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.
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Why work with a Mumbai-based studio
You get a senior, design-led, AI-native team with a real track record, six 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.
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Fair questions.
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.
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.
Yes. You bring the market thesis and domain expertise; we bring everything technical. If the thesis survives a short validation sprint, we build.