Our engine, KAI, reads a founder’s application, verifies every material claim against the evidence they connect, and drafts the full investment memo in days, not months. A named human makes the final call and signs every cheque. Then we do what no other firm does: we publish the memo. The first venture firm that shows its work.
Stakes in companies that reach a strong follow-on round are now sellable, because secondaries went from taboo to a record-volume market. And AI-native companies create that value inside 36 months. FundNow is built at the intersection.
Below the intersection, a 36-month liquidity discipline was impossible. Above it, it is possible for the companies that graduate, and the point belongs to whoever builds there first.
Apply anytime: no batches, no warm intros. A screen result in 48 hours and a full decision within ten working days, on a published SLA (defined below). A fixed cheque on standard instruments, the same for everyone. The median pre-seed raise burns ~12 weeks of a founder’s life; we answer while your company still has momentum.
Founders first. KAI checks every material claim against evidence (revenue against payment records, contracts against documents, teams against public record) and issues a dated verification report that you own and can show any investor. Your documents are held for verification and never forwarded: the report travels, the files don’t. Flat fees, never a cut of the raise.
Investor-side verification (real fund, real capital, real identity) is designed and waits for regulatory sign-off; see the status table below.
We sell into momentum instead of waiting a decade. At month 36 every position is reviewed against three doors: exit, secondary sale into later rounds, or a backer’s choice to roll. Partial sales return capital while a free-carried tail rides the winners. *A target discipline, never a promise.
And when it’s a no, it’s a fast no with structured feedback: never a slow maybe. For our British companies, the direction of travel is built in: born in Britain, priced in America. Stay UK-registered with SEIS and grants intact, and use our US rail to commercialise into the market that rewards growth.
The pipeline: Source → Verify → Underwrite → Human signs → Execute → Return. Every override of the engine is logged, and the override rate is published: autonomy earned in public, never claimed.
This definition is versioned. Changes are dated and the previous version stays available on request.
AI-washing is venture’s newest sin. Our rule is the opposite: autonomy is earned in public, never claimed. This table is the honest state of KAI, updated as it changes.
Runs on frontier models against the v0.2 specification: extracts every material claim from an application, matches it to the evidence provided, grades discrepancies, runs the fraud-check rubric, scores five dimensions, and drafts the full investment memo with calibrated predictions. Demonstrated end to end on a fictional company (memo #0); the first real memos run on v0.2.
Evidence collection (founders connect or export their data; live API connections are in build), reference calls, counterparty confirmations, and the final decision and signature, which stay human by design, forever. The SLA above has not yet been measured on a real application; reporting starts with the first quarter of live applications.
Live read-only connections (payments, analytics, code, open banking); the vault with logged access; automated registry checks; the public calibration ledger (hash-committed predictions first, scores as they resolve); investor-side verification, once regulatory sign-off is in hand. Each is announced here when it is real, not before.
Recent fund vintages have distributed almost nothing. The 10-year fund is dying in public, and the market is starving for returned capital.
Venture secondary volumes hit record levels in 2026. For companies that have priced a strong round, early liquidity is now a market, not a favour.
The fastest-growing companies in history are two or three years old. Value now spikes inside a 36-month window.
Agentic AI does the work of an analyst floor at near-zero marginal cost, and it never sleeps.
Pre-seed & seed, AI-native software, UK & US. Born in Britain, priced in America: we back UK companies at UK prices, with a US rail built in from day one. Stay UK-registered, keep SEIS and your grants, and commercialise into the US market. Early applicants get first access when underwriting opens.
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Every element exists somewhere. The combination exists nowhere: AI underwriting + a published SLA + standard terms + verified data rooms + a 36-month clock.