CVS-aaSFor financial institutions

Corporateventure studioas a service

You keep the customers, the distribution, and the regulatory standing. We supply the speed, the operators, and the discipline to stop early.
A corporate venture studio you run without building one. You hold strategic control. We hold execution. It starts with a two-week diagnostic, not a master agreement.
Start with the diagnostic
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What it is

A studio you run without building one

Corporate Venture Studio as a Service (CVS-aaS) is a full venture studio, delivered as a service rather than built on your payroll. We originate, validate, and build new ventures alongside your institution, on a six-week decision cycle with evidence at every gate. Direction stays yours. Advance, adjust, or stop, every cycle. Ownership is set per venture, in writing, before the first cycle: your institution holds the controlling stake by default, and the studio earns a minority stake for the build.

Who this is for: banks, insurers, and large financial institutions whose internal innovation labs stall. The talent is there. The structure inside a regulated institution works against speed. If you've watched a promising idea die in committee, this is built for you.

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How it works

Signal, Build, Commit

Every venture runs a six-week cycle with five stop conditions at each gate; trip one (willingness-to-pay under the bar, for instance) and the venture stops. You set the direction. We carry the execution.

  1. Signal01
    Measure first

    We originate and validate against real buyers, with willingness-to-pay tested before a line of production code. Evidence clears the gate, or the idea stops here.

  2. Build02
    Proof in market

    Concept to working product or pilot on a six-week cycle. Your customer data stays in your tenant; the venture reads defined fields through a permissioned API.

  3. Commit03
    Advance, adjust, stop

    Five stop conditions at each gate. Strategic direction stays yours; operational execution is ours. Every cycle ends in one of the three.

The same cycle runs on our own portfolio, with our own capital on the line. See what we build

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Why internal labs stall

The talent is there. The structure is not.

Inside a regulated institution
  • Capable teams, inside a structure that works against speed.
  • Good ideas stall in committee before they ever meet a buyer.
  • Every experiment carries the weight of the whole balance sheet.
With CVS-aaS alongside you
  • The output of a studio, with none of the cost of standing one up.
  • Operators who originate, validate, and build next to your team.
  • Stop decisions made early and cheaply, on evidence, not politics.
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Where your data lives

Your data stays in your tenant

Institution

Customer data never leaves your tenant, so control sits where your regulator expects it to.

Permissioned API

The venture reads only the defined fields it needs, through an access layer you govern.

Studio operator pod

Validation and build run on self-hosted compute, inside a perimeter you define.

The governance line is written down, not assumed: you decide what; we decide how.

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Start here

Start with a two-week diagnostic, not a master agreement.

Two weeks to pressure-test one opportunity against real buyers, with a straight read on whether it clears the first gate. No long-form commitment to begin.

One working session to pick the opportunity. Two weeks to test it. Six-week cycles from there.