We are a pure-play Venture Studio.

We are a pure- play
Venture Studio.

We are not a venture capital firm nor an agency. Our team is hands-on exploring and validating ideas, and once they get traction, we fund those ideas through pre-seed and seed stages while bringing in Founders-in-Residence (FiR) to operate and scale our startups.

We are not a venture capital firm nor an agency. Our team is hands-on exploring and validating ideas, and once they get traction, we fund those ideas through pre-seed and seed stages while bringing in Founders-in-Residence (FiR) to operate and scale our startups.

We are not a venture capital firm nor an agency. Our team is hands-on exploring and validating ideas, and once they get traction, we fund those ideas through pre-seed and seed stages while bringing in Founders-in-Residence (FiR) to operate and scale our startups.

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The Why

We could give you a long-winded answer about the opportunity we saw in the venture studio sector, how we believe now is the best time to build products thanks to AI, and something about building unicorns.

But the honest answer is that we love building and growing companies, creating tech products, and working with talented people.

Building things is what we are good at, know how to do, and have been doing for a long time. From discovery to delivery to scaling, we love every bit of the process.

When we were running our digital product studio servicing large enterprise businesses (exited in 2021), we saw many great ideas get wasted in a sea of endless reports, meetings, and jargon.

Now, we are excited about working to bring the best ideas to life and, with the help of our investors and founders, propel the next wave of B2B tech companies from APAC onto the global stage.

It’s time to build.

Chris, Lucas and Ben.

We could give you a long-winded answer about the opportunity we saw in the venture studio sector, how we believe now is the best time to build products thanks to AI, and something about building unicorns.


But the honest answer is that we love building and growing companies, creating tech products, and working with talented people.


Building things is what we are good at, know how to do, and have been doing for a long time. From discovery to delivery to scaling, we love every bit of the process.


When we were running our digital product studio servicing large enterprise businesses (exited in 2021), we saw many great ideas get wasted in a sea of endless reports, meetings, and jargon.


Now, we are excited about working to bring the best ideas to life and, with the help of our investors and founders, bring great companies to the world.

It’s time to build.

Chris, Lucas and Ben.

We could give you a long-winded answer about the opportunity we saw in the venture studio sector, how we believe now is the best time to build products thanks to AI, and something about building unicorns.


But the honest answer is that we love building and growing companies, creating tech products, and working with talented people.


Building things is what we are good at, know how to do, and have been doing for a long time. From discovery to delivery to scaling, we love every bit of the process.


When we were running our digital product studio servicing large enterprise businesses (exited in 2021), we saw many great ideas get wasted in a sea of endless reports, meetings, and jargon.


Now, we are excited about working to bring the best ideas to life and, with the help of our investors and founders, bring great companies to the world.

It’s time to build.

Chris, Lucas and Ben.

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The image featured at the top of the about us page #1
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How We Work

It all starts with an idea to explore, we need to research and see the potential of it before moving it into validation pipeline.

We just don't sit around, our team gets deep into the fun of founding our companies, actively engaging in the product development end-to-end, building the technology, product design, conducting research, marketing and anything else needed at the zero-to-one stage.

All this process is accelerated by our standardized processes, frameworks, shared technology platforms, to ensure the success of our ventures.

This venture-building process is divided into five main stages:

01

Explore

Sourcing ideas to develop an opportunity case template for what is worth validating. The goal at this stage is to have a direction on value proposition, identified target market, and evidence of market demand.

02

Validate

Testing the highest risk assumptions in a way to gather supporting evidence to indicate the viability, feasibility and desirability of the startup. Here we want strong evidence for problem and customer hypothesis, ensure technical feasibility and distribution channels.

03

Launch

Building and launching the product to market, and building an initial customer base by working distribution channels. Also, after launch the team needs to be able to do rapid product iteration based on feedback.

04

Traction

Here, success is acquiring as many customers as possible and taking more market share. All about growing customer base, revenue, impact, team.

05

Scale

Scale-up efforts, exploring new market opportunities, growing the team and expanding product scope.

The Team

Chris Moore

Co-Founder and General Partner

Lucas Coelho

Co-Founder and General Partner

Ben Morreau

Co-Founder and General Partner

Brent Riley

Engineering

Jarrad Edwards

Engineering

Julia Goldman

Growth Marketing

Alex Raffo

Finance

Renato Paixão

Design

Paulo Oliveira

Engineering

To accelerate our trajectory by attracting top talent and expanding into global markets, we've established the Ryft Zero Fund, a dedicated capital reserve to fuel our portfolio companies.

© 2024 Ryft Venture Studio — From NZ to the world.

© 2024 Ryft Venture Studio — From NZ to the world.

© 2024 Ryft Venture Studio — From NZ to the world.