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FCJ Venture Builder sells the machinery behind the startup
A Brazilian founder lost two businesses, then built a company to help other founders survive. FCJ’s wager: the unglamorous work around an idea can be a business of its own.
Ikove Capital builds the company a patent can’t
A university invention can be brilliant and commercially homeless. Ikove Capital’s Startup Nursery supplies the people, capital, and market work that turn research into a business.
434 Gives Local Startups the Luxury of Time
In Charlottesville, a nine-month accelerator puts founders, advisers and student talent within reach. The useful trick is making those connections last longer than a pitch.
Nana Bianca is growing startups in a Florentine granary
Three veterans of Italy’s internet industry turned their experience into a place to build companies. At Nana Bianca, the offer runs from a €20 desk to startup grants of up to €100,000 - with some hard lessons between the two.
Chalhoub Greenhouse Gives Startups a Way Into the Store
The luxury retailer’s venture builder pairs founders with grants, working retail channels and people who can say yes. Its real test comes when the pilot ends.
Redstart puts a cofounder on the cap table
The Paris startup studio trades daily operating help for a minority stake. Its real subject is everything that happens between a promising idea and a business that can stand on its own.
SparkBridge helps immigrant founders get past the cold introduction
The Vancouver incubator pairs Canadian market entry with hands-on startup building. Its pitch to immigrant entrepreneurs: local knowledge, useful introductions and help turning a business idea into something customers can use.
Business Hub gives the five-minute pitch somewhere to grow
From a Medina startup contest to an Oman joint venture, Business Hub connects the practical parts of entrepreneurship: a place to work, people to learn from, and a room in which to make the ask.
Nuclio builds startups. Then it builds the people.
The Barcelona venture builder recruits founders for business ideas tested abroad. Its bigger bet is that schools, headhunters and shared services can make the hard parts of starting up a little less lonely.
Gaiax wants its employees to outgrow the company
The Tokyo startup studio lets teams turn their departments into independent businesses. Its next experiment asks what happens when those businesses share more of what they know.
super{set} Is Building the Boring Part of the AI Boom
The San Francisco studio has $176 million in committed capital, a $200 million exit and a contrarian wager: in enterprise AI, the useful plumbing may matter more than the flashy model.
Doxxa Wants to Build the Company Before the Company Exists
The Bellevue studio sells no tidy accelerator syllabus. It offers a pipeline, a workshop and flexible capital - the unglamorous machinery between a promising software idea and a company that can stand up on its own.
The VC Firm Betting the Next Big Market Is Simply Being Human
Human Ventures built a venture thesis around ordinary needs - health, work, money, attention and belonging. A decade in, its hybrid of capital, company-building and community offers a revealing answer to what an early-stage investor can still do that a spreadsheet cannot.
Nobody Studios Wants to Make Startups Feel Less Like Lightning Strikes - and More Like a Production Line
The California venture studio is trying to turn company creation into a repeatable discipline. Its wager is that AI, a distributed crowd and ruthless early validation can make the startup lottery a little less random.
The Firm That Builds Companies From a CIA Playbook
Most venture firms wait for founders to walk in the door. Red Cell Partners writes the idea first, then goes hunting for the people to build it - a studio model borrowed straight from the intelligence community.
The town that refused to demolish its own future
In 2014, two Cape Girardeau residents talked the city out of demolishing a downtown building and started southeast Missouri's first tech incubator inside it. A decade later, Codefi trains AI workers, builds startups as a co-founder, and pulls venture capital into places the coasts forget.
The Alabama Studio That Builds Companies From Problems, Not Pitch Decks
Shegun Otulana already had his billion-dollar exit. Then he stayed in Birmingham to build a factory for the next ones.
The Studio That Builds AI Companies for the Industries Silicon Valley Skips
A Boston venture studio is manufacturing AI startups for real estate, mortgages, and construction - the messy, high-barrier industries most software founders avoid. Here is how the co-founder model works.
The Santa Monica Lab That Builds Companies Like an Assembly Line
Most venture firms wait for founders to knock. Science builds the company first, then writes the check - and the method has turned razors, canned water and robo-advising into billion-dollar exits.
Empat
Empat is a Ukrainian custom software and product development company headquartered in Kyiv. Operating since 2013, it delivers full-cycle software development - system architecture, engineering, UI/UX design and go-to-market - to startups, scaleups and enterprises. Over 10+ years it has shipped 300+ digital products across 17 countries for clients including Porsche, Panasonic, Heinemann, CBRE and Transparency International, with a growing focus on AI, cloud and enterprise systems.
Founders, Inc.
Founders, Inc. (f.inc) is a 42,000 sq ft campus, community, and first-check fund at Fort Mason in San Francisco — built for the wildly ambitious founders solving hard problems at the edge of what's possible. Not a traditional VC and not a time-boxed accelerator, it combines pre-seed investment (up to $250K), a dedicated workspace with hardware labs and media studios, daily meals, and an indefinite community of 80+ builders. Founded in 2020 by serial builder Furqan Rydhan, it has backed 100+ companies across AI, AR/VR, Web3, and hardware — including thirdweb, buildspace, LiveKit, and Sync Labs. Featured in the Wall Street Journal and New York Times.