DiligenceSquared
DiligenceSquared is a YC Fall 2025 (F25) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 3.
About DiligenceSquared
Summary
DiligenceSquared automates commercial due diligence for private equity funds, replacing the weeks-long, six-figure engagements that traditional strategy consultancies deliver as static, unauditable slide decks. Its AI agents conduct expert interviews, gather market data, and synthesize findings with every claim linked to a source transcript, while senior consultants with prior MBB experience direct and review the work.
Business model
A fraction of the cost of traditional consulting engagements, delivered per project
Go-to-market
Private equity funds are the primary buyers, engaged through a sales-led model where prospects request a demo and are assigned a dedicated project lead to scope the work.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions
DiligenceSquared delivers AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions - like the $500k 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 8 leading private equity funds with over $2.4 trillion in combined AUM.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Analytics
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 3
- Active
- Early
Founders (3)
- Frederik Hansen
- Harshil Rastogi
- Soren Biltoft-Knudsen
Score every batch against your own thesis
GPAgent's sourcing agent reads every company in a batch, scores each one against your fund's thesis in a private workspace, and lines up the founders worth meeting before Demo Day. You decide who to contact. Your scores, notes, and pipeline never appear on these pages.
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