For new companies
A venture studio run by founders, for founders.
We build and back software companies in communications, infrastructure, and applied AI. Not MBA investors observing from a boardroom — operators in the day-to-day of every venture, because we’ve built companies from scratch, over and over.
In the studio now
Where we’re investing and building
Current studio companies — designed, engineered, and operated by our own team.
Launching soonUnbound
AI-native business communications & operations platform
A unified platform for the operations that run a service business — communications, task routing, and AI-assisted workflows in one place.
Launching soonZeusK8s
Production Kubernetes without the platform team
Managed Kubernetes infrastructure for teams that need production-grade clusters — built from years of running real-time, always-on workloads.
ActiveWorkspaceAI
Self-hosted, persistent AI development environments
Development environments that keep working when you walk away — persistent sessions, full editor integration, and AI agents on your own hardware.
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What we put into every company
Real support goes beyond blog posts and advice from afar. These are the functions we personally embed in each venture.
Product & engineering
We write the code. Real-time communications, distributed systems, and applied AI are what we’ve built for twenty years.
Go-to-market
Positioning, pricing, and the first sales motions — learned by taking three companies from zero to acquisition.
Finance & operations
Clean books, capital planning, and the operational discipline that keeps a young company alive long enough to win.
Capital strategy
We’ve raised from first-time angels to the largest VC funds — and we know when not to raise at all.
Our approach
We start with the problem, not the product
Jumping to a solution too early leads to rework and missed opportunities. Every studio company follows the same six-step arc before serious code gets written.
01
Understand the market problem
What issues are widely acknowledged — and which underlying ones remain unnoticed? We start with the problem, never the solution.
02
Define the audience
Who benefits, how many of them exist, and how we’ll reach them. Products resonate when the audience is defined before the build.
03
Break down the solution
Manageable versions, each solving enough of the problem to matter — early value without unfocused scope.
04
Assess the resources
Time, people, and skill sets required for the first version, so the foundation is set before the sprint starts.
05
Plan the capital
A capital roadmap defined early, so growth is never hostage to a surprise fundraise.
06
Execute
Accounting, legal, pitch, and the first version of the software — the move from concept to operating company.
Building something in our lane?
If you’re a founder in communications, infrastructure, or applied AI — or you think we should build something together — we’d like to hear it.
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