How we build companies

A venture studio exists to build companies jointly with founders and to share the outcome with them. Most accelerators, incubators and funds select among companies that already exist, then fund or support them. A venture studio starts at the earliest stage, creates the company itself, and takes the roles of builder, operator and a co-founder.

Our mission is to be the kind of co-founder we would choose ourselves: experienced where it saves you time, hands-on from day zero, accountable for the same outcome. We exist to repeatedly build companies from zero for global markets.
Domains of interest

  • Fintech

    Finance is among the most profitable industries in the world: listed banks earn a net margin near 28%, close to three times the average across industries. Compliance costs the industry about $198bn a year, and four fifths of that spend pays for operations rather than technology. Among other problems we look into payments infrastructure, financial crime compliance and M&A management.

  • Insurtech

    Insurance underwrites the other industries and is among the largest of them: premiums above $7tn hold at about 7% of world output. Underwriters spend about 38% of their working hours on data entry and other administration, driving rising premiums and an increase in uninsured individuals and businesses. Among other problems we look into claims and underwriting automation, SME commercial insurance and employee health benefits.

  • Healthtech

    The world spends $9.8tn a year on healthcare, about a tenth of its output, and health occupations employ over 70 million people. Physicians report about 13 hours a week on administrative work, a quarter to a third of their working time. This presents opportunities for tools for medical administrative automation, health data infrastructure, and coordinating patient care.

How we build

How we go from problem to first round

You bring an idea, or you bring the market knowledge and we identify the idea together. In both cases we prove the opportunity before the build starts and stay as co-founder through the first investment round.

Explore

We validate the problem in problem discovery interviews, whether you bring it or we identify it together. Then we build the venture idea with you.

Validate

We run the experiments and collect user feedback until it confirms the opportunity. If there is no fit, we search for the adjacent opportunity or pivot the thesis.

Build

Our senior engineers own the foundation: architecture, security, compliance and business logic. AI accelerates the MVP implementation and enables rapid prototyping.

Scale

We identify the right investors, secure introductions through our network, and manage the fundraising process.

opportunity not confirmed → adjacent opportunity, or pivot the thesis

What we provide

Skip the hardest parts of starting from zero

Embedded co-founder

A dedicated partner from Flash Ventures helps you lead your venture inside our team. We run discovery, we design the business model with you, and we manage the fundraising and the validation experiments.

Engineering capacity

We contribute engineering capacity in exchange for equity. Our senior engineers own architecture, security and compliance while AI accelerates the MVP implementation, so you reach a first market test without funding the build upfront.

Capital access

We have raised capital ourselves and backed companies, so we know how investors evaluate an opportunity. We prepare the fundraising story with you, introduce you to investors that fit the project, and join the investor meetings.

Team credentials

Experience the founding team brought with them

500+

Startups guided through early-stage validation by the founding team

€550K

First studio investment round closed from international angel investors

$20M

Capital the founding team deployed into startups before the studio