GoKawiilThe controversy around Delve appears to have cost the compliance startup its relationship with accelerator Y Combinator.
Delve is no longer listed among YC’s directory of portfolio companies, and the Delve page seems to have been removed from the YC website. In addition, the startup’s COO Selin Kocalar posted on X that “YC and Delve have parted ways.”
“I still remember the day we took our YC interview at MIT,” Kocalar said. “We’re so grateful to the community and every founder friend we’ve made.”
YC isn’t 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.
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 “certification mills that rubber stamp reports.”
Those claims were first published in an anonymous Substack post attributed to “DeepDelver,” who described themselves as a former Delve customer who became suspicious after receiving leaked data about the startup’s clients.
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.
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