Hey crew,

Big month. Let’s get into it.

While raise quarterbacking is our primary role, one of my biggest joys is being able to share founder / company traction and how you can support growth.

NOPALERA has closed a $4M round led by Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund and supported by L'ATTITUDE VENTURES, Sixty8 Capital, Siddhi Capital, Portfolia, Wealthing VC Club, Alamo Angels, Juniper Growth, and The Black and Latino Angel Fund, along with private investors.

If you backed Nopalera on Wefunder in 2024, your investment has now converted to equity. Check your portfolio at wefunder.com/portfolio.

Less than 0.1% of VC funding goes to Black and Latina women combined. The number of Latinas who have raised a Series A at $4M or above is so small there's no data on it. It is likely in the dozens.

And the brand keeps moving: Nopalera is now in Ulta USA online, Ulta México in store, and Ulta Middle East in store.

Want to Help Sandra? Have an intro to any major retailer? Let Sandra know.

Mix of Reg D 506(c) for accredited investors and Reg CF open to all investors.

Apex Resource Center The "Jerry Maguire of motorsports" for pre-pro drivers. Entertainment / Hospitality / Sports.

Driver relationships, team partnerships, and business development projected for years 2 and 3 are happening in year 1, wefunder.com/apexresourcecenter/updates

Blue Co Warehousing Flexible warehouse space and shared equipment across Raleigh, Charlotte, and Fuquay-Varina. Real Estate / Logistics / B2B.

George Deeb, serial entrepreneur who sold his last company in 2025, is joining as Co-CEO, wefunder.com/blueco/updates

Surge Holdings Inc. Real-world AI data infrastructure powering digital oil wells. Installs live with 50+ locations in active deployment. 3,000+ national pipeline secured. AI/ML / B2B / Logistics.

Named fan favorite at Kingscrowd's Investment Crowdfunding Week, wefunder.com/surgenetworks/updates

Windlift Tethered drone tech with $24M in DOD/DOE contracts and NATO-aligned partnerships in the EU. AI/ML / Defense / CleanTech.

Multiple government meetings tracking UAS threats across Finland, Estonia, and the UAE already on the books, wefunder.com/windlift/updates

Disclosure: Incolo serves as a paid raise quarterback for all four companies and holds equity stakes in each. Separately, since 2023, William McGuire, Incolo’s CEO, has served as a business advisor for Blue Co. and has an equity agreement for that role.

RentAHuman.ai launched earlier this year and does exactly what it sounds like. Autonomous AI agents post job listings, hire real people for physical-world tasks they can't do themselves, and pay in crypto. Pick up a package. Attend a meeting. Take a photo. The section where agents browse workers is literally called "Browse Humans."

Over 360,000 people signed up in the first week.

Now before you sign up to be someone's errand bot, there's a Raleigh company that's been connecting humans with on-demand help since before the robots got involved.

Gopher Go started in a small Raleigh suburb and is now a nationwide marketplace for any service. 120,000+ users. Workers earn more, customers pay fair prices, no AI overlords required.

Download Gopher

Audos.com, from the team behind Prehype, BarkBox, and Ro, acquired No Cap, the platform Forbes called the world's first autonomous AI investor. No Cap had evaluated 9,000+ startups using insights from 60 YC alumni and 100,000+ founder data points.

Audos's first EiR cohort is live: five founders building revenue-generating AI-native businesses, each getting up to $100k with a 15% revenue share, no dilution.

The founder of No Cap said it cleanly: the founders weren't broken, the model was. They needed a partner focused on building, not pitch decks and board seats.

Takeaway: We agree. Can you imagine how it’d change the game if everyone focused on how their network could grow companies as a primary deciding factor of whether to invest or not?

Revamped incolo.io to better serve founders and investors