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Inside your company sleeps a giant.Decades of know-how. Data no one has touched.Clients who trust you. A brand you built.We refuse to let it sleep.
NOT A REPORT. NOT A STRATEGY. A REAL VENTURE, LIVE.
The window is open.It won't stay open.
Every industrial market is being redrawn, right now.
2023-25 // THE COLLAPSE
BUILDING GOT 10X CHEAPER
AI cut product development from millions and a decade to a small team and a quarter.
The barrier protecting incumbents is gone, and billions are now funding AI-native ventures aimed at industrial niches.
TODAY // THE RESTART
EVERYONE IS BACK ON THE STARTING LINE
They don't attack the factory. They attack the margin around it : data, services, client relationships. They'll take the profitable 20% and leave you the heavy 80%.
NEXT 36 MONTHS // LOCK-IN
POSITIONS GET TAKEN
Whoever activates the data and service layer of a sector first, owns it.
Then the window closes.
In a restarted race, the winner isn't who's biggest.It's who moves first.
Startups spend yearschasing what you already own.
Four assets. Any one of them can carry a venture.
Together, they're a head start no startup can buy.
Asset / A1
DATA
Years of operational and client data, untouched. The raw fuel of the AI era sitting in your systems.
untapped
Asset / A2
EXPERTISE
Decades of know-how nobody can prompt their way around. It's what makes a venture defensible.
DEFENSIBLE
Asset / A3
BRAND
A name your market already trusts. A startup begs two years for the meeting your name gets in one call.
TRUSTED
Asset / A4
NETWORK
Your first ten buyers are already in your contact list. Validation starts this month, not next year.
LIVE
FOR 90 DAYS, YOU SHAPEYOUR NEXT VENTURE.
One program. Three layers. A venture, ready to build.
LAYER / 01
THE COHORT
A circle of exceptional industrial CEOs, challenged like a founder batch.
Masterclasses from founders who scaled to hundreds of millions. A network for life.
LAYER / 02
THE FORWARD DEPLOYED ENTREPRENEUR
A builder embedded inside your company, working beside you like a technical co-founder.
He frames, validates, designs, builds the case. Accountable for what gets built.
LAYER / 03
THE STUDIO
The best ventures move into the studio, powered by OSS Ventures:
built, scaled and capitalized. With you as a shareholder.
THE SIGNATURE CONCEPT
Not an advisor.A builder.
Born in the best tech companies.
Brought into industry for the first time.
The Forward Deployed Entrepreneur sits with your teams, digs into your assets, and shapes the venture with you, hands on, in the field, accountable for what gets built.
Others deliver thinking. He delivers a venture.
You bring the industrial depth.
He brings the startup velocity.
Together, you build.
Ninety days.OPERATOR TO FOUNDER.
Sprints, not committees. Real buyers in week two, not year two.
Weak ideas die fast. The one that holds gets everything.
- D01
PHASE / 01 : FRAME
MAP THE GIANT
Audit your sleeping assets. Generate venture hypotheses. Kill the weak ones fast.
- D21
PHASE / 02 : validate
FACE REAL BUYERS
Test willingness to pay with real decision-makers. Double down on the idea that holds.
- D50
PHASE / 03 : BUILD THE CASE
SHAPE THE VENTURE
Product vision. Go-to-market path. Investment case. Pressure-tested by the cohort.
- D80D90
PHASE / 04 : demo day
PITCH LIKE A FOUNDER
Not a slide deck, a venture ready to build, in front of the batch.
day 90.You walk out with a venture.
Not a strategy. Not a deck. A business ready to build.
out / 1
A VALIDATED BUSINESS
DELIVERED
out / 2
A CLEAR PRODUCT VISION
DELIVERED
out / 3
A GO-TO-MARKET PATH
DELIVERED
out / 4
THE CASE TO BUILD IT
DELIVERED
Then comes execution. The best ventures move into the studio, powered by OSS Ventures. The program creates the venture. The studio builds it. You own the upside.
COHORT 05. FOUR SEATS. APPLICATION ONLY.
The next racehas already begun.
The only question left:
Will you wake the giant, or watch someone race past it?