Published: Last updated: 3 July 202615 min read

The Rise of Venture Studios in India: Building Companies as an Institution

India’s startup ecosystem is entering a new phase in which companies are not only funded or accelerated, but systematically created. Venture studios could become an important institutional bridge between ideas, operators, technology, capital and markets.

Author: IVSA Team

India has built one of the world’s most energetic startup ecosystems. Over the past decade, founders have gained greater access to early-stage capital, accelerators, incubators, technology infrastructure, experienced operators and national startup programmes. Entrepreneurship is no longer concentrated in a small number of cities or industries, and the ambition to build large companies now extends across consumer markets, software, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, climate, defence and deep technology.

Yet the process of creating a company remains highly fragmented. A promising idea may exist without the right founder. A capable operator may want to build but lack a validated opportunity. A university may possess valuable research but not the commercial team required to bring it to market. A corporation may understand an industry problem but struggle to build an independent business outside its existing organisation. Investors may be willing to fund a company after formation but may not be structured to finance the work that happens before a credible team, product and market thesis exist.

Venture studios attempt to close this gap. They are purpose-built organisations that repeatedly create companies by combining opportunity discovery, validation, product development, founder recruitment, capital and shared operating capabilities. Instead of waiting for fully formed startups to apply for support, a studio participates directly in the formation of the company.

This distinction matters. A venture studio is not simply another name for an incubator, accelerator, consulting firm or investment fund. Its defining characteristic is institutional co-creation. The studio helps determine what should be built, tests whether the opportunity deserves a company, assembles the initial capabilities and remains economically aligned with the venture it helps create.

For India, the emergence of this model is especially timely. The country has developed digital infrastructure that reduces the cost of building and distributing new services. It has a growing pool of experienced startup operators. Universities and research institutions are becoming more commercially ambitious. Corporations are looking beyond conventional internal innovation, while investors have become more disciplined about capital efficiency, governance and evidence of demand.

These conditions do not guarantee that venture studios will succeed. Studios remain exposed to the same market, talent, technology and execution risks as every other company-building model. Poorly designed studios can become expensive service organisations, hold excessive ownership, confuse founders or launch companies before demand has been established. The opportunity lies not in treating the model as inherently superior, but in building institutions that apply greater discipline to the earliest and most uncertain stage of entrepreneurship.

A New Layer in India’s Startup Infrastructure#

India’s startup ecosystem has historically developed around several important institutions. Incubators help entrepreneurs access infrastructure, mentorship and early support. Accelerators work with existing startups for a defined period, often helping them refine their product, network and fundraising story. Angel investors and venture funds allocate capital to companies they believe can grow. Corporate innovation programmes explore strategic opportunities, while universities support research and student entrepreneurship.

Venture studios occupy a different position in this landscape. They operate before, during and immediately after company formation. A studio may originate an opportunity internally, identify it through a corporate or university partnership, or work with a founder who has deep insight into a particular problem. It then subjects that opportunity to structured research and experimentation before committing larger amounts of capital and talent.

The output of a studio is therefore not a programme, workshop or prototype. The intended output is an independent company. That company should eventually have its own founders, employees, governance, intellectual property, customers and financing strategy. The studio may remain a shareholder and strategic partner, but the venture must be capable of operating beyond the shared infrastructure that helped create it.

DimensionVenture StudioIncubatorAcceleratorVenture Capital FundCorporate Venture Builder
Starting pointAn opportunity, market thesis, technology or founder insightAn early founder or projectAn existing startup and teamAn investable companyA strategic priority of the parent organisation
Primary roleCo-create and form companiesSupport early entrepreneurshipAccelerate growth and fundraising readinessAllocate capital and support portfolio companiesCreate businesses related to corporate strategy
Operating involvementHigh during discovery, validation and formationUsually advisory and infrastructure-ledTime-bound mentoring and programme supportVaries by investor and stageHigh, often with significant parent influence
Talent modelShared builders combined with recruited foundersMentors, administrators and ecosystem expertsMentors, partners and specialist sessionsInvestment team plus external networksInternal teams, consultants and corporate operators
Economic alignmentTypically holds equity in companies it helps createMay or may not hold equityMay invest or receive limited equityOwns securities through investmentUsually owned or controlled by the parent organisation
Success conditionIndependent, investable and scalable companiesFounder progress and ecosystem developmentGrowth, fundraising or market accessFinancial returns from the portfolioStrategic and financial value for the parent

The boundaries between these models are not absolute. An accelerator may invest deeply in selected companies. An incubator may help commercialise intellectual property. A venture fund may operate a platform team, while a corporate builder may create genuinely independent ventures. The distinction lies less in labels and more in mandate, operating depth, ownership and the point at which the institution enters the company-creation process.

A credible venture studio should therefore be judged by what it repeatedly does. Does it identify important opportunities? Can it test them before overbuilding? Does it recruit and empower strong founders? Does it establish companies with clean ownership and governance? Can those companies attract customers, employees and external capital independently? These questions reveal more than the organisation’s name.

Why India Is Well Positioned for Institutional Venture Building#

Venture studios can exist in any entrepreneurial market, but India offers a combination of conditions that may make the model particularly useful. The first is the continued development of digital public infrastructure. Identity, payments, consented data exchange, commerce networks and other shared digital capabilities can allow entrepreneurs to build on foundations that would otherwise require years of private infrastructure development.

UPI has changed how businesses and consumers make digital payments. Account Aggregator infrastructure creates new possibilities for consent-based financial data sharing. ONDC seeks to enable more open participation in digital commerce. Other public and sectoral systems are creating building blocks across identity, documentation, healthcare and logistics.

These systems should not be treated as automatic business models. Access to a digital rail does not establish customer demand, regulatory feasibility or unit economics. What it does provide is a lower-cost foundation on which focused products and workflows can be tested. Studios can be valuable here because they can repeatedly explore narrow applications across the same infrastructure while preserving technical, regulatory and commercial learning.

India’s second advantage is its increasingly experienced operator base. Thousands of professionals have now worked inside startups through multiple stages of growth. Product managers, engineers, designers, growth leaders, finance professionals and sector specialists have seen both successful scaling and expensive mistakes. Some want to become founders but may not wish to begin alone or search indefinitely for the right opportunity.

A studio can offer these operators a different path into entrepreneurship. A founder-in-residence may work with a studio-developed thesis, participate in customer discovery and shape the venture before incorporation. An experienced functional leader may join a studio as a repeat builder across several opportunities before taking leadership of one. This creates a bridge between employment and independent company formation.

The third advantage is the depth and diversity of India’s real economy. The country’s most important venture opportunities are not confined to consumer applications or horizontal software. Significant inefficiencies remain in manufacturing, supply chains, healthcare delivery, agriculture, financial operations, construction, logistics, energy and public services. These sectors often require domain expertise, industry access, workflow understanding and long validation cycles.

Such opportunities are difficult to pursue through idea competitions or brief acceleration programmes alone. They may benefit from studios that can work with corporate partners, industry experts, research institutions and potential customers over a longer formation period.

The fourth advantage is a change in capital expectations. Periods of abundant capital can encourage companies to expand teams and marketing before proving that customers value the product. A more selective funding environment places greater emphasis on evidence, capital efficiency, governance and a credible route to revenue. Studios can support this shift by funding uncertainty progressively rather than financing a full organisation from the beginning.

Finally, India has an underused base of intellectual property and research. Universities, laboratories and corporate research teams may develop technologies with commercial potential but lack product leadership, market access or entrepreneurial ownership. Venture studios can help convert research into companies by evaluating applications, licensing intellectual property, assembling founding teams and building commercial capabilities around the technology.

Indian AdvantageWhat It EnablesRole a Studio Can PlayImportant Limitation
Digital public infrastructureLower-cost access to payments, consented data and interoperable systemsExplore focused products and reuse technical and regulatory learningInfrastructure access does not guarantee demand or regulatory approval
Experienced startup operatorsA larger pool of potential founders and zero-to-one buildersOffer founder-in-residence and venture-building pathwaysOperators still require meaningful ownership and authority
Large real-economy marketsOpportunities across fragmented and inefficient sectorsCombine domain insight, pilots and product capabilityAdoption and procurement cycles may be slow
Selective capital environmentGreater demand for disciplined validation and efficient growthStage capital according to evidence and reduce premature scalingStudios themselves require patient operating capital
University and corporate researchPotential commercialisation of science, technology and internal assetsBuild the product, market and founding team around the IPLicensing, ownership and researcher participation can be complex
Regional talent expansionCompany creation beyond established startup centresConnect local talent with national markets and shared capabilitiesNetworks, follow-on capital and senior operating talent remain unevenly distributed

India’s regional diversity makes the model even more relevant. Technical talent, universities, industry clusters and unresolved customer problems exist far beyond Bengaluru, Delhi NCR and Mumbai. A studio can connect regional insight with shared product, capital and commercial capability. This may be especially useful in cities where strong founders and institutions exist but the surrounding startup infrastructure is still developing.

How a Venture Studio Actually Builds a Company#

There is no universal studio process, and different sectors require different timelines. A consumer product can often be tested differently from a healthcare platform or industrial technology company. Still, effective studios generally follow a sequence in which the amount of capital and organisational commitment increases only as uncertainty declines.

The process begins with opportunity formation. A studio may identify a theme through market research, recurring customer problems, policy changes, technological shifts or partnerships with corporations and universities. At this stage, the opportunity is not yet a startup. It is a set of beliefs about a problem, a customer and a possible source of value.

The studio then maps the assumptions that must be true. Is the problem frequent and expensive? Who experiences it, and who pays to solve it? Why are existing alternatives insufficient? Can the required technology be built? Does the business depend on restricted data or regulatory approval? Is there a path to serving multiple customers rather than one supportive partner?

These assumptions determine the validation plan. A team may conduct structured interviews, observe workflows, build a prototype, manually deliver the proposed service, test pricing or run a limited pilot. The purpose is not to collect positive comments. It is to generate evidence capable of changing the decision.

StageCentral QuestionTypical WorkPossible Decision
Opportunity formationIs there a credible problem space worth investigating?Market mapping, sector research, expert conversations and thesis developmentExplore further, narrow the scope or reject the theme
Problem validationIs the problem significant, recurring and experienced by an identifiable customer?Interviews, workflow observation, cost analysis and alternative mappingContinue, redefine the problem or stop
Commercial validationWill customers adopt and pay for a solution?Pricing tests, design-partner discussions, letters of intent and manual experimentsProceed, change the customer segment or revise the model
Solution validationCan the product create meaningful value under real operating conditions?Prototype development, technical spikes, integrations and limited pilotsBuild an MVP, license technology, partner or discontinue
Venture formationDoes the opportunity justify an independent company?Founder commitment, incorporation, cap-table design, IP transfer and governanceSpin out, retain internally or continue validation
Independent scaleCan the company grow beyond the studio and its initial partners?Team building, external sales, fundraising and operational separationScale, reposition, merge or wind down

Founder recruitment can happen at several points. In a founder-led model, the entrepreneur enters with deep insight and works with the studio to validate and build. In a thesis-led model, the studio may begin the research before recruiting a founder-in-residence. A builder-led studio may use its internal team to test an opportunity and bring in a founding executive once the market and product direction become clearer.

Regardless of the sequence, founders should not be treated as employees hired to execute a finished studio plan. They must have the opportunity to influence the thesis, product, business model and culture. The studio can contribute evidence, systems and specialist talent, but the long-term company requires concentrated leadership and founder-level accountability.

The transition from studio project to independent company is therefore critical. The venture needs a legal entity, a clear cap table, control over essential intellectual property, appropriate employee ownership, defined governance and a plan for replacing or formalising shared services. Investors and founders must be able to understand what the studio contributed, what it owns and how its influence will evolve.

A fixed twelve-week process can be useful for creating momentum, but it should not become an artificial promise that every opportunity can be validated on the same schedule. Some software workflows may produce meaningful evidence quickly. Deep technology, healthcare, financial infrastructure and industrial ventures may require longer technical, regulatory or procurement cycles. Time-boxing should drive decisions, not force premature incorporation.

  1. Discover the opportunity: Define the market, customer, problem and assumptions that could invalidate the venture.
  2. Test the problem: Speak with users and buyers, observe real workflows and quantify the cost of the existing condition.
  3. Validate commercial intent: Test pricing, adoption requirements, buyer authority and willingness to enter a structured pilot.
  4. Reduce technical and regulatory uncertainty: Examine feasibility, integrations, data rights, security and compliance obligations.
  5. Run a measurable pilot: Agree on the duration, operating environment, expected behaviour, success metrics and decision that follows.
  6. Form the company deliberately: Recruit the founding team, establish ownership, transfer or license IP and create appropriate governance.
  7. Build independence: Develop an internal team, external customer base, standalone systems and a financing path beyond the studio.

Where Venture Studios May Create the Most Value#

Studios are not equally suited to every opportunity. A highly intuitive consumer product built around a founder’s cultural insight may not require an institutional discovery process. A simple software tool may be launched by a small team without shared infrastructure. The studio model becomes more valuable when the opportunity involves several forms of complexity at once: domain knowledge, regulation, technical risk, fragmented customers, corporate access or a difficult founder–market matching problem.

In financial services, studios can explore narrow business workflows such as reconciliation, receivables, risk operations, vendor payments and embedded financial products. The advantage is not merely the ability to build software. It is the combination of financial-domain expertise, regulatory understanding, data governance, bank or platform partnerships and access to design customers.

In climate and mobility, venture building may combine telemetry, hardware, software and operational change. Fleet efficiency, charging infrastructure, industrial energy use, waste traceability and circular-economy workflows often require pilots inside existing operations. Corporate and municipal partnerships can provide access, while a studio coordinates technical development, measurement and commercial validation.

Healthcare opportunities require an even more deliberate approach. Products may affect sensitive data, clinical workflows, patient consent and institutional responsibility. Studios can assemble expertise across healthcare operations, product, privacy and technology before the company scales. The objective should be to integrate safety and compliance into the initial product rather than treat them as later additions.

Industrial and supply-chain ventures may benefit from studios because adoption depends on understanding real operating environments. Products for quality control, maintenance, procurement, safety and vendor management must work with legacy systems, on-premise constraints and varied user behaviour. A studio with deep domain relationships can test these conditions before a new company commits to a broad platform.

Deep-technology commercialisation is another important area. Research-based ventures often begin with a technical capability rather than a clearly defined customer. Studios can compare applications, establish market priorities, recruit commercial founders and help structure licensing arrangements. This work is less about inventing the science and more about creating the company around it.

SectorPotential Studio OpportunityEvidence That MattersCommon Risk
Financial servicesB2B finance operations, embedded products, reconciliation and risk workflowsRegulatory feasibility, buyer commitment, secure integrations and measurable operational savingsBuilding around temporary regulatory interpretations or one platform dependency
Climate and mobilityFleet efficiency, energy management, circular systems and emissions workflowsVerified cost savings, asset utilisation, reliability and repeatable deploymentHardware variability, infrastructure dependence and long sales cycles
HealthcareProvider operations, patient coordination, claims and controlled data workflowsSafety, workflow adoption, consent, auditability and improved service outcomesUnderestimating clinical, privacy or institutional constraints
Industrial technologyMaintenance, quality, safety, procurement and plant-level intelligenceDowntime reduction, productivity improvements and compatibility with existing systemsOverbuilding before testing inside real operating environments
Deep technologyCommercialisation of university or corporate researchTechnical performance, defensible IP and an economically valuable first applicationChoosing a technically impressive but commercially inaccessible market
Digital public infrastructureFocused services built on payments, commerce, identity or consented dataReliable integration, customer demand, viable economics and complianceTreating access to public rails as sufficient differentiation

The studio’s sector thesis should determine the capabilities it develops. A studio working in regulated financial services needs different expertise from one building consumer brands or industrial hardware. The most credible studios will not claim to be equally capable across every sector. They will establish a clear relationship between their thesis, talent, networks, capital and operating playbooks.

Measuring What a Studio Actually Produces#

The earliest stages of venture creation are difficult to measure because traditional startup metrics may not yet exist. Revenue, retention and growth become essential once a product is operating in the market, but they cannot be the only measures during discovery and formation.

Studios therefore need leading indicators that show whether uncertainty is being reduced. These should not become substitutes for commercial outcomes. Their purpose is to determine whether the venture is making informed progress toward them.

  • Evidence velocity: How quickly the team converts research and experiments into decisions that change the venture.
  • Problem consistency: Whether the same significant problem appears across multiple users, buyers or operating environments.
  • Design-partner quality: Whether partners provide access to workflows, users, data, decision-makers and credible pilot conditions.
  • Commercial commitment: Whether potential customers move beyond interest toward payment, contracts, internal resources or measurable adoption.
  • Time to first value: How quickly a user receives the core benefit after beginning to use the solution.
  • Repeat behaviour: Whether the product becomes part of an ongoing workflow rather than producing one-time curiosity.
  • Dependency reduction: Whether the venture is becoming less reliant on a single partner, studio team, technology provider or channel.
  • Assumption retirement: Whether the largest market, technical, regulatory and operating risks are becoming clearer.

At the studio level, the number of ventures launched is not enough. An institution can improve its apparent output by incorporating companies prematurely. A more meaningful evaluation should consider how many opportunities were assessed, how many were stopped, how efficiently capital was used, whether founders remained committed, whether companies attracted external customers and capital, and how the portfolio performed over time.

MetricWhat It Helps EvaluatePotential Misinterpretation
Opportunities evaluatedBreadth and consistency of the studio’s discovery engineA large number does not indicate quality
Concepts discontinuedDiscipline in stopping weak opportunitiesA low number is not necessarily a sign of superior selection
Time to consequential evidenceEfficiency of the validation processSpeed should not come at the expense of credible testing
Venture formation rateHow selectively the studio converts opportunities into companiesA high rate may indicate premature incorporation
Founder retention and ownershipQuality of alignment and long-term incentivesRetention alone does not reveal founder authority or satisfaction
External customer concentrationIndependence from the studio’s initial network or anchor partnerOne major customer can temporarily distort apparent validation
Follow-on capitalExternal investor confidence and financing readinessFundraising should not be treated as the final measure of success
Long-term company outcomesWhether the studio creates enduring economic valueThese outcomes require years, not months, to assess

Studios should be willing to report negative decisions as part of their operating discipline. A concept closed after a focused validation cycle may represent responsible capital allocation. The alternative — continuing to fund a weak opportunity because a team has already invested time or announced it publicly — can be far more damaging.

Ownership, Governance and the Risks of the Model#

The studio model introduces genuine governance questions. A studio may originate the opportunity, fund early development, employ the initial builders, recruit the founder, create intellectual property and provide continuing services. These contributions can justify meaningful ownership, but they can also create conflicts if roles and rights are not clearly defined.

Founder ownership is one of the most important considerations. The studio may have invested before the founder joined, but the operating team will carry the company through years of execution, fundraising and dilution. If founders and employees begin with insufficient economic participation, the venture may struggle to attract the leadership required to become independent.

Decision rights are equally important. During early validation, the studio may coordinate research, product development and resource allocation. After formation, the founder and company board should increasingly control operating decisions. The boundary between studio support and studio control must be explicit.

Intellectual property should be documented from the beginning. The parties must identify what the studio owned before the venture, what was created during validation and what the company needs to operate. Relevant IP may be assigned or licensed depending on the structure, but the company must have sufficiently secure rights to attract founders, customers and investors.

Shared services also require transparency. A studio may provide engineering, design, finance, recruitment, legal or growth support. These services can substantially reduce early friction, but the company should understand how they are priced, how long they will continue and when internal capability must be developed. Related-party arrangements should not become a permanent burden on the venture.

  • Founder disempowerment: The studio defines the company too rigidly or retains control over routine operating decisions.
  • Excessive early dilution: Studio, corporate and institutional stakeholders allocate too much ownership before founders and employees begin scaling the venture.
  • Service dependency: The company cannot function without permanent access to the studio’s shared team.
  • Unclear intellectual property: The venture lacks secure rights to the product, technology, brand or data required for operation.
  • Single-partner validation: A corporate or design partner creates apparent demand that does not exist in the wider market.
  • Premature incorporation: A legal entity and team are created before the opportunity has earned sufficient evidence.
  • Portfolio conflicts: The studio creates companies with overlapping markets, customers or intellectual property without clear safeguards.
  • Fund–studio conflicts: Investment decisions, service economics and ownership incentives are not transparently separated.

These risks do not invalidate the model. They show why common standards are necessary. Studios should document equity principles, founder rights, intellectual-property treatment, related-party services, data governance, conflict management and the transition to independent company governance.

The ecosystem must also avoid making unsupported claims about studio performance. International studies and individual studio portfolios may provide useful insights, but outcomes vary significantly by studio definition, sector, geography, methodology and time period. India needs its own transparent, longitudinal evidence base before broad conclusions can be drawn.

What India Must Build Around the Studio Model#

The rise of venture studios will depend on more than the creation of individual studio brands. India needs an ecosystem that understands how these institutions work and creates appropriate pathways for capital, talent, research and corporate participation.

The first requirement is clearer language. Organisations currently use terms such as venture studio, startup studio, company builder, venture builder, corporate studio and venture factory in different ways. A rigid legal definition may not be necessary, but founders and investors should be able to understand whether an organisation originates ventures, provides services, invests capital, runs a programme or combines several of these roles.

The second requirement is appropriate capital. Studios need operating capital before individual companies are ready for institutional investment. This capital finances research, validation, product development, specialist talent and opportunities that may ultimately be discontinued. Investors in the studio must understand that they are funding a company-creation engine, not simply a conventional portfolio.

New ventures may then require formation capital and later seed or growth funding. These pools can be connected but should remain transparent. A fund affiliated with a studio should make investment decisions through clear governance and disclose potential conflicts, valuation processes and the rights of external investors.

The third requirement is talent development. India needs more professionals who understand zero-to-one product building, structured customer discovery, founder recruitment, venture finance, IP commercialisation and early-stage governance. Studios can become practical training environments through apprenticeships, founder-in-residence programmes and rotating venture assignments.

The fourth requirement is stronger university and corporate collaboration. Standard licensing pathways, spinout templates, pilot agreements and venture-clienting structures can reduce the negotiation required for every new opportunity. The objective should not be to impose identical economics, but to establish credible starting points.

Public policy can support these developments by ensuring that studio-created companies are not excluded from startup, incubation, research or procurement programmes simply because an institutional co-founder participated in their formation. Governments can also enable controlled pilots, translational research grants and commercialisation partnerships without attempting to prescribe how every studio should operate.

StakeholderHow to ParticipateWhat to Protect
Founders and operatorsJoin as founders-in-residence, venture leaders or specialist buildersMeaningful ownership, authority, role clarity and rights to essential IP
InvestorsFund studio operations, formation vehicles or individual spinoutsTransparent economics, conflicts, valuation and portfolio reporting
CorporatesProvide domain problems, design partnerships, distribution and venture-client relationshipsAvoid excessive control, exclusivity and dependence on one internal sponsor
UniversitiesLicense IP, support researcher participation and collaborate on commercialisationClear ownership, realistic terms and incentives for the operating team
Government and regulatorsEnable pilots, procurement, grants and appropriate programme eligibilityCompetition, public accountability, data protection and policy neutrality
Venture studiosCreate companies through disciplined validation and shared capabilitiesFounder alignment, governance quality, honest reporting and venture independence

The Indian Venture Studio Association can contribute by developing shared definitions, responsible-practice principles, model documentation and credible research. It can create forums where studios exchange operating knowledge while maintaining appropriate confidentiality and competition. It can also help founders, investors, corporates, universities and policymakers distinguish serious institutional venture building from superficial rebranding.

The association’s role should not be to mandate a single studio structure. India will need several models: founder-led studios, operator-led studios, university commercialisation studios, corporate partnerships, regional studios, domain specialists and studios connected to investment funds. Diversity can strengthen the ecosystem provided the underlying economics, governance and claims are transparent.

From a Startup Ecosystem to a Company-Building Ecosystem#

India’s startup ecosystem has become increasingly capable of supporting companies after they are formed. The next institutional challenge is to improve what happens before formation: how opportunities are identified, how founders are matched with problems, how research reaches markets and how early capital is allocated under uncertainty.

Venture studios offer one answer. At their best, they turn company creation into a deliberate organisational capability. They allow teams to test ideas before building full companies, reuse specialist talent across several opportunities and preserve learning from both success and failure. They can connect corporations, universities, investors and operators around ventures that would be difficult for any one participant to create alone.

But the model will earn credibility only through outcomes and behaviour. Studios must create value before claiming ownership, empower founders rather than manage them indefinitely and build companies that can survive outside the studio. They must demonstrate that shared resources improve decision-making rather than merely reduce visible cost. They must be willing to stop weak ideas and report their practices honestly.

The rise of venture studios in India should therefore not be understood as the arrival of another startup trend. It is part of a broader shift toward institutional company building. The opportunity is to create organisations that repeatedly bring together insight, technology, talent and capital around important problems-and then transfer the resulting venture into the hands of founders capable of leading it independently.

If India develops the right standards, capital structures, talent pathways and institutional partnerships, venture studios can become a meaningful part of the country’s entrepreneurial infrastructure. Their contribution will not be measured simply by how many ideas they generate or companies they incorporate. It will be measured by whether they help create stronger founders, better-governed ventures and enduring businesses that may not otherwise have been built.

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