property’s clean bill of health.
The Most Interesting Company Is the One Behind the Company
WireScreen turns scattered Chinese corporate records into a map of ownership, influence, and risk. Its bet is that the decisive fact about a business often sits several companies away.
The Most Important Company You Never Hired
Every large company depends on an invisible city of outsiders. Certa built the traffic lights - then taught them which collisions deserve a human being.
VR Research reads the fine print before you sign
A polished pitch can survive a meeting. Can it survive the county records office? VR Research turns public documents into pointed questions for investors, lawyers, and campaign strategists.
Rockies Venture Club makes the pitch the beginning
The Colorado angel network has built a business around what happens after the applause: teaching investors, checking the numbers, and assembling enough capital to make a deal.
Arbolus wants the answers before the expert call
An expert network built a business around finding people to interview. Now Arbolus is turning their knowledge into a customer library - and making the live call earn its place.
Robin AI Puts the Contract Pile on Notice
It reads the fine print, finds the clause, and shows its work. For contract-heavy teams, Robin AI can turn a document swamp into a working memory - provided a human keeps the final say.
Exiger Put the Supply Chain Under an X-Ray - Now It Wants to Tell You What Breaks Next
The company began by helping banks survive regulatory scrutiny. A decade, several acquisitions and one decisive divestiture later, it is selling a more ambitious promise: see every hidden dependency before it becomes an expensive surprise.
The 58-Year-Old Printer That Turned the Deal Room Into an AI Operating System
Datasite escaped the slow fade of financial printing by betting the company on one useful piece of software. Now it wants to own the entire private-market workflow - from finding a target to interrogating the deal room with AI.
The $1.5 Billion Data Room That Wants to Run the Whole Deal
Intralinks helped replace couriers, binders and guarded rooms with a browser. Thirty years later, it is betting that security, workflow and AI can turn that original wedge into the operating system for high-stakes finance.
CB Insights Turned a $100,000 PDF Into a Crystal Ball for Corporate Strategists
The company started with a crisis-era survey, a clumsy name and a report priced far too cheaply. Its evolution into a 12-million-company intelligence system offers a sharp lesson in turning free insight into expensive software.
Anton Otaner Is Teaching Private Equity to Remember
Clarum’s founder wants private-market firms to stop treating decades of deal knowledge like a pile of forgotten files. His route there runs through AR, blockchain, hackathons and a taste for distances that sensible people drive.
The Work Software Choice With Receipts
Monday.com, Smartsheet, and Airtable can all organize complex work. Only one gives enterprise buyers a current, public view of the business behind the software.
The $41 Million Closing Machine Hidden Inside Your Home Deal
OS National turned the least photogenic part of real estate - title, escrow and settlement - into a national operating system. Then a three-year customer paid $41 million to bring the machinery in-house.
The Company Private Equity Calls When the Clock Is Ticking
BluWave built an invite-only network of vetted specialists and matches buyout firms with the exact consultant, interim CFO, or diligence team they need - usually inside a day, usually for free.
The Firm That Says It Only Gets Paid When You Do
A Saint Paul private equity shop is betting that warehouses, refrigerated trucks and neighborhood restaurants - not startups - are where patient money still compounds. Its promise to investors is a structure where the firm wins only when they do.
The Campus Club That Built a Private-Market Apprenticeship
Georgetown students learn private equity and venture capital by doing the work - then trade that trained capacity for access, feedback and a closer look at how private markets actually operate.
Before You Buy
Independent property reports and services from a vetted panel of experts.
Landeed
Landeed is a Hyderabad-based proptech company building India's digital infrastructure for property intelligence. Its app and API let owners, agents, developers, lenders and lawyers pull encumbrance certificates, sale deeds, RTC, 7/12, Patta and other land records from dozens of state and federal sources in seconds, turning a slow, physical, middleman-heavy process into an instant, queryable search. Founded in 2022 by Sanjay Mandava, ZJ Lin and Jonathan Richards, it is a Y Combinator company serving over a million users across 24+ states.
Plutto
Plutto is a Santiago-based KYB (Know Your Business) and due diligence platform for Latin America. It lets financial services, procurement, legal and compliance teams verify and continuously monitor the businesses they work with - vendors, clients and partners - by pulling legal, financial, tax and labor data from 15+ official sources, screening against sanctions and PEP lists, and producing auditable, AI-summarized risk reports. What once took lawyers weeks and cost about $100 per client now runs in minutes for a few dollars per check.
YC World
YC World is a counterparty and corporate network risk investigation platform built by Ukrainian open-data developer YouControl. It consolidates official company records, ownership networks, sanctions lists, politically exposed persons and other risk signals across 80+ jurisdictions into a single searchable, graph-based workspace, helping compliance teams, investigators and law enforcement run AML, KYC and KYB checks and expose hidden ownership and sanctioned connections.
Fair Supply
Fair Supply is a Sydney-based ESG risk-intelligence SaaS company that maps global supply chains up to 10 tiers deep. Founded in 2019 by human rights lawyer Kimberly Randle and industrial mathematician Dr Arne Geschke, it uses a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) methodology across more than 60 billion mapped supply-chain connections to help companies and investors measure and manage modern slavery, Scope 1-3 carbon emissions, biodiversity and water-use risk. Dubbed the 'Google for ESG', it turns a supplier list and annual spend into auditable, regulation-aligned risk reports.
Capsa AI
Capsa AI is a London- and New York-based startup building an 'AI operating system' for private capital. Its platform indexes a firm's fragmented institutional knowledge - deal memos, emails, CRM notes and documents - and layers agentic AI across the fund lifecycle, from sourcing and due diligence to portfolio monitoring and back-office work. Founded in 2023 by Danyal Ozduzenciler and Callum Downie, the company raised an $18M Series A in June 2026 (about $20M total) to help private equity and private credit firms move faster and surface insights with full source traceability.
DiligenceVault
DiligenceVault is a New York-based fintech company that runs a cloud, AI-native platform for investment due diligence. Founded in 2014 by former Citi risk head Monel Amin, it replaces the manual world of PDFs, spreadsheets and email with a connected system where asset allocators and asset managers exchange DDQs, RFPs, operational due diligence reviews, ESG data and Form ADV monitoring. The platform connects a network of more than 20,000 managers and tens of thousands of users across 150-plus countries, and is backed by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity.
Legora
Legora is a Stockholm-founded collaborative AI platform built for legal work. It helps lawyers research, review, and draft across complex matters, running inside familiar tools like Microsoft Word and Outlook. Formerly known as Leya, the company (founded 2023) serves tens of thousands of legal professionals at 1,000+ law firms and in-house teams across more than 50 markets, and crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue before raising a $600M Series D at a $5.6B valuation in 2026.
Potloc
Potloc is a Montreal-based market research technology company that runs an AI-powered, all-in-one survey platform built exclusively for management consulting and private equity firms. Founded in 2013 by HEC Paris graduates Rodolphe Barrere and Louis Delaoustre, the company pioneered social-media sampling to source hard-to-reach B2B and B2C respondents, and today handles the full research workflow - questionnaire design, sampling, live fieldwork monitoring, data-quality control, and AI-assisted analysis. Potloc has served 500+ global firms and collected hundreds of millions of survey responses across industries and geographies.
GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group)
GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group) is the world's largest expert network, connecting professionals - investors, corporations, consultancies and non-profits - with a marketplace of roughly one million vetted subject-matter experts. Through one-on-one phone consultations, surveys, roundtables, site visits and custom research, GLG turns a client's questions into direct conversations with people who have first-hand knowledge, wrapped in a compliance framework designed for regulated industries. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York, the firm operates in more than 20 cities worldwide and generates roughly $600 million in annual revenue.
Allocate
Allocate is a Palo Alto-based financial technology company building an intelligent operating system for private market investing. Its platform equips wealth advisory firms and institutional family offices with modern infrastructure to source, diligence, build, and manage private portfolios - spanning venture capital, private equity, and private credit - through a single interface. Founded in 2021 by longtime venture bankers Samir Kaji and Hana Yang, Allocate automates subscriptions, capital flows, and portfolio operations, and has scaled to billions of dollars on platform serving over 1,200 advisory firms and family offices.