Venture studio
Europe focus
Eindhoven, NL based

Your sector knowledge is irreplaceable. Your opportunity window isn’t.

OWOW VentureStudio™ is always on the lookout for exceptional founders with deep domain expertise, ready to move and co-build category-defining ventures at the speed of AI.

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Who we're looking for

You’ve always been ahead of others.

You’ll outwork anyone in the room.

Where some see how an industry works, you see what it could become.

You’ve spent years on the inside, know what’s possible, what’s missing, and what nobody has dared to build yet.

Not a founder by accident.

A founder by design.

Who you are

Not everyone qualifies.

A wizkid isn’t a title you give yourself. It’s what you’ve earned, by being the one in the room who saw what everyone else accepted, kept asking why, and couldn’t let it go.

Deep sector expertise

You know your industry from the inside, not from a consultancy report, but from being there. That knowledge is your unfair advantage, and no outsider can replicate it.

A frustration worth building on

You’ve found something broken you can’t stop thinking about. That frustration isn’t a problem, it’s the foundation of a category-defining venture.

The operator mindset

You’re not here to theorize. You build, validate, and move fast. You take ownership, decide with incomplete information, and ship.

More than a studio.
A world of wizkids.

Our wizkids don’t just build ventures, they build with each other. Every founder joining OWOW, joins a network of sector experts who open doors, share signal, and move fast together.

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Why owow exists

The problem was never the idea

This is why we exist
Not a fund. Not an agency. Not an accelerator. A co-founder. We bring the playbook, the AI infrastructure, the capital, and the network. You bring what we can’t buy: insight from within, merged with a very large commercial network of your next launching customers.
The startup trap
The pattern never changes: too much building, too little learning. A team is hired, a product is built, then the search for customers begins. Months pass. Capital burns.
AI changed the rules
Building software used to be the bottleneck. Not anymore. The cost of building has collapsed; the speed of validation has multiplied. What took months now takes weeks.

The infrastructure

Omnipresent from day one

Everything a venture needs to move the machine, already running before you write a line of code.

The Network

Deep roots across Brainport and Flanders, manufacturing, logistics, distribution. Early customers, commercial partners, angels, and VCs. You don’t find your first customers; we introduce them.

45+ Product Experts

A top-tier product studio, developers, designers, engineers, embedded from day one. Fast-track prototyping, weekly touchpoints, daily updates. You don’t hire a team; you already have one.

€250K Capital

We co-invest alongside you, not as a passive investor, but as a co-founder with skin in the game. Fair equity. Full alignment. Our success is your success. And we have up to €500K in capital waiting for follow-up rounds.

AI Agent Swarm

Specialized AI agents, always on, always accelerating. Customer discovery, validation, fundraising, hiring, what used to take months now takes days.

Portfolio

Proof, not promises

Ver.iD

Start: Ideation, validation & pre-revenue phase
Duration: Achieved problem-solution fit in 6 months
Results: Launched V1 of the product and onboarded paying customers

WAMP (Acquired)

Start: Founded the company with pro golfer, Thomas Pieters
Duration: WAMP got acquired by OnCore Innovations after 2 years of relaunching
Results: Highly scalable mobile application, with over 10,000 users in NL & BE

Empowr

Start: Joined Empowr in the 2nd round of investments as product- & venture builders to help scale
Duration: Retention rate and revenue increased
Results: Empowr has a redesigned & perfected platform and now expanding to EU

You know your industry better than anyone. Let’s use that.

The impact you seek can start today.