Boardy CEO Andrew D'Souza on connecting 5,000 founders raising $16B with 600 investors managing $1T

Boardy, the AI-powered network platform led by CEO Andrew D'Souza, has accumulated significant early traction: 5,000 founders collectively raising $16 billion have signed up alongside 600 investors representing roughly $1 trillion in capital under management. D'Souza estimates Boardy is now routing approximately 10% of active fundraising activity among its founder base.

The platform's core proposition is selective, high-trust introductions rather than volume matchmaking. D'Souza frames every introduction as a goodwill expenditure, positioning quality and relevance as the primary constraints on how aggressively Boardy intermediates connections.

The longer-term product vision positions Boardy as an AI board member, focused on identifying whichever introduction is most likely to move the needle for a given CEO at a given moment. That framing targets a broader utility than deal sourcing alone, encompassing strategic guidance and relationship leverage across the full lifecycle of a company.

“We've had 5,000 founders raising $16,000,000,000 sign up and 600 investors — about a trillion dollars of capital — who we got to act. So we've got about 10% of the active fundraising happening right now among founders that is working through Boardy. Boardy has goodwill with people. Every time I make an introduction, I'm gambling goodwill. And we envision Boardy as an AI board member: whatever introduction is going to move the needle for you that is worth the time of the CEO, that's what we want to work on.”