Venture Studio Family
30+ members. Paid P2P Community for startup studios, venture studios, & venture builders.
With the secret sauce – sharing inside the Family: 1. numbers, 2. documents & playbooks, 3. investors.
Upcoming Zoom meetings with guest speakers:
July 10th – T.A. McCann @ Pioneer Square Labs
July 16th – Ashok Azhagarasan @ OSS Ventures
July 23rd – Huw Thomas @ Rainmaking
August 7th – Elliott Parker @ High Alpha Innovation
With the secret sauce – sharing inside the Family: 1. numbers, 2. documents & playbooks, 3. investors.
Upcoming Zoom meetings with guest speakers:
July 10th – T.A. McCann @ Pioneer Square Labs
July 16th – Ashok Azhagarasan @ OSS Ventures
July 23rd – Huw Thomas @ Rainmaking
August 7th – Elliott Parker @ High Alpha Innovation
After publishing my 7-month research on startup studios, I got connections to hundreds of studios worldwide; we held the biggest Venture Studio Online Conferences...
... It's a super opportunity for all studios to access the best studio practices, investors, documents & playbooks... as well as educate the market on the venture studio model.
I'm inviting 1) established studios, 2) emerging studios, & 3) aspiring studio founders to join Venture Studio Family.
... It's a super opportunity for all studios to access the best studio practices, investors, documents & playbooks... as well as educate the market on the venture studio model.
I'm inviting 1) established studios, 2) emerging studios, & 3) aspiring studio founders to join Venture Studio Family.
Some of your studio peers (not the full list)
- Founders Factory – co-founded 100+ startups, invested in 300+
- Pioneer Square Labs – 33 ideas spun out, raised $200M+ across several funds
- Rainmaking VB – $5B+ in equity value created, exited their APAC business in 2023
- OSS Ventures – reached €24M ARR in 4 years (they have the super-power to attract founders with previous exits)
- Platform Venture Studio – raised a $11M fund to launch ~20 companies
- Highline Beta – raised a $10M fund
- THC Pathfinder – several funds $182M+
- Merantix – €40M of attracted capital into the studio & fund
- ICEO – co-built 42 startups with 16 exits
- Paloma – 100+ team that built the $120M+ portfolio
There are also some not-so-rock-star studios (still with promising theses and teams). Don't be shy if you are an emerging studio – join!
How it works?
P2P Zoom calls in groups of 5-10 people.
2 team members from each studio can participate.
2 team members from each studio can participate.
calls per quarter
time options for different zones
hour – Duration of calls
8 am San Francisco / 4 pm London
Americas, Europe,
Middle East & Africa
Americas, Europe,
Middle East & Africa
8 am London / 4 pm Singapore
Europe, Africa,
Middle East & Asia Pacific
Europe, Africa,
Middle East & Asia Pacific
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Past & Future topics for best practices sharing
Summer Session 2024
Join now and get the recordings of past meetings and other useful materials like the contact list of ~3000 participants of our Fund of Funds & Family Office Online Conference (June 20th, 2024) & 6 hours of speakers' presentations.
- Sharing best practices on a specific topic
- Asking for advice from studio peers
- Presentations and Q&A with guest speakers
Past & Future topics for best practices sharing
- December 2023 – Attracting Founders
- January 2024 – Revenue Streams for a Studio
- February 2024 – Fundraising into a Studio & Fund
- March 2024 – Studio Team
- April 2024 – Idea Generation
- May 2024 – Studio Scaling Strategies
Summer Session 2024
- July 10th – T.A. McCann @ Pioneer Square Labs will share his insights on the 3 types of founders they attract, business model, investments, & equity split
- July 16th – Ashok Azhagarasan @ OSS Ventures will share their experience of securing €8.5M for their startup studio. Heard their news?
- July 23rd – Huw Thomas @ Rainmaking
- August 7th – Elliott Parker @ High Alpha Innovation
Join now and get the recordings of past meetings and other useful materials like the contact list of ~3000 participants of our Fund of Funds & Family Office Online Conference (June 20th, 2024) & 6 hours of speakers' presentations.
Join the community for $2000 annually
Pay online or request an invoice below to join the community and get:
- Invitation to regular thematical meetings with peers.
- A pitch slot at a private meeting with investors who understand the venture studio model (we did it in April 2024 and plan to organize more).
- Access to materials from previous meetings, including video recordings and summaries.
- The right to request a special meeting tailored to your interests, such as industry focus, region, etc.
- Exclusive access to the benefits of paid tickets & bonuses from our online conferences.
- Access to other VSF activities.
1 year – $2000
One right management decision in your studio will pay back the cost of participation x100+ times
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Venture Studio Mafia is on the long-term mission
Family mission: help the studio model cross the chasm from the Early Adopters to the Early Majority. Click on the black button below to learn more about the chasm, the mission, and the reasons of the three Family Values.
Venture Studio Mafia – sounds better? :grin:
Venture Studio Mafia – sounds better? :grin:
The growth of venture studios is evident:
But how many of them die and why? And what is the future all studios dream about?
1. According to the Venture Studio Index, 2/3 of studios are inactive or have ceased operations.
2. Reasons? Two types
3. Internal: no initial funding, weak team, complex model, hard to attract great founders, cash flow problems.
4. External: investors don't understand the model, no standards and benchmarks, making it challenging for investors and co-founders to evaluate studios. After people see some cases when studios take 80% of equity and struggle with attracting experienced founders & fundraising into startups – they put a cross on all venture studios.
5. The external problems exacerbate internal ones. It might feel for venture studio founders that they are paddling against the current.
6. Despite this, there are dozens of successful studios, which (despite huge skepticism) create great companies, raise tens & hundreds of millions into funds, and employ thousands.
7. To solve the internal problems, studios have to:
– learn & execute the best practices in the industry
– get access & share the scarcest resources: investors & great founders – both familiar and optimistic about venture studios.
8. To solve the external problems, there should be:
– a lot of education, content & activities around venture studios (you should start your venture studio blog or podcast after reading this :grin:)
– studio standards should be developed (aka SAFE from Y Combinator for startups, which has simplified fundraising since 2013, or the 2/20 model for funds, which has been present for 50+ years)
– benchmarks should be defined for easier evaluation by investors & founders.
9. Look at the picture. The current state of studios is – Early Adopters (in terms of Technology Adoption Lifecycle). There is a chasm between the Early Adopters and the Early Majority.
1. According to the Venture Studio Index, 2/3 of studios are inactive or have ceased operations.
2. Reasons? Two types
3. Internal: no initial funding, weak team, complex model, hard to attract great founders, cash flow problems.
4. External: investors don't understand the model, no standards and benchmarks, making it challenging for investors and co-founders to evaluate studios. After people see some cases when studios take 80% of equity and struggle with attracting experienced founders & fundraising into startups – they put a cross on all venture studios.
5. The external problems exacerbate internal ones. It might feel for venture studio founders that they are paddling against the current.
6. Despite this, there are dozens of successful studios, which (despite huge skepticism) create great companies, raise tens & hundreds of millions into funds, and employ thousands.
7. To solve the internal problems, studios have to:
– learn & execute the best practices in the industry
– get access & share the scarcest resources: investors & great founders – both familiar and optimistic about venture studios.
8. To solve the external problems, there should be:
– a lot of education, content & activities around venture studios (you should start your venture studio blog or podcast after reading this :grin:)
– studio standards should be developed (aka SAFE from Y Combinator for startups, which has simplified fundraising since 2013, or the 2/20 model for funds, which has been present for 50+ years)
– benchmarks should be defined for easier evaluation by investors & founders.
9. Look at the picture. The current state of studios is – Early Adopters (in terms of Technology Adoption Lifecycle). There is a chasm between the Early Adopters and the Early Majority.
Image Credit: Bart Krawczyk, source
10. Studios can be in this Early Adopters phase forever – just have their special (small) place in the Venture Ecosystem.
11. Or studios can cross the chasm by solving external problems.
12. What if studios will cross the chasm? We can see:
– There are hundreds of VC funds with mandates allowing investing in studios directly
– Most founders choose the studio to apply on a studio marketplace comparing their teams / terms / benchmarks.
– Hundreds of successful studio stories with 9-figure revenue companies and 50%+ IRRs.
13. Every studio will benefit hugely. The current will revert 180°: fundraising into studio day 1, founders with exits day 2, unicorns day 3 (OpenAI's keynote made me dream big :grin:)
14. Sharing numbers, documents, and investors (+ later founders) inside the Venture Studio Family – helps to solve internal problems.
15. Understanding numbers will help to define studio benchmarks. Creating a document pool & sharing best practices will result in emerging studio standards. This contributes to the mission of crossing the chasm.
You convinced me. I'm in! :heart:
11. Or studios can cross the chasm by solving external problems.
12. What if studios will cross the chasm? We can see:
– There are hundreds of VC funds with mandates allowing investing in studios directly
– Most founders choose the studio to apply on a studio marketplace comparing their teams / terms / benchmarks.
– Hundreds of successful studio stories with 9-figure revenue companies and 50%+ IRRs.
13. Every studio will benefit hugely. The current will revert 180°: fundraising into studio day 1, founders with exits day 2, unicorns day 3 (OpenAI's keynote made me dream big :grin:)
14. Sharing numbers, documents, and investors (+ later founders) inside the Venture Studio Family – helps to solve internal problems.
15. Understanding numbers will help to define studio benchmarks. Creating a document pool & sharing best practices will result in emerging studio standards. This contributes to the mission of crossing the chasm.
You convinced me. I'm in! :heart: