Candidature YC de DiligenceSquared

Fall 2025Active

DiligenceSquared a été sélectionné par Y Combinator dans le cadre du batch Fall 2025 en tant qu'entreprise B2B. Ci-dessous : ce que fait l'entreprise, qui l'a fondée, et sa candidature à YC, reconstruite question par question dans le vrai formulaire YC.

Batch YC: Fall 2025
Secteur d'activité: B2BAnalytics
Taille de l'équipe: 3
Statut: Active
Lancé: 2025

Fondateurs

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

Ce que fait 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.

Candidature YC de DiligenceSquared, reconstruite

Candidature Y Combinator

DiligenceSquared, promotion Fall 2025. Les vraies questions de candidature, répondues à partir de données publiques.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

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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Questions fréquemment posées

Est-ce la vraie candidature YC de DiligenceSquared ?

Non. Y Combinator garde les candidatures soumises privées. Ceci est une reconstruction : les vraies questions du formulaire YC, répondues à partir des données publiques de DiligenceSquared (notes de lancement, parcours des fondateurs, description du produit). Cela montre comment une entreprise comme DiligenceSquared se présenterait à YC, pas le texte qu'ils ont soumis.

À quel batch YC DiligenceSquared appartenait-il ?

DiligenceSquared faisait partie du batch Fall 2025 de Y Combinator.

Qui a fondé DiligenceSquared ?

DiligenceSquared a été fondé par Frederik Hansen, Soren Biltoft-Knudsen.

Que fait DiligenceSquared ?

AI-powered market due diligence for investment decisions

Comment lire la candidature complète reconstruite ?

Créez un compte Round Funded gratuit. La version complète de la candidature de DiligenceSquared en 26 réponses, et de chaque autre promotion YC, se trouve dans YC Insights.