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Keye (YC F24) · 5 months ago

Founding Private Equity Strategist

Keye (YC F24) is building the world’s smartest private equity analyst, aiming to enhance due diligence and help investors generate alpha. The Founding Private Equity Strategist will lead client engagement, drive platform adoption, and collaborate with internal teams to improve product fit and user experience.

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Responsibilities

Drive customer activation—ensuring firms not only onboard, but fully adopt the platform
Own relationships with clients from demo to rollout, often working directly with them on live deal data
Run tailored POCs that showcase platform value using real, quantitative diligence processes
Build and maintain deep, trusted relationships with senior PE professionals—across business and informal settings
Collaborate with product and engineering to prioritize, spec, and ship features that drive usage
Turn PE workflows and client feedback into actionable roadmap decisions
Help define the future structure of the platform strategy org—spanning engagement, success, and support

Qualification

Private Equity experienceDue diligence analysisClient engagementProduct senseSocial confidenceProcess-drivenUrgencyClarityPresentation skillsTeam collaboration

Required

2–6 years in Private Equity (investing role)
Deep experience with analyses carried out during due diligence (beyond just commercial DD)
Confident presenter with experience engaging senior stakeholders
Entrepreneurial, process-driven, with strong product sense and ability to work across teams
Works with urgency, clarity, and a strong sense of ownership
Socially confident—comfortable leading client sessions, dinners, and events
Based in NYC or open to relocating
Comfortable in high-pressure, fast-paced environments with tight deadlines and demanding clients

Benefits

Relocation support available

Company

Keye (YC F24)

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Keye is an AI-enabled platform that empowers PE funds to perform their due diligence significantly faster and more accurately.

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$5.25M
Key Investors
Sorenson Capital
2025-07-29Seed· $5M
2023-01-09Seed· $0.15M
2022-09-15Pre Seed· $0.1M

Leadership Team

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Paolo Fornasini
COO & Co-Founder
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Rohan Parikh, CFA
Co-Founder
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