What is Vai?

Structuring Connectivity for the Innovation Ecosystem

Vai is a Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform that helps startups, investors, institutions, and ecosystem partners discover, qualify, and connect more efficiently through structured onboarding, intelligent routing, and ecosystem infrastructure.

If SaaS digitized workflows, CaaS structures ecosystems.

Join the ecosystem

Vai helps structure and accelerate connectivity across innovation ecosystems by improving discovery, qualification, and routing between startups, investors, institutions, and ecosystem partners.

Vai’s approach

Clarity

Structured onboarding and standardized profiles make it easier for ecosystem participants to discover, evaluate, and engage with relevant opportunities.

Relevance

AI-supported qualification and intelligent routing help connect participants based on strategic fit, interests, and ecosystem alignment.

Connectivity

Vai enables meaningful and long-term ecosystem relationships through direct connections, ongoing visibility, and continuous engagement across the innovation ecosystem.

Empowering the
997 behind the 3

Innovation ecosystems thrive when startups, investors, institutions, universities, corporates, accelerators, and ecosystem partners can connect efficiently and collaboratively.

Vai helps structure these relationships through intelligent routing, shared visibility, and ongoing ecosystem connectivity — supporting the founders building the next generation of companies.

Where meaningful connections happen

For startups

  • Structured visibility through a live ecosystem profile
  • Guided onboarding and startup qualification
  • Intelligent discovery and relevant connections
  • Visibility across investors, institutions, corporates, and partners
  • Ongoing updates and ecosystem engagement
  • Direct access to relevant opportunities and collaborations
  • Transparent and affordable pricing
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For Venture Partners & Investors

  • Structured intake and ecosystem visibility
  • Standardized onboarding and qualification
  • Intelligent routing across ecosystem participants
  • Increased engagement through Purple Box infrastructure
  • Centralized discovery and ecosystem coordination
  • Direct connections with founders, investors, and partners
  • Measurable ecosystem activity and opportunity flow
  • Scalable infrastructure for ecosystem growth
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Lars I Rejding

Co-Founder with over 30 years of financial industry experience

“From my experience leading financial institutions, I’ve seen how fragmented and inefficient ecosystem connectivity can slow down innovation, investment, and collaboration.

Vai helps structure and accelerate meaningful connections across startups, investors, institutions, and ecosystem partners through more transparent, relevant, and scalable ecosystem infrastructure.

By improving how opportunities are discovered, qualified, and routed, Vai helps ecosystems operate more efficiently and collaboratively for everyone involved.”

Innovation grows through connected ecosystems

Vai is building the connectivity infrastructure for the innovation ecosystem. We collaborate with public and private organizations to structure and accelerate meaningful ecosystem connections across startups, investors, institutions, and strategic partners.

VC Funds
Accelerators
Universities
Service providers
Industry players
Investment platforms
Private investors
Angel investors
Incubators
Corporate VC
Data providers
Governments
Investment banks
Life sciences
Wealth managers
Private equity

Join the growing Vai ecosystem and help build more connected, collaborative, and scalable innovation networks.

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Our story

In early 2020, Robert, Lars, Graham, and Nat brought together their experience across investment, venture capital, banking, and startup building to launch an investment business.

Through working closely with founders, investors, and institutions, we quickly identified a deeper problem across the innovation ecosystem: connectivity was fragmented, discovery was inefficient, and meaningful opportunities were often lost in noise, disconnected networks, and unstructured processes.

Startups struggled to gain relevant visibility. Investors and institutions were overwhelmed by fragmented inbound opportunities and inefficient qualification processes. Ecosystem participants operated in silos, despite the rise of digital platforms and AI-driven communication.

We realized the ecosystem did not lack participants — it lacked structured connectivity.

That insight became the foundation of Vai: a Connectivity-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform designed to structure and accelerate how startups, investors, institutions, corporates, universities, and ecosystem partners discover, qualify, and connect with each other.

Reached milestones

Early 2020

Founding of the venture capital advisory and investment business, laying the groundwork for our future innovation in the investment sector.

Early 2023

Conceptualization of the Vai platform.

Mid 2023

Formation of the core team and start of initial market research to validate the potential and refine the value proposition.

Early 2024

Secured pre-seed funding, providing the financial support needed to advance development.

Early 2024

Expand the core team, develop a pilot product and attract initial users.

March 2025

Pilot launch.

More to come... stay in touch.

Our team

Our team brings together investors, entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, and technology leaders with expertise across venture capital, banking, SaaS, startups, and innovation ecosystems — all working to build more connected and efficient ecosystem infrastructure.