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AI Associates for Private Capital

Fall 2025Founded 20254 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

About

Zarna is private equity’s first AI associate class. Our agents plug directly into your firm’s data and work like a deal team that never sleeps. Zarna’s agents analyze CIMs, build LBOs, update CRMs, draft IC memos, & act based on decades of proprietary firm knowledge. The result: investors spend less time buried in decks and spreadsheets, and more time on judgment, relationships, and winning deals.

Founders · 4

Rishabh Dhariwal
Rishabh DhariwalFounder

CEO/Co-Founder @ Zarna AI

Vivan Agrawal
Vivan AgrawalFounder

Building Zarna AI

Hrishi Joshi
Hrishi JoshiFounder

Co-Founder @ Zarna

Rakesh Mehta
Rakesh MehtaFounder

Building Zarna—the Agentic Operating Layer for Private Capital Markets. Focused on AI/ML applications to the real world. Other interests include astrophysics, videography/film, photography, and basketball.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Nov 2025
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Zarna turns weeks of deal work into minutes

Zarna builds AI associates that connect to a firm’s history and automate deal work for private capital markets. It generates tear sheets and IC drafts, converts CIMs to diligence models, completes CRM data entry, syncs trackers, and analyzes materials to surface what matters, enabling firms to start deals with context and conviction.

Formerly Zarna AI

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