We've been quietly redesigning venture capital.

Deep behavioral intelligence and complete automation are the future. It's a living intelligence layer that understands companies, founders and investors through how they behave and impact the world around them.

Human capital was always the real asset. The machines just cleared away everything that let us pretend otherwise.

Why Now? - The very nature of intelligent work shifted but the venture ecosystem hasn't really caught up yet. Sourcing, dealflow, analysis, synthesis, signal — all falling toward zero, for the founder and the investor alike. While the rest of the market is figuring out how to shift, we're starting with a clean slate to build the next era of venture.

When anyone can generate a flawless pitch, a flawless pitch tells you nothing.

AI did not repair fundraising. It flooded it with more noise.Venture is automating the same pipelines that are losing their value.

For decades, venture relied on signals that were expensive to produce.A great deck told you they had a well thought out idea.A strong team suggested they could build relationships.Committed investors showed you they could get buy in.Polished answers suggested understanding.Those were imperfect, but useful when they were costly to produce.AI just changed that. Today a founder can generate the perfect deck in minutes, show polished analysis and sophisticated financial models almost instantly, have better agents that outperform a team and and most of all, get buy in from investors who don't know how yet to spot signal from noise.

Introducing Abi. The new center of gravity for venture

Abi is a Synthetic built for venture.A Synthetic is a software-native participant that can understand a domain, occupy a role inside it, act independently, coordinate with humans and machines, and remain accountable to what happens next.Abi both automates venture while using that data to surface deep behavioral and contexual analysis that supports the common goal: Healthy businesses creating great returns.You don't need to be a context engineer. You don't need another pipeline. All you need is Abi. Both for founders and investors.

For the founder — fundable, then unstoppable

  • Finds your weaknesses before an investor does. Abi shows you how your behaviour and your team might be holding you back.
  • Automatically helps you find capital Abi helps you find the right investors, and does the outreach.
  • Manages your data room. Your data and context stay managed, so machines can do better work for you.
  • Keeps working after the wire clears. Sourcing the deals, hires and partners that grow the company.

For the investor — keep the decision, lose the grind

  • Carries the entire funnel. Sourcing, screening, automated diligence, communication — done.
  • See what the pitch won't show you. Deep behavioral and human capital understanding.
  • Network Effect Co-investors and follow-on investment managed.
  • Deep PortCo Support Abi connects your portcos and helps them find traction.

Our slice of the market.

5.1M Companies/Yr

The founder — new businesses started in the US every year. Within that market, we are initially targeting 100,000 venture-seeking startups annually.

300K+ U.S Investors

The allocator — active US angels, alongside thousands of VC firms and family offices. We are targeting 25,000 active angels/small funds/FO's.

Approachable pricing.

Founder side — subscription

FreeRaise-readyGet fundable; work the network you already have.
$29/moFoundAbi runs the administration of the raise: investor updates, diligence tracking, live pipeline, a data room that maintains itself.
$149/moCo-founderAbi goes on offense: hunts new investors daily, sources partners, keeps surfacing opportunity long after the round closes.

Investor side — software + carry

$40/moSolo angelsA private pipeline that screens every inbound deal.
EnterpriseVCs, syndicates, family officesThe full sourcing → filtering → diligence funnel; spend grows as capital deploys.
0% / 10%Optional fundNo management fee, 10% carry. Abi earns only when investors do.

Most competitors help the old system move faster.

PitchBook · PreqininvestorsA library. No founder side. Nothing acts.
Harmonic · AffinityinvestorsSourcing only; the founder is a target, never a user.
AngelList · Republicboth, transactionallyPassive matchmaking. Nothing carries the work.
Cold inbound · acceleratorsfoundersThey are the 99%-filter problem.
Abiboth sidesOthers help venture process more noise, Abi changes what counts as signal. Abi also carries the pipeline for founders and investors and removes the need for most softwares.

The moat is not the depth of the technology it's the depth of the intelligence.

Proprietary context engine — AbiCore. A data room that synthesises human behaviour and decision-making out of raw company data.

Proprietary causal intelligence model. After Q4 we deploy a causal model that lets a different type of intelligence exist inside a company.

Read about Abi Core

Action in numbers

We have validated demand with an early beta, discovered that our first architecture didn't scale, paused it, rebuilt the data layer, and are raising to prove the next architecture.

$225Kraised capital.
$125Kcurrent soft commitments - in process
60active founders on the product being used as beta testers. Some paid founders.
20active investors taking Abi-screened deals

Sandbox Test Fund

VC partnership with Sandbox — launching a $25M test fund in Q4.

The heart of the company. Both sides of the table, in one team.

Aaron Patterson · Founder, CEOCEO, COO and CMO across 100+ SMEs from startup to $100M, driving $500M+ in growth.Lived the raise-as-a-second-job grind, and built Abi to end it.
Ben Holtz · Co-founder, GrowthFormer CMO at Alchemy Bikes and TAC; ran marketing and digital strategy at Unilever.Knows how to acquire both sides cheaply and at scale.
Bryan Claar · Data EngineeringDeep data and database engineering; prior roles at Activision and Sun Microsystems.Builds the foundation the whole thing stands on.
Xiaoli Song · ML EngineeringSenior ML engineer at Zoom; data scientist before that.Turns behavioural understanding into placements that convert.

In the wings

  • Tara Zver — software & AI engineer, previously Deloitte. Advisor.
  • Larkland Morley — technical product management, Google.
  • Steve Brown — VC consulting, backed by experience at Dell.
  • Torsten Conrad — psychometrics; PhD, organisational psychology.

Our next few milestones

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Launch AbiCore · In progress · $40,000

  • Finish AbiCore: ingestion with monitoring, automated validation, full historical backfill.
  • Deliverables:Complete database schema overhaul and migration execution.Hardening, validation, and proactive monitoring of the ingestion pipeline.Implementation of data quality checks and historical backfilling where required.A graded, trustworthy data layer that enables rapid feature development and future predictive modeling.

True autonomy + network effect engine · $40,000

  • Expand Abi’s usability across common communication touchpoints and unlock matching/dealflow capabilities to drive user engagement and data volume.
  • Deliverables:Removal of on-platform use requirements. Abi is delivered to any device/platform you prefer.Omnichannel Integration.Implement business matching systems (Founder to Founder matching)Harden "Conversation Mode" to ensure robustness across all interaction types.

Causal intelligence push · $300,000

  • Build the initial Causal Intelligence capability utilizing the founder and dealflow data collected in previous phases for post-funding Business Intelligence (BI) applications.
  • Deliverables:Development of the initial causal modeling approach, evaluation frameworks, and rapid iteration loops.Construction of training/inference infrastructure and comprehensive monitoring systems.Deployment of APIs, dashboards, or data exports for design partners, supported by standardized deployment playbooks.

$700K Raise

post-money SAFE · $10M cap · 20% discount · $10K minimum

Every investor also receives a free Abi seat for a company of their choice — a $300K minimum value — and lifetime early access to AbiVC.

10× in 7–10 years.

Exit: a buyback option once the equity value satisfies investors' goals.

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