About twenty people across four teams, working on the same bets. Each team has a clear scope, a small headcount, and the autonomy to ship. Most teams sit between four and six people.
Most venture studios look great on a portfolio page and quietly fall apart at the supplier conversation. We built the team structure around the part that usually breaks. Sourcing and Manufacturing runs as a standalone function, not as a sub-team under Operations — it has its own mandate, its own QA process, and a direct line to the studio's senior leadership.
Engineering, Product, Quant, and the others all work in a more traditional matrix against active ventures. Each venture has a dedicated lead from Product and Engineering, with shared services from Sourcing, Operations, and Strategy.
The founding partner and operating leadership, together with the deal and investment functions. Sets studio thesis, allocates capital across ventures, sources new opportunities, and manages relationships with investors and co-investors.
Design, product management, software, AI/ML, and hardware integration. Each active venture has a dedicated PM and engineering lead. The team also owns the studio's shared infrastructure — model serving, data pipelines, deployment.
Supplier identification, vetting, contracting, and ongoing QA. Maintains a vetted global supplier network, runs the studio's supplier scorecard, and handles inbound + outbound freight. This is the team we make sure is over-resourced.
Legal, finance, hiring, and external partnerships. Also houses the studio's systematic strategies group, which supports the Algo Trading sector and runs Lumen as a flagship internal venture. The team that keeps the machine running.
Each active venture has a dedicated team lead from Product and Engineering. They pull in Sourcing for any physical product work, Quant where applicable, and Operations for the back-office functions. Strategy & Research provides market intelligence on a project basis.
Every venture runs a 30-minute weekly standup with the dedicated Product, Engineering, and (where relevant) Sourcing leads.
The full studio meets for 90 minutes on Mondays to review the deal pipeline and the state of active ventures.
Venture leads present against their OKRs. Capital tranches are released against milestone delivery. No-go decisions are made here.
The studio steps back from execution for two days to revisit sector theses, kill ideas that aren't working, and originate the next batch.
We're a small team and we hire slowly. Most of our best people came through referrals or through working with us on a venture before joining full-time. If you've shipped something in one of our sectors and are curious about the studio model, send a note.
We hire across all four teams. Current demand is highest in Sourcing (manufacturing-side), Product & Engineering (AI/ML and embedded), and Operations & Quant.
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