{"id":93226,"title":"Elevate - AI-powered data management for roll-ups","tagline":"Providing private equity-backed companies with better data and access to AI tools","body":"[Scott](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-cara-31829041/) here from [Elevate](https://www.useelevate.dev/), showcasing our AI-powered data management for roll-ups.\n\n# **⚠️ Problem: Private equity-backed businesses struggle to use AI because of data challenges.**\n\n📉 75% of M\u0026A deals underperform due to **integration** challenges \n\n🔥 #1 cause of M\u0026A integration problems is **data** fragmentation \n\n🤖 #1 hurdle blocking companies from using AI is **data** quality – #2 is **data** privacy \u0026 protection\n\n# 🚀 **Solution:** **Elevate’s AI-powered data management platform acts as a translator enabling PE-owned businesses to use AI in their daily operations.**\n\nOur platform helps PE-backed acquisitive companies (aka roll-ups) reach for data nirvana through:\n\n1. **Migrations:** Transitioning data from legacy systems to the core tech stack,\n2. **Warehousing:** Consolidating, cleaning, and enriching data across acquisitions and systems, providing a single source of truth, and\n3. **AI Services:** Unlocking agentic AI automations built on top of clean warehouse data.\n\n![](https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdhAUwhGszwvyPlBFEYAfccNMFkNhz9tFht9DK0R7Mn8efaeTgqsJiQHHFbvf8pZM5f2k76wHg75gJpT49XnlnomjZo6kfiN74m4yTCrGcUYzi-tncfAfe-DlchOMmNSR_HHxeo8w?key=d4EvylbdqETj4Y-psv5-Bw)\n\nBut don’t trust us, ask our customers. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/H1sDiTtCV44\n\n# 🧑‍💻 **Team: Expertise at the intersection of finance x tech.**\n\n[Scott](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-cara-31829041/) (CEO) was most recently a Vice President at Sycamore Partners, a $10B+ AUM private equity firm. Scott is also a Harvard Business School grad where he hob-knobbed with too many finance bros + gals. \n\n[Steve](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-mazzari-38b470b1/) (CTO) was a software engineer at Meta, the ~~social media giant,~~ ~~metaverse pioneer,~~ AI talent acquisition firm. He has also seen this movie before as a founding engineer at multiple start-ups. \n\n[Jeff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrday/) (CPO) was a software engineer at a $17B+ hedge fund, before giving into the crypto-craze. His Circle stock sustains us. \n\nThe three founders have known each other for over a decade since their CS undergrad majors together at Duke in the not-so-dirty-anymore Durham, NC. \n\n# **🎺 Asks:**\n\n**PE / roll-up connections:** Find your friends in private equity and tell them about this cool new AI solution that will make their portfolio companies better, them richer, and their lives less miserable.  \n\n**AI solutions:** If you are building an AI tool that could be useful for PE-backed companies (👋 that’s \\~all of you!), reach out + let’s chat to see if there could be a use case for our customers. \n\nContact us: [hello@useelevate.dev](mailto:hello@useelevate.dev) \n\n**Elevate**dly Yours, \n\n[Scott](https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-cara-31829041/), [Jeff](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrday/), and [Steve](https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-mazzari-38b470b1/)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=93226\u0026key=user_uploads/1977390/a54f9874-662a-4886-80d7-fb0bf1954f08)\n\n","slug":"OFe-elevate-ai-powered-data-management-for-roll-ups","created_at":"2025-08-21T01:30:29.370Z","updated_at":"2026-05-24T10:38:17.078Z","total_vote_count":32,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OFe-elevate-ai-powered-data-management-for-roll-ups","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=93226\u0026key=user_uploads/1977390/a54f9874-662a-4886-80d7-fb0bf1954f08","company":{"id":29676,"name":"Elevate","slug":"elevate-2","url":"https://www.useelevate.dev/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/de959e87a5bda5b32dabf7dc904953d947ff5842.png","batch":"Summer 2024","industry":"B2B","tags":["AIOps","Artificial Intelligence","Finance","B2B","Automation"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29676"}}