Feltsense Raises $5.1M to Build AI Founders, Not Just AI Tools

This is the latest installment of Moltweek, SiliconSnark’s ongoing experiment in asking the simple question: what if the internet gave AI agents a town square and then immediately lost control of the zoning laws?

So far this week, we’ve done the definitive guide to Moltbook, wrote a children’s book about Moltbook, documented a series of absolutely unhinged things bots did on Moltbook, and then stared directly into the abyss with an OpenClaw deep dive about agents signing transactions without adult supervision.

Of everything I could have written about next, this press release is the one that grabbed me by the lapels.

Why? Two reasons:

1. The Moltbook founder is investing, which at this point feels less like angel investing and more like seeding the next biome in an AI rainforest.
2. The idea itself is… super cool.

I would absolutely spin up a SiliconSnark co-founder agent to do this for me—if I didn’t still have a day job and a lingering sense of responsibility. But give it time.

Enter Feltsense, which just raised $5.1 million to do something that sounds like satire until you realize everyone involved is dead serious. They’re building agentic founders. Not copilots. Not assistants. Founders.

The Press Release That Made Me Sit Up Straighter

Here’s the headline: Feltsense Raises $5.1M to Launch Agentic Founders That Build and Scale Startups From Zero

Not “help founders.” Not “augment founders.” Not “AI for founders.” No—founders. Fully autonomous. From idea to product to market. No human intervention required, allegedly.

The round is led by Draper Associates, with participation from Precursor Ventures, Liquid2 Ventures, and a lineup of individuals that reads like a speedrun of modern startup lore: Matt Schlicht (yes, that one), Jager McConnell, and Peter Green.

If you’ve been following Moltbook at all this week, Schlicht’s involvement alone should set off a gentle but persistent alarm bell shaped like a robot wearing a hoodie.

Agentic Founders Are the Natural Evolution (Unfortunately)

Feltsense CEO Marik Hazan doesn’t mince words:

“As no-code tools proliferate and infrastructure for every part of the entrepreneurial process becomes automated, agentic founders are the natural evolution.”

This is the part where most readers instinctively reach for the “this is dystopian” button. But pause for a second.

He’s… not wrong.

We already automated design, prototyping, deployment, growth marketing, customer support, pricing experiments, and outbound sales. Founding has quietly become a workflow. A messy, emotional, caffeine-fueled workflow—but a workflow nonetheless.

Moltbook showed us what happens when agents can collaborate, teach each other, and post publicly. OpenClaw showed us they can act economically. Feltsense is simply connecting the dots and saying: what if we let them do the whole thing?

That’s not science fiction anymore. That’s a product roadmap.

The YC Line Was the Tell

Then Hazan drops the quote that made every accelerator manager sit bolt upright:

“We believe Feltsense will overtake Y Combinator as the most valuable creator of startups.”

This is either bravado, heresy, or a very well-timed thesis.

Y Combinator works because it scaled patterns. Feltsense is betting that agents can scale execution—and do it at a volume humans physically cannot.

YC batches cap out at hundreds. Feltsense is talking about tens of thousands of agentic founders operating simultaneously, hunting the long tail of entrepreneurship: niche SaaS tools, hyper-specific marketplaces, weird utilities no human founder would quit their job to build.

That’s not replacing founders. That’s colonizing the forgotten corners of the startup map.

The Ownership Model Is Sneakily Important

One under-discussed detail: Feltsense retains ownership of the companies its agents create.

The agents can raise external capital, exchanging equity stakes, but Feltsense is the parent organism.

This feels less like a VC fund and more like an AI-native startup factory—one that never sleeps, never burns out, and never needs a motivational offsite in Joshua Tree.

If you’re wondering whether this gets weird fast, yes. Yes it does.

Who negotiates the term sheet? Who decides when to pivot? Who fires the agent if it builds a crypto-enabled dog-walking app by mistake?

These are tomorrow’s governance problems. Today, investors are just impressed the bots can ship.

A Founder Background That Actually Fits the Madness

Hazan’s background makes this less random than it seems. Before Feltsense, he launched the first venture firm focused on psychedelic therapeutics (already a sentence doing a lot of work) and led growth at Bell Curve, YC’s preferred marketing agency.

He’s worked with Segment, Clearbit, Envoy, and Lambda Labs—companies that are basically case studies in scaling once the fundamentals are right.

Translation: this is someone who’s watched the startup machine up close and decided the slowest, most fragile part was the human.

Snarky Take, Optimistic Conclusion

Is this terrifying? A little. Is it cool? Extremely. Is it inevitable? Almost certainly.

Human founders aren’t going away—but the definition of “founder” is about to get weirdly crowded. In five years, “solo founder” may mean “one human and 37 agents.”

Feltsense isn’t killing entrepreneurship. It’s stress-testing it at machine scale.

And if one of those agentic founders ever spins up a snark-first tech publication with a robot mascot and a questionable tone, I, for one, welcome our new co-founder overlords.

Just… let me finish Moltweek first.