Open Venture Labs partners with selected early-stage ventures where hands-on execution, structured thinking and operating experience can materially improve the odds of success.
Experience for equity · Execution over advice
Early-stage ventures often struggle to convert ambition into disciplined execution.
Founders need more than occasional mentoring. They need people who can help structure the business, challenge assumptions, prioritise, build, execute and prepare the company for the next stage.
Open Venture Labs exists to close that execution gap.
Clarify the problem, proposition, market, business model and strategic choices.
Translate ideas into testable products, experiences and MVPs.
Build plans, governance, priorities, roles, rhythms and execution discipline.
Find where modern technology and AI create genuine product or operating advantage.
Design how new ideas, products and ways of working are adopted by customers and teams.
Strengthen the business case, story, operating evidence and readiness for capital.
Understand the founder, problem, market and ambition.
Challenge assumptions; decide if the opportunity deserves real time.
Agree where OVL can create meaningful value and align through equity.
Work alongside founders on proposition, product, operating model, execution.
Develop evidence through product, validation, traction or operating milestones.
Prepare the venture for growth, investment, partnerships or the next stage.
Understand the founder, problem, market and ambition.
Challenge assumptions; decide if the opportunity deserves real time.
Agree where OVL can create meaningful value and align through equity.
Work alongside founders on proposition, product, operating model, execution.
Develop evidence through product, validation, traction or operating milestones.
Prepare the venture for growth, investment, partnerships or the next stage.
Open Venture Labs is not a high-volume accelerator. We work deeply with a limited number of ventures where our involvement can materially influence the outcome.
Ambient operations layer for finance and ops teams.
Halcyon is being built to give small finance and ops teams an always-on layer over their tools — surfacing the work that matters, automating the routine, and keeping the operating picture current without another dashboard to manage.
Compliance and governance automation for regulated B2B.
Kier is being built to make compliance legible and executable for regulated B2B companies — turning policies, evidence and controls into guided workflows so governance stops slowing the business down.
This venture is under NDA.
Details are not public at this time. This venture is currently under NDA — more will be shared when it is ready.
The venture list will grow as partnerships are confirmed. We do not publish unverified traction, customers or funding figures.
Founder & Venture Operator
Poland / Europe
Joe is an experienced transformation, portfolio and execution leader whose career has focused on converting complex strategies into executable businesses, programmes and operating models.
His experience spans digital delivery, portfolio governance, transformation, organisational change, operating-model design and AI-enabled ways of working.
He created Open Venture Labs to apply that operating experience directly to early-stage companies — working alongside founders where structured execution, challenge and hands-on support can materially improve the probability of success.
We partner with a small number of founders where hands-on operating experience can materially change the outcome — aligned through equity, not fees.