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Softlandia

Venture Studio

Searching New Ideas and Opportunities

Softlandia is a venture studio. We actively seek new ideas and opportunities to create or co-create new businesses.

Softlandia's current venture studio cases

Spogen, founded 2024

Web: Spogen.ai, LinkedIn

Spogen.ai is a speaking co-intelligence for machinery. The company was co-founded by the current management team, investors, and Softlandia. Technologies: AI, GenAI, Software, Heavy machinery, VUI, voice assistant.

YOKOT.AI, founded 2023

Web: YOKOT.AI, LinkedIn

YOKOT.AI is a private generative AI solution for your Business. Powered by OpenAI. Designed for enterprise use. Technologies: AI, GenAI, Software, Azure, VUI.

Other cases

Additionally, we are working on a handful of other cases continuously. In the fall of 2024 the active cases include three other AI product business concepts. All other cases are co-developed with an external founder team.

About the Vision

A better world with the help of technology. This was one of the main drivers when our team discussed setting up Softlandia. Our team members have vast experience working with new products and innovations. We have done this in startups and helped the leading global tech brands to improve their products. We know that making an impact is about a great team, focused work, and good strategy. We want to build products and solutions.

Softlandia will build products and technologies with the mindset of making a difference. We have learned that building a product, or MVP (minimum viable product), is challenging. It requires skills beyond technology: great customer understanding, a growth mindset, and a problem-solving attitude. Developing a successful product requires time and capital, and the trail to success is booby-trapped with errors, confusion, and doubt. The solution is a great team, good processes, time & money. 

We are focusing especially on cases where our technological competence, business understanding and network make a difference. Typically global scalable cases related to software, AI/ML, machine vision, cloud, sensor fusion and IoT.

Definition of Venture Studio

venture studio is an organization that creates startups, typically by providing the initial team, strategic direction, and capital for the startup to reach product-market fit.

A good definition by Applico, a New York-based group working on the subject matter

In practice, a venture studio is an organization actively looking for new ideas and opportunities to create or co-create new businesses. The ideas are typically found through a systematic process with partners and entrepreneurial individuals who have ideas but maybe not all the competencies and resources needed to build up a new business. Venture studios typically have partners for financing and a network of advisors with different backgrounds. 

There are many forms of co-creation, co-innovation and startup creation. Demola and Y-Combinator as examples of their own, and yet very different from each other.

Softlandia Venture Studio - for Individuals and Partners

Our vision for Softlandia Venture Studio is as follows. We plan to create three to five different international growth businesses in the coming years, with a solid backbone in technology. We have a great bunch of business ideas cooking, and a network of partner companies we are working with, to refine the ideas to MVPs. 

Why would an individual with a business idea want to cooperate with a Venture studio? Venture studios typically have the knowledge and competence to build a business. Knowledge and experience in product development, Go-To-Market strategies, customer centricity, marketing, sales, and financing, are all beneficial. 

If you think you or your company is a potential partner to us, please be in contact with our team founders@softlandia.fi. We are also actively looking for individuals and teams that are looking for a bigger team to work with them to develop the idea into a business.

We will open up more details about the process, and some example cases in the next blog posts.

If you want to ask more about collaboration possibilities, please contact us at founders@softlandia.fi.

Interested in Collaborating?

Softlandia is a venture studio. This means that we are actively looking for new ideas and opportunities to create or co-create new businesses.