The Studio
We don’t advise founders. We build with them.
Equity-aligned where conviction is high. Structured retainers where execution is defined. We work with a few, go deep, and stay long.
01 / Thesis
Five things we hold to.
Founder-market fit first
We back people before pitch decks.
Execution over ideation
Strategy only matters if it compounds daily.
Capital follows clarity
Fundraising is earned through operational precision.
Systems beat hustle
Scalable growth needs repeatable infrastructure.
Long-term ownership
Co-founders, not consultants.
02 / How we partner
Four ways in,by where the company is.
Each is a defined piece of work with a length, not an open-ended retainer.
Idea · Pre-seed · Early traction
Early CoBuild
Shape the company correctly before speed compounds mistakes.
6 to 12 months
Seed · Early Series A
Growth CoBuild
Convert momentum into repeatable systems.
6 to 9 months
Pre-seed to Series A readiness
Capital Prep
Make companies fundable before fundraising begins.
3 to 6 months
First-time founders · Zero to one
Student CoBuild
You have an idea and don’t know where to begin. That’s enough.
03 / Where it leads
Capital, buyers and customerslooking for the right fit.
A company that has been built properly has somewhere to go. On the other side are people looking to invest, to acquire, to combine, or to try something with a real customer. These are the four shapes that interest takes.
Investment
Capital looking for companies
A fund or an investor puts money into a company to help it grow, and takes a share of it.
Seed to Series A
Early-stage fund exploring enterprise AI solving measurable operating problems.
- Looking for
- Enterprise AI with a measured result
- Stage
- Seed to Series A
- Structure
- Minority equity
Open to conversations
FinTech · B2B
A young company building cash-flow intelligence infrastructure for small businesses.
- Raising for
- Product and first enterprise customers
- Stage
- Early revenue
- Structure
- Equity round
Open to conversations
Acquisitions
A buyer looking for a company or a product
One company buys another outright, or buys its product and team, to get somewhere faster than building would.
Financial services · India
Seeking a digital credit aggregation platform with an existing technology product.
- Looking for
- A working product with live customers
- Deal type
- Full acquisition
- Geography
- India
Confidential mandate
Consumer brands · India
A consumer group looking to acquire a direct-to-consumer brand with customers who come back.
- Looking for
- Repeat purchase and a clean supply chain
- Deal type
- Majority stake or full acquisition
- Geography
- India
Confidential mandate
Mergers and M&A
Two companies stronger together
Two companies combine into one, or one sells a part of itself, because the pieces are worth more in a different arrangement.
Logistics · Regional
Two regional operators exploring a merger to cover a wider network with one fleet system.
- Looking for
- An operator with routes that do not overlap
- Deal type
- Merger of equals
- Geography
- South and West India
Early conversations
Enterprise software · B2B
A software company looking for a new owner for a product line that no longer fits its direction.
- Looking for
- A buyer who will keep the product and its customers
- Deal type
- Sale of a business unit
- Includes
- Product, contracts and a small team
Confidential mandate
Pilots
A customer willing to try it for real
An organisation runs a young product inside its own business for a fixed time, to see whether it works before committing.
Consumer technology
Seeking startups in customer intelligence and retention across regional markets.
- Looking for
- Startups with a working product
- Deal type
- Paid pilot, with a path to a contract
- Length
- Three to six months
Applications open
These are examples, shown to give the shape of what comes through. Nothing here is an offer, a listing, or advice.