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DeepDelver published subsequent posts sharing what they noted were Slack and video posts from the firm
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Meanwhile, Delve became part of a related controversy when malware was discovered in an open source project developed by Delve customer LiteLLM.
Key facts
- Beyond this accusation, Delve also described DeepDelver’s criticism as “a mix of fabricated claims, cherry-picked screenshots, and data taken out of context
- 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
- I still remember the day we took our YC interview at MIT,” Kocalar said
- On the question of using open source tools, Delve said it “built on an Apache 2.0 open-source repository, which explicitly permits commercial use, and significantly rebuilt it for compliance use cases
Summary
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. “I still remember the day we took our YC interview at MIT,” Kocalar said. 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.