Andrew D’Souza didn’t just build an AI that connects founders to investors. He built one that became an investor itself. On March 19, the Boardy CEO headlines Venture Trailblazers to unpack what happens when an AI goes from opening doors to sitting at the cap table, and its most surprising move yet, matchmaking cofounders.
Most founders call their companies their “baby.” Andrew D’Souza’s relationship with Boardy is something different entirely.
He’s protective of it. Sometimes embarrassed by its gaffes. Not always sure it’s ready for the world unchaperoned.
Mostly, he’s really proud.
But there’s one emotion most founders never feel about their product: genuine surprise.
Then again, most founders don’t have conversations with their technology.
Andrew isn’t trying to fool anyone into thinking Boardy is human.…
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Elizabeth Yin Comes to Venture Underground
Elizabeth Yin, co-founder and General Partner of Hustle Fund, will headline the next Venture Underground on February 12, 2026 in San Francisco. She joins a new series of special guests from outside the Decile family that we’re bringing to Venture Underground this year to deliver even more value to our community of emerging managers.
We know a solo fund manager’s time is triple booked. You are raising money. You are looking for deals. You are supporting the deals you’ve done. (Oh yeah, and you probably have a family or a life outside of work.)
So we figured we should pack even more value into our monthly Venture Underground events. We already designed these to give you face time with the senior Bay Area Decile team and to network with one another.…
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Inside Decile Group’s January 2026 Offsite
There were two groups of people at Decile Group’s January 2026 offsite.
There were the people who have never been at a startup before. They were excited for the bi-annual time our remote company gets together in person for 72 hours of bonding, laser tag, Post-It note and green sticker brainstorming, and pasta. They were certainly proud of the breakout fourth quarter the company just achieved.
And then there were the people who have done this before. The people who have either been at a startup that tried everything and still never got past its small group of early adopter fans, or the people who have been lucky enough to ride a rocketship before and know what it feels like when things start to tip.…
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Mike Suprovici
Decile Group and VC Lab help launch venture funds at scale. Launching thousands of funds takes software, services, and cutting-edge new ways of doing things.
But it would be disingenuous not to point out the impact one person has had on launching nearly 1,000 new funds: Mike Suprovici. (Or as he’s nicknamed in VC Lab, “Mike Super VC.”)
Talk to any fund manager in the Decile Family, and they all have a Mike story.
The “stupid” assignment that Mike made them do, that wound up accelerating their first close.
The people he believed in when they didn’t fully believe in themselves.
The managers he did session after session after session with until they honed their thesis and secret sauce to something only they could deliver.…
The Future of Venture Capital Starts Now
We’re removing the barriers to venture capital permanently.
When I look at venture capital today, I see an industry that’s still too exclusive, too expensive, and too complex. Raising capital depends on insider networks and personal wealth. Launching a fund costs $150,000 in legal fees and takes 6-12 months. Running a fund requires cobbling together dozens of outdated, disconnected tools.
This ends in 2026.
Our vision is clear: We are going to help form over 250 new venture capital firms worldwide this year. These won’t be vanity projects. They’ll be serious funds run by specialist managers with deep domain expertise, backed by a new generation of limited partners, and powered by agentic AI infrastructure. …
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2025 Year-End Review
2025 was a transformative year for Decile Group. We set out to democratize venture capital, simplify operations, build a global ecosystem, and make venture capital enjoyable again. Across eight major initiatives, we achieved extraordinary results that position us as the definitive operating system for modern venture capital.
Our mission to reinvent venture capital from first principles drove us to bold action. We didn’t just improve the status quo; we fundamentally reimagined what’s possible when talented managers worldwide have access to institutional-grade infrastructure from day one.
Radically Lowering Barriers to Entry
Goal: Launching a new fund structure to instantly launch a VC fund and back startups on the same day
Score: 5/5 – Start Fund was launched and was a complete success, starting to really scale in Q4.…
17 accomplishments that reshaped venture capital in 2025
2025 was a landmark year for Decile Group. We launched products that removed barriers to fund formation, pioneered AI integration across venture capital operations, and built a global community that now spans every major continent.
Here’s what we accomplished.
Lowered Barriers to Entry
1. Launched Start Fund: Introduced a revolutionary offering enabling managers to launch institutional-grade VC funds in under 24 hours with zero upfront capital required, removing traditional barriers to entry.
2. Created Guided Launch System: We built a new guided version of Decile Hub integrating powerful AI training modules and automated tools that walk managers through fund formation step-by-step from concept to close.
3. Launched DecileGroup.com: Integrated advanced AI capabilities throughout new corporate website making AI tools for VC widely available to the market at no cost while presenting unified vision of transforming global venture.…
“I believe that everyone has a company in them that only they can build.”
AI has been credited with making San Francisco hot again. People who drifted away during the pandemic to work from anywhere or try to colonize new hotspots like Miami have returned in droves, bringing traffic, house prices, and valuations soaring once again.
So it was a surprise to hear the latest hot AI startup say this: “This company couldn’t have been built in Silicon Valley.”
Last week, at our final Venture Underground event of the year, Decile Group CEO Adeo Ressi interviewed Boardy CEO Andrew D’Souza. Boardy is an AI that acts as a super-connector, having conversations with founders and investors to understand what makes them unique, then making warm introductions between the right people.…