A software product is not one skill. It is frontend, backend, UI and UX, DevOps, security, testing, product management, and the business around all of it. Founders spend their first year and much of their raise assembling that, and they only find out months later whether they hired right. Most never recover from getting it wrong.
42% built something nobody needed · 29% ran out of cash · 23% had the wrong team. The studio exists to take those three off your list.
You bring the idea and the market knowledge. We invest tech credits that build your product at Arcitech, the engineering company in our portfolio, and we support you through launch.
Your product is built by a proven senior engineering team, funded by our tech-credit investment, so your cash extends your runway instead of paying salaries for a team you have not tested.
Product management, design, QA, security, and DevOps already work together, so you skip the year of assembly.
Get support when you need it on the way to launch: legal, marketing, hiring, and go-to-market.
We only do well when you do. Our interests stay aligned with the company we help build.
You run your company. The technology we build is what helps you run it.
A substantial tech-credit investment at the seed stage, per company, plus the launch support around it. Your rate is set before your credits are spent. Negotiate your build rate with Arcitech directly, as if we were not in the room. The credits then apply to the rate you agreed.
Portfolio companies get partner rates below what the open market pays, and because our equity sits in your company, every wasted credit would be our own investment wasted.
A bad hire costs 30% of first-year salary at minimum, and up to 200% in full. 74% of employers admit to making one. The average tech role takes 52 days to fill.
See the sources on The ResearchThe numbers at the top of this site are the reason. We build companies with the potential to become category-defining businesses.
Products with the potential to reshape how their industry works.
Founders who know their market cold and understand the problem they are solving.
Something hard to build, and hard for anyone else to copy once it is built.
Every company in the portfolio can draw on the products of the others. Hiring through Haire. Training through ProSchool. Customer operations through BPObox. You launch inside an ecosystem most startups spend years buying.
The company is yours to lead. We join the cap table only when you invite us.
If we believe in it, we invest in the build and take you from zero to one.
You bring the idea and the market knowledge. If we believe in it, we invest in the build and take you from zero to one.