Fundraising (Lead)

About MickAI

Mickai LTD is a British deep-technology company that has built a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System (SIOS): an AI system that runs entirely on hardware the customer owns, fully offline, with every action cryptographically signed into a verifiable Open Audit Record. This is not a prototype. The system is built and running today: fifty specialised AI brains, a cryptographic audit layer, and a portfolio of 101 filed UK patent applications (around 2,234 claims) owned by the company.

We serve the market the cloud AI giants cannot enter by architecture: regulated and data-sensitive organisations in finance, healthcare, legal, defence and government that cannot lawfully route their most sensitive data through shared third-party cloud AI.

The stage

We are at pre-seed, and the stage is unusually concrete:

The product is built and live, not a deck.
We have a costed commercial rollout plan and a clear route to revenue.
An early customer is already engaged, waiting on the requirements we are raising to deliver.
We own a substantial filed UK patent estate.
We are raising a pre-seed equity round to take a finished product to its first installed paying customers. This is the opening move in a wider funding programme.

The role

We are hiring a part-time Fundraiser to lead our pre-seed raise. You will own the investor pipeline end to end: identifying, approaching, qualifying and closing the right angels and early-stage institutions, working directly alongside the founder, who leads every room with you.

Three things, in this order:

Get inside the story. Read the patents, the ebooks, the investor brief, the financial model. Understand what we are selling well enough to walk into any LP meeting alone and not lose the room.
Open doors. Build the target list of funds, family offices, angel syndicates and UK grant programmes that fit our thesis. Get us in front of decision-makers, not analysts.
Close the money. Run the data room, prepare the materials, sit alongside the founder in pitches, follow up relentlessly, drag term sheets across the line and into our bank.
This is not a list-building or admin role. You bring the relationships. We bring a genuinely differentiated, built, defensible product and a founder who can hold any technical or commercial conversation.

What we are looking for

An active warm network of angel investors and early-stage institutional investors who genuinely back pre-seed deep-tech and sovereign-AI companies. This is the single most important requirement.
A track record of personally closing pre-seed or seed capital for technical founders. You can name the company and the lead investor.
UK-based or with a strong UK investor network. Strong international networks are welcome too.
The judgement to represent a sovereign-AI company accurately to sophisticated investors, and the discipline to run a structured pipeline.
Confidence in a pure-performance arrangement and in your own ability to deliver.
Comfortable with hands-on, early-stage work. No team to delegate to yet. You do it yourself and you like it that way.
Uses AI tools heavily in your own day-to-day work to move faster.

Who this suits

Ex-VC or angel-syndicate operators, placement agents, fractional or freelance fundraisers, and well-connected operators who have raised before and want a performance deal on a product they can genuinely stand behind.

Compensation

This is a performance-based role. Compensation is a success fee paid on the close of committed capital. The exact structure (success-fee percentage plus any equity or advisory component) is agreed with the right person. There is no base salary. Your reward is tied directly to the capital you help close, and for the right network it is uncapped.