Lecturer | Investor | Entrepreneur

Amazon

London Business School

Harvard University

Siemens Energy

Illai Gescheit

Affiliate Lecturer at the London Business School, Executive Fellow at Harvard University

How to Use AI to Raise Capital for Your Startup

Entrepreneurship Lecturer, Senior Advisor, 4x Founder and Venture Capitalist

A glance into how to use AI tools to generate a targeted long list of 100+ VCs and investors you could pitch to.

AI Strategies to build your target investors pipeline.

Learn how to use AI as your fundraising advisor and build a VC AI voice agent to run pitch simulations.

Learn how to prepare for an investment pitch using AI agents

I will share the startup fundraising process and how AI helps make it more efficient and accelerated.

Highlighting benefits of fundraising with AI vs. without AI.

Use AI to automate, optimize, and enhance your marketing, saving up to 3h daily, boosting ROI, and staying ahead in the industry

AI Consultant, fractional CMO, ex Nike

Nike

Picsart

Rask.Ai

Deloitte

Sololearn

Tata Maytesyan

15+ years of growth experience, ex growth leads at Picsart, Nike

Cohort 7 - April 2026

Cohort 8 - June 2026

If you are reading this, chances are that you have tried multiple AI tools, but have not found a way to significantly optimize your marketing strategies, launches and workflows yet.Reports like McKinsey's "The State of AI" say that<ul><li>71% rely on GenAI to plan and optimize campaigns</li><li>Frequent users save ±14 hrs/week and over $5K/month</li></ul><ul><li>82% saying AI drives the biggest impact in marketing</li></ul>And the biggest challenge in using AI is applying a quick tip or guide to real work - repetitive and efficient. But how to actually use AI for marketing to make it work? 1. Have clear framework 2. Understand what AI can and can not do 3. Take your real business challenge and work on itI've built this 4 week bootcamp based on over a decade of marketing experience and 6+ years of hands-on AI practice. It's not a traditional theory course you will find on Coursera or a collection of magic prompts.It's one of its kind practical program designed to fit into a real work calendar. Pre-recorded lessons so you can rebuild any system again whenever you need it. Every topic is covered with framework, real examples, and step-by-step guides. You’ll use every tool and automation yourself to solve your business challenges.

4 weeks business bootcamp to kick start AI optimizations in your marketing

Create a Personalized AI Integration  Roadmap

Enhance Marketing Research with AI

Supercharge Ad & Creative Production

Build with no-code and AI for faster experimentation

Build Automations & Agents you can use at work

🎁 Exclusive Bonuses

This will be helpful for you only if you have actual business tasks to optimise

You have to be actively practicing marketeer

If you work for a large corporation with only Copilot license, you'll largely miss the Bootcamp program.

Clearance to use few AI tools from your company

It's intentionally made to be short 2 days x 3.5 hours each and fit into your work schedule - but you need to be present and active

You are ready to dedicate time

Marketing and growth managers who are curious about AI and want to go beyond chat GPT usage

Freelancers and fractionals working with a few clients, who need productivity boost and ways to "clone" themselves

Agency owners whose business growth heavily depends on scaling team (and they want to change that)

Ex-Venture Partner, Storm Ventures 

Salesforce

Microsoft

Natalia Burina

ex Storm Ventures AI Partner  · Ex-Meta Responsible AI & Salesforce Einstein 

Founder & COO, Fiddler AI · $100M raised

Fiddler AI

Samsung

PayPal

Amit Paka

Founder/COO/CPO of Fiddler AI, the AI observability standard. $100M raised.


July 14, 2026

A 2-hour live pitch clinic for AI founders. Walk in with an idea, walk out knowing exactly what your story is, how to make it land, and what to build this week.Capped at 15 founders so every single person gets a live 60-second pitch slot and recorded feedback. This is the main reason we won't open more seats.In two hours, you'll work alongside a former VC who has evaluated 200+ AI startups and a founder who raised $100M.You walk away with:→ A sharpened pitch, pressure-tested live by a VC and a founder who's raised $100M→ A specific diagnosis of how to make your story land→ The frameworks for the five artifacts VCs actually read, positioning thesis, long-form narrative, deck outline, one-page memo, target partner list→ A 7-day punchlist exactly what to write, in what order, to be investor-ready→ A take-home Claude skill to help you do the writing well, on your own time→ Pattern-recognition from watching 14 other founders pitch and get critiqued

From AI Idea to Investor-Ready Pitch

Spot a fundable AI idea, craft a story that lands with VCs and customers, and walk out ready to pitch with conviction.

Sharpen Your Idea Into a Story a VC Can Champion 

First-time AI founders You have a real product or sharp wedge but you've never raised.

Operators becoming founders You're a senior PM, EM, or scientist with a thesis but are unsure of its viability.

Teams testing their AI Ideas Your team is nights-and-weekends on an AI idea and wants to know if it's solid before you commit.

Lean Startup is getting better, with AI: Learn & Execute AI-Driven methods.

AI-Driven Lean Startup - June 2026

Most founders today are not failing because they lack ideas, ambition, or even capital. They are failing because their learning and validation cycles are too slow.AI changed everything in the world of startups, and the speed is unimaginable. Companies like Lovable and Manus AI reached $100M ARR in less than 12 months. The Lean Startup movement was introduced to help founders and entrepreneurs move faster and validate their business plans and products to adapt to user feedback, market condition and financial constraints. It changed the way I built ventures and also how I invest in startups. However, founders must adapt to the new reality and speed, but also learn and apply new strategies on how to leverage AI to make lean startup methods and tools more effective. In the 3 hours workshop we will talk about how to use AI tools like Anthropic to augment your hypothesis driven search for validated business model, learn frameworks to critically assess your learnings and plan how to apply it in your own ventures. If you are building, backing, or shaping new ventures, you must learn how Lean Startup is Reinvented with AI.

Founders, builders and Product leads who are building new products and ventures that require searching and validating product market fit.

Venture Capitalists and investors who are investing in startup companies and wish to gain skills to help portfolio companies accelerate.

Executives who are now exploring entrepreneurship and planning to launch a new venture and their entrepreneurial careers.

By the end of this course, you'll have replaced your most time-consuming fund operations with systems that run themselves.

Investor. Fund Builder. VC Educator.

Future Africa

Adenike Sheriff

Early-Stage Investor, Fund Builder, VC Educator

Cohort 1

Every week there's a new AI tool, a new workflow, a new thing you're supposed to be using, and none of it comes with instructions for fund managers running lean. So instead of building something that works, you're stuck: paying for tools you're not using, trying things in isolation, and running a live fund on spreadsheets because nothing fits how you actually operate. With The AI Fund Stack, you'll build a fully operational AI infrastructure across your fund. Draft LP updates and deal memos faster, build a repeatable screening process, and present to LPs with the quality of a fund ten times your size. I'm building Spirit Capital as a Solo GP. Before this, I co-founded Future Africa, deployed $10M into 50+ startups, and built a 300+ member angel syndicate. When I integrated AI into my current fund's operations everything changed.I've privately taught some of this to fund managers and investors and received outstanding reviews.Nobody was teaching it end to end, so I built the course I wished had existed when I was starting out with leveraging AI in my fund operations. Every module produces something you implement on your real fund that week.

The full-fund AI playbook: fundraising, portfolio management, and fund admin

Build AI infrastructure mapped to how your fund actually operates.

Build a repeatable deal sourcing and research system mapped to your thesis.

Systematise fund admin and get more from your third-party relationships.

Build a fundraising system that helps you pitch, track, and close LPs faster.

Produce investment memos and LP reports faster and with more consistency.

Build a portfolio monitoring system to track every company you've backed.

Solo GPs and emerging managers ready to build an operation that matches their ambition.

Fund managers raising or just closing their first or second fund, wanting to operate institutionally from day one.

Serious angel investors making 5+ investments a year who've outgrown spreadsheets and need a real system.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Introduction & Agenda

AI as a New Form of Intelligence Capital

AI-Driven Strategies for Building an Investor Pipeline

Strategy 1: Thesis-Driven Analysis with Claude AI

Strategy 2: Comparable Company Analysis

Strategy 3: FAQ-Led Analysis and Strategy Comparison

Prioritizing Your Investor List with an AI Probability Model

Building a Founder-Friendly VC Voice Agent to Practice Your Pitch

Simulating a Tough Pitch with an Arrogant VC Agent

How AI is Transforming the Fundraising Process

Q&A and Final Thoughts

Marketers who drive brand awareness, customer acquisition, and growth across channels.

Startup founders building new businesses, from MVP to scale.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Raising capital from investors — pitch decks, term sheets, investor relations, and fundraising strategy.

How to Use AI to Raise Capital for Your Startup

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

You'll learn from

Illai Gescheit