Venture Studio · For US founders
The venture studio model, we build it with you.
A venture studio doesn't just fund or advise, it builds, with its own hands and its own skin in the game. Sitio Labs co-founds AI-native products with founders, acting as the technical and design team you don't have yet.
What a venture studio actually is
An accelerator gives a cohort of founders capital and advice, then the founders build. A venture studio is the builder, it supplies the product, design, and engineering muscle and holds equity in the result. The economics compound: each venture reuses the infrastructure, design system, and hard-won lessons of the last, so builds get faster and cheaper over time.
For a US founder with a market and no technical team, that means a co-founder-grade partner from day one, not a job posting and six months of hiring.
Why work with a Mumbai-based studio
You get a senior, design-led, AI-native team with a real track record, four products shipped in under two years, at economics that a US-based studio can't match, with genuine overlap on US hours and USD invoicing. The India base is an advantage, not a compromise: premium output, sharper price.
We take equity in what we build, so we are betting alongside you. If a product fails, we fail with it. That alignment is the whole point of the studio model.
From the portfolio
Four ventures in under two years
Mentzi, AurumOS, Depo, and ZerocodeAI were each originated, designed, and engineered inside the studio, no acquisitions, no white labels. The studio loop in action.
Explore the portfolio →Fair questions.
How is a venture studio different from an accelerator?
An accelerator funds and mentors founders who do the building. A venture studio is the building team, it supplies design and engineering and holds equity in the result. Sitio Labs co-founds and builds the product with you.
Do you take equity or charge a fee?
In a venture build, both, equity plus a minimal build fee, because we are betting on the outcome, not billing hours. For a defined AI product, a fixed-scope AI Sprint from $6,000 is also available.
Can I bring my own idea?
Yes. You bring the market thesis and domain expertise; we bring everything technical. If the thesis survives a short validation sprint, we build.
Bring us a market worth building for.
One conversation. We'll tell you within a week whether the studio is the right builder for it.