AI deal sourcing automating research, outreach, and scheduling for PE firms and search funds.
Using NLP-powered personalized content generation, predictive lead scoring and matching, and conversational AI with speech NLP for first calls.

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Deal Sourcing
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YC W26

Last Updated:
March 19, 2026

Builds an AI-powered deal sourcing engine that automates market research, lead generation, personalized outreach, and meeting scheduling for private equity firms and search funds.
No official public roadmap disclosed. Product positioning emphasizes AI-driven deal origination, automated personalized outreach, AI-initiated first calls, human-in-the-loop review workflows, and automated meeting scheduling with prep notes. Website highlights a 5,000+ company database and end-to-end pipeline automation for PE deal teams.
Hiring signals are minimal (two-person founding team, no open roles), suggesting deep internal R&D focus or stealth product development. YC W26 batch participation signals imminent fundraising activity (likely Seed round in mid-2026). Founder backgrounds in PE buyout (Brianna Lin, Jefferies) and hedge fund engineering/Qualtrics product (Claire Wu) suggest roadmap will prioritize institutional-grade compliance, CRM integrations, and data enrichment. Lack of GitHub or open-source activity indicates fully proprietary ML stack. Likely expansion targets include additional asset classes (venture, M&A advisory), cloud-based data enrichment partnerships, and hybrid AI+human outreach escalation for complex deals.
<p>AI-generated, hyper-personalized acquisition outreach emails and call scripts tailored to each business owner using company-specific context and investment thesis alignment.</p>
The AI writes custom emails to business owners that sound like a human researcher spent hours learning about their company, but it does it in seconds.
Q2Q leverages large language models and natural language processing to automatically generate personalized outreach emails and first-call scripts for each prospective acquisition target. The system ingests the user's investment thesis, target company financials, industry context, owner background, and publicly available business information to craft messages that feel individually researched and contextually relevant. Unlike generic mail-merge templates, Q2Q's NLP engine adapts tone, value propositions, and conversation hooks to each recipient, dramatically improving open and response rates. The human-in-the-loop design ensures every message is reviewed and approved before sending, maintaining quality control while eliminating the hours of manual research and drafting that PE associates typically spend per prospect. This approach transforms outreach from a volume game into a precision game, enabling small deal teams to engage hundreds of targets with the quality of hand-crafted communication.
It's like having a tireless intern who somehow read every business owner's entire LinkedIn, local news coverage, and industry blog before writing each email — except this intern never sleeps and never sends anything without your approval.
<p>AI-driven identification, scoring, and qualification of acquisition targets from a 5,000+ company database matched against a user's specific investment thesis criteria.</p>
The AI scans thousands of companies and instantly surfaces the ones most likely to be a good acquisition fit based on your exact investment criteria.
Q2Q employs machine learning models to automatically discover, enrich, and score potential acquisition targets against a PE firm's or search fund's defined investment thesis. The system ingests criteria such as industry vertical, revenue range, geography, owner demographics, and growth indicators, then applies entity extraction, classification algorithms, and predictive scoring models across its proprietary database of 5,000+ companies. Data enrichment pipelines pull from web sources, business registries, and social platforms to fill in missing firmographic and contact data, while ML-based deduplication and validation ensure data quality. The scoring model ranks prospects by thesis alignment, estimated deal readiness, and owner reachability, surfacing a prioritized pipeline that would take a human analyst days or weeks to compile. This capability is the foundational intelligence layer that powers all downstream outreach and scheduling automation, making it Q2Q's most strategically critical ML application.
It's like having a bloodhound that doesn't just sniff out any company — it only fetches the ones that perfectly match your shopping list, and it does it before your morning coffee gets cold.
<p>AI-powered conversational agent that initiates and conducts preliminary phone calls with prospective acquisition targets to gauge interest and qualify opportunities before human follow-up.</p>
The AI makes the awkward first phone call to a business owner for you, figures out if they're even interested in selling, and only loops you in when there's a real conversation to have.
Q2Q deploys a conversational AI agent capable of initiating first calls with prospective acquisition targets on behalf of PE firms and search funds. The agent uses speech synthesis, natural language understanding, and dialogue management to introduce the buyer's thesis, answer basic questions about the acquisition interest, and assess the owner's receptivity to a conversation. The system is designed to handle the highest-volume, lowest-conversion stage of deal origination — the cold first touch — where most human time is wasted on voicemails, rejections, and unqualified leads. By automating this layer, Q2Q allows deal professionals to engage only with pre-qualified, interested sellers, dramatically improving team productivity and reducing burnout. Call outcomes, sentiment signals, and qualification data are fed back into the lead scoring model, creating a reinforcement loop that continuously improves targeting and outreach effectiveness. This is Q2Q's most technically ambitious and novel ML application, sitting at the intersection of speech AI, dialogue systems, and domain-specific financial knowledge.
It's like a charming receptionist who cold-calls hundreds of business owners, politely figures out who's actually open to selling, and only transfers the warm ones to your desk — saving you from a lifetime of awkward voicemails.
Q2Q's founders uniquely combine hands-on private equity deal experience with production-grade ML engineering and product development, enabling them to build AI agents that understand both the technical and relational nuances of deal origination , a rare intersection competitors from pure-tech or pure-finance backgrounds struggle to replicate.