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Portfolio & ventures

Don't just build a website. Build a business.

Our venture building division launched in 2016 to help non-technical founders build real digital businesses. We help you figure everything out — funding, product design, business models, IP protection and more.

01The portfolio

Products built, backed and taken to market.

Some are our own. Some were built with founders. All of them shipped.

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OpenAdvisor

live

Get your own AI advisor

An AI advisor that learns instantly from your own documents and data, with no model training required. Business owners use it to answer questions, brief teams and get advice grounded in their own material.

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MarketIQ

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AI stock market analysis

AI-driven analysis of stock market movements and news, turning market noise into readable signals for investors and analysts.

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Gamolly

live

Lifelike text to speech

A text to speech platform producing lifelike voice for content creators, publishers and businesses that need audio versions of what they write.

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Sellkie

live

Not just a CRM, a complete sales machine

A sales platform that goes past contact management: pipeline, follow up and the automation a small sales team needs to keep deals moving.

Visitsaas
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Red Hot News Network

live

A digital news network

A digital news network built and operated in-house, giving the group its own publishing reach and distribution.

By invitationmedia
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eName.Cards

live

Digital name cards that stay current

An online name card service that replaces printed cards with a shareable digital profile that can be updated at any time.

Visitsaas

8KRZ

seed round

Music streaming, built for discovery

A music streaming venture connecting independent artists with listeners, currently raising a seed round.

Visitmusic
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JetnRoom

seed to series a

Flight and hotel aggregation

A travel aggregation platform bringing flights and hotel inventory into one booking flow. Raising between seed and Series A.

Visittravel

Mintcubator

seed round

No-code NFT generator

A no-code tool for generating and minting NFT collections without writing contracts, currently at seed round stage.

By invitationweb3

02Venture building

We help you figure everything out.

We don't build to spec. We build to win — which means the business case matters as much as the code.

Two colleagues working together on a venture
01

Funding

Investor readiness, seed rounds and the path to Series A.
02

Product design

What to build first, and what to leave out until it earns its place.
03

Business models

Pricing, unit economics and the model that makes the product a business.
04

IP protection

Protecting what makes the venture defensible before it goes to market.

Venture building

Have an idea that deserves to be a business?

Bring us the idea and the market. We will tell you honestly what it takes to build it, fund it and launch it.