New Release from Venture Building Platform Leader Makes Startup Founders More Capable Than Ever

VentureFactory 2.0 Phase 1 Is Live - Here's What It Means for Your Business.

Yesterday, VentureFactory 2.0 Phase 1 went live. It's a staged pre-release due to strong customer demand, one of the more important platform updates we've shipped, that changes what founders and scale-up leaders can do inside VentureFactory in a meaningful, tangible way. Not incremental, but a genuine leap in what our AI venture building software delivers for your business.

Here's what's in Phase 1, why we built it, and what it means for you.

Your AI Is Now Connected to the Real-Time World

Until now, every AI agent inside VentureFactory, including Startup Intelligence and all your Co-Founder agents, drew on training data to do research. That meant investor lists could be a little stale, market data could be months out of date, and competitive intelligence was as fresh as any model's last training run.

That changes today. Real-time web browsing is now live for Startup Intelligence and all Co-Founder agents. Every research task, investor search, competitive analysis, and lead generation run now draws on live data from the web. Your fundraising agent can check whether a VC fund is still actively investing. Your growth agent can find new prospects with current contact details. Your market analysis reflects what's currently happening - not what happened a few months ago. This means your most business critical tasks are taken care of in a high integrity, real-time environment.

A recent customer building a sports startup explains the power of VentureFactory: "Give credit where it’s due - this [VentureFactory] is pretty awesome! In fact, it’s unbelievable. On my second business that it fully gets. Done in 5 hours what it has taken me 3 months on ChatGPT. Very very impressive - well done."

FundRaiser Agent - Raise Capital Without a Broker

The second headline feature is the one we're most proud of: the FundRaiser Agent - a fully autonomous, end-to-end fundraising co-founder built directly into the FundRaiser core tool.

For the first time, any founder - first-time or experienced - can run a complete, professional-grade fundraising process without hiring an expensive broker, without leaning on a warm network they may not have, and without losing weeks of their lives to investor outreach admin. FundRaiser Agent handles everything: setting up your round and it's strategy; reviewing and adding key investor materials; building a targeted, ranked investor list of prospects with contact details wherever possible; creating and running a structured outbound email programme with your regular approval cycles; responding to investor enquiries; booking meetings into your calendar; and managing the entire pipeline through to close.

You stay focused on building your product and serving your customers. The agent runs your raise.

Venture Intelligence - Always On, Always There

Startup Intelligence has a new name and a new home. Venture Intelligence is now a permanent fixture in the right-hand bar of the platform - always visible, always available, renamed to reflect its expanded role as your always-present business co-pilot. Gone is the slide-out panel. Your AI advisor is now simply there, chat style, agentic-powered with your full company memory always bang up to date and fully informed, every time you open VentureFactory, on every page.

Global Search - Find Anything, Instantly

VentureFactory has grown into a rich platform with assets, tasks, contacts, transactions, strategies, financials, IP records, product plans, contracts, and step outputs across every surface. Finding a specific document or record has required knowing exactly where to look - until now. Global Search landed in 2.0 Phase 1, giving you a single unified search bar across the entire platform. One query. Everything is available.

Built for Founders Who Mean Business

VentureFactory 2.0 Phase 1 is a statement of intent. The platform that launched as a structured framework for building better startups is now an agentic operating system that researches, outreaches, advises, and executes on your behalf - in real time, around the clock. Whether you're raising your first round, expanding into a new market, or scaling a team, the platform now does more of the heavy lifting so you can do what only you can do.

This is just Phase 1 of LettsGroup VentureFactory 2.0. More is coming later in August. Watch this space.

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