Venture Studio

We build companies.
Not decks.

Nomic is an operating venture studio. We partner with founders to build, scale, and fund companies from the ground up — taking significant equity, rolling up our sleeves, and running alongside you as operators, not advisors.

We build the platform

We design, develop, and ship the technology. If your business needs software to run, we build it ourselves — from zero.

We raise capital

When the time is right, we help structure and run the raise — SPVs, syndicates, and direct introductions to the right rooms.

We operate

We embed with your company long-term. Product, engineering, go-to-market — we're in it, not watching from a board seat.

What we expect

Real partnerships require real stakes.

We bring our team, our infrastructure, and our capital relationships. But we're most valuable where the problem is genuinely hard — regulated industries, entrenched incumbents, markets where automation hasn't yet dared to go.

We look for situations where the incumbents are asleep at the wheel, where legacy players are panicking to adopt AI they don't understand, and where our advantage is structurally unfair. That's where we want to be.

You bring

A capital commitment

This engagement isn't free, and it isn't equity-only. We charge for our time because our time is what makes this work.

Proprietary data or domain access

The best businesses we build are built on information others don't have — regulatory relationships, industry datasets, access that took years to earn.

A complex or regulated problem

If the market is messy, entrenched, or hard to break into, that's where we excel. Friction is a feature, not a bug.

Technology or IP worth protecting

A patentable method, a defensible dataset, or a novel approach that creates structural advantage we can compound over time.

We build

Deep competitive moats

Not features — structural advantages that compound the longer you operate.

Proprietary indices and data infrastructure

Intelligence layers that become more valuable over time and are impossible to recreate from scratch.

Business models built to last

Designed to be acquired, funded, or scaled independently — not pivoted away from when things get hard.

Portfolio

What we're building

Live

TerraNode

Underwriting layer for the global compute buildout

Translates raw site data into bankable intelligence — site scoring, deliverable MW estimates, and risk quantification across 31,500+ potential data center and power sites.

Infrastructure Intelligence
Live

ElseHub

Project management built for AI-native teams

Context portal for AI-powered development. Track decisions, roadmap items, and inter-agent communication. Claude Code plugin + MCP server + web app.

Developer Tools
Live

VisitID

Visitor intelligence platform

Identifies and tracks website visitors with privacy-safe attribution. Know who visits your site, own the intelligence.

Visitor Intelligence
Live

AI Content Engineering

AI-powered SEO and content at scale

Automated content creation with AI writers, promotional avatars, video production, and automatic backlinking. Set-it-and-forget-it content infrastructure.

AI / SaaS
Stealth

Stealth — Legal Tech

AI-powered IP detection and protection

Identifies and protects intellectual property in real time. Built for engineering teams operating in IP-dense industries where every invention matters.

Legal Tech
Live

SaaSAgent

The end of click-driven SaaS

Knows your product, knows your visitor's intent, and acts — without making them navigate. Not a chatbot that answers questions. An agent that does the thing for them.

AI / SaaS
Stealth

Stealth — Health & Wellness

AI-powered consumer health platform

Democratizing access to a historically opaque, high-margin industry through AI personalization and data intelligence. Pre-launch.

Health & Wellness
Stealth

Stealth — Space Infrastructure

Edge compute for low earth orbit

Infrastructure layer for processing data at the source — in orbit. Built for organizations where latency and data sovereignty are existential constraints.

Space Infrastructure
Live

Audie

Turn books into audiobooks with AI

AI-powered audio publishing platform purpose-built for book-to-audiobook production. Professional-quality narration at a fraction of traditional studio costs.

AI / Media
Stealth

Stealth — Spatial Advertising

Property rights for the AR layer of the physical world

Buildings already have owners. Soon they'll have a second surface — visible only through AR glasses — worth more than the signage on the wall. We're establishing the rights infrastructure before the market arrives.

AR / Real Estate
Stealth

Stealth — Intelligence & Screening

OSINT-powered background intelligence at scale

Combines open-source intelligence, criminal records, and behavioral data from 500+ sources to surface risk in seconds. Built for industries where the wrong hire or partner is an existential threat.

Intelligence / Security
Live

Nomic Media Network

75+ niche news and content properties

A portfolio of owned-and-operated media properties across verticals. Built to generate first-party audience data, proprietary content signals, and distribution leverage at scale.

Media / Data

How it works

Our model is simple

Most ideas arrive half-formed — a market observation, a frustration, a dataset with nowhere to go. The first thing we do is turn that into a real business plan: the model, the moat, the go-to-market, the capital structure. Along the way, we identify and file the patentable inventions hiding inside the business. That clarity — and that IP — is often the most valuable thing we deliver.

Then we build your MVC — a Minimum Viable Company, not an MVP. Investors don't fund prototypes anymore; they fund operating businesses. So we ship the platform, stand up the marketing engine, instrument your CAC, and lock down the IP — all before you raise. You walk into a seed round with a company, not a deck. Skip the pre-seed entirely.

When the business is ready to raise, we help structure and run the raise. SPVs, syndicates, direct introductions — we've done it, and we do it for our portfolio first.

Who we are

Operators who have done it before.

Founder & CTO

Ryan Scott

Built one of the internet's first SaaS platforms in the 1990s, patented double opt-in email, and testified before the FTC to help pass the CAN-SPAM Act — when the internet was still considered a fringe business. His work established the consent-based marketing frameworks that are now federal law and industry standard worldwide.

Took his company public through private funding with no outside investment. Has been building infrastructure-level businesses — the kind that shape how entire industries operate — for over thirty years.

CEO

Janet Kim

MSc from Oxford in psychometrics and data science, studying under the world's most cited educational psychologist. Led the first Chinese educational IP licensed by Mattel. Engineered Y2K systems for the Bank of New York and Bank of Japan.

CEO of CCOM Global Technologies. Operates at the intersection of AI, real-time business intelligence, and cross-vertical systems thinking — with a track record across edtech, fintech, and AI analytics in the US, China, UAE, and UK.

Ready to build something?

If you have an idea worth building and want real operators in the trenches with you, reach out. We respond to every serious inquiry.