Most venture funds hand founders a check and a Rolodex. Canapi Ventures hands them roughly 70 banks that write the check and then become customers.
A Boston venture studio is manufacturing AI startups for real estate, mortgages, and construction - the messy, high-barrier industries most software founders avoid. Here is how the co-founder model works.
Two operators who helped build Oscar Health left to fund the unglamorous machinery of insurance, supply chains and climate. Their pitch to founders is simple: the hardest markets are the biggest ones.