Perspectives
Perspectives
Notes, news, and conversations from the FRAMEWORK team.
Castellum AI joins the portfolio
Castellum AI is a financial crime compliance platform offering AI agents and screening for AML/KYC
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - Weekly Edition EP 3
In this episode, Peter Misek, Managing Partner at Framework, shares his take on the week's biggest AI and venture news.
Airspeed joins the portfolio
Airspeed is the agent-native GTM brain and execution system, built to be the antidote to the inevitable operational burden of scaling a sales organization.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - Weekly Edition EP 2
In this episode, Peter Misek, Managing Partner at Framework, shares his take on the week's biggest AI and venture news.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 9: With Steven Walchek, Co-Founder of Liminal
In this episode, Boyang sits down with Steven, CEO and Co-Founder of Liminal, to explore why most enterprises are still stuck between two broken approaches to AI adoption, locking everything down or letting everything in.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - Weekly Edition EP 1
In this episode, Peter Misek, Managing Partner at Framework, shares his take on the week's biggest AI and venture news.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 16: The Intelligence Inflection
In this episode, Peter Misek, Managing Partner at Framework, unpacks Framework's first white paper - The Intelligence Inflection.
The Intelligence Inflection - a FRAMEWORK whitepaper
A Business Leader's Guide to the GenAI Revolution: From Probability Machines to Superintelligence — and What It Means for Your Organization
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 15: How AI Is Reshaping the Startup and VC Landscape
In this episode, Peter Misek sits down with Steve Schlenker, Founding Managing Partner at DN Capital, who has invested through every major technology shift over the last three decades, from on prem to cloud to AI.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 8: With Osher Perry, Founder of ShipIn
In this episode, Sarah Visser sits down with Osher Perry, Founder & CEO of ShipIn, a Framework portfolio company bringing AI-powered analytics to the maritime industry.
QuoteToMe joins the portfolio
QuoteToMe is building the system of execution for construction teams, with a modern platform that streamlines how materials are sourced, procured, and managed across job sites and back offices.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 14: Building AI Products with Rami Sayar
In this episode, Mikhail sits down with Rami Sayar, Venture Partner at Framework and Engineering Leader at Microsoft AI, where he has spent six years shipping products like Bing Chat, Deep Search, and Copilot Search at massive scale.
Liminal: Building the orchestration infrastructure for enterprise agentic AI
Read more about the second wave of enterprise AI and Behavioral Agent Automation Platforms (BAAPs)
FRAMEWORK Interns 2025
Parker, Daniel, Jessica, Eunice, Jack and Nathan join us for this podcast episode to share their experience as interns at Framework. Sharing their day-to-day tasks, projects and learnings from their term at FRAMEWORK.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 7: With John Chabluk, Founder of QuoteToMe
In this episode, Boyang Li sits down with John Chabluk, Founder & CEO of QuoteToMe, a FRAMEWORK portfolio company streamlining quote requests and purchase orders into an all-in-one procurement platform.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 13: Otto charts the NoAm VC landscape
In this episode, we sit down with Framework managing partner Peter Misek to map the early-stage North American VC landscape using Otto, our proprietary database of more than 46,000 startups.
Liminal joins the portfolio
Liminal joins the portfolio: Liminal is building the secure gateway for generative AI in regulated industries, starting with an enterprise platform that gives CIOs and CISOs complete control over how AI is used across their organization.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 12: An outlook on AI startups
In this episode, David dives into the latest trends Framework is seeing across AI startups, what’s cutting through the noise, and a few of the firm’s recent AI investments that stand out.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 11: Future of Workflows
In this episode, we dive into the transformative world of Dynamic Work Design with Nelson Repenning, a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Shipin joins the portfolio
ShipIn is building the system of execution for maritime operations, starting with an AI-powered fleet intelligence platform.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 6: With Peter Piatetsky, co-founder of Castellum AI
In this episode, Boyang Li sits down with Peter Paitetsky, CEO and Co-Founder of Castellum.AI, a FRAMEWORK portfolio company helping financial institutions manage financial crime compliance with cutting-edge AI.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 5 : With Jackson Fregeau, Co-founder of Quandri
In this episode, David Fontaine sits down with Jackson Fregeau, CEO & co-founder of Quandri, to explore the journey and inspirations that led to launching an AI startup in InsurTech with his brother Jamieson Fregeau.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 10: Outlook on Q1 2025
Perspectives and macroeconomic trends in Q1 2025.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 9: Scotiabank/Roynat Capital & Framework
David Rozin shares a unique perspective on current trends shaping the VC and startup landscape, covering Canadian talent, evolving risk appetite and the current exit environment.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 4: With Ilya Preston, Co-founder of Paxafe
In this episode of Building the Framework, Hark Ahluwalia sits down with Ilya Preston, co-founder and CEO of Paxafe, a Framework portfolio company redefining cold chain logistics.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 8: AI's Role in Healthcare
A discussion on the transformative impact of AI in healthcare.
Koverly joins the portfolio
Koverly is a B2B cross-border payments & financing platform for global trade.
Botpress joins the portfolio
FRAMEWORK leads’ Botpress US$25M Series B to power production-grade AI agents
Quandri joins the portfolio
Quandri is building the system of execution for insurance brokerages, starting with an AI-powered renewal intelligence platform.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 3: The Wattpad
In this episode, we sit down with Allen Lau, co-founder of Wattpad and Operating Partner at Two Small Fish Ventures, to dive into his journey of building and scaling Wattpad.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 7: From Seed to Series-A
A discussion on startups transitioning from Seed to Series A.
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP 2: The Paper Story
In this episode, we sit down with Roberto Cipriani, co-founder of Paper, to explore the journey of building and scaling a category-defining edtech company.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 6: Team Outlook
Sarah and Boyang, members of our investment team, share their perspectives.
Vasco joins the portfolio
Vasco is the Revenue Architecture & RevOps Platform that helps maximize GTM speed and efficiency
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 5: 2024 Year in Review
All three partners join us to review 2024 and share insights and areas of excitement for 2025.
FRAMEWORK Interns 2024
Harrison Waddell & Tej Sharma join us on this podcast episode to share their experience as interns at Framework. Harry & Tej share their day-to-day tasks, projects and learnings from their term at Framework. Every 4-months Framework welcomes 3-4 interns to the Junior Analyst Program. Follow Framework on LinkedIn for job postings.
Evidently joins our portfolio
Evidently is a Cognitive AI platform to improve patient care and clinician well-being with EHR-Agnostic AI residents
BUILDING THE FRAMEWORK - EP. 1: Spotlighting ZayZoon
In this episode of Building the Framework, Boyang Li sits down with co-founder of ZayZoon Tate Hackert.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 4: Building Partnerships
A conversation with Venture Partner Mike Dobbins on the importance of partnerships with VCs, LPs and strategic partners.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 3: Our Approach
In this episode, Ajay Gopal, Partner, shares insights on FRAMEWORK's approach and our guiding principles.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 2: Meet Otto, the VC AI-companion!
In today’s episode, we’ll be spotlighting Otto, FRAMEWORK's AI-powered platform for investment matching and optimization.
FRAMEWORK FOCUS - EP 1: Welcome to FRAMEWORK
Peter Misek, managing partner at FRAMEWORK, joins us today for our first episode to discuss our story so far.
Zaddons joins our portfolio
Zaddon’s mission is to become the recognized, world-leading HRIS and workforce management extension provider.
Styx Intelligence joins the portfolio
Styx is building a unified digital risk protection platform that helps organizations detect, measure, and respond to external threats across their entire online footprint.
Maxa joins our portfolio
Maxa is a next generation AI-amplified solution for business and ERP insights automation.
Paxafe joins the portfolio
PAXAFE is building the decision intelligence layer for cold chain logistics, starting with an AI-powered risk management platform.
ZayZoon joins our portfolio
ZayZoon, an impressive earned wage access fintech, is primed to become the financial management tool for every worker.
Brizo joins our portfolio
Data Intelligence for businesses across the entire foodservice industry.
ScaleHub joins the portfolio
ScaleHub is building the operating layer for high-volume document processing, combining AI with a global on-demand workforce to deliver fully automated, highly accurate data processing at scale.
What is "World-class"?
How well can you rate the performance of individual teams? How do you know if your startup is world class?
Our guiding principles
FRAMEWORK exists to help build world-class companies. That's what drives us every single day.
Hypatos joins the portfolio
Hypatos is building the agentic AI workforce for the enterprise back office, starting with an AI-powered platform that automates high-volume document and transaction processing for Global Business Services teams.
Incode joins the portfolio
Incode is building the identity infrastructure for the digital economy with an AI-powered platform that enables enterprises to verify identities, prevent fraud, and deliver seamless customer experiences.