← All sessions Monthly All-Hands · May 27, 2026 · Agentic VC Dojo

Agentic VC Dojo · Monthly All-Hands

Monthly All-Hands

Wednesday · May 27, 2026 · 9:00 AM PT

Mike Moradi · Raeed Zainuddin · Toby Rush Cortado Ventures · Cortado Ventures · Ideem
In partnership with Kauffman Fellows ↓ to start

The Dojo

A working community for VCs putting agentic AI into daily practice.

Two Kauffman Fellows share what they've been building, breaking, and learning.

Copilot on steroids for firm impact OpenClaw does the heavy lifting

Pre-session signals · two sessions in

The room keeps growing.

April 29 set the baseline. May 27 builds on it.

Who's already in the room

A working room of VCs already building

  • 60 Registered Kauffman Fellows + invited peers
  • 37 Firms represented Distinct funds, on five continents
  • 73% Already building Of survey respondents — workflows, agents, or both
  • 40 Shared their context Survey responses we'll workshop together

+39

Registered for today

May 27 · 4 individuals returning from April

+19

New firms in May

8 firms returning from April

56

Firms across both sessions

29 April-only · 19 May-only · 8 in both

Where the room sits today

Pre-event survey signal

40 registrants answered. Multi-select on the experience question, single-pick per tier on tools.

How they describe their AI/agentic practice

  • Lone-Wolf, Active Experimenting (prompting, simple automations) 17
  • Organizational, Active Experimenting 12
  • Building personal workflows (e.g., multi-step tools, APIs, or agents) 12
  • Internal conversations, little action 11
  • Building organizational workflows (e.g., multi-step tools, APIs, or agents) 6
  • No hands-on experience, curious 5
  • Consistent personal workflows with big impact 4
  • Consistent personal workflows with little impact 3
  • Consistent organizational workflows with little impact 2
  • Consistent organizational workflows with big impact 1

Tool stack — what they're already using

Simple Intermediate Advanced Not yet
Native LLM apps ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity
24
9
0
7
Local AI workspaces Ollama, LM Studio, MSTY
29
0
0
11
Agent workflow builders n8n, Flowise, OpenClaw, Dynamiq
25
2
0
13

What this room wants

They named the pain themselves.

Voices from the survey

What this room is hoping to take home

  • Best practices for a solo GP to get 80% there with 20% effort.

    — A solo GPWants to learn
  • Understanding output quality — that's what's lacking for me right now.

    — A frequent-experimenter solo partnerWants to learn
  • Architecture, tools, and best practices for getting the structure set up in a secure and effective way.

    — A research-driven seed investorWants to learn
  • Would love to see what others are doing for fundraising.

    — An emerging-manager GPWants to learn

Voices from the survey

What this room is actually working on

Concrete workflows in flight. Anonymized.

  • Automating the horrible parts of being an emerging manager. Maybe we should create a Kauffman toolset.

    — An emerging-manager GPBuilding now
  • An agentic VC stack for diligence, fund reporting, admin and portfolio support.

    — A fund operatorBuilding now
  • End-to-end automations across sourcing, screening, follow-ups, and internal evaluation — with AI summarizing calls, extracting key insights, and keeping deal-flow data organized. The goal: less manual overhead, more consistency, a more responsive investment process.

    — A LATAM seed investorBuilding now
  • Exploring an "agent-powered autonomous startup" — 4–5 PhD-level agents doing the research, as an experiment.

    — An early-stage life-sciences investorBuilding now
  • Automating the grunt work: top-of-funnel curation, deep market research, market maps.

    — An early-stage research-heavy investorBuilding now
  • Simple integrations across our CRM and enrichment tools to manage dealflow — plus an agentic workflow that scores each deal for prioritization.

    — A growth-stage diligence leadBuilding now
  • Trying to combine various personal workflows so the whole organization can use them.

    — A US Midwest seed investorBuilding now
  • Agentic workflows for deal triaging, due diligence, and memo creation.

    — A solo investorBuilding now

The network

56 firms across April + May.

In the room

56 firms already on the registrant list

Funds, family offices, and operator-led shops — early-stage to growth, North America to MENA to LATAM to SE Asia.

  • 468 Capital
  • 53 Stations
  • Acasia Ventures
  • Aire Labs
  • Alexia VC
  • Alpha JWC Ventures
  • Amplifica Capital
  • Atlantica Ventures
  • Audaz Capital
  • Blueprint
  • Cherry Rock Capital
  • Cometa
  • Corner Ventures
  • Cortado Ventures
  • Defined VC
  • Determined Capital
  • Domo Invest
  • Domo VC
  • DPI
  • Enza Capital
  • Feature VC
  • FirstMark
  • FJ Labs
  • Garage Capital
  • Genoa Ventures
  • Glitch Capital
  • Hi.VC
  • HQ Capital
  • iMena
  • Invest2Innovate
  • Iolar Ventures
  • Josi Health
  • Kauffman Fellows
  • KB Partners
  • Last Mile Ventures
  • LoftyInc
  • Lytical Ventures
  • M25 Ventures
  • Medici Capital
  • Mercury Fund
  • MGV
  • Monashees ×2
  • Motley Fool Ventures ×2
  • Nido VC
  • Notion Capital
  • Novel Capital
  • Novel GP
  • Prose Ventures
  • Prysm Capital
  • Seedstars
  • Soundboard Venture Fund
  • Tribe Capital
  • Voyager VC
  • Walking VC
  • Wild Basin Investments
  • WVV Capital

Repeat-attender firms are the strongest signal we're building something worth coming back to.

How the next 60 minutes work

Six steps · ~60 minutes

  1. 01Dojo Convening5m
  2. 02Account Setup & Polls Orientation5m
  3. 03Two lightning demos20m
  4. 04Live polls5m
  5. 05Three breakout tracks15m
  6. 06Report-backs, Q&A, willing-and-able for June10m

Pulse · before the breakouts

The LPs as Co-Investors Conundrum

LPs want it. Most firms aren't running the process. Where do you actually land?

Engage LPs as co-investors?

Yes 3
No 3

LP syndication frequency

Median 2 / 4 1→4 · We don't · Sometimes · Often · Built in

Run SPV / campaign-style process?

Yes 1
No 5

LPs want more direct opportunities?

Yes 4
No 1

Snapshot Numbers shown are the seeded baseline from registration. Live votes are on the session page — vote on the live poll →

Three breakout tracks

Full body yes on a deal. What's between you and the wire transfer?

Three obstacles, three breakouts. Pick the one closest to your operating reality.

Lightning demo · 1 of 2

Claude Teams for firm impact

Cortado Ventures — two angles on one stack.

Mike Moradi

Mike Moradi

Cortado Ventures

Starting with Claude Team, better housekeeping for agents, and speeding up LP DDQs.

Raeed Zainuddin

Raeed Zainuddin

Cortado Ventures

Claude Teams for fundraising, admin, and audit superpowers.

Lightning demo · 2 of 2

OpenClaw + Obsidian for deal triage and vigilant pipeline management.

A founder's deal-flow brain, wired to live company signals.

Toby Rush

Toby Rush

Ideem · Founder & CEO

Companies arrive (intake, news, intros). OpenClaw ingests + classifies + routes. Obsidian holds the durable memory — notes, links, the watch list.

Breakout track · 1 of 3

Internal Conviction → IC

"I have to get others on my team on board."

You have to prepare, socialize, get on the IC agenda, present your take, and prove this is "our" kind of deal. The work between your yes and the firm's yes.

  • IC memo first-draft from call notes + materials
  • Counter-objection pre-mortem against partner pattern history
  • Reference-call summarizer + theme extractor

Breakout track · 2 of 3

Syndicate to VCs

"I'm a smaller check that needs to come in alongside a powerful syndicate."

The founder has the round half-circled. You need to make sure the company will have value-add investors alongside you — without burning your relationships or your time.

  • Co-investor fit-scoring (stage / sector / geography)
  • Warm-intro draft generator per target fund + partner
  • Round-build status tracker (in / looking / passed)

Breakout track · 3 of 3

Offer to LPs

"Good size check, syndicate solves itself. But my LPs want co-invest opportunities."

Get the opportunity to LPs in a way they can digest. Keep them primed for opportunities that move faster than their normal deciding-clock. SPV mechanics, comms cadence, soft pre-circling.

  • Per-LP one-pager generator (segmented by check size / sector)
  • Pre-circling tracker — leaned-in / silent / soft-yes
  • SPV doc-set assembly + status comms

The discussion rail

Five questions per track · one shared artifact

12 minutes per group. Treat the questions as a rail, not a march.

Questions

  1. Q1What you'd do with all the time/help — vs. what you do today?
  2. Q2What's the agent's job description? Musts vs. wants?
  3. Q3Has anyone you know had a real breakthrough? Tools?
  4. Q4Where's the gap between effective and your current toolkit?
  5. Q5Willing AND able to dig in by June 24 — or hear back?

One-pager (90 sec)

  • Workflow: When X happens, agent does Y, human does Z.
  • First tool: What you'd reach for first + why.
  • Metric: What says it's working.
  • Dojo ask: What you'd need from us to actually build it.

Q5 · the closing question

Willing AND able?

Between now and the last Wednesday in June (June 24) — dig in, or hear back?

Both answers are real answers. "Hear back" is not opting out; it's opting into the audience and watching what the doer cohort builds.

Yes — count me in

Doer cohort. Presents what you built on June 24.

  • One named 30-min check-in (June 10 or 17)
  • One shared async surface (Slack or doc — pick one)
  • A convener per active track

Hear back

Audience cohort. Sees the results on June 24.

  • No standing commitments
  • Receives the artifacts the doers ship
  • Opt into a deeper slot when the timing's right

See you on June 24

Thank you for being in the room.

This is how the dojo gets sharper.

Next session — Wednesday · June 24, 2026 · Monthly All-Hands

In partnership with Kauffman Fellows Built section by section with Claude Code + Pi.dev. Welcome glitch reports.