Hi friend,
Onward FX is six weeks out. This year, we're bringing nearly 60 venture funds to Bentonville to meet with founders.
We're opening the day with Unscripted.
The investors on stage don't show up with prepared remarks. The agenda is built by the founders in the room. You move freely between sessions based on what matters to your company right now.
The topics won't be theoretical. They will look like this: which AI companies survive the shakeout and which ones shut down in the next 18 months. Whether reindustrialization is a real bet or a policy narrative that has already been priced in. What it actually takes to sell to Walmart, JB Hunt, or Tyson. Where the next food-health company gets built after GLP-1. What defensible B2B software looks like when AI commoditizes features in weeks.
These are conversations Tier 1 investors are having internally. You will hear them have them out loud, with people who see it differently.
That is what makes Unscripted different from every other room you have been in. The investors on that stage are not there to represent their fund. They are there because the topic pulled them in. You will hear things they would not say in a pitch meeting or a prepared panel. Honest takes on what gets funded, what the market is actually doing, and where they think the consensus is wrong.
Every conversation you hear is research. You leave knowing how the investors in that room are thinking about your sector, your competition, and the macro right now. That is intelligence you cannot buy and cannot get from a deck.
Then the doors close. The 1:1 meetings start. And you walk in knowing exactly what the person across the table is optimizing for.
A programming survey is dropping soon, but you have to be registered to vote.
👉 April 21. Bentonville. Register here.
If you're raising this year, or about to be, you should be in the room.
