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Excel AI analyst for power users in consulting, IB, and PE
HQ: Oslo, Norway | Founded: 2025 | Employees: 10 | Stage: Seed | Website: https://usecrunched.com
Crunched is an Excel-native AI analyst built for power users in management consulting, investment banking, and private equity. The platform operates entirely within Excel and provides three core capabilities: end-to-end workbook error-checking (finding and fixing formula errors across thousands of interlinked cells), building financial models from scratch based on natural language descriptions, and handling grunt work like extracting and linking data from IM documents to template models. Crunched targets the top 2% of the 1B+ Excel users globally — the highest-value, most sophisticated users. Founded in 2025 by Philip Borge (CEO), Michael Sakowski (COO), Lars Gjardar Musæus (CTO), and Markus Skagemo (Head of AI). Borge and Sakowski accumulated 10,000+ hours of Excel experience at McKinsey,
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