Q2Q

Roadmap & Position in Deal Sourcing

AI deal sourcing automating research, outreach, and scheduling for PE firms and search funds.

Company Overview

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.

What They're Building

The company's public product roadmap & what they're committed to building.

Q2Q handles end-to-end sourcing: tell them about your thesis and they find private companies matching your criteria, research each company, write custom personalized emails, run cold outreach to get first calls scheduled with off-market opportunities. 5,000+ company database. Replaces the "mini army of juniors" that firms typically hire for sourcing, with consistent quality and automated meeting scheduling with prep notes. Harshita Arora is YC partner.

Latest Intelligence

Zeitgeist tracks private signals to determine where the company is heading strategically.

Deal Sourcing Becomes A Workflow Engine

May 13, 2026

Confidence:

High

New Intel: Q2Q is automating deal sourcing for PE firms and search funds, from thesis research to outreach and scheduled meetings. If it produces off-market calls, it replaces a large chunk of junior sourcing work.

Founder and Key Execs

Brianna Lin, Co-Founder & CEO

Co-Founder & CEO

Claire Wu, Co-Founder & CTO

Co-Founder & CTO

Founder Force Multiplier

Brianna Lin brings PE deal experience (previously at Jefferies). Claire Wu brings engineering and product experience from Qualtrics, GAO Capital, and Venture Lab; she is a student in UPenn's Jerome Fisher M&T Program (dual-degree management and technology).

Funding History

2025 | Brianna Lin and Claire Wu co-found Q2Q.
2026 | Accepted into Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch (Harshita Arora as partner).
2026 | Product live with 5,000+ company database and AI-powered outreach pipeline.

Competitors

AI Deal Sourcing

Grata, Sourcescrub, Cyndx, Harmonic.ai.

Traditional Deal Sourcing Platforms

PitchBook, Axial, DealNexus.

CRM/Outreach Automation

Apollo.io, Outreach.io, Salesloft (adapted for PE).

PE Operating Platforms

Affinity, DealCloud (relationship intelligence).

Q2Q

's Moat:

5,000+ company database with PE-specific filters (revenue range, EBITDA, owner age, geography) is a proprietary asset that Grata and PitchBook do not optimize for search fund workflows. Each outreach campaign's response data improves targeting. Harshita Arora as YC partner provides distribution credibility in the YC ecosystem.

How They're Leveraging AI

NLP-Powered Personalized Content Generation

AI-generated, hyper-personalized acquisition outreach emails and call scripts tailored to each business owner using company-specific context and investment thesis alignment.

Predictive Lead Scoring & Matching

AI-driven identification, scoring, and qualification of acquisition targets from a 5,000+ company database matched against a user's specific investment thesis criteria.

Conversational AI & Speech NLP

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.

AI Use Overview:

Using NLP-powered personalized content generation, predictive lead scoring and matching, and conversational AI with speech NLP for first calls.

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