Niche already identified
A high-potential market niche, selected with our six criteria and the QuSeed platform.
Who we work with / Co-founders
Your industry expertise is the missing ingredient
We look for industry experts with deep vertical experience and a bent for frontier technologies, ready to become co-founders of vertical AI‑native startups. Our model creates a protected environment for building a company, turning your industry expertise into its main competitive asset.
What we bring
We don't ask you for an idea. We bring you one.
Idea validated the lean way
You don’t start from a blank page: the business idea has already been through the validations of the method.
Agile operating model
Predictable milestones, stage gates and AI-enabled fast prototyping.
Team of experts
A team attached to the project: venture builders, AI specialists, product and operations.
Access to capital
Co-investment by the studio and a network of investors used to working with startups.
AI technology infrastructure
Proprietary software infrastructure and AI services integrated from the very development of the product.
The profile we look for
Expert in your vertical. Curious about the frontier.
Flexibility, orientation to innovation, proactivity, the ability to collaborate and perseverance are some of the qualities we consider fundamental. We look for experts with deep vertical experience in the target industry and a bent for frontier technologies: the ability to experiment with and adopt AI tools independently is a distinguishing trait.
We hold past entrepreneurial experience in high regard, even when it failed: we don't see failure as a mark against you, but as a strength.
And then there is the part no interview can fully measure: mutual trust. That is why the selection also includes informal occasions to get to know each other, because co-founder is a word that contains "co".
The journey
From application to exit, in four steps
- 01
Application and selection
Tell us about your journey and the vertical you know from the inside. We assess the depth of your experience, your bent for technology and the human fit.
- 02
We build the foundations together
Starting from a validated business idea, we build the startup from the ground up, with an operating model and expert support already in place.
- 03
Build up, scale up
The goal is to build a successful company starting from a minimum viable product, through iterations, with a dedicated team that grows with the startup.
- 04
We prepare the exit
The studio gradually hands over the reins to new investors and the industrial partner, with the co-founder at the centre of the transition and of the management.
The entry
The leap, without the void below.
We don't ask you to drop everything tomorrow. In the first months you work on the project part-time, while the studio's core team gets it off the ground: you have the time to wrap up your commitments, get to know the team and see the validation with your own eyes. When the company enters the Bake phase, you come in full-time too.
And while you lead the company, the studio covers the functions a startup on its own cannot afford: strategy, legal, finance, marketing, recruiting, all the way to M&A. You stay focused where your expertise is worth the most: the market and the customers.
Alone you go faster. Together you go further.
It is the first principle of our Charter of Values, and it is how we build every company.