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Build AI Companies Faster with Less Risk

Attack Capital's AI Venture Studio helps exceptional founders build, validate, and launch AI companies with a complete co-building team, expert AI venture partners, and proven zero-to-one execution frameworks. We operate as a YC startup studio, AI venture studio, and venture builder, helping founders build fundable companies using our studio model of venture.

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What is an AI Venture Studio?

The AI venture studio model reduces founder risk and accelerates company creation. Instead of building alone, you co-build with full-time product, design, engineering, GTM, and fundraising teams who've scaled AI companies before.

Why Build With Attack Capital?

We combine the power of a YC startup studio to help founders scale faster.

1. AI-First Company Creation

We exclusively build AI companies using advanced LLMs, agent workflows, robotics automation, and deep-learning systems designed for market-scale execution.

Our AI venture team supports:

  • Agent architectures
  • Multi-model workflows
  • AI-native product design
  • Infrastructure, data, and deployment
  • Vertical AI SaaS
  • Foundation-model integration

2. Co-Build With a Complete Founding Team

Founders get embedded access to AI engineers, designers, PMs, GTM operators, and domain specialists functioning like fractional co-founders from day one.

We help you:

  • Validate the idea
  • Build a functional MVP
  • Acquire your first customers
  • Prepare for Seed fundraising
  • Accelerate product–market fit

3. Capital on Day One

Our AI fund provides the first investment, helping you move fast without wasting time pitching too early.

  • Up to $250K initial studio funding
  • Follow-on capital through our AI fund & VC syndicate
  • Warm intros to top venture capital funds

4. Your First Customers Guaranteed

We help you find early users, design partners, and the first paying customers needed to prove traction before Seed.

5. Full Zero-to-One Operating System

The Attack Capital AI venture studio process gives founders a complete execution blueprint.

  • Idea validation
  • MVP build
  • AI system architecture
  • GTM launch
  • Fundraising readiness
  • First hires
  • Early revenue

Pitch Us an Idea

Got a high-impact idea but not ready to found a startup? Pitch it to Attack Capital. If we build it, you earn equity. We're actively sourcing bold, venture-scale ideas across AI, HealthTech, FinTech, Supply Chain, DeepTech, and GenAI. No MVP, co-founder, or company required, just a validated problem and a powerful insight.

Attack Capital AI Venture Studio Framework

Validation

We rapidly validate the founder's insight, conduct deep user interviews, define the pain point, and test market readiness with prototypes and AI-enhanced research.

Solution & Early Market Fit

We co-design the product, test early designs with real customers, refine positioning, and prepare a launchable AI-first MVP.

Funding & Company Formation

You get initial capital through the Attack Capital AI Fund, company formation support, and legal + operational setup.

Build & Scale

Our engineering, product, and GTM teams help you deploy the MVP, onboard early customers, and iterate fast.

Fundraise

We prepare your pitch deck, metrics, and data room, and introduce you to top VCs to raise Seed.

Your First Hire

Dedicated recruiting support helps founders make strategic early hires for engineering, growth, and customer success.

What Our Founders Say

"As a repeat founder, I can say with confidence that the Attack Capital model is the future. The hands-on support from their engineering and go-to-market teams is something you just don't get from traditional VCs. They are true co-builders."

- Founder, Andromeda Surgical

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The Venture Studio for Elite AI Builders

We partner with founders who want to build with a true YC-backed startup studio.

Have deep industry expertise and strong market insight

Founders with real operational, technical, or domain experience who understand industry pain points and customer needs at a granular level.

Hold a strong POV on unmet market needs

You see what the market is missing, identify inefficiencies instantly, and have conviction around a high-impact AI opportunity.

Passionate about building AI-native companies

You're excited to use AI, automation, agents, or ML to solve meaningful industry challenges through scalable, defensible software.

Builders from underserved or overlooked backgrounds

We actively support founders who bring new perspectives, unique insights, and lived experience into the venture creation process.

Deep networks in high-value industries

We especially love founders from supply chain, vertical SaaS, fintech, healthcare, industrial automation, enterprise AI, and the future of work.

Founder or early-operator track record

Whether you've built a startup before or shipped at scale in a fast-growth environment, you know how to execute quickly and with ownership.

Have a breakout idea rooted in real-world experience

Your idea comes from direct exposure to industry problems, not from trends, and you're ready to validate it rapidly.

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Build Your AI Company with the #1 YC-Backed AI Venture Studio

If you are an ambitious founder ready to build a foundational AI company, we want to partner with you. Join the only YC-backed AI venture studio and launch your company in just 30 days.