FAQ – For Those with an Idea

A venture studio builds "our own companies from idea to exit." An incubator or accelerator makes you do the work and they offer business development to startup companies.

You submit through our form. We respond quickly and book a short virtual meeting if the idea feels right. The step after that is a physical meeting.

Niche digital services that can "scale" and where you have industry knowledge or good insight about a real problem.

Smaller solutions to an annoying problem. For example, you're in a workflow and it takes enormous time to convert data from one format to another to move information. Or you improve an existing feature in an existing platform.

It doesn't need to be unique – many winning companies are improvements of something that already works.

No. That's our role. Your role is to be a subject matter expert and "pilot customer" where you provide initial testing – preferably in a live environment – and then give feedback for modification and further development. We build – you help us hit the mark.

As the idea contributor and active participant, you receive "options" in the company formed for the idea.

Yes.

Then it's not interesting for us. We need an engaged counterpart with knowledge about the problem to validate the idea.

We handle all incoming ideas professionally. Our business model is to work together with people with expertise on a subject. We don't realize any ideas without a person like you who is engaged with deep knowledge and commitment.

Of course! Send as many as you want.

We only invest in the combination of person + knowledge + idea we believe in the most.

We look at "scalability and market" for the product as well as "knowledge level/competence/personality" for you who submitted the idea.

That we don't believe in it.

Usually within two weeks.

The goal is 8 weeks.

You participate as the "first customer case" and serve as a reference.

Yes.

Then the project is closed down.

No.

No.

No.

Absolutely – we welcome everyone.

No, the compensation lies in the "ownership."

Up for discussion depending on your engagement, but it happens through options.

When the project becomes a company that is then sold.

A sale of the company is always our goal, where we build for exit within 18–24 months.

Then you drop out and your ownership is at risk.

Everything remains in the company.

There's no faster way to go from idea to product.

The Gundar team has built and sold several software companies with good results.