Ex-DOJ antitrust chiefs team with ex-Palantir engineers to launch YC-backed AI litigation platform FluxCap
ashleymayer · x · 2026-11-06
Y Combinator announced FluxCap (P26) out of stealth: former DOJ antitrust leaders Kanter and Mekki have built an AI litigation platform with ex-Palantir engineers, aiming to let small teams take on the hardest cases.
- Former DOJ colleagues and Palantir engineers worked in a fully integrated way from the outset
- The platform is already surfacing suspected scams and schemes worth billions of dollars; first cases are about to be filed
- Started with antitrust, already expanding into a second undisclosed practice area
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