We're the ventures arm of blankcollar — we back AI startups and help them win: 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 hands-on by operators who built and scaled their own. Funding is one outcome we can open doors to. It's not the point.
We're notcareer investors.
blankcollar.ventures is run by founders who built and scaled their own startups. 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 — hands-on, not from the sidelines.
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 — in the room with you, hands-on.
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 — so the edge compounds and stays.
Two audiences, one job: help the company win. Founders work with us directly. Funds bring us their AI companies. Same framework, same operators, same outcome.
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, comp benchmarks, where to find them.
Unit economics
Where margin really comes from, and how it scales.
Customer discovery
Interview script, what to ignore, 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 your team trained 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
Framework applied, agents configured on blankcollar.ai, the team upskilled 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. After years of building and scaling our own startups, we know the funds worth knowing: seed, Series A, family offices, the right 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.
One paragraph, one link — founder or fund. If it's a fit, we move fast: the framework, the experience, the agents, applied to your company.