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Boardy AI: Delegating Judgment in Venture Capital Networks

Valen Boyd, Mazi Raz

Product #:W49489
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:Entrepreneurship, Strategy
Setting:Canada, 2025
Details:Case (PDF) • 6 pages • 2026-04-15

Subjects:

StrategyEntrepreneurshipVenture capital

Industries:

Information technology and telecom sector

Geography:

CanadaNorth America
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Andrew D’Souza is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Boardy, an AI start-up positioned as an “AI superconnector” that facilitates professional introductions among founders, investors, and other business professionals through a voice-based AI agent. The AI agent also acts as a member of the organization's leadership team. The case asks students to consider how much authority to grant an AI system whose recommendations have been both impressively effective and occasionally costly. The case also invites students to examine the strategic positioning of an AI product.

Learning Objectives

This case was designed for use at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. The material is accessible to students without prior technical knowledge of artificial intelligence, but the analytical questions it raises reward familiarity with strategic frameworks, network theory, or decision-making under uncertainty.

The case can be positioned across several course types, though it performs different pedagogical work in each. By engaging with D’Souza’s strategic dilemma, students will learn to do the following:
  • Analyze strategic positioning choices for Boardy based on its capabilities and limitations.
  • Evaluate how professional networks generate value through embedded social relations, and assess whether AI-mediated alternatives can replicate or substitute for these mechanisms.
  • Identify how organizations that occupy broker positions within networks can capture value, and evaluate the sustainability of broker-based business models when the broker may not be able to build trust.
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