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Palace

Summer 2025 · Active

Operational intelligence for PE funds and PE-backed companies

Location: New York, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

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About

Palace (palace.so) is an AI board observer that private market investors use to monitor+report on portfolio companies. We save investment teams 100's of hours every quarter on manual data entry and provide real-time analytics across their portfolio.

Founders

  • Leeds RisingFounder

    Building Palace Previously: CS + applied math at Cornell, Columbia MS dropout, Bloomberg knowledge graph team, Golden (1st PM), Alchemy (7th PM), Amazon (robotic operations intelligence)

  • Derek YeFounder

    Building Palace. Previously tech lead at Amazon Music, founding eng at kits.ai (a16z)