A studio for ideas worth building

There has never been a time when it was possible to build anything you can imagine. Until now.

We’re a studio. We develop ideas worth building, and we partner with the people who can bring them to life.

If you’re ready to build, we’d like to meet you.
How we work

We develop ideas, partner with founders, and stay close for the long now.

We develop ideas

We do the early thinking — the research, the conviction work, the months of sitting with a problem until the shape of a company emerges. We care about ideas that earn their place in the world.

We partner with founders

Sometimes we hand a developed idea to an exceptional operator ready to run it. Sometimes a founder arrives with conviction of their own and we help them build. Either way, the partnership is the point.

We stay close

We provide capital, infrastructure, and the company you need to do the hardest work of your career. We don’t disappear after the first cheque. We’re patient, present, and in it.

The best companies grow slowly, then suddenly. We are patient with both.
What we look for

Ideas worth a decade. Founders worth following into the work.

In an idea

An idea simple enough to explain to a stranger, and ambitious enough to take a decade.

An idea you’d still want to be working on in ten years, even if it never made you rich.

An idea that earns its place in the world — that the world is materially better for having.

In a founder

Someone who has done difficult things before, and is ready to do harder ones.

Someone who reads, who thinks, who can hold conviction without losing curiosity.

Someone you’d want to spend a decade with — in the work, and in the company of.

We work in the long now. Years, not quarters. Decades, not cycles.
Who we are

A small studio of operators who have built before.

We’ve spent careers building businesses in the real world. Companies that hire people, ship products, raise capital, weather downturns, and outlive their founders’ first ideas.

We know how hard it is. We know how much harder it is alone. And we know that the right idea in the right hands — with the right partners — is rare, and worth waiting for.

ii Venture Studios is the studio we wished existed when we were starting out.

Get in touch
If you’re ready to build something that matters, we’d like to meet you.