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F2

YC S25

New York City, US · Founded 2025 · 15 employees · Hiring · 9 known investors

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F2 is a private markets intelligence platform that helps investment firms leverage their institutional knowledge to screen, diligence, underwrite, and monitor deals more efficiently.

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Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (S25)

F2 was founded in 2025 by Don Muir and Emre Kazdagli.

DMDon Muir
Don MuirinCo-Founder & CEOHe previously worked as a private equity investor before transitioning to entrepreneurship, with focus on AI applications in financial services.
EKEmre Kazdagli
Emre KazdagliinCo-Founder & CTOEmre Kazdagli previously co-founded ScoreBeyond, which was acquired by LinkedIn, as well as Gozluk and Stringer Labs. He is now founder of F2, a private markets intelligence platform.

Investors · 9

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$14M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2026

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3 people who came through F2 went on to found or lead other companies.

Competitors · 8

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Hebbia19 shared keywordsHebbia offers AI software for public and private market investors that automates reading, synthesis, and analysis of documents such as CIMs and virtual data rooms to speed up deal screening and diligence. The tool helps investors identify deal drivers, track covenants, and handle more deals without adding headcount.
AlphaSense18 shared keywordsAlphaSense provides a financial research and market intelligence platform that combines standardized financials, consensus estimates, filings, earnings transcripts, broker research, and AI-generated answers for analyzing and benchmarking companies. It serves financial and corporate teams with tools for company analysis, valuation and modeling, competitive benchmarking, and deal sourcing across public equities, M&A transactions, and private funding rounds.
Datasite18 shared keywordsDatasite is a cloud-based data room platform for mergers & acquisitions, financing, and corporate transactions that integrates AI assistants and allows users to connect large language models like Claude and ChatGPT. The platform serves dealmakers—investment banks, private equity firms, corporate M&A teams, and legal advisors—streamlining document management, diligence, research, and post-close governance across transaction workflows.
Blooma15 shared keywordsBlooma provides intelligent automation software for commercial real estate (CRE) lending, automating data extraction, borrower profiling, loan scoring, and portfolio monitoring for national and regional banks, community banks, and debt funds.
Equirus14 shared keywordsEquirus is an investment bank with over 18 years of experience offering investment banking, capital markets, fixed income, wealth management, and institutional equities services for corporate and institutional clients in India.
Docsumo14 shared keywordsDocsumo provides APIs and document processing platform to extract data from unstructured documents across industries including insurance, banking, and logistics. The platform enables businesses to automate document data capture with 90%+ touchless processing capabilities.

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Frequently asked questions

What does F2 do?
F2 is a private markets intelligence platform that helps investment firms leverage their institutional knowledge to screen, diligence, underwrite, and monitor deals more efficiently.
Who founded F2?
F2 was founded by Don Muir, Emre Kazdagli in 2025.
Who are F2's investors?
F2's investors include Alumni Ventures, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Left Lane Capital, Next Legacy Partners, NFX, Sarah Smith, Torch Capital, Y Combinator and 1 more.
How much funding has F2 raised?
F2 has disclosed $14M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
Where is F2 headquartered?
F2 is headquartered in New York City, US.