From the day you sign we work as one team, toward a single outcome: your EVT built, and you ready to raise your next round. We are a partner in this, not a vendor — everything below is what we do together, phase by phase.
One compact program: three phases, two continents, 3–6 months from a defined product to a working EVT. The supply chain, the build team and the investors are already in place, so you skip the months and the $1M+ it takes to figure them out alone.
Turn the idea into a product that is both fundable and buildable.
On site and hands-on, from the PRD to a working, demoable EVT.
Bring the EVT home, put it on stage and raise the next round.
Phase 2 is on-site by design. You land in the house with the rest of the cohort and the build team, and the sessions and reviews happen in the room you work in.
Phase two is in Shenzhen because hardware's 0→1 is not written, it is walked: samples, tooling, vendors. Those things are half an hour apart here and six weeks apart anywhere else.
Square kilometres of component market where the part you need is a walk away rather than a lead time. Week one of the sprint is spent walking it with the build team — that is where supply-chain literacy starts, and you do not get it from a catalogue.
Category factories, tooling shops and solution houses close enough that a sample is a car ride, not a courier. Prototype rounds, EVT and the ramp toward mass production all run inside the same radius.
Actuators, sensors, hands, structure — searchable by subsystem, part, country and the programmes each one already supplies. It is the same index the sourcing desk works from. Open the map →
250 makers indexed across 15 countries, 140 of them in China — actuators, sensors, hands, structure. Your build plan is drawn from the same index as our robotics supply chain map, so sourcing starts from a list of real factories rather than a search.
We conducted due diligence and signed legal agreements with every factory we worked with to clearly define responsibilities, protect intellectual property and confidential information, and reduce legal and operational risks for our portfolio companies.
Patent strategy and filings for your core technology, so what you invent on the way to EVT stays yours.
Microphones, cameras and user data are reviewed alongside the product definition, so the device is built to meet privacy rules such as GDPR and CCPA from the start.
FCC, CE, RoHS and whatever else your markets require, planned from EVT onward so certification is never the thing that holds up your launch.
Stage is the build stage, not the funding stage — where the hardware stands today.
AI clinical device. Ambient recording for visits.
The device listens through the appointment so the room stays a conversation rather than a transcription exercise. Through the program, and shipping.
AI bookmark. Reading into personal knowledge.
What you read turns into something you can come back to, instead of a pile of saved links nobody opens twice. Through the program, and shipping.
AI ring. A wake-word-free voice interface.
You talk to it without saying its name first — the hard part is doing that on a ring's power budget. Through the program and into mass production.
AI pocket bible. An e-ink faith device.
A single-purpose reading device for a devoted audience, where the screen and the battery matter more than the spec sheet. Through the program to a working EVT.
We bring the technical, supply-chain and investor perspectives you do not have yet, and we define what is good and what is not with you — direct when something needs to change.
We expect real effort alongside us, because the hardware is your moat and it is yours to own. When feasibility or the business hits a real problem, it escalates fast.
PRD review, tour debrief, build diagnostic, weekly build-plan reviews, prototype reviews, EVT review.
We reply within one week with a first-call invite or substantive feedback — not silence.
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