Qualitate, the world’s leading AI-native primary intelligence platform, today announced a $7M seed round led by IA Ventures and Crew Capital, with participation from angel investors including Tony Berkman, Travis May, Matt Levin, and advisors Alex Zukin and Brian Lichtenberger. The funding will accelerate Qualitate’s vision to automate decision-making workflows from research question to final recommendation, so every organization can make smarter decisions, faster.
Expert research is broken. Investment and corporate strategy teams spend hundreds of hours coordinating intermediaries, scheduling expert calls, and synthesizing insights across fragmented providers. The process takes weeks to produce short-lived intelligence.
Qualitate transforms this workflow by autonomously conducting expert discussions at scale using AI. Qualitate’s AI Moderator interviews thousands of experts simultaneously each month, capturing forward-looking purchasing plans, competitive displacement, and real-time ROI signals. The platform turns these interviews into quantified, time-series outputs tracking over 10,000 public and private companies – queryable instantly in natural language.
With the world’s largest and fastest-growing structured transcript library at its core, every discussion trains the AI Moderator and powers clients’ custom projects. Qualitate is building AI agents that take a research question from first ask to final recommendation, embed directly into the tools teams already use, and allow customers to integrate their own proprietary data – so every decision is informed by continuous primary intelligence.
“Qualitate’s mission is to give every investor and corporation access to real-time expert intelligence,” said Sagar Kadakia, founder and CEO of Qualitate. “Our AI moderator draws on the combined knowledge of thousands of experts to think and ask questions better than even the most senior analysts. Customers get higher-quality intelligence in days instead of weeks – at one-third the cost.”
Investor and corporate teams use Qualitate to drive high-stakes decisions:
- Enterprises run competitive intelligence workflows, including win/loss analysis and churn studies, and track competitors and forward-looking signals.
- Private equity teams validate company traction in days. Trusted by 6 of the top 15 PE firms by AUM.
- Hedge funds and public-market investors identify company inflections, surface competitive shifts, and zero in on up-sell and expansion opportunities.
- Liquid credit and direct lending teams assess product stickiness, track turnaround momentum, and monitor new product adoption.
- Growth equity and venture capital firms uncover real-time shifts in customer demand and identify opportunities for entering new markets.
“I’ve spent two decades building software that automates enterprise workflows. Qualitate is the first company I’ve seen apply AI to market research in a way that consistently exceeds human quality. Their compounding data advantage is what separates a product from a platform, and it’s why they have signed some of the largest enterprises and investment firms in the world as customers – and it’s one of the key reasons that we at Crew Capital invested.” – Daniel Dines, Co-Founder of Crew Capital
By the numbers:
- Growing topline revenue by 30x in the last 12 months
- Achieved a 100% customer renewal rate, over 200% 12-month NRR, and more than doubled ACV over the past 6 months
- Serving the world’s largest enterprises, hedge funds, private equity firms, venture capital firms, credit funds, and asset managers
- Over 120,000 AI-moderated questions to experts
- The world’s largest and fastest-growing AI-moderated transcript library, featuring over 350,000 minutes of expert discussions, with 10,000+ new minutes added every week
About
Qualitate delivers real-time expert intelligence for investment and strategy teams. Our AI moderator powers the full primary research workflow, from study design and expert recruitment to interview moderation and insight creation. Headquartered in New York City, Qualitate is trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, investment firms, and asset managers. Learn more at qualitate.io.
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