Acquisition
Oct 2025AlphaSense acquired Carousel and said Carousel's team and AI Excel modeling technology would be integrated into AlphaSense's platform.
SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Carousel Technologies was a New York-based startup that built an AI assistant for Microsoft Excel to create and edit spreadsheet models, extract data from documents, explain formulas, and visualize or track work; it launched in Y Combinator Winter 2024 and was acquired by AlphaSense in October 2025.
Primary product
AI assistant for Microsoft Excel
Founded
2023
Headquarters
New York City, New York, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
AI spreadsheet automation
Offices
205 W 76th St, New York, NY 10023-8221
Business model
B2B enterprise software
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Early Stage VC · Mar 2024
Mar 2024
Jan 2024 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Public pages portray a small, product-focused startup serving finance and consulting users, with messaging centered on making spreadsheet work faster, less painful, and more collaborative.
Product & market
Pricing
Open beta and enterprise sales; pricing is not publicly listed.
Differentiators
- —Builds and edits spreadsheet models from natural-language prompts
- —Imports PDFs, CSVs, presentations, and images into Excel
- —Explains complex formulas in plain English
- —Quick Fix feature for formatting, analytics, and restructuring
- —File Context with source citations
- —PowerPoint and Excel change-tracking workflow
Technology
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Office add-ins
PowerPoint
AI/LLM
natural-language prompting
document ingestion
file-context citations
chart dashboards
formula explanation
Customers
investment bankers
consultants
financial analysts
marketing managers
operations leaders
product managers
scientists
enterprise teams
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
1.5K
Signals & risks
Latest news
Business Insider · Oct 2025
Business Insider reported that AlphaSense acquired Carousel, describing Carousel as an AI tool for Excel founded by Daniel Wolf and Jude Rizzo and noting the team would be integrated into AlphaSense.
AlphaSense · Oct 2025
AlphaSense's press release announced the acquisition of Carousel and said the product would be embedded into AlphaSense's AI suite for financial modeling.
Y Combinator
YC describes Carousel as an AI assistant for Microsoft Excel, founded in 2023, in the Winter 2024 batch, with founders Daniel Wolf and Jude Rizzo.
Y Combinator Launch
YC launch page describes Carousel's Excel assistant features, including model creation, quick fixes, model walkthroughs, and file-context citations.
Y Combinator Launch
YC launch page describes Carousel's change-tracking add-in for PowerPoint and Excel, aimed at bankers and consultants.
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