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Standd
Techstars '22Techstars '22Techstars '22Washington, US · Founded 2022 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
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Standd builds AI and machine learning products, applying knowledge graph and intelligence systems technology. The page provides limited detail on its specific offering.
Also known as standd.io
Founders & leadership
Standd was founded in 2022 by Stephen Solka.
Investors · 3
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Standd operates an autonomous software platform for private markets, aimed at private credit and private equity firms. The product provides continuous, real-time visibility across a firm's portfolio by monitoring macro, market, and company-level signals, with the stated goal of identifying deterioration before it appears in portfolio company financials. Example alerts described by the company include projected covenant breaches, revenue anomalies, collections pressure, and acquisition windows.
The platform is built around autonomous agents that run continuously across a portfolio, connecting signals, synthesizing data, and tracking macro forces affecting positions. Agents are configured to a specific firm's work and portfolio and are presented as secure and auditable. Beyond monitoring, the platform offers dynamic scenario modeling, strategy testing, and custom reporting intended to support decisions on deploying capital, monitoring positions, and preparing exits. The company also publishes public research briefings, including pieces on private credit's expansion into corporate America and on global AI risk and regulation, and states that its work is grounded in proprietary research papers.
The Standd team additionally builds Hey, Lefty, an autonomous AI agent that continuously researches a market, sector, regulatory regime, or other topic relevant to a user.
Founding story
Standd was founded to combine expertise in how financial systems fail with technology for modeling what comes next. Co-founder and CEO Julie Saltman began her legal career investigating fraud and bankruptcy at the U.S. Department of Justice during the 2008 financial crisis and spent a decade there as a regulatory litigator in the Civil Division, also serving as an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law before moving into AI product leadership and operations roles at startups; she is a graduate of Yale University and Michigan Law. Co-founder and CTO Stephen Solka has spent more than 15 years building AI, machine learning, and big data products at scale, including a VP of Engineering role.
Business model
Standd sells its platform to private credit and private equity firms, with prospective customers entering through a booked demo. Deployments are described as single tenant by default, indicating an enterprise software delivery model.
Traction
The company states it is used by private investment professionals across the US and Europe and publishes anonymized customer testimonials from an investment principal and an asset manager describing improved diligence findings and investment memo quality. No customer counts, revenue, or other quantitative metrics are disclosed.
Latest developments
Standd presented at the April 2026 Accelerate Breakfast Series investor event in the DMV region. The team also offers Hey, Lefty, an autonomous research agent product available to try publicly, and publishes research briefings on private credit and on global AI risk and regulation.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Standd competes in the market for AI-driven investment intelligence and portfolio monitoring software for private capital markets, an area where other DMV-region startups such as Plainr have also pitched AI analytics for private equity firms.
Standd positions itself against LLM-based research tools on three axes: continuous autonomous monitoring rather than prompt-driven responses; a compounding knowledge base that learns a firm's point of view and tracks positions over months rather than storing information without building on it; and predictive and simulation capability, using proprietary predictive models to test scenarios and project how positions will evolve rather than describing existing patterns.
Technology
The platform uses autonomous agents for continuous portfolio research combined with proprietary predictive models that the company explicitly distinguishes from large language models. The system is designed to accumulate knowledge over time about a firm's positions, investment thesis, and market rather than starting each query from scratch, and to model cause and effect and simulate how positions may evolve rather than only summarizing existing data. Enterprise controls include single-tenant deployment by default, SOC 2 Type II compliance, and independently audited security controls renewed annually.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales via demo requests, supported by published public research briefings and proprietary research papers used as content marketing. The company has also pitched at the DMV-region Accelerate Breakfast Series investor event.
Private credit firms and private equity firms, including investment principals, asset managers, and investment committees at private investment firms.
Geography
The company states that private investment professionals across the United States and Europe use the platform. Internal records place its headquarters in Washington, and it presented at an investor event serving Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.
History
Standd was founded in 2022 per internal records. In April 2026 it was selected as one of five presenting companies at the Accelerate Breakfast Series in the DMV region, an event for companies raising $500,000-$2 million in seed-stage capital, where it was described as an AI platform delivering customized investment intelligence and predictive insights for private capital markets.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsStandd was one of five companies selected to present at the April 2026 Accelerate Breakfast Series, an investor event for DMV-region technology companies seeking $500,000-$2 million in seed-stage capital, described there as an AI platform delivering customized investment intelligence and predictive insights for private capital markets.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Standd do?
- Standd is an autonomous AI platform that monitors private credit and private equity portfolios to surface risk early.
- Who founded Standd?
- Standd was founded by Stephen Solka in 2022.
- Who are Standd's investors?
- Standd's investors include Maryland TEDCO, Techstars, TEDCO.
- Where is Standd headquartered?
- Standd is headquartered in Washington, US.