A venture fund that bets on wisdom over hustle. We back experienced professionals over 40 to productize their expertise with AI.
The Problem
Y Combinator. Andreessen Horowitz. The canonized image of a 23-year-old in a hoodie. "Move fast and break things" was never an invitation to a 48-year-old former McKinsey principal or a 45-year-old mother returning from a decade of raising children.
So you did what felt safe. A small consulting practice. A fractional role. Advising other people's startups instead of building your own.
"I'm past the age. Startups are not for me. That window closed."
You have all the fuel in the tank — the expertise, the networks, the conviction, the clarity on which problems actually matter. But you've been paralyzed by a narrative you never chose.
The Shift
The implicit contract — loyalty in exchange for safety — was broken by corporations themselves. Entire management layers deleted overnight. For the first time, tens of thousands of senior operators are available.
A 50-year-old who spent 25 years inside healthcare compliance can now use AI to build, in two weeks, what would have taken a startup team six months. Your deep domain knowledge becomes the prompt. AI handles the execution.
Wisdom + AI = an unbeatable force multiplier.
Every displaced executive who builds something successful chips away at the myth. The cultural permission structure is shifting — but it needs a catalyst.
Who This Is For
Ex-Big Four professionals and domain specialists who spent two decades watching systems break — and knowing exactly how to fix them.
Women re-entering the workforce after stepping away for family. Prior excellence, sharpened priorities, and a hunger to build on their own terms.
People who chose family and service over career advancement. They understand the customers and communities that YC/a16z-kids never will.
Why We Exist
The hardest problems don't need more engineers. They need people who have lived inside the problem. Your experience isn't a resume line — it's the unfair advantage no accelerator can manufacture.
The best person to build a finance app for teens is a 45-year-old parent who understands the deep discipline of money and the urgency of starting early — not a 22-year-old who just discovered compound interest.
The best person to rethink insurance is the couple who lived through the nightmare of filing claims during a family crisis — who watched a broken process fail them when it mattered most.
The best person to solve elder care and retirement is the one who spent years as a caregiver for their own family — who knows the gaps in the system because they fell through every one of them.
The best person to build for children's mental health is the parent who watched their teenager struggle with an always-online world — and couldn't find a single tool that actually helped.
We exist so you can swing back into the ring and pick the problem the world is waiting for you to solve.
The Program
40 founders. 2 weeks. One transformation.
Extract your core expertise into a repeatable, sellable service. Use AI to codify years of tacit knowledge into structured offerings — assessments, frameworks, diagnostic tools, automated deliverables. Build your first revenue-ready product.
Craft your sales deck. Develop go-to-market strategy. Conduct live validation with real buyers. Build a 90-day execution roadmap. Pitch on Demo Day to our LP network, angel investors, and strategic partners.
From Our Founders
"I took the step and bet on myself."
Founder, AITCSP
"This was the only way I wanted to spend rest of my life."
Founder, DAF-in-a-Week
"Human+AI Collaboration is the only way to productise wisdom."
Operating Partner, PE Firm
The Model
Every founder in the cohort receives a $40,000 convertible note — real capital to go full-time on your venture.
In return, we take a 2% lifetime revenue share — aligned with your growth, not extracting from it.
No tuition. No program fees. No equity grab. We succeed when you succeed.
$40K
Per founder
2%
Revenue share
40
Per cohort
The next cohort is forming. Forty seats. Your expertise is the only prerequisite.
Apply NowApplications reviewed on a rolling basis.
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