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— Venture Hotel

A venture builder for the AI-native generation of European companies.

We help founders, startups, and corporates take ideas from sketch to shipping — combining five decades of combined operating experience with the speed of vibe-coded prototyping. What once took twelve months and €500k now takes sixty days and a fraction of the cost.

60 days
From idea to first paying customer or corporate user — the new baseline.
50 yrs
Combined operating experience across SaaS, retail, edtech, HR-tech.
€10–40k
What a launch-ready MVP costs today.
01 — For founders & startups

Build your company with operators who've done it — not consultants watching from the sidelines.

i.

Idea to prototype, in weeks

We sit with you and build. Vibe-coded MVPs, real users in front of them within days, real signal back within weeks. Not a deck — a working product.

ii.

Go-to-market that closes deals

Sales motion design, ICP definition, first ten customers run by people who've sold from zero before. We do the calls with you, not for you.

iii.

Product & design as a craft

UX, brand, positioning, copy. The difference between "another tool" and a product people actually pay for usually shows up here.

iv.

Hiring & team building

The first five hires define the next fifty. We've made that mistake and the right call enough times to know which is which.

v.

Capital & cap table

How much to raise, when, from whom, on what terms — and how not to give away the company in the process. Plus our own network of co-investors.

vi.

The honest sounding board

Weekly or as-needed, sometimes 11pm before a board call. The conversations you can't have with your team or your investors — but desperately need.

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Building something? →Let's talk
02 — For corporates

Innovation that ships — real product, real users, real signal — in weeks, not quarters.

i.

Venture studio in residence

We embed for 8–16 weeks. Your strategic question becomes a working prototype, validated with real customers — yours or new ones. You decide whether to spin out, fold in, or shelve.

ii.

Strategic prototype sprints

Eight weeks, fixed scope, one big question. We pick the riskiest assumption in your strategic bet and build a prototype that proves or kills it — with real users, real data, real signal. You leave with a decision, not a deck.

iii.

Innovation team upskilling

Your team learns to ship like an AI-native startup. Workshops, hands-on builds, real KPIs. They leave with a prototype, not a certificate.

iv.

Strategic AI assessments

Where AI compresses your cost-to-build, where it doesn't, where the moats are forming. Practical, not theoretical — written by people who've shipped, not just researched.

v.

Built to pass legal review

Compliance, IT security, and governance aren't bolted on at the end — they're in the concept from day one. We've spent years inside corporates ourselves, so we know what procurement, legal, and InfoSec actually need to see. We build it as a startup would, but one that ships through enterprise gates.

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03 — How we work

Three principles. No exceptions.

i.

Operators, not advisors

We've founded, scaled, and exited companies. We sit in the room, in the code, in the sales calls — not on the call summary slide afterward.

ii.

Skin in the game

Wherever it makes sense, we'd rather take a stake in the venture than a retainer — our upside should depend on whether the company works, not on hours billed. For corporate engagements where equity isn't the right vehicle, we keep scope and pricing tight and tied to deliverables.

iii.

Speed as a discipline

Sixty days from idea to first revenue, or we tell you it isn't worth building. We don't run multi-quarter projects with no decision point.

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Whether you're a founder, a startup,
or a corporate with an idea — let's talk.

The first conversation is free, and almost always useful. We'll tell you whether we're the right fit, whether the idea is worth pursuing, and what we'd do first.