We build Risk Aligned, Investable Corporate Ventures.

Locations

5+

A global team of professional entrepreneurs at your service
across EMEA and APAC.

Founded in

2020

By 4 serial entrepreneurs after founding 40 companies of their
own (including 2 unicorns!) 

Ventures

20+

From logistics to climate tech, we’ve build ventures with our partners across a variety of industries. 

Funds Raised, USD

60M+

We arrange Series A fundraising for all Build Phase ventures, leveraging our VC and investor networks.

What sets us apart.

  • Execution Forward.

    We deliver ventures, not slides. We measure our success through real market interactions, prototypes, code base, and revenues.

  • Joint Venture Partners.

    Our upside is in the value of the equity in the venture we build together. We succeed only when the venture is successful - just like our corporate partner.

  • Commercial x Product x Governance.

    A tech start-up can only succeed with a scalable product that solves a real customer problem. That’s why we create teams that have both product and business expertise right from the start. In addition, we find that to make an investible venture governance is also paramount. We work with the corporate on governance elements.

  • Ambidextrous.

    We speak the language of enterprises, understand their strategies and their stakeholders. We survived as entrepreneurs, multiple times over. We have the grit and the mindset, we thrive in ambiguity.

  • Optionality.

    We understand that creating a new venture is fraught with uncertainty and we work with the corporate to retain optionality across the various stages of the process.

  • Capital Efficiency.

    The cost to build a venture should not be different for a corporate than for independent founders. With our process, corporates are sure every dollar of investment into the venture is spent on increasing the value of the start-up.

We focus on building investable ventures.

Our tried-and-proven method gets corporate ventures over obstacles and off the ground by leveraging corporate assets and expertise with a founder’s mindset.

From identifying the venture where you have a serious competitive advantage to raising an external Series A, our 18-month track covers all the elements necessary to create a successful corporate venture, including establishing a dedicated founding team, creating the product, mapping the commercial planning, and devising the governance model.

Meet the Partners

  • Arnold Egg

    Experienced in building digital products and ventures in start-up and corporate environments. Specialized in the Indonesian market.

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  • Joachim Vandaele

    Two decades of building ventures in financial services, technology, innovation and family offices. Investor. Lecturer.

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  • Toi Ngee Tan

    Hands-on product management leader with experience solving diverse business problems using technology in both corporates and start-ups.

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  • Ziv Ragowsky

    No nonsense, direct and practical problem solver who likes to grow businesses, and grow people.

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  • Rangga Maharga

    All-rounded problem solver with consulting, corporate innovation and entrepreneurship background. Experienced in tech, travel, logistics, and insurance space. Passionate about growing people, organizations and businesses.

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Meet our Advisors.

  • Claudia Zeisberger

    Author, Professor at INSEAD and Founder of the school’s PE & VC centre (GPEI). Before joining INSEAD in 2005, she spent 16 years in global investment banking. Prof Zeisberger is actively involved in entrepreneurial ecosystems globally and devotes a significant amount of her time to mentor early-stage companies; she was recently invited to join Google Startup Accelerator SEA as an industry mentor. Prof Zeisberger is known for her books on PE & VC and her extensive research on the topic. She regularly advises institutional investors, Family Offices and SWF’s on their investment strategy.

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  • Antoine De Carbonnel

    Antoine was Chief Commercial Officer of GoJek. As CCO, Antoine focused on GoJek’s monetization strategy across products. Leveraging on his background in consulting and private equity, Antoine also provided strategic guidance to the management team as a whole.

    Before joining Go-Jek, Antoine was a Managing Director at Kartuku, an Indonesian payments FinTech, where he was successively CFO and CSO from 2011 to 2016. Before Kartuku, Antoine was Principal at Ancora Capital, a leading Indonesian Private Equity firm.

    Antoine holds an MBA (with Honors) from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and a degree in Ingenieur Commercial et de Gestion (with High Honors) from the Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium).

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