We are an AI Venture Incubator
With Corporate Venture Partners
We identify a target market with our corporate venture partners, start a new company, provide the seed investment, create the roadmap, build the product, and go to market. We validate product-market fit by acquiring paying customers for the new company in 90 days. As a result, our corporate venture partners can make risk-mitigated investment decisions faster at the speed of AI.
A proven Jobs-to-be-Done method
We use our proven method and platform to develop new products for our portfolio companies with corporate venture partners. The customer’s Job-to-be-Done is a stable North Star that enables us to mitigate AI disruption risk in your markets.
“Customers are not buying your product, they are hiring it to get a job done.”
“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.”
A proprietary and patented venture platform
We use thrvAI to build new intelligence applications on our jtbdos tech stack. This enables us to develop new AI-native products unencumbered by legacy technology debt.
Our platform uses proprietary agents to continuously gather customer input, generate intelligence that satisfies unmet needs, and improve the product at unprecedented AI speed.
A proven leadership team
We have worked with and at the world’s leading companies.
Jay Haynes
Founder & CEO
Former CEO of Strategyn. Investment professional at GTCR. PM at Microsoft. Acquired & IPO of Steinway & Sons. MBA w/ Distinction, HBS. BA Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University.
Jared Ranere
President & COO
10+ years using JTBD to accelerate growth at PE portfolio companies and leading corporations incl. Microsoft, Oracle, Amex, eBay, Target. BA with Honors, University of Chicago.
Alex Gournares
CTO, Technical Managing Director
Former Chief Technology Advisor to Bill Gates at Microsoft. CTO of Bing. CTO at AOL. Leads architecture & software dev for thrv portfolio companies. BSE CS cum laude, Princeton.
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