What Q2q does

Q2Q, Inc. is a San Francisco-based, venture-backed software company that operates an AI-powered deal sourcing platform aimed at small private equity firms, search funds, and M&A deal teams. The platform is designed to take a buying thesis as input and autonomously research markets, identify candidate target companies, surface owner contact information, and run personalized multi-channel outreach (email and LinkedIn), with an AI agent that can also make first phone calls on behalf of users. A human-in-the-loop approval step is required before any message is sent, and meetings are booked directly onto the user's calendar with prep notes. The underlying technology combines deep research (analyzing company websites and social profiles), generative AI for personalized message drafting, and autonomous-agent capabilities for outreach execution, with integration into customer CRMs for pipeline tracking.

The company runs a sales-led go-to-market motion anchored by a homepage waitlist and Calendly-based demo booking, rather than self-serve onboarding. Its revenue model is subscription-based SaaS, though specific pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed and appear to be negotiated per deal. Q2Q is backed by Y Combinator, which led a $500,000 seed round on 2026-03-24, and the company had 1-10 employees at the time of data collection. The platform is delivered as a single end-to-end product rather than a modular suite, positioning Q2Q as a workflow-replacement tool for the manual deal-sourcing activities (industry research, spreadsheet building, owner hunting, and outreach drafting) that small-fund acquirers typically perform internally.

Name

Q2q

Legal name

Q2Q, Inc.

Website

https://tryq2q.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Q2Q is an AI-powered deal sourcing platform that helps small private equity firms, search funds, and M&A deal teams identify acquisition targets, conduct deep research, run personalized multi-channel outreach, and book introductory meetings with business owners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Deal Sourcing Software

SIC

Loan Brokers (6163)

akta.pro primary industry

SME Credit Risk, Underwriting & Financial Data (B2B Fintech Data/Decisioning) (FSAGAJAM)

Keywords

• Deal sourcing software
• AI prospecting platform
• Private equity automation
• Search fund tooling
• Outreach automation

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Deal Sourcing & Outreach Platform Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS service providing AI-powered deal sourcing, personalized outreach automation, and meeting booking for private equity firms and search funds. The service automates the deal sourcing workflow including market research, company identification, contact discovery, email/LinkedIn outreach, and meeting scheduling.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Q2Q is an AI-powered deal sourcing platform that helps small private equity firms and search funds identify acquisition targets, research markets and target companies, discover owner contact information, and launch personalized multi-channel (email and LinkedIn) outreach campaigns. The platform then books introductory calls onto the user's calendar with prepared notes, functioning as an end-to-end AI intern team for the deal sourcing workflow.

Product overview

Q2Q is a single unified AI-powered deal sourcing platform designed for small private equity firms and search funds. The platform operates as an 'AI intern team' that handles the complete deal sourcing workflow: from receiving a buying thesis, to researching the market, finding matching companies, conducting outreach, and booking meetings. Q2Q represents a cohesive, end-to-end solution rather than a modular platform with separate add-on products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Q2Q AI-powered deal sourcing platform that automates identifying target companies, conducting deep research on markets and prospects, personalizing multi-channel (email and LinkedIn) outreach with human-in-the-loop approval, and booking introductory meetings with business owners onto the user's calendar. Designed for small private equity firms and search funds looking to acquire companies.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• SourceScrub: SourceScrub provides a private-company data platform used by PE and growth investors for deal sourcing and target research. It overlaps directly with Q2Q's market-research and company-identification capabilities for the same buyer persona.
• Grata: Grata is an AI-powered deal-sourcing platform built for private equity and investment banking to discover and research private companies. It is the most direct competitor to Q2Q, serving a similar PE customer base with a comparable research-and-outreach workflow.
• Affinity: Affinity is a relationship-intelligence and deal-flow CRM used by private equity, venture capital, and investment banking teams to track deal pipelines. It is highly comparable to Q2Q in the PE-deal-workflow space, with overlap in CRM integration and pipeline management.

Broad incumbents

• PitchBook: PitchBook is the dominant private-market data platform used by PE, VC, and corporate-development teams for company research and deal sourcing. It serves as a broad incumbent alternative for the research layer of Q2Q's workflow, though it does not offer personalized outreach.
• Crunchbase Pro: Crunchbase provides private-company intelligence and prospecting tools used by investors, salespeople, and deal teams. It is a broad incumbent in the company-discovery layer that Q2Q's AI research function competes with.
• ZoomInfo: ZoomInfo is a large B2B contact-data and sales-intelligence platform frequently used for owner and decision-maker contact discovery. It competes with Q2Q's contact-discovery functionality at much greater scale, though without PE-specific workflow tooling.

Emerging players

• Instantly.ai: Instantly is a cold-email outreach and lead-generation platform focused on high-volume personalized sending. It competes with the email-outreach layer of Q2Q's multi-channel workflow.
• Artisan (Artisan AI): Artisan builds AI 'sales agents' that autonomously run outbound campaigns from prospecting to booked meetings. Its positioning as an 'AI intern' for sales overlaps directly with Q2Q's 'AI intern team' framing for deal sourcing.
• Clay: Clay is an AI-driven data-enrichment and outbound-personalization platform used widely for sales prospecting. It overlaps with Q2Q's contact-discovery and personalized-email capabilities, though it is positioned as a generalist sales tool rather than a PE-specific platform.
• Apollo.io: Apollo.io is a B2B sales-intelligence and engagement platform offering contact data, email outreach, and CRM integration. PE and search-fund deal teams frequently repurpose Apollo for owner contact discovery and cold outreach, putting it in direct functional overlap with Q2Q.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/q2qAI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/q2q-ai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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