DiligenceSquared YC-Bewerbung

Fall 2025Active

DiligenceSquared durchlief Y Combinator im Fall 2025-Batch als ein B2B-Unternehmen. Unten: Was das Unternehmen tut, wer es gegründet hat und seine Bewerbung bei YC, Frage für Frage im echten YC-Formular rekonstruiert.

YC-Batch: Fall 2025
Branche: B2BAnalytics
Teamgröße: 3
Status: Active
Gestartet: 2025

Gründer

Frederik HansenCo-Founder & CEO
Soren Biltoft-KnudsenCo-Founder & President

Was DiligenceSquared tut

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.

DiligenceSquareds YC-Bewerbung, rekonstruiert

Y Combinator Bewerbung

DiligenceSquared, Fall 2025 Batch. Die echten Fragen des Antrags, beantwortet aus öffentlichen Daten.

Founders2
Company7
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Idea4
Equity3
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Company

Company name

DiligenceSquared

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

AI-powered market due diligence

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We built an AI platform that automates market due diligence for investment decisions. It conducts expert interviews via AI agents and synthesizes the insights with every claim linked back to source transcripts. This replaces expensive, manual reports from consultancies like McKinsey, but with full transparency and at a fraction of the cost.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We currently live and work in New York City, and the company will be based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

NYC is where we have our networks in private equity and consulting, and where our early clients are. Being here gives us direct market access to customers who buy due diligence reports.

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Ist das die echte YC-Bewerbung von DiligenceSquared?

Nein. Y Combinator hält eingereichte Bewerbungen privat. Dies ist eine Rekonstruktion: die echten Fragen des YC-Formulars, beantwortet aus den öffentlichen Daten von DiligenceSquared (Veröffentlichungsnotizen, Gründerhintergründe, Produktbeschreibung). Sie zeigt, wie sich ein Unternehmen wie DiligenceSquared bei YC präsentieren würde, nicht den Text, den sie eingereicht haben.

In welchem YC-Batch war DiligenceSquared?

DiligenceSquared war Teil des Y Combinator Fall 2025-Batches.

Wer hat DiligenceSquared gegründet?

DiligenceSquared wurde von Frederik Hansen, Soren Biltoft-Knudsen gegründet.

Was macht DiligenceSquared?

AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions

Wie lese ich die vollständige, rekonstruierte Bewerbung?

Erstelle ein kostenloses Round Funded Konto. Die vollständige 26-Antwort-Version der Bewerbung von DiligenceSquared, und jede andere YC-Kohorte, findest du in YC Insights.