Back the companies we build
We start our companies ourselves and cover the first development stages out of the studio. You can join a company after it has users and market traction.
What the studio model means for you
We build and de-risk each venture in-house before it raises. Our investor network can follow each venture's development well before a round opens.
We fund the first stage ourselves
Inside the studio, at our own cost and risk, we run problem discovery, validate the venture and build the MVP. We invite outside capital at pre-seed, once a venture has users and early revenue.
We introduce only the ventures that clear our bar
A venture is considered investment-ready only once it has cleared validation inside the studio. We pivot or stop the ones that do not clear it.
You can follow a venture as it develops
We share what was tested, what held and what changed with our investor network, from early on.
Opportunity timing
The studio model is not new. The past two years changed how quickly a venture can be tested, and how much it must show before its first round.
AI shortened the loop between idea and answer
AI automates part of a venture's development, and a venture can reach a prototype three to four times faster than two years ago. We can run several in parallel, and we validate each step before we commit to the next stage.
We gather users and revenue before pre-seed
The investors we speak to no longer treat a deck and a demo as evidence, because AI made both easy to produce. They ask for active users and revenue, and we gather both inside the studio before a venture reaches you.
Choosing between ventures is the bottleneck at pre-seed
We see more early-stage ventures than two years ago, and the good ones are hardest to tell apart at the earliest stage. Every venture we introduce goes through the same validation steps ensuring consistent quality.
Operators in our industries are leaving corporate careers
The operators reaching us describe a senior corporate role as less certain than it was. They want to build new products inside their own industry rather than take the same job elsewhere.
What the founding team brings
Startups the founding team guided through early-stage validation
First studio investment round closed from international angel investors
Capital the founding team deployed into startups before the studio
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