Co-found with Naubeej
Naubeej pairs every venture with a founding CEO: a domain operator who has lived the problem, not just pitched it. You join paid. You validate with us. And if the idea survives real customers, you run the company that comes out of it.
Who this is for
You've spent years inside an industry, in ops or product or sales, and you own a number, not a deck. You've watched the same workflow break the same way a hundred times, and you know exactly what should exist instead. You'd have started something already if the pieces had lined up: a co-founder, capital, a technical team, a safety net. That's the part we bring. You bring the domain.
Not consulted on it. You ran it.
You talk about what you built and what broke.
Discovery calls don't scare you; you'd make them in week one.
A customer “no” changes your mind faster than an advisor's “yes.”
Meaningful equity with a bench beats 90% of nothing.
What you get
Most founders spend their first year recruiting the team that builds the thing. Yours exists already.
A 19-year product bench on a proven stack.
Product and brand craft from the first sketch.
Positioning, pricing, first-customer motion.
Formation, contracts, books. Handled.
A committed partner in Dale Ventures and a fundraise path when you're ready.
When it's time to build your team.
How it works
Join as a founder-in-residence, paid from the first week. We pressure-test the idea against real customers together: you lead the conversations, we work beside you.
If customers pull it forward, a company forms around it. You become founding CEO with meaningful equity that vests as you build. If they don't, you've lost a few months and nothing else. You were paid, you're credited, and you're first in line for the next idea.
Revenue, team, capital. The studio moves to your cap table and your corner: a shareholder, and the loudest reference you'll ever have.
You'll own less of this company than if you'd founded it alone. That's because you won't be alone. Some residencies end with a polite no: the customers didn't pull, and we don't build what customers don't pull. If that ending would embarrass you, we're the wrong studio. If it sounds like the cheapest way to find out whether your company should exist, keep reading.
Founder stories
The first founder stories are being written, literally. You'll meet the founders here as their companies leave the nest.
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