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Q2Q

We help private equity teams find acquisition targets faster

Q2Q is the AI-native outbound engine for deal sourcing. Tell us the types of companies you want to buy, and we'll get qualified meetings booked for you. You can think of Q2Q as your personal team of AI interns. You give us your buying criteria, and we'll go out and find companies, write personalized emails, and get first calls booked with business owners for you. As the human in the loop, you'll approve messages before we send. Q2Q handles the sourcing work so you can focus on evaluating great deals.
Active Founders
Brianna Lin
Brianna Lin
Founder
Co-Founder & CEO of Q2Q | UPenn M&T
Claire Wu
Claire Wu
Founder
Co-Founder & CTO of Q2Q | UPenn M&T
Company Launches
Q2Q - AI Native Deal Sourcing for Private Equity
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Hey! We’re Brianna and Claire, cofounders of Q2Q (YC W26).

At Q2Q, you tell us the types of companies you want to buy, and we'll get qualified meetings booked for you. Behind the scenes, we find private companies and run personalized outreach to get you first calls scheduled with off-market opportunities.

Q2Q Launch Video

The Problem

Proprietary sourcing is extremely manual for deal teams. Firms typically hire a mini army of juniors to do it for them, and the quality of output is inconsistent.

  • It takes a ton of time to hire and train analysts to run sourcing
  • Sourcing is a repetitive loop… research the company, write a custom email, then cold reach out to them
  • The entire industry relies on the same databases, so owners get flooded with the same generic outreach

Q2Q’s Solution

We’re your team of AI analysts that gets you first calls booked with companies you want to buy. We handle:

  1. Sourcing: Tell us about your thesis. We’ll go find and qualify companies that match your buying criteria.
  2. Outreach: We pull owner contact info and research each company across the web and their socials to customize each outreach message.
  3. AI Phone Agent: Our AI agent can directly dial business owners and ask for their availability and contact info for a first meeting.
  4. Bookings: As owners respond, we book the intro calls for you. You can see meetings populate on your calendar with notes prepared by our team.

The Team

We met through Penn’s M&T Program, where we both studied CS and Finance in Wharton.

  • Brianna Lin - CEO

    Previously at a software PE buyout shop and Jefferies

  • Claire Wu - CTO

    Worked as a hedge fund engineer and in product at Qualtrics

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Our Ask

If you answer “yes” to any of these, we’d appreciate your help!:

  • Can you introduce us to anyone in private equity, M&A, or the independent sponsor space who runs outbound deal sourcing?
  • Can you introduce us to any MBA friends or search fund guys looking for acquisitions?

You can reach us at brianna@tryq2q.com or claire@tryq2q.com, or sign up for a demo at tryq2q.com. Thanks for reading! :)

Q2Q
Batch:Winter 2026
Team Size:2
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Harshita Arora