Qualitate

Qualitate is an AI-native primary intelligence platform built for investment firms and corporate strategy teams, using an AI Moderator that runs structured voice interviews with senior decision-makers and turns those conversations into queryable, time-series data. Customers either subscribe for continuous market and company intelligence across more than 10,000 public and private companies, or commission custom projects where the moderator runs 20 to 25 in-depth interviews in three to seven business days at roughly one-third the cost of traditional expert networks. The pitch to buyers is that primary research, historically a handful of expert calls scheduled through intermediaries and synthesized by junior analysts over weeks, can now run at a scale and speed a human process cannot match. The launch coincides with a $7M seed round that gives the company capital to expand a customer base that already skews toward the top of the market. IA Ventures and Crew Capital co-led the round, with participation from angel investors Tony Berkman, Travis May, and Matt Levin, alongside advisors Alex Zukin and Brian Lichtenberger. The company says six of the top 15 private equity firms by AUM use the platform, along with large multi-manager hedge funds, private credit teams, and publicly traded enterprises running channel checks, win/loss analysis, and competitive intelligence. Qualitate is based in NYC and was founded by Sagar Kadakia, who spent 15 years building research and data products for investment firms and enterprises, most recently at CB Insights and ETR . For operators and investors watching the expert network category, the launch is worth a look because it targets a workflow (structured primary research on shifting markets) that has largely resisted automation, and it does so with paying enterprise customers already on the platform and a transcript library exceeding 350,000 minutes of expert conversations, with 10,000 more added every week that feeds back into the moderator.