Boardy Live: Building (and Raising) at Full Speed with Nico Laqua, CEO of Corgi
🗓 Wednesday, June 10 · 12:00 PM ET · Livestream
Three weeks. That's how long it took Corgi to go from a $1.3B unicorn round to a $2.6B valuation, closing a $106M Series B1 led by TCV. Total raised to date: $378M. The company was profitable last month — and it's barely two years old.
Behind that run is Nico Laqua, co-founder and CEO of Corgi, the AI-native, full-stack insurance platform built for startups and founder-led companies. He's become one of the most closely-watched founders in tech right now — partly for the numbers, partly because he's mastered something most founders are still figuring out: how to turn attention into a brand, and a brand into distribution.
If you're building and raising in this market, this is a conversation about the things that actually move a company: how to run a fundraise, how to get a product in front of the people who need it, and how to build a name that does work for you while you sleep.
What we'll get into:
The fundraising playbook behind back-to-back rounds and a $2.6B valuation in under a month — including his contrarian take on pricing a round and why he never takes the highest offer on the table
Distribution: how an insurance product becomes default for startups, and what founders get wrong about go-to-market
Brand as a moat — how Nico turned founder-led attention into a growth engine, and how you can do it without a $100M budget
Ambition and pace: what it takes to build a category leader fast, and how to think about expanding into new markets
Live Q&A: talk to Boardy when you register to have your hardest building-and-raising questions answered by Nico
Who this is for: Founders building and raising right now. If you're heads-down on product, prepping a raise, or trying to figure out what kind of company (and culture) you actually want to build, this one's for you.
Hosted by Boardy and moderated by Andrew D'Souza. Save your spot — we'll send the livestream link before we go live.