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Keye

YC F24

New York City, US · Founded 2024 · 3 employees · Hiring · 6 known investors

Keye is an AI-powered due diligence platform that transforms raw deal files and financial data into structured, actionable insights for private equity investors. The platform performs calculations and analysis to accelerate deal evaluation and decision-making.

Also known as Keye

Founders & leadership· Y Combinator alumni (F24)

Keye was founded in 2024 by Rohan Parikh, Conor Brown, Lalit Lal, Paolo Fornasini, and Rohan Parikh, CFA.

RPRohan Parikh
Rohan ParikhinCo-Founder, CEOHe spent over six years in investment banking across front-office roles in banking and markets, reaching director level, and previously worked as a management consultant at Accenture and in finance at Standard & Poor's credit division. He holds an MBA from Wharton and a master's degree in financial engineering along with a B.Eng.
CBConor Brown
Conor BrowninCo-FounderPreviously, he co-founded SecureFlow, a platform providing deal insights for M&A transactions, while completing an MBA from Wharton. He worked as an investor at Vista Equity Partners and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and holds a BA from Amherst College.
LLLalit Lal
Lalit LalinCo-Founder, CTOHe has over 7 years of software engineering experience building SaaS products, including roles at two companies that were acquired, and has technical expertise spanning devops, frontend, backend, and machine learning. He studied robotics at the University of Waterloo and machine learning at the University of Toronto.
PF
Paolo FornasiniFounder
RPRohan Parikh, CFA
Rohan Parikh, CFAinCo-Founder, CEO

Investors · 6

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$5M disclosed across 1 of 2 rounds · 2025

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Keye develops an AI-powered due diligence platform aimed at private equity investors. The software ingests raw deal files and underlying financial data and produces structured, investor-ready outputs, automating tasks such as data cuts, data cleaning, anomaly detection, formatting and modeling rather than only summarizing documents.

The platform performs quantitative analysis on deal data — for example cohort trends, customer retention, growth drivers, margin compression and cost drivers — and returns results intended for use within an existing deal workflow. Outputs are linked back to their raw source with Excel-ready exports and audit trails, and the company positions the tool as producing calculations rather than narrative summaries.

Business model

Keye sells access to its diligence platform to investment firms, engaging prospective customers through demo requests and working with client teams to integrate the software into their existing deal processes.

Traction

The company reports that funds using the platform represent more than $1.4 trillion in combined AUM, that users save five or more days per deal, and that more than one million analyses and insights are created per month.

Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography

Market position

Keye positions itself as a diligence tool built by private equity investors for private equity investors, differentiating from general-purpose AI assistants that summarize documents such as CIMs.

Emphasis on running actual calculations and structured analysis instead of document summarization, source-linked outputs with audit trails and Excel exports, and enterprise security controls including zero data retention and SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Technology

The product applies AI to raw deal files to generate structured outputs and run calculations, with automation covering data cuts, cleaning, anomaly detection, formatting and modeling. Each output is traceable to its source data, with Excel-ready exports and audit trails. Security features cited include zero data retention, no training on customer data, end-to-end encryption and SOC 2 Type 2 certification.

Go-to-market

Direct enterprise sales via demo requests on the company website, supported by customer testimonials from private equity practitioners and hands-on integration work with client deal processes.

Private equity funds and firms, including deal teams, associates, vice presidents, principals and managing partners; customer testimonials reference funds with AUM ranging from roughly $5 billion to over $45 billion.

Geography

Headquartered in New York City, United States.

Compiled by commissioned research from 1 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Analyses and insights created per monthJan 20251,000,000 analyses/month
Combined AUM of funds using the platformJan 2025$1.4T
Days saved per dealJan 20255 days
HeadcountAug 202621

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

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Timeline · 1

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2025
SOC 2 Type 2 certification

Keye states the platform is SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with zero data retention, no model training on customer files, and end-to-end encryption.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

Research sources · 1

primary sources listed

1 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Keye do?
Keye is an AI due diligence platform that turns private equity deal files into structured, calculation-backed outputs.
Who founded Keye?
Keye was founded by Rohan Parikh, Conor Brown, Lalit Lal, Paolo Fornasini, Rohan Parikh, CFA in 2024.
Who are Keye's investors?
Keye's investors include DG Daiwa Ventures, Dunamu & Partners, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA), Lobster Capital, Y Combinator, General Catalyst.
How much funding has Keye raised?
Keye has disclosed $5M raised across 1 of its 2 known rounds.
Where is Keye headquartered?
Keye is headquartered in New York City, US.