Keye Launches from Stealth to Transform Private Equity Due Diligence

First AI platform for private equity due diligence helps teams make confident investment decisions faster, pass on bad deals sooner, and uncover insights competitors miss

NEW YORK, July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Keye today announced it has launched from stealth with $5 million in a Seed financing round from Sorenson Capital, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, ERA, Tiferes Ventures, Dunamu & Partners, and Palm Drive Capital. Angel investors who participated in the round include Kaz Nejatian (COO at Shopify), Philip Rathle (CTO at Neo4j), and Clark Valberg (former CEO of InVision).

Private equity teams face increasing pressure to evaluate more deals faster while maintaining rigorous analysis standards. Traditional due diligence processes are time-consuming, labor-intensive, and often fail to surface critical insights that separate winning deals from value traps. As competition intensifies and deal timelines compress, firms struggle to make confident decisions quickly without compromising on thoroughness, leading to missed opportunities and suboptimal investment decisions.

Keye addresses this with a platform that transforms raw deal files into structured, investor-ready insights that mirror how the smartest investors think. Built by former investors who experienced the challenges of diligence, Keye understands deal data, performs real analyses, and mirrors the workflows of top-performing deal teams. The platform delivers structured, audit-ready outputs that help teams say no sooner, say yes with confidence, and see insights their competitors never will.

"The diligence process hasn't fundamentally changed in decades, even as the pace of dealmaking has accelerated dramatically," said Rohan Parikh, founder & CEO of Keye. "We built Keye because we lived this pain as investors - spending weeks on manual analysis that could be automated, missing critical patterns in the data, and struggling to synthesize insights fast enough to win competitive processes. The biggest investors in this round were initially users who saw how our platform helps them create alpha through better decisions backed by real math."

Unlike traditional AI tools that simply summarize documents, Keye performs genuine quantitative analysis with 100% accuracy. What previously took investors days to complete now takes minutes, delivering zero errors, no hallucinations, and Excel-ready outputs. The platform enables investors to compare every deal with contextual insights unavailable to competitors, resulting in faster decisions without compromising analytical rigor.

With Keye, investment firms can:

• Find and Compile Data: Scan VDR files and make your data instantly usable in tables or wherever you need it
• Catch Hidden Risks: Identify and flag key facts that impact your deal, customized to suit your investor profile
• Perform Analysis: Quickly and easily spin up retention bridges, cohort analysis, or deep dive into price-volume effects. 
• Export Excel Models: Download any set of analyses into a spreadsheet with dynamic formulas already in place - no hard coded cells
• Source Every Fact: Attribute each data point to the raw data source and see the math behind every calculation
• Understand Your Needs: Talk to Keye like an associate to instantly make changes to tables and analyses on the fly
• Benchmark Every Deal: Instantly compare performance, retention, margins, and more - across every deal your firm has ever seen.

This funding round will accelerate hiring, particularly for engineers and private equity domain experts, and expand Keye's analytical capabilities to cover more verticals and expand to the broader M&A community.

"The Keye team is solving a significant pain point for private equity investors by unlocking the manual and time-consuming process of due diligence," said Suril Butala, Vice President at Sorenson Capital. "As a customer of Keye, we've fundamentally evolved how deals progress through our pipeline. We have largely automated our data ingestion process and can get from the first meeting to extending a term sheet much quicker. Keye gives us the data we need to focus on the core questions of a business, especially since we can easily export all the analyses the platform builds into Excel, and we can't see ourselves going a day without it anymore."

About Keye

Keye is the first AI platform built exclusively for private equity. Keye understands the data, performs real analyses, and mirrors the workflows of top-performing deal teams. For more information, visit https://www.keye.co/

SOURCE Keye