{"id":719797,"date":"2026-04-05T04:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/embattled-startup-delve-has-parted-ways-with-y-combinator\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:10:14","slug":"embattled-startup-delve-has-parted-ways-with-y-combinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/embattled-startup-delve-has-parted-ways-with-y-combinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled startup Delve has \u2018parted ways\u2019 with Y Combinator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The controversy around Delve<\/a> app<\/a>ears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator.<\/p>\n

Delve is no longer listed among YC\u2019s directory of portfolio companies, and the Delve page<\/a> seems to have been removed from the YC website. In addition, the startup\u2019s COO Selin Kocalar posted on X<\/a> that \u201cYC and Delve have parted ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI still remember the day we took our YC interview at MIT,\u201d Kocalar said. \u201cWe\u2019re so grateful to the community and every founder friend we\u2019ve made.\u201d<\/p>\n

YC isn\u2019t the first investor to distance themselves from Delve. Insight Partners also appears to have deleted posts about its investment in the company, although its primary blog post was later restored.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Delve continues to push back against anonymous claims that it misled clients by telling them they were compliant with privacy and security regulations while allegedly skipping important requirements and auto-generating reports for \u201ccertification mills that rubber stamp reports.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those claims were first published in an anonymous Substack post<\/a> attributed to \u201cDeepDelver,\u201d who described themselves as a former Delve customer who became suspicious after receiving leaked data about the startup\u2019s clients.<\/p>\n

DeepDelver published subsequent posts sharing what they said were Slack and video posts from the company, as well as accusing Delve of passing off an open source tool as its own, without giving credit or reaching an agreement with the developer. A security researcher also said he was able to access sensitive Delve data<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Delve became part of a related controversy when malware was discovered in an open source project developed by Delve customer LiteLLM.<\/p>\n

In the company\u2019s latest blog post<\/a>, Delve\u2019s COO Kocalar and CEO Karun Kaushik declared their intention to set \u201cthe record straight on anonymous attacks.\u201d Among other things, they claimed that the company has hired a cybersecurity firm \u201cto help us understand what happened,\u201d and said the \u201cevidence points to a malicious attack rather than a genuine whistleblower.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears that an attacker purchased Delve under false pretenses, maliciously exfiltrated data, including Delve\u2019s internal company data, and used it to launch a coordinated smear campaign against us,\u201d they said. The blog post also includes a screenshot that they said \u201cshows the attacker exfiltrating our audit tracking spreadsheet via file.io<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond this accusation, Delve also described DeepDelver\u2019s criticism as \u201ca mix of fabricated claims, cherry-picked screenshots, and data taken out of context.\u201d For example, they said DeepDelver \u201cdismisses our AI while acknowledging it automated 70% of a security questionnaire.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the question of using open source tools, Delve said it \u201cbuilt on an Apache 2.0 open-source repository, which explicitly permits commercial use, and significantly rebuilt it for compliance use cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the executives also said they\u2019ve been taking steps to ensure customers \u201cfeel confident in our platform and compliance outcomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those steps supposedly include cleaning up the company\u2019s network to remove auditing firms \u201cthat don\u2019t meet our standards,\u201d \u201coffering complimentary re-audits and penetration tests to all active customers,\u201d and making it \u201cunambiguously clear\u201d that Delve\u2019s templates for things like board meeting notes \u201care designed to be starting points only.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a>, Kaushik made many of the same points but also said, \u201c[W]e grew too fast and fell short of our own standard. To our customers, we deeply apologize for the inconveniences caused.\u201d<\/p>\n

TechCrunch has reached out to Y Combinator and DeepDelver for any response to Delve\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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