AI Takes Over Fundraising?

Hey crew, this week I’ve been recovering from a drama free Thanksgiving and yesterday was chatting with Boardy AI.

What’s Boardy? It’s an AI Superconnector that uses a voice AI agent to interview you and connect you with relevant people.

Since it’s last update:
- Boardy spoke to over 7,500 founders (collectively raising a combined $20B)
- Boardy spoke to over 1,000 investors (collectively managing >1T in capital)
- Over $170m of expressed LP interest in Boardy Ventures (Boardy’s inaugural venture fund) in a single day.

Boardy’s goal is to help 100 founders close their rounds before year end.

I introduced 3 founders in my network yesterday to Boardy and Boardy is already making valuable connections for growth and funding.

Will Boardy rewrite the VC landscape?

Probably.

Capital is abundant. But attention is scarce. Boardy is getting both for founders.

Now onto some raises.

FOUNDERS RAISING
From Incolo’s Community

::: Surge Networks is building the “Digital Oil Wells” for real-time, real-world data. The AI Data Gold Rush is here and Gulp Data estimates each one of their installs could generate $250k to $1m in yearly revenue. 70 planned for 2026 with partners across 4 states. 2,000+ planned across 2027 and 2028. Learn more.
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::: Windlift has $24m in DOD and DOE contracts and recently signed MOUs with a Finnish defense tech company. Also their Engineering AI just enabled them to go from ideation to working prototype in 1 month which outperformed the closest competitor by more than 2x in an estimated $170B market. Learn more.

::: Open Secret the film is a heart wrenching documentary about how predators were allowed to operate for decades in New Hanover County schools and even enabled and protected from those at the top. However, there’s hope by not remaining silent. A theater wants to take this film nationwide. Watch and join.

Disclaimers & Disclosures:
This is for educational purposes only and not intended as a solicitation to invest. Investing in early stage companies is highly risky and most early stage companies fail. Never invest more than you can afford to lose. Incolo is a paid consultant to all 3 companies and is a direct investor in Surge, has advisory equity in Windlift and Open Secret.

EDUCATION
Real Pitching Starts After the Investment is Made

Envision this. You spent all that effort to get the raise closed.

What are you doing with the network behind the capital?

I believe you should reverse engineer your cap table.

One of the best in class founders who knows how to build a cap table that compounds value over time is joining Charlotte (Capwave CEO and Co-founder) and me — Steve Wilcenski (CEO & Co-founder of BNNano and Invicta Water).

Steve’s raised over $7m for his 2 companies and grown revenue channels organically through his investors. BNNano also ran a successful secondary giving early investors 4 to 5x returns on part of their equity while they let the rest ride.

We think you’ll be shocked to see who’s on his cap table and who’s not.

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Come with your questions from a crew that’s raised and grown multiple ventures through investor relationships.

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