We're the ventures arm of blankcollar. We back AI startups with what winning takes: the Blank Collar framework and our own experience building and scaling companies. The thinking from theblankcollar.com, the open-source agentic OS from blankcollar.ai, and upskilling on blankcollar.university. Funding, when it fits, is one outcome, not the point.
The method, shared in the open: the thinking is free, you pay only if you want it run for you.
The hardest part of an AI startup isn't the cheque, and it isn't the model. It's everything around it: the operating model, the go-to-market, the first hires, the pricing, the focus. The things that decide whether a good AI product becomes a company that wins.
blankcollar.ventures works on exactly that with you: the Blank Collar framework from theblankcollar.com, upskilling on blankcollar.university, and the open-source agentic OS from blankcollar.ai, applied by operators who built and scaled their own. Funding is one outcome we can open doors to, once the company is ready.
We're notcareer investors.
blankcollar.ventures is run by the founders behind Numarics and Cybee.ai. We sat through the pitch reviews, lost the term sheets, hired the wrong first three engineers, and learned, in the open market, what actually makes a company win.
Now we put that experience to work for AI founders: the framework, the playbooks, the agents, the upskilling, applied hands-on, by people who've done it. Not advice from the sidelines. Building, again, with you.
Started companies from a spare laptop and a one-page deck.
Wrote the first JD, the first SAFE, the first investor email.
Closed the round, saw it through to acquisition, paid out the cap table.
Helping AI founders win. Five companies are named below.
Built like an OS. The framework gives the model; our experience runs the play. Agents do the work. Upskilling makes it stick.
Framework
theblankcollar.comThe Blank Collar model for an AI-era company: TBC = V + D(P/HX)^AI, made concrete for yours.
Experience
blankcollar.ventures● You are hereOperators who built and scaled, sitting in the room with you.
AI Operations
blankcollar.aiWe set up the open-source agentic OS from blankcollar.ai, so the work runs as automation, not advice.
Upskilling
blankcollar.universityYour team levels up on AI-era operating; the edge stays after we leave.
Two audiences, one job: help the company win. Founders work with us directly. Funds bring us their AI companies. Same framework, same operators, either way.
Founders
- The Blank Collar framework, applied to your company
- The open-source agentic OS from blankcollar.ai, set up for you
- Upskilling for you and your team on blankcollar.university
- Hands-on operator guidance, and warm VC intros when it fits
Funds & VCs
- We work with your AI companies, the Blank Collar way
- Operator-led support that de-risks and compounds them
- Framework, agents, and upskilling across the portfolio
- A partner for your companies, not another fund for the deal
We go deep on the things that decide whether an AI startup wins. We share the play, teach it on blankcollar.university, then wire it into your blankcollar.ai agents so it keeps compounding.
Go-to-market
Positioning, pricing, and a motion that actually compounds.
AI operations
The repeatable work moved off human hands and into agents.
Product & focus
What to build, what to kill, what to ignore.
Hiring
The first ten hires: what to pay them, where to find them.
Unit economics
Where margin really comes from, and how it scales.
Customer discovery
The interview script, and knowing when to stop talking.
Data & metrics
The numbers that matter, instrumented from day one.
Fundraising
Deck, data room, and narrative, when you choose to raise.
We don't hand you a tool and wish you luck. We rebuild the company's functions around AI: knowledge encoded, agents configured on blankcollar.ai so the work runs as automation, and we train your team to run it.
- Knowledge: go-to-market, product, hiring, ops, pricing, finance, legal, brand, data, focus.
- Agents: research, outreach, ops, reporting, support. Configured for your stack.
Apply
Send us a paragraph and a link, founder or fund. No deck required, no warm intro needed.
Decision
We respond in 14 days max. Yes, no, or honest reason why.
Where you are
We map the company against the framework: what's working, where we'd help most.
We go to work
We apply the framework, configure agents on blankcollar.ai, and upskill your team on blankcollar.university.
You win
Leaner ops, faster growth, and warm VC intros when raising is the right move.
A fund writes a cheque and waits. A consultant writes a deck and leaves. We work alongside AI founders until the company wins, and open doors to capital only if you want them.
Swiss / EU AI companies built on the same playbook: the framework, AI operations, upskilling, and operators in the room. Where the method gets applied.
We know a lotof investors.
Not the pitch. Just true. Building and scaling our own startups since 2018, we know the funds worth knowing: seed, Series A, family offices, angels.
We don't write cheques. But when a company we work with is ready, we make warm intros, directly, not via a portal. And it runs both ways: funds bring us their AI companies to work with.
- Are you a fund?
- No. We're the ventures arm of blankcollar, run by operators who built and scaled their own startups. We work alongside AI founders to help the company win. Funding is one outcome we can open doors to, not the offer.
- Do you write cheques?
- We don't. We bring the Blank Collar framework, hands-on operator experience, AI operations, and upskilling. When a company we work with is ready to raise, we make warm VC intros directly, not through a portal.
- How does funding work, then?
- It's an outcome, not the point. After years of building and scaling our own startups, we know the funds worth knowing. When the timing is right, we introduce you. And it runs both ways: funds bring us their AI companies to work with.
- Who should apply?
- Founders building an AI startup, and the funds that back them. Founders work with us directly. Funds bring us their AI companies. Same framework, same operators, same goal: help the company win.
- What do you actually do?
- We rebuild the company's functions around AI: the framework applied to your company, agents configured on blankcollar.ai so the work runs as automation, and your team upskilled on blankcollar.university so the edge compounds and stays.
One paragraph, one link, founder or fund. If it's a fit, we move fast: the framework, the experience, the agents, inside your company from week one.