Vivarium Labs backs founders applying intelligence to the sectors it can genuinely reshape. Then we stay close, opening our ecosystem and watching every euro do its work.
A vivarium is a controlled habitat where living things grow under close observation. We run the studio the same way, with three commitments, in order, for every venture we take on.
Not intelligence bolted onto a pitch deck. We invest inside a sector, whether scouting, hospitality, silicon or orbit, where AI changes how the job is actually done.
Go to market, engineering, legal and IP, domain operators and downstream capital. An ecosystem on call, so a founding team punches far above its headcount.
We follow each venture long after funding, instrumenting progress and checking in at every milestone, so capital compounds rather than evaporates. Pride is earned in the years after the cheque.
Each company applies AI inside a sector it knows from the ground up, and each runs on its own logic. So does each animation beside it.
The four below are live. The rest are on our radar. We move when a founder shows us a market AI is about to change, not after.
Direct seed investment, structured to give founders room to build rather than fundraise.
Positioning, first customer pilots, and warm routes into the rooms where contracts get signed.
Hands on technical partners for the hard parts: models, infrastructure, a credible first build.
Entity structuring, contracts, and the patent and export work deep tech lives or dies on.
Operators, domain experts and downstream investors, on call across every function.
If you're a founder applying AI where it genuinely moves the work, or a partner who wants to back the next sector, we'd like to talk.