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AI-nativecompany building.

The companies of tomorrow are tech companies.

Hybrid human-AI teams that learn and adapt from each other make it possible.
We build this with you.

We build systems that are good for people and the planet.

€400M+
Managed
The Shift · Learning · Adaption · Leadership
AI moves faster than our ability to learn from it and adapt.
Adaption decides.
The technology is the smallest part.
Whoever uses AI consciously will be so much better that they replace someone who doesn't. Every week the gap grows between what's possible and what actually happens.
70% of AI success depends on people, learning and processes, not technology. The gap rarely arises from missing tools. It grows where learning competence is lacking and leadership waits for someone else. 5+ studies 2023–2026
The shift is here

We are in a shift that we partly already feel and partly cannot yet grasp. How we learn. How we work. How we communicate. What roles humans and machines take on. These changes do not run one after another. They run simultaneously. And they reinforce each other.

Learning agility decides

Learning agility is the decisive competence of our time. The ability to quickly absorb new knowledge, apply it in unknown terrain, let go of habits that no longer carry. No team, no consultant, no tool replaces what leadership itself must have penetrated: the interplay of direction, system and implementation.

Who we work with

We work with founders and leaders who have consciously embarked on this path. Who already anchor AI as an operating system. Diverse teams that ask better questions before the model is trained. Teams where humans and AI consciously work together, because hybrid collaboration outperforms fully autonomous systems by almost 70% when designed with intention.

The Paradox · Competence Shift
AI solves problems faster than ever before.
Therefore, the most important human competence
will no longer be solving, but judgment:
recognizing the right problems,
when they count, and for whom.
The more powerful AI becomes, the more fundamentally shifts which human competencies count: away from what can be generated, towards moral judgment, context and responsibility for the consequences.
BECOMES EASIER
Building solutions
Solving problems
Automating processes
BECOMES THE NEW CURRENCY
Recognizing what's right
Earning attention
Being trustworthy
In a world flooded with AI content, attention becomes the scarcest resource and trust the only currency that remains. Ogilvy calls it the dominant trend 2026: The Human Premium.
The new playing field of AI-native companies

Cursor generates $300 million ARR with 12 employees. Midjourney exceeds $200 million revenue profitably, without a single external investor, with 40 people. Perplexity grows from zero to $100 million ARR in under two years. Gamma reaches millions of users with a team smaller than a classic marketing department. ElevenLabs is valued at over $1 billion with under 100 employees worldwide. The pattern is the same: small teams, clear intention, AI as leverage. Whoever understands which problem is worth solving builds companies today that would have required hundreds before.

Judgment is the difference

MIT, 2024, 1,018 scientists. AI-supported teams discovered 44% more new materials. Top performers doubled their output. The bottom third benefited hardly at all. The variable that explained everything: judgment. The ability to decide which results are relevant, which direction is right, which question should be asked at all. This is the competence that AI amplifies and that it presupposes.

Harvard Study of Adult Development (85 years)

Over 700 participants, followed from youth to old age. Their central finding: Neither income nor status nor intelligence decide health, resilience and longevity. People with deep, genuine connections live longer, recover faster from crises and remain cognitively capable longer. In the attention economy, this becomes the scarcest resource: genuine human connection.

Why we build the way we do
The systems being built today
decide tomorrow.
We consciously choose
what we use tech and AI for.
AI can be a lever for real impact, or an amplifier of existing structures. Both scale. We choose who we support and what we say yes to.

The systems being built today decide tomorrow. We consciously choose what we use tech and AI for. AI can be a lever for real impact, or an amplifier of existing structures. Both scale.

Planetary boundaries

Seven of nine planetary boundaries have already been crossed. Despite a 38-fold increase in environmental agencies and laws since 1972, environmental decline continues. The question is not more of the same. The question is a different paradigm.

The Regenerative Paradigm Map synthesises 320 cross-disciplinary studies into 7 core principles and 253 concrete leverage points. The deepest leverage begins with inner transformation: shifting worldviews, values and the way we understand our relationship to living systems. It moves towards pluralistic economics beyond growth as the organizing principle. It places communities, local knowledge and agency at the center. And it embraces systems thinking: seeing flows, relationships and interdependencies as the foundation of every decision.

They are the design criteria for the ventures, teams and solutions we choose to build.
(Fanning and Raworth, Nature 2025 · Taveras-Dalmau, Becken and Westoby, Ambio 2025)

Social inequality

Two thirds of humanity live in countries with growing inequality. Paradigm blindness, being so embedded in one worldview that alternative paths become invisible, is one of the greatest risks of our time. Entrepreneurship that works at the intersection of systems is one of the strongest forms of leverage.

AI and structural bias

AI built with the worldviews of a small homogeneous group scales exactly that world. Dr. Fei-Fei Li: AI is a tool. Its values are human values. That means we need to be responsible builders.

We choose who we support.
We choose what we say yes to.

How we work together

Five ways to build together.

For founders, serial entrepreneurs and ventures that grow & scale.

01 · Learn & Enable
AI Learning Hub
For teams ready to build AI-natively. We work directly on your processes and real use cases. What emerges: AI workflows, concrete results, a team that gets better every day.
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02 · Transform & Anchor
AI Transformation Partner
Anchor AI. We build it with you into your processes, your team, your daily life. What emerges belongs to you: your own data, your own models, real IP.
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03 · Build Together
Co-Builder
For founders in the growth phase. We build together what carries: business model, product, team. AI-native, from within. We grow when you grow.
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04 · Build New
Corporate Venture Building
For organizations building new business models from existing strengths. We explore, validate and build together: AI-native, with startup discipline and shared responsibility. What emerges stands on its own feet.
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05 · Scale
Venture Partner
We scale portfolio companies with operational depth that capital alone cannot buy. AI judgment, industry knowledge and access that no generalist opens.
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01 · Learn & Enable

AI Learning Hub

What changes

Processes that take two hours today run in twenty minutes. Each team member increases their individual performance. The team as a whole becomes faster than the sum of its parts. And the results show in weeks.

How we work

Kickoff with your entire team · Weekly sessions on your real processes · Custom AI workflows ready to use · Twelve weeks · Up to 8 people · No generic curriculum · Everything built on your reality.

The difference from a workshop

A workshop shows what's possible. This program builds it with you. Knowledge stays with your team. Your processes run without us afterward.

For whom

Founders who want to invest their teams in AI competence. Ventures that want to stop experimenting and start scaling. Teams that want to use AI daily, not just know about it.

Does this fit your team? Let's find out together.

02 · Transform & Anchor

AI Transformation Partner

What changes

Processes that take hours today run in minutes. Decisions are made faster and better reasoned. AI is not a tool running on the side, but embedded in how your company works daily. And knowledge stays. Permanently anchored in your team.

How we work

We start with a deep understanding of your processes. We decide together what the biggest lever is. Then we build together: custom AI workflows, tailored solutions and LLMs that fit your infrastructure. We iterate based on real data. We transfer responsibility step by step to your team. With shared responsibility for results · DACH-focused.

The difference

We develop functioning systems together. We sit with your team. We share responsibility. And we're still there when something doesn't work. Human-AI teams outperform pure automation by 68.7%. That's the foundation we build on.

For whom

For-profit and nonprofit companies that want to build hybrid teams and AI-natively. Founders and leadership teams that understand that operational AI transformation requires responsibility and space.

Ready for a conversation? Let's look together at whether and how we can work together.

03 · Build Together

Co-Builder

What changes

Your company grows faster because the right decisions are made earlier. Scalable business models emerge with hybrid Human-AI teams that outperform what traditional structures could ever deliver. And you have someone who's really there, who thinks with you, builds with you, shares responsibility with you.

What we build together

Business model development and validation · AI-native product development and tech solutions · Go-to-market strategy and first customers · Team building and leadership structure · Brand and positioning · Funding strategy and investor access · Scalable processes with hybrid Human-AI teams.

How we work

We start with a deep understanding of your company and the job that needs to be done. We validate quickly with real data and real market feedback. Then we build together what grows. What emerges carries us both.

The difference

Co-building is the opposite of advisory. We don't sit outside. We build inside. No concept that gets handed over. Operational depth, AI-native infrastructure and shared responsibility for results. We're liable too.

For whom

Founder personalities in the growth phase who want to build scalable business models and tech solutions with a real partner. Ventures that want to grow AI-natively. Teams looking for someone who's really there.

Ready for a conversation? Let's look together at whether and how we can work together.

04 · Build New

Corporate Venture Building

What changes

A new company emerges from your existing strengths, with startup speed, AI-native infrastructure and clear milestones. New business models are tested quickly without jeopardizing your core business. What emerges stands on its own feet with governance that scales and a model that lasts.

What we build together

Opportunity analysis and market validation · Business model design and business case · AI-native product development and MVP · Go-to-market strategy and first customers · Organizational structure, governance and legal setup · Team building and leadership · Funding strategy and investor access · Scaling and handoff.

How we work

Explore, we analyze your existing strengths, market opportunities and the jobs no one is doing yet. We identify where a new business model creates real added value.

Validate, we test quickly with real market feedback. Hypotheses are proven or disproven before we build. Using lean methods and AI-native infrastructure.

Build, we develop product, team, brand and go-to-market together. Startup discipline meets operational experience. We fill critical roles until permanent positions are found.

Scale, we scale the business model and hand off step by step. The venture becomes an independent unit. We stay as long as it makes sense.

The difference

We build more than solutions. We build the entire venture, from the first idea to an independent unit. Not a consulting engagement that ends when the concept is handed over. We sit with your team, share responsibility and are liable for results. 76% of corporations use venture building for new revenue streams.

For whom

Mid-market companies and large enterprises that want to build new business models from existing strengths. Organizations that understand the next growth driver lies outside the core business. Leadership teams ready to start building.

Ready for a conversation? Let's look together at whether and how we can work together.

05 · Scale

Venture Partner

What changes

Portfolio companies scale faster than market average. AI investments become real growth drivers. EBITDA grows through operational depth. Your fund scales your access to decision-makers in sectors where operative reality counts.

Why this matters now

PE holding periods have risen to 6.7 years, the highest since 2005. Financial leverage alone no longer creates returns. 70% of PE firms are increasing AI investments by 25% or more. Funds that evaluate AI investments with real industry knowledge and operational experience have a structural advantage over those who only look at pitch decks.

What we bring

Operational Alpha for Portfolio Companies
AI-native transformation that moves EBITDA · Co-building for ventures in growth phase · Hybrid Human-AI teams that deliver faster · Scalable business models from existing strengths.

AI Judgment for Due Diligence
Technical validation of AI investments based on real business and operator experience · Evaluation of AI readiness and scaling potential · Industrial and regulatory depth in sectors that matter · Responsible for 400M EUR+ project and portfolio volume.

Access
Decision-maker network in DACH that has grown over 18 years. Bridges between operational reality and capital.

How we work

Venture partnerships emerge through trust, impact and domain expertise. We bring operational depth that scales: portfolio companies grow faster, funds become more attractive to founders, to LPs and to everyone who really wants to scale.

For whom

VC funds that want to bring operational depth to their portfolio companies · PE firms that want to use AI transformation as a value driver for their portfolio companies · Investors with portfolios in sectors where operational reality outweighs technical theory.

We're looking for funds that want to scale. Together we'll find out if we're a fit.

Where Builders & Co builds

Sectors where we build.

Sectors where technology creates systemic impact. And where we know the operative reality from the inside with our network.

01 · Environmental Tech & Planetary Systems
Environmental Tech & Planetary Systems
The Earth system sets the boundaries within which all human systems operate. Seven of nine planetary boundaries have already been crossed. Technology built without this understanding will accelerate the problem, not solve it.
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02 · Infrastructure Tech
Infrastructure Tech
Infrastructure is the foundation of everything. One of the world's largest investment markets. One of the least digitized sectors. That's where the leverage lies.
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03 · Social Tech & Impact
Social Tech & Impact Entrepreneurship
10 million social enterprises worldwide. $2 trillion revenue. 200 million employees. An economic sector that grows because societal need grows.
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04 · EdTech & Future of Learning
EdTech & Future of Learning
AI transforms how people learn, faster than educational institutions can adapt. We build in markets where learning is structurally necessary: regulated vocational training, continuous upskilling and systems that enable personalized learning at a scale that was simply not possible before.
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05 · HealthTech
HealthTech
Health systems worldwide face the same structural challenges: aging populations, shortage of skilled workers, increasing chronicity. The technology that can change this is available.
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06 · Industrial Tech & Manufacturing
Industrial Tech & Manufacturing
The global manufacturing industry is at the biggest turning point since industrialization. AI, robotics and connected systems fundamentally change production processes.
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07 · DeepTech & Science-based
DeepTech & Science-based Ventures
36% of all European VC investments today flow into DeepTech. The path from lab to market needs partners who equally understand scientific depth and operational scaling.
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Diversity · Women in Tech
The best solutions come from the widest perspectives.
Only 22% of global AI talent is female. Women are 22% less likely to use AI tools at work. Technology built by few scales the worldview of few and creates problems no one solves.

Builders & Co advocates for female founders and diverse teams in all sectors. For systems that work for everyone, built by diverse teams from day one.
Interface EU, 2024 · Harvard Business School, 2025
EdTech & Future of Learning

EdTech & Future of Learning

Reimagining learning ability

The half-life of professional knowledge is declining structurally. What graduates learn today becomes partially outdated in a few years. At the same time, many educational institutions lack the agility to respond. AI fundamentally changes this: personalized learning at a scale that was previously impossible. Adaptive systems that adjust learning paths in real time. Educators who focus on what AI cannot do: human connection, judgment, context.

The markets

The global EdTech market grows from $187B (2025) to $437B by 2033, CAGR 10.8%. The AI in Education sub-market grows faster: from $7B to $41B by 2030, CAGR 42.8%. Europe accounts for around 30% of global market volume. Personalized learning through AI increases course completion rates by 70%. 60% of educators in Europe are already using AI daily.

What we understand by EdTech

Regulated vocational training: nursing, medicine, trades, law. Markets with certification requirements and structural skills shortages. Upskilling and workforce development: corporate learning is the fastest growing sub-market. Human-AI co-learning: hybrid learning architectures outperform both purely human and fully automated learning. Lifelong learning: platforms that integrate continuous learning into daily work.

Let's build together in this sector?

Environmental Tech & Planetary Systems

Environmental Tech & Planetary Systems

Operating within planetary boundaries

The Earth system sets the boundaries within which all human systems operate. Seven of nine planetary boundaries have already been crossed. Technology built without this understanding will accelerate the problem, not solve it.

We build with founders who understand the full picture: environmental, social and economic systems as one. Regeneration as the organizing idea behind every solution we build together.

The markets

The ClimateTech market grows from $37.5B (2025) to $220B by 2035, CAGR 24.6%. The global market for clean energy technologies reaches over $600B per year by 2030 according to the IEA. 83% of institutional investors now require planetary-boundaries alignment as part of their fund terms. The global circular economy opportunity: $4.5 trillion (Ellen MacArthur Foundation).

What we understand by Environmental Tech

Energy and networks: renewable generation, storage technologies, grid intelligence. Circular economy and materials: solutions that end as resources. Water and soil: water infrastructure, soil regeneration. Food systems: regenerative practices, precision agriculture, alternative proteins. Industrial decarbonization: cement, steel, chemistry. Hard-to-decarbonize industries need fundamentally new approaches.

Let's build together in this sector?

Infrastructure Tech

Infrastructure Tech

Building infrastructure anew

Transport networks bring people to places. Energy networks supply societies. Water systems secure life. Digital infrastructure carries the data economy. Infrastructure is the prerequisite for all other sectors. And it stands at a crossroads: aging infrastructure, climate adaptation needs, new regulatory requirements, and structural pressure for digitalization meet massive public investment capital all at once.

The markets

Global infrastructure investment needs through 2040 total $106 trillion (McKinsey Global Institute). Digital infrastructure alone accounts for $19 trillion through 2040. VC investments in the built-world sector have increased tenfold between 2017 and 2024.

What we understand by Infrastructure Tech

Civil engineering: roads, bridges, tunnels, utilities. Building and built world: buildings as physical and digital systems, BIM, constructive AI, prefab technologies. Transportation and mobility: intelligent traffic systems, autonomous logistics. Energy infrastructure: networks, storage, decentralized generation. Water and environmental infrastructure: critically underinvested, regulation-driven. Digital infrastructure: data centers, fiber optics, edge computing, digital twins.

Let's build together in this sector?

Social Tech & Impact Entrepreneurship

Social Tech & Impact Entrepreneurship

Turning societal needs into sustainable models

Societal challenges arise from structural failure, economic inequality, and political priorities. They are solved through structures that function: economically sustainable, operationally scalable, socially rooted. Social-tech entrepreneurship combines social mission with technological innovation in models that are self-sustaining.

The markets

10 million social enterprises worldwide generate $2 trillion in annual revenue and employ 200 million people. 50% of these companies are led by women. The global impact investing market crossed the $1-trillion mark in 2025.

What we understand by Social Tech

Social enterprises with tech at their core: from educational access to housing, from care infrastructure to economic participation. NGOs in operational transformation: established organizations wanting to scale operationally. CivicTech and GovTech: technology that improves public services. Community and social infrastructure: housing, mobility, healthcare, and education as social essentials.

Let's build together in this sector?

DeepTech & Science-based Ventures

DeepTech & Science-based Ventures

Converting scientific breakthroughs into market-ready ventures

DeepTech is different from conventional startup building. Development timelines are longer. Capital intensity is higher. Valuation logic is more complex. And the core technology itself is still being developed while the venture is being built. The critical difference is whether the core technology itself still needs to be invented.

The markets

36% of all European VC investments today flow into DeepTech. 76 European university spinouts have achieved unicorn or centaur status. McKinsey projects $1 billion enterprise value from European DeepTech by 2030. The global DeepTech market grows with CAGR 48.2% to $714.6B by 2031.

What we understand by DeepTech

Novel AI and agentic systems: AI foundational technology, new architectures, reasoning systems. Robotics and autonomous systems: industrial robotics, surgical robots, autonomous navigation. Advanced materials: new materials for energy, construction, medicine. Computational biology and chemistry: AI-driven drug development, protein folding, synthetic biology. Novel energy: fusion energy, small modular reactors, green hydrogen. Quantum technologies: quantum computing, quantum sensors.

Let's build together in this sector?

Industrial Tech & Manufacturing

Industrial Tech & Manufacturing

Building industry anew

Those who digitalize existing processes optimize yesterday. What manufacturing companies need today is a different question: what job should this production do tomorrow? What processes emerge when decision logic is handed over to machines? 50% of manufacturers will highly automate their core processes by 2030.

The markets

Global manufacturing industry: $16 trillion. Smart manufacturing market: $175B in 2025, CAGR 9.3% to $274B by 2030. AI in manufacturing: from $34B (2025) to $155B by 2030, CAGR 35.3%. Industry 4.0 as a whole market: $149B (2025), $1.2 trillion by 2035.

What we understand by Industrial Tech

Industrial AI and predictive systems: AI applications that monitor production processes and predict failures. Smart manufacturing and digital twins: digital representations of physical production. Supply chain and logistics: AI-driven supply chains. Robotics and automation: industrial robots and collaborative systems. B2B platforms: AI-native production control that replaces legacy structures.

Let's build together in this sector?

HealthTech

HealthTech

Building health anew

Health systems worldwide are under pressure: structurally, demographically, economically. Aging populations increase demand. Skills shortages reduce capacity. Chronic diseases displace acute care. AI-supported diagnostics, telemedicine, personalized treatment plans, scalable mental health interventions are usable tools in markets with regulatory complexity.

The markets

The global HealthTech market grows from $908B (2023) to $3.1 trillion by 2033, CAGR 13.1%. Digital health grows from $199B (2025) to $573B by 2030, CAGR 23.6%. Mental health: 1 billion people globally affected, $2.5 trillion in economic costs per year. Longevity: $27B (2023) to $77B by 2030.

What we understand by HealthTech

Regulated care and health education: markets with certification requirements and structural skills shortages. Mental health and wellbeing: evidence-based, scalable digital interventions. Digital health and telemedicine: remote treatment, remote patient monitoring, digital diagnostics. Longevity and prevention: genomics, wearables, preventive platforms. Care infrastructure and care tech: digital solutions for care facilities and home care.

Let's build together in this sector?

VENTURES WE GROW

Ventures we grow.

HealthTech · EdTech
AI-powered learning for care professionals. Language fluency and clinical knowledge in one personalised application.
Product Studio · AI
Design, engineering and AI. Brought together to build digital solutions worth using.
InfrastructureTech · DeepTech
Next-generation cooling for AI data centers. Sustainable thermal infrastructure for the compute-heavy world.
EdTech · InfrastructureTech
Knowledge and community for the builders of smarter, more sustainable infrastructure.

WHO WE BUILD WITH

Who we build with.

we build here People Social Foundations Ecological Foundations Value Systems
People
Human potential and wellbeing
Social Foundations
Trust, community and how we learn and live together
Ecological Foundations
Planetary health and living systems
Value Systems
Economies, organisations and technology designed to work for people and planet

If that resonates, welcome.

We work with founders and leaders who see the world as a system. Who understand that human wellbeing, social trust, ecological health and economic design are one interconnected reality. Respectful collaboration and genuine partnership are the foundation of everything we do together.

Let's build

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Questions we hear most.

What is AI-native company building? +

AI-native company building means designing companies from the ground up with AI as an operating system, not a bolted-on tool. Small teams achieve more through intentional AI implementation, hybrid human-AI teams and judgment-driven decisions. The result: faster learning, stronger outcomes and leverage that traditional structures cannot match.

Who do you work with? +

We work with founders, serial entrepreneurs and leadership teams who build AI-native companies. Our focus is venture building across Europe, with deep roots in EdTech, Environmental Tech, Infrastructure Tech, Social Tech, DeepTech, Industrial Tech and HealthTech. What connects everyone we work with: they treat AI as leverage and learning agility as their most important competence.

How does the AI Learning Hub work? +

The AI Learning Hub is a twelve-week AI upskilling program for up to eight people. Weekly sessions on your real processes, custom AI workflows that deploy immediately, and knowledge that stays in your team. No generic curriculum, everything built on your operational reality. This is AI transformation that anchors in the team, not a workshop that fades.

What's the difference between Co-Builder and Corporate Venture Building? +

Co-Builder is for founders in the growth phase who want a real partner inside their venture building process: business model, product, team, go-to-market, built AI-native and together. Corporate Venture Building is for established organizations that want to build new, AI-native business models from existing strengths, with startup discipline and shared responsibility for results.

How do I start a conversation? +

Write down your dream outcome in the contact form. Sara responds personally. If it fits, we talk about how we build it.

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