Global Venture Studio Innovation Half Day
About Event
Venture studios are becoming a more and more central pillar of the innovation and venture ecosystem. Some cohorts of venture studios have shown to be capable of delivering roughly 2x the IRR of traditional benchmarks and ~33% faster exits.
AI is also transforming the rate at which these startup factories are spinning out companies, giving them the ability to test and validate a much higher number of bets compared to just a few years ago. And now, a much higher rate of studios are launching investment vehicles to capitalize further on their success.
The Global Venture Studio Innovation Half Day is a live online mini-conference exploring the latest trends and insights into the venture studio and venture studio fund, where LPs and operators can participate; and where the ecosystem is going next.
What will be covered:
The basics of venture studio operations and venture studio investment funds
The venture studio global state of play and latest trends
The LP case for venture studios as a stronger bet within early-stage venture
Co-investing and diligence-sharing between traditional VCs and venture studios
How founder-operators are using the studio model to launch companies that outperform solo-founder benchmarks
The influence of AI in the Venture Studio sector
Where the studio ecosystem is heading, from the people building it
Who should attend:
Emerging GPs and venture studio founders, from those just starting out to those with a decade of operating history.
Traditional VC funds interested in co-investing with studios. Operators, ex-founders, and domain experts weighing whether to become a studio founder, LP, or advisor.
LPs considering a first allocation to venture studios (family offices, strategic-operator LPs, high-net-worth investors)
Confirmed speakers
Neal Ghosh — Managing Partner, 9point8 Collective; economist turned venture builder and co‑founder of the Venture Studio Forum; builds decision‑intelligence tools and ontologies that help universities, corporates, and studios design, benchmark, and scale venture‑building programs.
Henk Kok — Co‑founder, Xablu Venture Studio; 10+ years in software product management and team coaching; now scaling a B2B tech venture studio and its evergreen Xablu Venture Fund that invests in studio‑born ventures.
Michael van Lier — Founder & Managing Director, Builders (Rotterdam); 25+ years launching tech companies; leads an AI‑native venture studio that conceives, validates, and scales system‑grade companies with embedded execution and capital.people.
Sarah Adams Anderson — Founding Partner, Vault Fund; one of the first fund‑of‑funds dedicated to venture studios, with 12+ years in PE/VC and prior experience as Fund Manager at The Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund (FoF, $100M+ AUM).
Saurabh Chatterjee — Senior renewables executive (WSP USA); 15+ years delivering utility‑scale solar and battery storage projects globally across EPC and development; brings an LP lens towards venture studio and hard‑tech investing.
Shabab Saad — CEO & Co‑Founder, CarboMat; UCalgary spin‑out turning asphaltene waste into carbon fiber and battery materials; Shahab is a founder bringing the founder's perspective exploring the venture studio route to commercialize deep‑tech technology.
About the hosts
Myrto Lalacos is the founder of The Emerging VC, an independent platform for the next generation of fund managers. After years inside VC and helping launch more than 1,900 emerging GPs at VC Lab, Myrto now writes, hosts, and convenes the conversations that shape how the new generation of fund managers and VC leaders think and build.
Vineet Shah is Founder and Managing Director of 8 Clockwise, a VC firm investing in deep tech. Before venture, he spent close to two decades in corporate strategy and sales leadership at companies including Honeywell and Caltrol - an Emerson Electric Impact Partner. He built a venture studio before launching his fund investing in hardware and industrial IP.
Vish Rao Dumpeti is Founder and Managing Director of Forward Share Ventures, an AI-native venture studio that co-founds with domain experts to turn ideas into investable companies. A former operator and technologist at Spotify, WeWork, and CLEAR, Vish built Forward Share to close the “negative one to zero” gap by providing capital, embedded execution leadership, and a curated network of fractional CXOs so founders reach product-market fit in months, not years.
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The Emerging VC An independent platform with curated resources for new and emerging VC managers.