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Keye

Keye is an AI software that lets private equity firms do due diligence for acquisitions faster and more accurately. Our customers can evaluate 10x more deals and fund better companies which leads directly to better returns/more alpha. -- Our system is the first of its kind to instantly generate complex, comprehensive data packs from raw data in any format, directly from the data room. This enables investors to gain an 80% understanding of a potential deal within moments, empowering them to say N

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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Keye is an AI software that lets private equity firms do due diligence for acquisitions faster and more accurately. Our customers can evaluate 10x more deals and fund better companies which leads directly to better returns/more alpha. -- Our system is the first of its kind to instantly generate complex, comprehensive data packs from raw data in any format, directly from the data room. This enables investors to gain an 80% understanding of a potential deal within moments, empowering them to say N

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Keye is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Companies similar to Keye

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

F2

match 88

F2 is the AI platform for private markets investors. Purpose-built for private credit, private equity, and commercial banking, F2 accelerates diligence, underwriting, and portfolio monitoring, helping teams evaluate deals over 60% faster. F2 turns unstructured deal data into investment-grade analysis and polished memos in minutes. Unlike general-purpose AI, F2 is built with the domain expertise and depth to handle the most complex financial analysis. Already trusted across thousands of deals, F2

shared extracted concept terms: private, equity; shared product terms: private, investor, equity, diligence; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

VectorShift

match 80

VectorShift is the AI operating system for private market investors.VectorShift is the AI operating system for private market investors. We capture a firm's institutional knowledge across every deal, decision, and diligence finding, and put it to work across data room analysis, IC memos, portfolio company monitoring, and LP reporting.

shared extracted concept terms: private, investor; shared product terms: private, firm, diligence, deal; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Shipamax

match 74

Shipamax's core technology can 'understand' any logistics document - outputting a business-ready, machine-readable format. Why does this matter? When customers order online - it feels smooth & simple. But in the background it's chaos. When goods are physically moved around the world, there can be up to 20 companies involved in the transaction. Currently, this is a complex, messy process, with different systems and teams creating a mountain of manual work to get the job done. Customers value our

shared extracted concepts: customers; shared product terms: customer, companie, system, complex; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Elevate

match 72

Elevate is bringing AI to private equity-backed roll-ups. For example, one of our customers is Guardian Restoration Partners, which is backed by Alpine Investors, the leading roll-up focused private equity firm. In three months, we integrated 10 acquisitions and enabled them to pilot AI agents built on top of our data warehouse. We know this problem personally. Before Elevate, Scott was a Vice President at a $15B private equity firm where he was leading a roll-up. Steve and Jeff are both softwar

shared extracted concept terms: investor; shared product terms: private, equity, customer, investor; shared product theme: sales and marketing; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Zarna

match 69

Zarna is private equity’s first AI associate class. Our agents plug directly into your firm’s data and work like a deal team that never sleeps. Zarna’s agents analyze CIMs, build LBOs, update CRMs, draft IC memos, & act based on decades of proprietary firm knowledge. The result: investors spend less time buried in decks and spreadsheets, and more time on judgment, relationships, and winning deals.

shared extracted concept terms: private, equity; shared product terms: private, equity, firm, deal; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Plainr.io

match 44

A Techstars portfolio company. We help Private Equity and Private Equity backed companies extract intelligence from their data easily

shared extracted concept terms: private, equity; shared product terms: private, equity, companie