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.
Distil Labs
+
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
+
Autonomous Dual-Use Ground Systems
The Studio has challenged and pushed us and developed ARX into a different, better company.
Marc Wietfeld · Co-Founder & CEO
Enapi
+
Transaction broker for the EV industry
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
11x
+
Shaping the AI-first future of work
Project A was instrumental in the 11x journey, partnering with us to lay a strong foundation.
Prabhav Jain · CEO
Montamo
+
Solving the skilled trades worker shortage
Collaborating with Project A's Studio gave us an unfair edge during ideation and validation.
Alexander Böhm · Co-Founder & CEO
Copay
+
Optimising cashflow construction
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
Nettle
+
Creating the future of risk assessment
The Studio gave us space to think big. It's the perfect environment to test and evolve your idea.
Katya Lait · Co-Founder & CTO
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.
Meet the team
Fintech
What excites me the most is how quietly foundational fintech is. It will move assets autonomously, price risk, and embed rules and financial logic into code. It will abstract away complexity to unlock new forms of value. Fintech powers how money, data and trust flow through every industry.
It’s an opportunity for the most compelling founders to reshape the architecture of the economy from the inside out. If you are passionate about a big problem and want to build an ambitious solution with Fintech at its core, I’d love to exchange perspectives.
Global Supply Chains
Current macro trends underscore the critical need for resilient and highly responsive supply chains. I'm keen to collaborate with founders targeting the vast, yet under-digitised sectors of procurement, manufacturing, as well as intra- and transport logistics, identifying novel ways to supply chain planning and optimisation, or creating B2B marketplaces that unify these areas. The time to redefine the backbone of global commerce with a tech-first approach is now!
European Resilience
Over the next few years, high calibre founders will actively build to improve European resilience. As geopolitical tensions rise, European nations are urgently looking to upgrade their defence mechanisms and infrastructure capabilities against a growing array of threats. This urgency creates an unprecedented opportunity for innovative startups in Defence tech and DeepTech, backed by substantial government support and investment. For tech investors, this represents a strategic growth opportunity to tap into a sector that not only promises the best operator talents but is also essential for European national security and resilience.
Future of Autonomous Work
As AI systems become agents, not just tools, we’re entering a new era of autonomous work. I’m particularly excited about applications and infrastructure that allow LLMs to reason, plan, and take action across real business workflows: from sales and customer support to back-office ops, recruiting, and security. The next breakout companies won’t feel like AI tools: they’ll feel like autonomous teammates. I love backing the next gen of young, ambitious, technical founders that are actively creating this future.
Emerging Technologies
If you are passionate about other areas, which might not even fit within standard industry definitions, I would love to ideate together! I am particularly excited about how AI is disrupting legacy industries and SMEs, and industrial, healthcare, climate and energy applications
Studio alumni
Explore portfolio
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.