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Venture Studio
APU Ventures

Building the Future:
A New Model for Venture Creation

We build innovative, high value SaaS companies with a capital efficient, bootstrapped mindset at a fraction of the market cost by leveraging AI and Latin America's emerging tech ecosystem and talent pool

Our Vision

The Opportunity & Our vision

Opportunity

Cost Efficiency Trends in Tech

  • AI and tech-enabled tools make it super convenient to launch products in the marketplace
  • 3 X faster to launch MVPS and achieving POc compared to 10 years ago

Leveraging LatAm

  • Tech and growth talent in emerging ecosystem Latam ~50 % cheaper
  • Latam interesting emerging market opportunity for digitalization and tech solutions

Data is key in the new World Order

  • Data more and more important in a world wanting to train inference and foundational models
  • Plenty of industries, niches, categories that are not collecting or leveraging data

Build Thesis & Focus Areas

We have some primary industries we focus which present interesting opportunities and in which our leadership has relevant experience

Build Thesis
Financial Services
Health
Retail / Ecommerce
Mining & Energy

We want to focus on some particular horizontal needs and technologies that we believe there is extensive need for

Data collection & creation (synthetic)
AI
Hyper-focused B2B SaaS

Our Portfolio & Pipeline

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How we work

Independent Studio

Building and scaling our own ideas and products, backed by independent VCs when needed

Corporate Co-Creation

Partnering up with established companies based on scalable use cases (via Joint Ventures and spin-offs)

Strategic GTM Partnerships

Accelerating market entry and product adaptation in new regions through soft or hard landing strategies

How We Work

We occasionally provide software / product development services if there is a strategic fit

Our Venture Studio Operating System (OS)

1

Ideation, Discovery & Prioritization

Internal & Thesis-Driven - Market-Pull & First-Principles - Tech Push

100-170 ideas

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2

Pre-Product Validation & De-Risking

Assumptions Mapping - Formulating Hypotheses - Run Lean Experiments

50-80 validations

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3

Company Building & MVP Development

MVP Development - GTM Sprints - Milestones-based validation

20-30 MVPs

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4

Spin-out & Scaling

Scaling with internal resources or Spin-out with external resources

5+ successful ventures

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About Us

About Us

We are combining 40+ years of venturing, growth and tech experience from Fast Forward Advisors and CCVASS to form this new Joint Venture.

Leadership & Team

Team Member 1

Partner & CEO

Brief bio and experience

Team Member 2

Partner & CTO

Brief bio and experience

Team Member 3

Head of Growth

Brief bio and experience

Get in touch with us

APU Ventures - Building the Future