01/BuildMostly
We start new AI-native service businesses. Designed around agents from day one, run by operators, held for the long term.
- →New ventures, from zero
- →AI-native by design
- →Operator-led
- →Held, not flipped
EST. MMXXIV · LONDONAN AI-NATIVE COMPOUNDER BUILDING & BUYING SERVICE BUSINESSESBUILDING & BUYING SMEs
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We build good businesses.
We buy a few.
We compound with AI.
An AI-native compounder. We mostly build, and buy selectively, for the long term.
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Founders & operators. Growth, M&A, fundraising or a quick compare-notes call.
Build◆Acquire◆Operate◆Automate◆Compound
§01What we are building
One compounder.
Build. Buy. Operate.
We mostly build founder-led service businesses from zero. We buy selectively. One shared operating layer runs both.
Mode 01 → 03Compounder · build · buy · operateBuild · Buy · OperateLong-term hold
02/BuySelective
Occasionally we acquire founder-led businesses, with capital partners, where the platform compounds value.
- →Deal-by-deal
- →Founder-led businesses
- →Aligned with capital
- →Quiet, considered
03/OperateShared
One operating layer powers everything we build and everything we buy. The how stays in-house.
- →Shared platform
- →Cross-portfolio
- →Compounding by design
- →Quietly opinionated
§02Ventures
A few of the
things we've built.
A growing portfolio of AI-native service businesses we've started, backed or run.
Live01 · 2025
StartupRoles.
Talent · Startups
An AI-native hiring layer for early-stage companies. Matching operators with the startups building what's next.
startuproles.co→
Live02 · 2025
Brep.
AI · B2B
AI agents built into the workflows of modern service businesses.
brep.ai→
→ More ventures live and in build. Not every company is public yet.
§04Thesis
The next great compounders won’t be funds.
They’ll be operating platforms
that build what they automate.
/ 01
Builders first.
We mostly build. New AI-native service businesses from zero, designed around agents from day one.
/ 02
AI as a compounding edge.
Every workflow we automate sharpens the platform for the next business. The IP is the operating layer.
/ 03
Long-term by default.
Hold great businesses, reinvest free cash flow, no forced exits.
/ 04
Aligned with capital.
When we acquire, it's deal-by-deal SPVs in verticals we know. Investors back specific theses, not blind pools.
§05The operators
Pro entrepreneurs.
Not fund managers.
One runs capital. One runs the platform. Both have built and exited.
FOUNDED 2024
LONDON · WORLDWIDE
FOUNDER-LED
LONDON · WORLDWIDE
FOUNDER-LED
CO-FOUNDER
01 / 02
Mike Bank
Co-founder · Capital & M&A
Fifteen years across investment banking, venture and angel investing. Mike runs the capital and M&A side of the platform: sourcing deals, structuring SPVs, sitting with founders on growth, fundraising and turnaround. He has read more P&Ls and sat in more board meetings than most operators ever will.
M&A & SPVsFundraisingCapital structuringBoard & turnaround
CO-FOUNDER
02 / 02
Steve Franco
Co-founder · Platform & AI
Twelve years launching ventures. Steve runs the AI operating platform: agent design, automations and the digital transformation work we do inside portfolio companies and partner businesses. He turns strategy into systems that actually ship.
AI platformAgent designDigital transformationFounder & operator
§06Questions
The honest answers.
If yours isn't here, ask us on the call. We'd rather be caught not knowing than pretending to.
Not a fit if
- You're looking for a fund manager who'll never sit in the business.
- Headcount reduction wrapped in a language model is the plan.
- You want a quick flip on a fund clock, not long-term value.
- Nobody internal can spend a day a week with us.
§07Let's talk
Run a business.
Move faster.
Run a founder-led business and want to move faster on AI, growth, capital or M&A? Reach out. Capital partners welcome on the same line.
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