LettsGroup VentureFactory 2.3 Takes Agentic Venture Building Another Step Forwards

What Release 2.3 changes for new generation startup founders.

Most founders spend a surprising share of their week not building the business but coordinating the infrastructure around it: switching between tools, re-explaining context to each one, and maintaining documents that only they know how to read.

VentureFactory 2.3 Phase 1, now live, addresses this directly. The update spans product, customer, finance and capital tools, and the changes are deep and practical for the founders building the new generation of startups. A groundbreaking new startup evaluation system called Venture Eval caps this release.

Venture Evaluation, quality and fact checking

• Venture Eval: The first end-to-end startup evaluation system. We've built the first deep, end-to-end, venture evaluation app within VentureFactory. This is infrastructure that checks your startup's progress on a weekly basis, measures your startup building process and progress, checks your outputs for accuracy, relevance to your stage, evidence traceability and internal consistency. The goal is a venture building process you can trust deeply, not just admire.
• Fact-checking AI inside every Venture Asset (VDR). You now have a 'Fact Check' button in every Venture Asset which not only checks facts for you, but also adds relevant sources and references.

Finance and growth: numbers you can trust

• Live platform stats for your AI Co-Founders. Signups, active users, paying users and MRR, with week-on-week movement, fed directly into the platform. Your AI Co-Founders work from current numbers rather than a manually-maintained document.
• Core Tools activity view. One screen shows where your week actually went across Product Builder, Growth Engine, Finance OS, Legal & IP and FundRaiser - right at the bottom of your main venture dashboard.
• New Integrations: We've added integrations to Xero and Stripe inside Finance OS, keeping your finances on track like never before. You can now also add your own forecast model to the forecast system. Watch it magically sync to our forecast tool, in relevant Innov@te Framework Steps and more.

Capital and scale: think like a portfolio

• We've added a Portfolio Manager agent (Scale and Enterprise Plans). Running several sub-ventures? A new AI Co-Founder watches performance and progress across them and flags gaps before they become fires.

Products: ship more, click less

• Self-Driving Mode, chained end to end. Venture Intelligence (chat- and voice-mode)next steps link up on their own and call an external agent where needed. You get the finished output, not a trail of "Continue" buttons.
• Images and websites, built in. We've made significant upgrades to our image generator in Venture Intelligence chat, and big improvements to our ability to generate web pages and landing pages. You (or your AI Co-Founders) can produce more advanced visuals and web pages inside your workflow.
• One login for every Core App. Single sign-on removes password friction across every vertical Core App in the platform.

Customers: know exactly who's buying

• A real contact CRM. VentureFactory's Core Tool, Growth Engine's flat "Leads" list becomes a Contacts hub with tabs for PR, Users, Prospects, Partners and Influencers. A journalist, a power user and an accelerator partner are different relationships, so each gets its own record. Fire up our Business Developer app to build outreach campaigns tailored for each separately.
• Lead source tracking. See which campaigns generate leads and which generate impressions without conversions. The data is there; now it is visible.

Chat with the VentureFactory team directly

Chat to us. As well as sending product Feedback using our Feedback tool (which goes straight into our tech team), you can now chat with us direct as well. Just click 'Ask the Team' top right in the Feedback app.

In practice

Adam Badar, founder of Bavlio, describes the effect plainly: "VentureFactory allows us to spend almost all our time on products and customers. It takes care of the rest."

That is what the platform is designed to do. Release 2.3 moves it further in that direction.

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