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Outset

AI-moderated interviews for user and market research

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$29.7M

of $32.5M offered across 1 Form D filing

Still open
$2.8M
Investors
6
Last filed
May 1, 2026

About

Parnassus Labs, Inc. operates Outset, an AI-moderated research platform for qualitative and quantitative studies. Its AI interviewer runs hundreds of simultaneous video, voice, and text interviews in multiple languages, probing dynamically on what participants say and show. The platform then synthesizes transcripts into themes, quotes, highlight reels, and shareable reports. The company reports 500K+ hours of interviews and 10K+ studies run, with customers including Microsoft, HubSpot, Nestle, Glassdoor, and Ipsos.

Replaces the human moderator itself rather than only analyzing recordings: a multimodal AI interviewer that sees screenshares and reacts to audio and visual cues, letting one study scale to hundreds of concurrent interviews across 85+ countries while still producing depth-interview-quality probing.

Funding

  • EquityFiled May 1, 2026Form D
    $29.7M/ $32.5M

Product

Outset

Research and consumer insights platform

An AI-moderated research platform that designs the guide, recruits and interviews participants, and synthesizes the results into reports for stakeholders.

  • AI-moderated video, voice, and text interviews with dynamic probing
  • Runs hundreds of simultaneous interviews in multiple languages
  • AI-assisted interview guide setup with qualitative and quantitative questions and skip logic

Built for

In-house market research, consumer insights, and UX research teams at mid-market and enterprise brands, plus research agencies

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