The first operations hire doesn't have to be a hire.

Boxsy runs the operating work a COO would handle, at a price a pre-seed founder can afford.

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WHY BOXSY EXISTS

Every early-stage founder needs a COO, and almost none can afford one.

The problem

Early-stage founders end up doing the operating work a COO would normally hold: pipeline hygiene, investor updates, runway management, board prep. It gets done in whatever time is left over, and things get missed on different platforms, in poorly-maintained spreadsheets, and when the raise gets busy.

What Boxsy does

Boxsy is the operating layer underneath that work. Fundraising, updates, runway, and board prep in one platform. An AI COO handles the follow-through. The founder stays in control of every decision.

Where we are

Boxsy launched publicly in February 2025 and was rebuilt based on what the first cohort of founders actually needed. Bootstrapped, customer-funded, and focused on one thing: giving founders the operating discipline of a Series C from their first raise.

MISSION & VISION

Mission and vision.

Why we get up every day to build Boxsy.

Our vision

A world where the best ideas don't fail from the inside. We redirect founders' energy away from spreadsheets, silos, and chaos, and toward the work that actually matters.

Our mission

To give every startup the unfair advantage of smooth execution, by automating operations, streamlining fundraising, and keeping everything transparent.

Our story

Boxsy launched publicly in February 2025, then we went back to the drawing board. The product founders use today was rebuilt from the ground up. We're bootstrapped, customer-funded, and heads-down on a single goal: helping founders always know where they stand.

The insight is simple: founders don't fail from bad ideas, they fail when they lose control of the dollar. So we built one central command for the whole dollar journey: raise it, manage it, deploy it, generate it. Boxsy drafts, you approve, and nothing falls through the cracks. The long-term vision is to be the default operating system for the next generation of venture.

OUR VALUES

What we stand for.

The principles that guide how we build and how we work.

Customer first

We improve continuously, driven by customer feedback.

Innovate & adapt

We embrace change and experimentation.

Stay transparent

We default to honesty and clear communication.

Act fast, learn faster

We iterate quickly and refine relentlessly.

Stronger together

We win as a team, building for shared success.

Words from our founder

Founders shouldn't have to become COO before they can afford one.

I spent more than 20 years helping technology companies scale and watching what happens behind the scenes when companies grow well, and when they don't. Then I became a founder myself. Suddenly I was doing everything founders are expected to do: build the product, raise capital, manage investors, sell, hire, track metrics, manage operations, and remember what needed to happen next.

The problem wasn't a lack of tools. There were too many of them. What was missing was the operating layer connecting everything together.

That's why I built Boxsy.

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