Pillar 02 — Ventures 03 / 06

We don't write checks.
We build alongside you.

re:MAK3 Ventures invests compute and engineering time, not cash — founders co-build with our members for a fixed term, and we take a stake in what gets made. Talent over capital, the whole way down.

StagePre-seed to seed
Equity2–8% in exchange for the build
Cash checkNone
Term6–12 months, embedded
I — The thesis

Most startups don't
need a million
in cash.

They need a working system, a few senior engineers, and GPUs to run a training loop — and cash buys those things slowly and badly. We provide them directly, in kind.

When the project ends, the hardware is wiped and reallocated — to the next venture, or to an Initiative project, so nothing is sunk. The engineers walk away saturated with new context, and the founder walks away with a system that actually works.

That's what infrastructure-backed venture capital means in practice: the infrastructure renews, the relationship stays.

II — What you get

Four assets,
no dilution from cash.

02.1

Compute

GPU and CPU capacity drawn from the foundry's pool — no metered bill, no procurement loop.

02.2

Engineering

Two to four members embedded with the founders for the full duration of the build.

02.3

Infrastructure

Production-grade DevOps, observability, deploy and rollback — ready on day one, not negotiated later.

02.4

Distribution

Access to the wider foundry network — design, legal, hiring panels, and the rest of the bench.

III — Application

Four steps
from email
to embedded.

01
Apply
A two-page memo. The problem, the team, the technical bet, the unfair advantage. No deck.
02
Conversation
A 90-minute working session where we sketch the architecture together — you leave with a written read of where it could go.
03
Term sheet
Equity in exchange for a defined build, with resources, milestones, and exit clauses spelled out — two weeks to read it.
04
Embed
Members arrive on day one and work inside your repo. You set the direction, we set the cadence.
IV — In progress

What is
in the foundry
now.

A snapshot of the active book. We keep it small on purpose — embedded work doesn't scale, and the loop only renews if we finish what we start.

Render · Hyle

Hyle

Seed · Materials science

A simulation platform for cement chemistry. We provided the GPU farm and three engineers for nine months.

Field · Auger

Auger

Pre-seed · Geotech

Sub-surface mapping for tunnelling crews. Co-built the inference pipeline and shipped the first deployable beta.

Floor · Mass & Co.

Mass & Co.

Seed · Industrial robotics

Vision systems for warehouse pickers. Re-architected their training loop; cut iteration time by 8×.

Grid · Tier

Tier

Pre-seed · Energy markets

A grid-balancing market for distributed batteries. We designed the matching engine and the audit trail.

The bet
“Capital follows infrastructure, and we hold the infrastructure — which means we can back the founders we believe in, not just the ones who can already afford the runway.”
Operating doctrine, §6
V — Apply

Send the
memo.

Two pages, plain prose. We read every one.

FormatPDF or markdown. No decks, no projections beyond a year.
ResponseWithin five business days, decision either way.
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