↗ MUSKOKA LAB / FIELD NOTES
NEW YORK VENTURE SUMMIT 2026

Better conversations.
More intentional meetings.

97matched people
65investor profiles
2meeting lenses
THE READOUT

Lead with a concrete AI venture or a portfolio-building offer. Centaur Lab is a venture studio; investment into the studio itself is not established by these firms’ startup mandates. Use the two lenses below to choose the right conversation.

Centaur Lab’s positioning ↗
DREW’S STARTING FIVE

Three investors. Two domain partners.

Heath Butler · Chris Fisher · Triet Nguyen · Ivan Panushev · Moran David

Start with builder handovers: assemble construction records, connect installed systems, and preserve maintenance history. Test the builder’s willingness to pay and the homeowner’s continued use. The business description comes from Drew’s Brella bio; traction and round details are unverified.

Bring to the meeting

Paying builders and homes onboarded; time saved per handover; onboarding cost; recurring revenue; homeowner activation and retention; warranty/support workload; round size and use of funds.

A concrete pilot ask

One builder, one live project, one source-cited handover package. Agree on data rights and measure preparation time, missing records, homeowner usage and support questions.

Stage gates

Framework / Peter Misek: late seed–Series A/B. Acronym / Joshua Siegel: at least $1M ARR per event bio. Prioritize financing only when Muskoka meets the relevant gate.

01 / MEETING PRIORITIES

Start with these conversations.

BEFORE YOU BOOK

Confirm the company’s round stage, traction, geography, and meeting objective. Rankings are qualitative fit judgments, not probabilities of funding. A shared AI tag alone is insufficient.

02 / THE COMPLETE MATCH LIST

A field guide to all 97.

Click a profile for research, sources & talking points
03 / HOW TO USE THIS

Evidence first.
Fit second.

The 97-person source list is Boon’s Brella match list, re-ranked for the selected company; it is not Drew’s personal Brella matches. Captured from Brella’s “Your matches” on November 9, 2026. The list was traversed between its top and visible end marker, with overlapping sections deduplicated by name. It is a snapshot; new attendees may appear later.

What the labels mean

Book first — a strong sector/workflow connection or direct partnership hypothesis aligned with the selected company and lens. Explore — promising adjacent fit. Conditional fit — sector, stage, eligibility or mandate needs checking. Peer / specialist — collaboration or narrow domain relevance, rather than a general capital target.

Separate claims from conclusions

Brella bios are self-reported. Public research is linked per profile; holdings are firm-level examples, not necessarily investments personally led by the attendee. Unverified portfolios are labeled. Meeting angles and rankings are our inferences.

Your shortlist stays in this browser

Saving a person here does not bookmark them in Brella or send a meeting request. Export your shortlist to carry it to another device. Meeting availability has not been checked.

Download captured source dataset ↗