Breakout track
Syndicate to VCs
"I'm a smaller check that needs to come in alongside a powerful syndicate."
Where you're starting
Whatever sourcing, triage, and personal due diligence you did, it's done. You're a full-body yes. Now what?
The founder has the round half-circled. You need to make sure the company will have value-add investors alongside you — and you need to do it without burning your relationships or your time.
A starter example
Mapping which funds at which stages would actually add value to this company — and drafting the warm-intro asks to the partners you trust.
Agents that have come up in conversation
- Co-investor fit-scoring against company stage / sector / geography
- Warm-intro draft generator per target fund + partner
- Round-build status tracker (who's in, who's looking, who passed)
- Talking-points generator for each fund's known thesis
Five questions for the group
- Q1
What would you do if you had all the time and help you needed — and what do you actually do today, given constraints?
Current state vs. ideal state. The honest gap at the workflow level.
- Q2
What could AI tools / agents do to move you from status quo toward ideal? What's the agent's job description? What are the musts vs. the wants?
Designing the agent. 'Musts' force ranking — wants are nice-to-haves that surface only if musts are met.
- Q3
Has anyone here — or anyone you know — had a real breakthrough? What is it? What known tools might do this well?
Evidence and prior art. Surface what the room already knows so the dojo doesn't reinvent it.
- Q4
Where's the gap between effective and what's possible with your current toolkit and setup?
Personal honest audit. What you have vs. what you'd need to take the next step.
- Q5
Between now and the last Wednesday in June (June 24), are you willing AND able to dig into this deeper — or do you just want to hear back?
Self-sort, not group discussion. Captured in the closing live poll — splits the room into a doer cohort and an audience cohort, both legitimate.
12 minutes. Treat the questions as a rail, not a march — Q5 is the only mandatory landing.
What you bring back
Same shape across all three tracks. 90 seconds at the end, fill it out together: