Aplicación YC de DiligenceSquared

Fall 2025Active

DiligenceSquared pasó por Y Combinator en el batch Fall 2025 como una empresa de B2B. Abajo: qué hace la empresa, quién la fundó y su aplicación a YC, reconstruida pregunta por pregunta en el formulario real de YC.

Batch YC: Fall 2025
Industria: B2BAnalytics
Tamaño del equipo: 3
Estado: Active
Lanzado: 2025

Fundadores

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

Lo que hace DiligenceSquared

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.

Aplicación YC de DiligenceSquared, reconstruida

Solicitud de Y Combinator

DiligenceSquared, batch Fall 2025. Las preguntas reales del formulario, respondidas con datos públicos.

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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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Preguntas Frecuentes

¿Es esta la aplicación YC real de DiligenceSquared?

No. Y Combinator mantiene privadas las aplicaciones enviadas. Esta es una reconstrucción: las preguntas reales del formulario de YC, respondidas a partir de los datos públicos de DiligenceSquared (notas de lanzamiento, antecedentes de fundadores, descripción del producto). Muestra cómo una empresa como DiligenceSquared se presentaría a YC, no el texto que enviaron.

¿En qué batch de YC estuvo DiligenceSquared?

DiligenceSquared formó parte del batch Fall 2025 de Y Combinator.

¿Quién fundó DiligenceSquared?

DiligenceSquared fue fundado por Frederik Hansen, Soren Biltoft-Knudsen.

¿A qué se dedica DiligenceSquared?

AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions

¿Cómo leo la aplicación completa reconstruida?

Crea una cuenta gratuita de Round Funded. La versión completa de 26 respuestas de la aplicación de DiligenceSquared, y de cada otro batch de YC, está en YC Insights.