Backing studio-born companies from day zero. Investing in high-conviction ventures de-risked through the studio model—where bold founders get the edge, expertise, and network to break through and build category-defining companies.
Investing in studio-born companies from day zero. By backing companies shaped within venture studios, we fund founders with the foundation, momentum, and backing to scale. We invest in high-conviction opportunities—validated, de-risked, and accelerated through the studio model—ensuring our portfolio companies have the edge to succeed.
We initially invest pre-seed at the launch of a company built with the studio when the company has successfully navigated through the selection gates of our studio model. From the seed stage and beyond, we continue our support by co-investing alongside institutional investors and VCs, further validating their potential and fostering their growth.
Builders Investor House is a quarterly event hosted at the headquarters of inspiring tech companies. During these all-access events, the early days' stories and growth challenges are told by the founders firsthand. Investors build relationships at the event by participating in mini-challenges and providing valuable feedback.
Builder’s investor community consists of operator investors who uniquely contribute to the success of the studio and individual founders. Members come together at select events, offering a network of connections rarely seen, to whom co-investment opportunities in the studio or companies are offered regularly.
Builders targets sectors that align with the future of work, focusing on solving real-world challenges that transform the daily grind into a joy for millions with magical solutions with almost human-like intelligence.
Builders invests in companies we build with co-founders from day 0. We deploy a stage gate model to validate real-world challenges and solutions before launching and financing a company, ensuring we only spend efforts on problems worth solving and products worth building.
Builders is always the first capital in. We do not lead follow-on rounds at spin-out but co-invest and offer this opportunity to studio-level investors, creating a collaborative investment environment.
Investors at studio level have the optionality to invest directly into the companies co-founded by Builders.
Typically, the CEO and CTO represent a majority of 67%, and the studio represents 33% of the cap table at incorporation and just below 30% at spin-out. The studio dilutes just like the co-founders from spin-out and beyond.
Builders is a co-founder and aims to be around from spark to champagne. From the first idea till exit moment, we believe capital markets are ever-changing and do not rely solely on outlier results.
The spinout process involves developing the idea within the studio, validating the business model, and preparing the startup for independent operation and fundraising, ensuring readiness for market entry.
Builders ensures momentum by providing ongoing operational and strategic support as board members and non-execs, while the companies hire dedicated teams to drive growth.
Builders aims to empower entrepreneurs to build stellar companies, today for the future of work from our HQ, tomorrow in more verticals and multiple cities going where the entrepreneurs are.
Builders focuses on real challenges within the future of work space that are painful and hard to solve, ensuring they fit our scope of transforming daily work with intelligent software.
Builders partners with both business and technical entrepreneurs who become residents, working on prototypes and technical deep dives, ensuring startups have the breadth and depth they need to succeed.
With 4 to 6 CTOs in residence, their combined efforts and knowledge create a creative environment that elevates the quality of technical work, fostering innovation and scalability.
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