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Ascent
Rapid velocity from day zero to market validation; ascending growth vector.
european ai venture studiofund iBetter Intelligence.
Better Intelligence.
Stronger Europe.
A European AI venture studio with its own early-stage fund. We co-build AI-native companies from day zero — founders can be based anywhere.
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chapter01
Why now.
The studio model isn't new. The economics underneath it are. Three shifts, each one checkable.
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Build cost just collapsed.
AI agents write first-pass production code in days, not months. The scarce input is no longer engineering hours; it is judgment about which regulated problems are worth building. The studio exists to supply that judgment and keep the equity it earns.
- 02
Regulation is the moat.
The EU AI Act, MDR, DORA and NIS2 make compliance a structural barrier in health, fintech, robotics, cleantech and defence. Generalist builders stop at the border; the durable margin belongs to whoever crosses it with a regulatory lead from day zero.
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European capital wants structure.
Sovereign and institutional capital is looking for AI deal-flow with governance it can audit. Fund I packages day-zero ventures, independently valued and honestly staged, into exactly that.
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Built with discipline.
Six principles defining how we select markets, write software, partner with founders, and steward sovereign capital.
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Momentum
Sustained build discipline: units advancing from scored idea to signed enterprise pilot.
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Focus
Disciplined market selection across five regulated European industries.
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Build
Engineering-first studio execution; AI squads shipping production code.
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Partnership
Co-founding alignment, shared equity, and named enterprise design sponsors.
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Endurance
Architectural resilience, institutional governance, and Fund I stability.
- who we are
- European venture studio and Fund I backing AI-native companies from day zero.
- our approach
- Conviction-led. Founder-first. Built with discipline, data and long-term alignment.
- where we operate
- Studio teams sit in Tallinn and Basel, with an enterprise presence in Berlin. Founders can be based anywhere: where you build from is not a filter. Scale beyond Europe is evaluated case by case, never promised upfront.
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You stay CEO.
The question every founder evaluating a studio asks: do I remain the founder, or become hired help on someone else's thesis? Here is the answer in numbers, not adjectives.
What you get
- Your title
- Founder and CEO. You run the company.
- Your equity
- Majority. The studio takes a minority stake, 15 to 25% — in line with the 17% market median for studio deals, well below the 30–50% co-building studios typically take.
- Capital
- A first cheque of €500K to €2M from Fund I at spin-out.
- The build team
- Engineers, a designer, and a regulatory lead, funded by the studio for the first two quarters.
- Control
- You hold the board seat majority. The studio takes one seat, never the chair.
What we ask
- Commitment
- Full time, from day one, wherever you are, with real overlap across European hours.
- Domain depth
- You have lived the problem. We do not hand you a thesis you do not believe.
- Customers first
- We go after a paying pilot before we go after a round.
- Vesting
- Four years, one year cliff. The same terms for you and for us.
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Four ventures in build.
Forged from day zero with dedicated engineering teams in regulated European markets. One paid pilot is in scoping; its sponsor is named at launch.
Robotics · In Build
Lattek
Team: Studio team
AI-native robotics platform for industrial automation. In active build inside the studio.
challenge Lattek targets high-value robotics workflows where machine-vision models must hit sub-millimetre tolerances human operators cannot hold over a full shift.
answer Studio-built from zero with a dedicated engineering team. Full venture details, including named pilot partners, publish at launch.
Deep dive into LattekDigital Health · In Build
Interviu
Team: Studio team
AI-native structured-interview platform for regulated healthcare contexts. In active build.
challenge Interviu addresses structured clinical-interview workflows where consistency, auditability, and AI augmentation create real value, and where regulatory validation takes real time.
answer Studio-built from zero with a dedicated engineering and regulatory team. Full venture details publish at launch.
Deep dive into InterviuFinTech · Pilot
TermsAI
Team: Studio team
AI for contract and regulatory-language review in European financial services. Furthest along of the four units.
challenge TermsAI applies LLMs to the highest-stakes legal and regulatory documents in European finance and commerce.
answer Studio-built from zero with a dedicated engineering team. Full venture details, including the named pilot partner, publish at launch.
Deep dive into TermsAICleanTech · In Build
Ventive
Team: Studio team
AI for decarbonization and resource-efficiency workflows in CleanTech and AgriTech. In active build.
challenge Ventive applies AI to decarbonization and resource-efficiency workflows across CleanTech and AgriTech.
answer Studio-built from zero with a dedicated engineering team. Full venture details publish at launch.
Deep dive into Ventivemethod05
Two weeks to a working prototype.
No vanity pilots. Every sprint requires named corporate sponsors and paid conversion clauses before external capital. Drag through the five stations.
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Scout & Score
AI-assisted scoring across regulated markets, ranked by compliance moat depth and willingness-to-pay. Human validation against the five regulated verticals.
Scout & ScoreOngoing
- Ideas scored last quarter
- 14
- Human-validated past the score
- 9
- Entering active build
- 4
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Fund I, in numbers.
- €20M
- Fund I first close, from a Swiss GP with an Estonian feeder. Institutional terms in the LP letter.
- 5
- Regulated European verticals under one disciplined thesis.
- 14
- Ideas scored last quarter; four entered active build.
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Tallinn, Basel, Berlin.
Estonian OÜ for lean EU operations; Swiss SPV for institutional IP holding and banking credibility; Berlin for enterprise sales.
Tallinn
HQ & Ops. Studio engineering. Fund domicile. EU passport.
Basel
Swiss bridge. Corporate PoCs. LP network. ETH/EPFL.
Berlin
EU enterprise sales for units in build.
Ready to take the studio floor?
Exceptional technical founders building in regulated European industries, and institutional LPs seeking sovereign AI deal flow.
- Headquarters
- Tallinn, Estonia (EE OÜ)
- Swiss bridge
- Basel, Switzerland (CH SPV)
- Fund I first close
- €20M
- Sprint build
- Two week working prototype