Building Tech at OneRagtime: When VC Gets a Copilot

Venture capital has long relied on capital, networks, and instinct. But that model is no longer enough. Backed by AI, startups move faster and scale smarter. Investors now expect the same: speed, transparency, and scalability.

At OneRagtime, this has been our vision since day one: to reinvent VC as a digital platform where technology powers every interaction between investors, founders, and our team.We’ve approached it like a startup: by building our own technology. AI and automation aren’t features. They’re the foundation of how we run.

A lean team, shipping every day. We apply the same startup mindset we look for in our founders: build, test, learn, repeat. Every new release makes our investment model faster, smarter, and more transparent.

Our conviction: VC should act like a tech company

Most funds still rely on manual workflows: pitch decks in inboxes, fragmented spreadsheets, and endless reporting in PowerPoint. The result? Slow processes, inconsistent data, and frustration on both sides.

We believed there was a better way.

Our conviction since 2017: a modern VC shouldn’t just invest in technology, it should operate as one.

That’s why we built our own stack:

• The Core, our internal engine.
• The Platform, our digital interface for investors.

Together, they form our “copilot” that amplifies our human judgment and makes VC operations more efficient, transparent, and scalable.

The Core: our operational engine

The Core centralizes everything - investors, investments, and startups - in one secure place. But more than a back office, it’s a productivity engine.

Over the years, we’ve built the foundations of our Core: from automated KYC and subscription agreement generation to digital cap tables, valuations, and dashboards connecting our finance, legal, and investment teams. These tools have made our operations faster, cleaner, and fully scalable.

Now, we’re taking it further. We’ve integrated AI across our processes: analyzing pitch decks, generating quarterly reports, and enriching startup intelligence with market data. This year, we also built our own MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, allowing our team to apply AI directly to our database, securely and under our full control.

The impact? Less friction, more leverage.

Our investment team spends less time on repetitive tasks, and more time on what matters: partnering with founders, supporting execution, and making sharper investment decisions.

The Core also powers:

• Finance and billing, fully integrated with our payment provider and DocuSign.
• Valuations of every investment since day one, tracked in real time.
• Dashboards for our investor team to manage LPs and prospects, and for our dealflow team to structure startup pipelines and reports.

Everything is in one place. No messy spreadsheets, no guesswork.

The Platform: transparency for investors

If the Core is our engine, the Platform is its visible layer: the way we interact with our community of 400+ investors.

The Platform makes investing with OneRagtime fully digital, from onboarding to reporting, ensuring a transparent, smooth, and efficient experience for everyone. It’s the evolution of what we started in 2017: turning investment into a fully digital experience, from opportunity discovery to portfolio management.

It offers investors:

• A unique space to explore and subscribe online to our latest opportunities (funds or club deals) with fully digital KYC and commitments.
• Easy access to all documentation, from investment memos to quarterly reports.
• A personal dashboard to track the performance of their investments, with live TVPI, DPI, and RVPI.

In short: everything automated in the Core, delivered externally as transparency and flexibility.

Why it matters

This isn’t about replacing people with software. It’s about giving every team at OneRagtime the tools to work smarter and move faster: whether in Investment, Legal, Finance, or Investor Relations.

• For founders: faster answers, sharper feedback, and an investor who spends more time on strategy than on admin.
• For investors: full transparency, seamless reporting, and the confidence that our time goes where it matters most: analyzing opportunities, supporting portfolio startups, and ultimately driving better returns.
• For our community: collective intelligence amplified by data.

We believe the future of venture capital is hybrid: human judgment, amplified by technology. This vision, driven by Stéphanie and embraced by our entire team since 2017, has evolved through constant iteration, turning OneRagtime from a pioneering idea into a living product shaped by every person who builds and uses it.

What’s next

Our stack evolves every day. With a lean team, we ship constantly: automating what slows us down and building new tools to connect investors and founders even more seamlessly.

Because when VC gets a copilot, everyone wins.

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