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Crunched

Active · Excel AI analyst for Power Users

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8signal of 100 · rising 7
  • team of 5Team size · YC's directory+4
  • went through YCProgram · this site+4

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Competitors

AICapixShared: private equity, finance, dataYC S22New York CityStartup →AISnowstoneShared: private equity, finance, consultingYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AICapsa AIShared: private equityAntler 2023UKStartup →AIKeyeShared: private equity, finance, dataYC F24New York CityStartup →AIZarnaShared: private equity, agent, finance and accountingYC F25San FranciscoStartup →
Companies closest to Crunched
Company
CapixShared: private equity, finance, dataYC S22ActiveAI
SnowstoneShared: private equity, finance, consultingYC S26ActiveAI
Capsa AIShared: private equityAntler 2023Not statedAI
KeyeShared: private equity, finance, dataYC F24ActiveAI
ZarnaShared: private equity, agent, finance and accountingYC F25ActiveAI

Adjacent

AIRima AI (formerly Garage)Shared: finance, analytics, excelYC S22AustinStartup →OtherSense StreetShared: investment bankingEF 2019LondonStartup →AIInactiveQ2QShared: private equity, handle, workYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIIntriqShared: private equity, powerAntler 2023UKStartup →AIBead AIShared: handle grunt, grunt work, excelspeedrun SR005San FranciscoStartup →
Companies next to Crunched
Company
Rima AI (formerly Garage)Shared: finance, analytics, excelYC S22ActiveAI, Data
Sense StreetShared: investment bankingEF 2019Not statedOther
Q2QShared: private equity, handle, workYC W26InactiveAI
IntriqShared: private equity, powerAntler 2023Not statedAI
Bead AIShared: handle grunt, grunt work, excelspeedrun SR005Not statedAI

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Founders

  • Philip BorgeFounder
  • Lars Gjardar MusæusFounder/CTO
  • Michael SakowskiFounder
  • Markus SkagemoFounder

About Crunched

Crunched is the Excel AI analyst for power users - in consulting, investment banking, and private equity. It error-checks workbooks end-to-end, builds models from scratch, and handles grunt work like extracting and linking data from IMs to template models - all within Excel so teams can review and iterate as usual. Agents struggle with tabular data - getting reliable, multi-step execution over thousands of interlinked formulas, sheets, and ranges is hard. Making Crunched good enough for people who live in Excel means knowing the pain points deeply. Michael and Philip has 10,000+ hours in Excel across consulting and finance. Markus and Lars bring deep expertise in scaling AI and enterprise solutions. We've had easy access to first customers and are already live with firms across six European countries - we now plan to expand into the US. With >1bn total Excel users, we focus on the top 2%, highest-value Excel users globally. We're solving one pain point at a time to create a product that doesn't just look good in a demo but actually works in production. Excel is here to stay, but the way experts model is fundamentally changing - with Crunched.

YC batch
F25 · Fall 2025
Status, per YC
Active
Category
AI, Data
Team size
5
Location
Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Founded
2025
Checked
6h ago

YC tags: Finance, Productivity, Analytics

Crunched in F25: 146 companies, 88% AI

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Which YC batch was Crunched in?

Crunched was in Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch (F25).

Is Crunched still active?

Y Combinator lists Crunched as active.

Who founded Crunched?

Crunched's founders, as listed on its YC page: Philip Borge (Founder), Lars Gjardar Musæus (Founder/CTO), Michael Sakowski (Founder), Markus Skagemo (Founder).

Where is Crunched based?

Crunched lists Oslo, Oslo, Norway as its location on YC's directory.