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                           February 12, 2021

       Nicolaas Vlok
       Chief Executive Officer
       Project Angel Parent, LLC
       c/o MeridianLink, Inc.
       1600 Sunflower Avenue, #200
       Costa Mesa, CA 92626

                                                        Re: Project Angel
Parent, LLC
                                                            Amendment No. 1 to
Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1
                                                            Submitted January
27, 2021
                                                            CIK No. 0001834494

       Dear Mr. Vlok:

             We have reviewed your amended draft registration statement and
have the following
       comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with
information so we
       may better understand your disclosure.

              Please respond to this letter by providing the requested
information and either submitting
       an amended draft registration statement or publicly filing your
registration statement on
       EDGAR. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not
       believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.

             After reviewing the information you provide in response to these
comments and your
       amended draft registration statement or filed registration statement, we
may have additional
       comments. References to our prior comments refer to our letter dated
January 12, 2021.

       Amendment No.1 to Draft Registration Statement on Form S-1

       Non-GAAP Financial Measures
       Adjusted EBITDA, page 68

   1.                                                   We note your response
to previous comment 5. Tell us if you intend to include an
                                                        adjustment for
"Deferred revenue reduction from purchase accounting" in your calculation
                                                        of adjusted EBITDA for
the year ended December 31, 2020.
 Nicolaas Vlok
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Project Angel Parent, LLC
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February   NameProject
            2021        Angel Parent, LLC
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2.       Reference is made to the disclosure regarding the adjustment
identified as "Deferred
         revenue reduction from purchase accounting" on page 70. Please clarify
that you are not
         excluding an amount, but are in fact including an amount of income not
otherwise
         reflected in your GAAP results of operations.
Business, page 95

3.       Please incorporate your responses to prior comments 12 and 14 in your
prospectus with
         regards to: (i) the integration of CRIF and your more recent
acquisitions with your
         MeridianLink platform and (ii) how you generate revenue through your
Partner
         Marketplace.
4.       On pages 1 and 106 you refer to your total addressable market of $10
billion based on an
         "independent analysis" by Cornerstone Advisors. We note that this
independent analysis,
         in turn, was based off a 2021 study conducted on your behalf that
estimated various
         metrics in various market channels. Please clarify whether you engaged
Cornerstone to
         provide this independent analysis and who conducted the 2021 study.
Please provide
         more details of how the $10 billion total addressable market was
determined, including
         discussing material assumptions.
Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue Recognition, page F-12

5.       In regard to Subscription Fee Revenue, please revise your disclosure
here, and elsewhere
         as appropriate, to clearly identify the performance obligations
included in your "software
         solutions." Also please clarify whether these subscription
arrangements include a license
         component.

       You may contact Joseph Cascarano, Senior Staff Accountant, at (202)
551-3376 or
Robert Littlepage, Accounting Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3361 if you have
questions regarding
comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact Edwin
Kim, Staff
Attorney, at (202) 551-3297 or Jan Woo, Legal Branch Chief, at (202) 551-3453
with any other
questions.



                                                              Sincerely,

                                                              Division of
Corporation Finance
                                                              Office of
Technology
cc:      Joseph C. Theis, Jr., Esq.