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Project A Studio

The Studio is our proving ground for Europe's boldest entrepreneurial talent. Here, at the very earliest stages, we work alongside founders to explore high-potential ideas.

About Project A Studio

Bold Beginnings



The Studio is a personalised space for early-stage exploration, designed for founders at the ideation and validation stage. No cohorts, no timelines, no blueprints, with no strings attached. We partner from day zero, helping you shape and test your vision with hands-on support from our experienced team. You lead the discovery. We support your journey with the perspective, network, and momentum to turn early insight into lasting progress.

Reliable partners from vision to venture

Strategic validation and sparring

Spar with our sector-specialised investors and experienced founders, then pressure-test ideas and refine your vision with our network.

Founding team formation

We challenge your thinking on team composition and support you in hiring the right founding team members.

Executional firepower

Tap into our operational experts across product, engineering, data, design, marketing, sales, and talent.

Pre-seed funding

When conviction is mutual, we lead your pre-seed round on founder-fair terms and bring in high-signal angels.

Access to tier 1 follow-on capital

Studio companies consistently raise follow-on funding from international tier 1 VCs. We help you prepare, position, and connect with the right partners for your next stage of growth.


Who it’s for


The Project A Studio is open to experienced operators and entrepreneurs at the earliest stages, often before an idea is fully formed or validated. We look for founders who move fast, prioritise sharply and can clearly articulate a compelling vision.

Our role


We are not a startup accelerator or incubator. Instead, we are focused on a handful of founders on a rolling basis, supporting discovery and validation. When the time is right, we help shape the path towards a founder-friendly pre-seed round, with Project A as lead investor.

Studio alumni

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Frequently asked questions

  • While we usually collaborate with complimentary founder teams, we have helped solo-founders in finding a co-founder. We make exceptions, but typically expect the founding team to be complete by the time of our investment.

  • We require a nascent concept or an area of interest as a starting point. Our platform is ideal for validating and refining ideas, leveraging our experienced investment professionals and operational experts.

  • We understand that every idea and stage of ideation is unique, and so we remain flexible in our approach. Generally, we anticipate a 2-9 month collaboration with regular check-ins and no firm deadline.

  • Our terms are highly competitive and mirror those of typical pre-seed investments. Our priorities are founder-fair terms, a clean and future-proof cap table composition, and enough runway to achieve your milestones.

  • There is no obligation to take funding from Project A. We aim to provide significant value during our collaboration, and in return, we simply ask to be the first to hear your pitch once you're ready. We see our work together as a way to build joint conviction, both in the space you're exploring and in each other as long-term partners.

  • We aim for positive outcomes for all of our teams. Should Project A decide not to invest, we uphold and value confidentiality and help you find suitable investors from our large network.

  • Project A does not incubate. In the Studio, the entrepreneurs determine the journey and pace. We provide insights and background knowledge to give founders an unfair advantage, but we do not deliver ideas that are ready to execute. We think it is important that the founders are in the driver’s seat, while we provide them with the necessary tools to get started.

  • We've collaborated with more than 50 teams so far, investing in about a third of them. While some teams didn’t settle on an idea and eventually moved on to other things, others managed to secure funding from other reputable investors and we maintain close relationships with them to this day.


Distil Labs

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Making custom AI development easy

The Studio’s rapid pace and seasoned experts validated our vision and accelerated our journey, from concept to launch.

Selim Nowicki · Co-Founder & CEO

ARX Robotics

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Autonomous Dual-Use Ground Systems

Enapi

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Transaction broker for the EV industry

11x

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Shaping the AI-first future of work

Montamo

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Solving the skilled trades worker shortage

Copay

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Optimising cashflow construction

Nettle

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Creating the future of risk assessment

The Studio has challenged and pushed us and developed ARX into a different, better company.

Marc Wietfeld · Co-Founder & CEO

In the early days of ENAPI, Project A's flexibility and hands-on feedback made a real difference in helping us build our foundations.

Jakob Kleihues · Co-Founder & CEO

Project A was instrumental in the 11x journey, partnering with us to lay a strong foundation.

Prabhav Jain · CEO

Collaborating with Project A's Studio gave us an unfair edge during ideation and validation.


Alexander Böhm · Co-Founder & CEO

We highly recommend the Studio to any founder starting a company and wanting to have long term partners alongside their journey.

Vasilis Ilias · Co-Founder & CEO

The Studio gave us space to think big. It's the perfect environment to test and evolve your idea.


Katya Kinane · Co-Founder & CTO

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Meet the team

Investment Manager

Physical World Intelligence

The next frontier of technology is bringing intelligence into the world’s most complex and previously inaccessible environments. I’m particularly excited about systems that perceive, reason and act across oceans, space, land, the subsurface and critical infrastructure. The strongest companies will either build the enabling technologies behind this shift or combine proprietary data, hardware and deep domain expertise into full-stack solutions for critical industries. I love partnering with ambitious, deeply technical founders building what was previously impossible.

Partner

Regulated Industries

Regulation rewrites competitive dynamics in ways that most investors still underestimate. I believe the real winners in tech are increasingly hiding in industries that look slow from the outside, where switching feels operationally unthinkable - built on licences that take years to obtain, data that only compliant partners can access, and integrations so deep they become impossible to remove. European founders are uniquely positioned here, they grow up inside these regulatory frameworks, giving them a head start that capital alone cannot compress. If you're building in financial services, insurance, or health, I’d love to exchange perspectives


Partner

Physical World Intelligence

A new industrial revolution is taking shape. Skilled labour is in structural decline, AI is moving into the physical world, and the West is rebuilding its industrial base. I’m keen to collaborate with founders building autonomous systems across manufacturing, logistics and industrial infrastructure, as well as AI-native companies that can challenge entrenched incumbents with fundamentally better cost structures and operating models. The opportunity is not simply to digitise industry, but to reimagine how goods, materials and work are planned, made, moved and maintained.


Partner

Defence Technologies

Europe’s security can no longer depend on legacy systems, fragmented procurement and external technological dependencies. I’m excited to work with founders building the next generation of defence technologies, from dual-use capabilities to mission-critical military equipment. The strongest companies will combine frontier technology with deep operational understanding to help Europe protect its democratic freedom, strengthen its sovereignty and deter future threats.

Daria Gneusheva
Malin Posern
Philipp Werner
Jack Wang