First Man Ventures is a venture studio with its own operating team: growth, engineering, automation and back office. We start companies from scratch, and we put the same team into companies that already have traction.
Most investors write a check and wait. We put a staffed operating team to work, either on a company we start ourselves or on one that already has customers.
We start the company.
We research markets and look for underserved niches. Then we put together the team, build the product and take it to market on the infrastructure our other companies already use, so a new company is live in weeks.
We join the company.
If you already have paying customers, we put our operating team into your business: growth, engineering, automation and ops. We partner on the outcome instead of charging a retainer. We only win when you do.
We already run an operating company. Growth marketers, designers, engineers and operators are on staff, and they ship code, automations and back-office work with AI tooling. Putting that team on one more company costs us little, which is why we can partner on the outcome instead of charging a retainer.
Talk to usWhen we start from scratch, every company goes through the same four steps.
We research a market, find the gap and check that customers will pay before we write code or hire anyone.
We hire people who know the trade and pair them with an operator from our team. We fund it ourselves.
The company goes live on shared technology, marketing, finance and HR, usually within weeks.
We run the growth playbooks we use across the portfolio, with one set of numbers for every company.
A company that joins us with traction starts at step four.
Six verticals where running the operation well and using technology is what sets a company apart.
Direct-to-consumer companies that control the product from sourcing to fulfillment, from everyday goods to handmade premium items.
Trades and home service companies run on technology and central dispatch, expanding into new markets one at a time.
Software for verticals the big finance tools skip, automating the work they leave manual.
Products that replace the spreadsheets and manual steps a specific industry still runs on.
Marketplaces for fragmented local industries, with transparent pricing, better logistics and a customer experience built on technology.
Our own growth team and content properties, which bring customers to our companies and our partners.
Operators looking for a company to run, investors who want to build alongside us, and founders with traction who want a partner. Tell us which one you are and we will write back.
Or email us at hello@firstmanventures.com