{"id":95252,"title":"Zarna - AI Associates for Private Capital Markets","tagline":"Zarna turns weeks of deal work into minutes ","body":"Hey everyone [👋](https://emojipedia.org/waving-hand)\n\nWe’re Rishabh, Hrishi, Vivan, and Rakesh.\\\nWe’re building AI associates that automate deal work for firms in the private capital markets.\\\n[_(demo video_](https://youtu.be/GN8JtPZ99z8)_)_\n\n---\n\n### **Problem**\n\nDeal teams spend a surprisingly large amount of their time on repetitive processes:\\\nreviewing CIMs, rebuilding models, creating tear sheets and IC decks, updating CRMs and trackers, and piecing together context fragmented across file drives.\n\n### **What We Do**\n\nZarna connects our **cohort of AI associates** to your firm’s history. _Past deals, the CRM, shared drives, board decks, third-party databases, etc._\n\nOnce connected, they execute core work end-to-end:\n\n* Generate tear sheets, IOI materials, and IC drafts in the firm’s format\n* Convert CIM financials into diligence model structures\n* Complete all data entry \u0026 enrichment into [CRM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8daMRb9IPxU)s\n* Sync operator notes \u0026 portfolio KPI trackers over time\n* Analyze CIMs, teasers, and market reports to surface what matters\n\n**The goal is simple:**\n\nWith the summaries, models, and trackers handled, investors can spend their time forming deeper views on companies and markets — building conviction faster on the right deals.\n\n---\n\n### **Why Zarna**\n\nEvery firm has its **own way** of evaluating businesses, management, and risk.\\\nSo **generic copilots fail**—they don’t understand the firm’s history, style, or decision-making patterns.\n\nThe hard part is **institutional memory and reasoning**, not text generation.\n\nWe embed forward-deployed engineers with deal teams to tune how the agents:\n\n* interpret financial signals\n* format materials\n* map market structures\n* reflect the firm’s voice and conviction process\n\nThis turns what used to live in **individuals who could walk out the door** into something **searchable, reusable, and cumulative across the firm.**\n\nThe result is not just “faster work.”\\\nIt is **firms that start each deal loaded with context instead of from zero.**\n\n---\n\n### **Backstory**\n\nPre-YC, we were forward-deployed engineers embedded in a $20B private equity firm, leading AI enablement initiatives \u0026 building agents automation across sourcing, diligence, and portfolio management.\n\nThe four of us are best friends who have been building together since college. We studied computer science, electrical engineering, \u0026 economics at UC Berkeley. We’ve explored many ideas over the last 3 years — this is the one where we saw the **problem first-hand** and **couldn’t let go of it.**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=95252\u0026key=user_uploads/1728449/63967ae3-fc76-424c-b75b-eda4a5fa528f)\n\n---\n\n### **Who is Zarna for**\n\n**We are focused on building for Private Equity, Growth Equity, Private Credit, Family Offices, \u0026 Investment Banking. Book a demo today at zarnaai.com.**\n\n### **Questions**\n\nReach out to [**rishabh@zarnaai.com**](mailto:rishabh@zarnaai.com) (630-631-9264), [hrishi@zarnaai.com](mailto:hrishi@zarnaai.com) (603-233-4478), [rakesh@zarnaai.com](mailto:rakesh@zarnaai.com) (510-458-6129), [vivan@zarnaai.com](mailto:vivan@zarnaai.com) (510-6849147)","slug":"OmK-zarna-ai-associates-for-private-capital-markets","created_at":"2025-11-06T23:46:00.474Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:54:32.923Z","total_vote_count":19,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/OmK-zarna-ai-associates-for-private-capital-markets","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=95252\u0026key=user_uploads/1728449/63967ae3-fc76-424c-b75b-eda4a5fa528f","company":{"id":31007,"name":"Zarna","slug":"zarna","url":"https://www.zarnaai.com/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/d20374e923bd141960c3c8fd2965f8288e95aa58.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Investments","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31007"}}