Embattled startup Delve has 'parted ways' with Y Combinator

The 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 Koca

Startups·April 6, 2026·3 min read

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Embattled startup Delve has 'parted ways' with Y Combinator. The 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..

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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.

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San Francisco, CA | October 13-15, 2026 REGISTER NOW Meanwhile, Delve became part of a related controversy when malware was discovered in an open source project developed by Delve customer LiteLLM. In the company's latest blog post , Delve's COO Kocalar and CEO Karun Kaushik declared their intention to set "the record straight on anonymous attacks." Among other things, they claimed that the company has hired a cybersecurity firm "to help us understand what happened," and said the "evidence points.