Local insight. Industry knowledge. Entrepreneurial ambition. We bring business design and product development to the same team, building ventures that reach real customers.
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Strategy & craft.A problem spotted in the field. Knowledge waiting to be put to use. A first customer you can speak with. The starting point for a venture may already be within your organization or community.
We turn that starting point into a business hypothesis, build what is needed to test it, and use customer feedback to decide what comes next. Business and product work as one team.
Start with the support you need now. We agree on the scope and deliverables before beginning.
Test the customer and business assumptions before building.
Customer conversations and market understanding help us decide which problem to solve. Existing knowledge and relationships inform the validation plan.
Build a working product and learn from customer response.
We design and develop an agreed product scope, then test it with customers or through a PoC. AI supports research, design and development; people own business decisions and quality review.
Build the team and operating foundations for the next stage.
Plan company formation, the early team, fundraising preparation and product handover. We coordinate legal, finance and other specialists where needed.
Start with an opportunity in your organization or a challenge facing a portfolio or cohort team. We work alongside your existing support network, from planning to delivery.
Test an idea, build a product or strengthen a delivery team. We bring business and product expertise together and agree on where we can help.
Product development support
We supported the development of dairii’s product from the ground up. Working alongside the DNX Ventures-backed startup, we helped turn its concept into a working product.
Visit dairiiThis is an example of our product development work.Former strategy consultant at PwC Strategy& and Boston Consulting Group. Experience as a software engineer, PM and CTO at startups. INSEAD MBA.
Product manager and software engineer at Recruit and Visional. Founding PdM at a gov-tech startup, working across planning, development and validation.
Supported startups at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), then worked in management consulting at Bain & Company. Now independent, with extensive experience as PdM at Dainii and in new business development at large companies. LL.B. from the University of Tokyo.
Investment experience at several VC funds in Tokyo and New York, backing startups from seed to late stage. MBA from ESADE Business School.
We bring together the specialists each project needs to build the right support team.
Yes. Tell us about the problem, what you know and who you can reach. We will work out what to test first.
Yes. It is a standalone development and market-validation program. We agree on product scope and validation goals before starting.
We propose scope, team, deliverables, timing and fees after understanding your situation. Work begins once the terms are agreed.
Our focus is business validation and product development, with support for the next-stage team and operating structure. Legal and company formation work involves appropriate specialists. Program selection or successful fundraising is not guaranteed.
Your idea does not need to be fully formed. A few questions will help us understand where you are and what you want to build together.
4 steps · About 3 minutes. No pitch deck needed.
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