Venture Studio · Est. 2026 · Romania → Europe
Every company begins as a first chapter of research.
We translate underexploited findings in sociology, geology, and economics into founded, funded companies — deliberately, 3 to 5 a year, built with a founding team we train ourselves.
The Thesis
"The world's research output — not only in hard technology — contains a vast stock of propositional knowledge that has never been translated into prescriptive, commercially usable form. We start one layer earlier than most studios: at the level of published findings nobody has yet operationalized into a venture."
Four Pillars
A repeatable process, not a slogan.
Two founding components — Useful Knowledge Extraction and the Founders Factory approach — delivered as four operating pillars that stay consistent as the studio scales.
01
Research Transfer
Scouting, evaluating, and translating academic findings into a venture-ready thesis.
02
Venture Creation
Stage-gated validation from concept to scaling prep, with shared infrastructure across ventures.
03
Founder Formation
Recruiting, training, and progressively promoting operator talent into founding roles.
04
Institutional Governance
Legal structure, equity architecture, board governance, and investor-readiness — from day one.
Ventures launched per year
Research candidates converted
Studio stake per venture
Flagship Proof Point
PulsePanel
Sociological research from the University of Iași, translated into an AI-assisted panel-management and survey platform. Live commercially in Romania and Moldova, spanning research, customer-experience, and public-consultation use cases.
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Venture · ESG reporting & advisory
Y-Carbon
A professional marketplace for ESG reporting and advisory, combining machine-assisted efficiency with CESGA-certified expert judgment. From free Scope 1 & 2 carbon accounting to audit-ready Double Materiality and EU Taxonomy alignment.
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Research · Enterprise AI learning
Tehne
Enterprise AI's quiet failure mode is forgetting. Tehne is designing a compulsory learning core that absorbs expert corrections incrementally — so process automation becomes Enterprise AI that keeps improving with use.
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Sourcing
Named partnerships. Not inbound decks.
Our first academic relationships run through the University of Bucharest, the University of Iași, and Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca — defensible, named access rather than a vague claim to monitor everything. Operator talent enters through FAIMA and FABIZ.
Journal
Field notes.
Field Notes — Newsletter
A monthly dispatch from the studio.
What we're reading, what we're translating, and which ventures are moving through the stage gates. One email a month. No filler.