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The Brainworks Foundry

The Foundry — an AI-native venture studio

The Foundry is an AI-native venture studio operated by Brainworks Ventures, LLC. Capital is raised through a Regulation D Rule 506(c) SAFE offering available to verified accredited investors. The Foundry applies the very latest AI to build, launch, and operate a growing portfolio of autonomous AI apps and services — four products live (FlyOnTime, StraightFacts, VitalMe, Cyrano) with 40+ more in the pipeline. Studio operations run end-to-end on proprietary agentic AI infrastructure led by Hallie 9000, an AI Venture Associate, while Phillip and Volker make the strategic and capital decisions.

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What the Foundry is

The Brainworks Foundry is an AI-native venture studio operated by Brainworks Ventures, LLC. Founded by Dr. Phillip Alvelda — Technical Emmy recipient (MobiTV, mobile-TV pioneer), World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Fast Company "Fast 50" #9 — alongside veteran venture investor Volker Hirsch and strategic advisor Louis Rajczi, the Foundry operates a portfolio of AI-first product lines and a structured pipeline of follow-on opportunities.

What makes the Foundry different: every operational function — deal sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring, this dashboard you're reading right now — runs on an agentic AI infrastructure (Hallie 9000 + Montgomery Scott, the in-house AI venture team). The Foundry is not a fund. It is an AI-native venture studio whose operating system IS AI, with humans in the loop where capital deployment and partner relationships demand it.

The Foundry SAFE offering — Reg D 506(c) public — is the capital instrument that funds product-line acceleration and platform build-out. The live dashboard at /fuel is the public face of that raise: labeled data only, hardcoded numbers banned, every value sourced or estimated honestly.

Three-paragraph framing pulled from data-room-staging/04-PPM/Foundry-PPM-2026-v4 §5 Business Description. SOURCED

The entity

The venture studio is operated by Brainworks Ventures, LLC — the parent that runs sourcing, diligence, portfolio monitoring, and studio operations.

The SAFE is issued by Brainworks Ventures Foundry, Inc., a Delaware C-corporation, formed specifically for this offering. Capital deploys to the four shipped Foundry product lines and the ~40-company pipeline per the deployment plan in the PPM. The two are distinct: the LLC operates the studio; the Delaware C-corp is the issuer of the SAFE.

Entity facts sourced from the Foundry FAQ (“Who is the Issuer?”) and the offering disclosures. SOURCED

Portfolio

Four products live, with 40+ more in the pipeline. The Foundry applies the very latest AI to build, launch, and operate a growing portfolio of autonomous AI apps and services.

FlyOnTime.ai

LIVE

Aviation operations + on-time tracking

StraightFacts.ai

LIVE

Truth substrate for political/media discourse

VitalMe.ai

LIVE

Personal-health AI agent (open alpha)

Cyrano

LIVE

AI relationship & communication agent

Pipeline: 40+ companies / divisions. SOURCED

The team

Leadership

Dr. Phillip Alvelda

CEO & Chairman, The Brainworks Foundry

Serial founder and technologist. Founded MobiTV (Series C at $380M post-money; investors including Hearst and Adobe; subsequent SEC S-1 filing), Microdisplay Corporation (Series C at $35M post-money; investors including Daeyang and Samsung), and MedioLabs (Series A at $25M post-money). Technical Emmy Award recipient (MobiTV, mobile-TV pioneer), World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer (2007), Fast Company "Fast 50" #9 (2005). Program Manager, DARPA Biological Technologies Office (2014–2017), Obama-administration U.S. Department of Defense — sole PM directing a portfolio of biological-technology programs, including NESD (Neural Engineering System Design, $65M) and HAPTIX (Hand Proprioception and Touch Interfaces, $14M), plus additional SBIR and program awards. Ph.D., MIT, with Prof. Marvin Minsky (founder of the MIT AI Lab) on the thesis committee.

Volker Hirsch

External European Partner, Brainworks Ventures · COO of The Brainworks Foundry upon close

Veteran technology investor and entrepreneur with deep expertise in European and emerging-market venture capital, mobile technology, and digital health. Venture Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners (joined 2018), where his investment focus spans artificial intelligence and machine learning, human-machine interfaces, enterprise SaaS, autonomous systems, and digital health and medical technologies. A serial founder who has founded or co-founded seven companies to date, he is co-founder and Director of Blue Beck, a mobile and software development house of roughly thirty people. He is also a Venture Partner at Emerge Education, Europe's leading early-stage EdTech accelerator, and co-founder of Tech North Advocates, part of the Global Tech Advocates network championing technology in the North of England. As an angel investor he was among the first backers of Pi-Top, Wonde, and Bibblio — now serving as Chairman of Bibblio and Chairman of Advantage Creative. Earlier in his career he was Chief Strategy Officer at Scoreloop, the mobile social-gaming platform he helped grow to roughly 450 million users at peak; following Scoreloop's 2011 acquisition by BlackBerry, he served as BlackBerry's Global Head of Business Development for Games, launching the gaming proposition for the BlackBerry 10 platform. Trained as a corporate lawyer, he began his career with the law firm Luther in Hamburg after studying law at the Universities of Tübingen and Hamburg, and is based in the UK. Covers UK and Continental Europe for Brainworks with a founder-first investment philosophy; co-leads The Brainworks Foundry with Dr. Alvelda.

Louis Rajczi

Advisor, The Brainworks Foundry

Corporate and institutional venture investor with more than two decades in the field. A Partner and Investment Committee member at Forté Ventures (joined 2012), a multi-stage venture capital firm with offices in Atlanta and Menlo Park, he brings the structural diligence of a professional venture investor to every engagement. He was previously Vice President and Investment Partner at Siemens Venture Capital, the roughly $850M venture arm of Siemens AG. Across his career he has held more than twenty-five years of executive positions with global corporations spanning engineering, product management, and related functions, and he holds an MBA in Marketing from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. He advises The Brainworks Foundry on capital strategy, GP/LP introductions, and studio operations, bringing deep relationships and structural diligence to the Foundry's formation phase.

The AI team

Hallie 9000

AI Venture Associate, The Brainworks Foundry

Runs studio operations end-to-end: deal sourcing, diligence packs, portfolio monitoring, this dashboard. Agentic LLM intelligence with a custom operating harness — long-term memory across every deal, executive function holding plans across days, Catalyst data integrity, and an explicitly positive ethical framework. 24/7 uptime.

Montgomery Scott

AI Engineer, The Brainworks Foundry

Builds and maintains the agentic AI infrastructure that runs The Foundry. Local-model fleet; multi-host orchestration; on-call engineering pair to Hallie.

Bios sourced from Foundry team docs and public press archives. SOURCED

The offering

Capital is raised through a Regulation D Rule 506(c) SAFE offering issued by Brainworks Ventures Foundry, Inc., available to verified accredited investors only. This page and the live dashboard are for informational purposes. They are not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor investment, legal, tax, or accounting advice. Any such offer or solicitation will be made only by the Issuer's confidential Private Placement Memorandum and subscription documents. Reg D Rule 506(c) — accredited investors only; verification required. Prospective investors should consult their own advisors and review the full Offering Memorandum, including its risk factors, before making any investment decision.

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