Bridgetown Research is building the first AI agents focused on research and analysis for private equity, consulting and strategy.
AI decision science startup, Bridgetown Research, announced $19 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed and Accel to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) agents that autonomously execute research.
These agents are voice bots trained to recruit and interview industry experts, gathering primary data that can be analysed alongside alternative data sourced from their partners.
Founded by Harsh Sahai, who previously led machine learning teams at Amazon, Bridgetown Research was born from a simple observation: the majority of business analyses are a permutation of a small number of automatable tasks. The founding team, comprising former professionals from McKinsey, Bain, Amazon, and leading tech startups, brings together extensive experience across strategy consulting and technology.
“We are excited to be a catalyst for change. We are working with multiple private equity firms, management consulting firms, and corporate teams to help make strategic decisions better and faster. This in turn is driving up demand for advisory and information services downstream.” commented Harsh Sahai, CEO & founder of Bridgetown Research.
While many AI solutions focus on searching and summarizing information using LLMs, real world business decisions require much more than synthesising the open web. They need proprietary data such as primary data from experts and customer surveys, along with frameworks to understand markets
Bridgetown Research started with a focus on private equity deal screening diligence, and are currently used for deal screening and deeper commercial diligence.
Ishaan Preet Singh, Investor at Lightspeed added “Companies are built on the quality of strategic decisions, and the research and analysis behind it. Bridgetown Research enables the smartest executives and investors to make these decisions with an order of magnitude more information, and at a pace that was earlier impossible. Harsh and Bridgetown are already creating immense value for their customers, but are still just scratching the surface of the leverage that AI can create.”
