We turn grant-funded public sector problems into investable software and service companies — country-first in design, multi-country in scale. Grants hedge the risk; investment powers the expansion. The first, AgentBI, is being built for deployment in Kenya now.
Each Nate fund launches around a single public sector theme. Many ideas are generated under it; the promising ones are proto-tested into companies with co-founders, then seeded and spun out with a founding team. The studio stays a co-founder, so companies share infrastructure, data, investors, and markets — and don't start from zero.
Every company is designed for two funders from day one. Philanthropic capital absorbs the validation years — the zone where public sector pilots die. Private capital enters only past that point, buying proven demand: fee-generating from first deployment, multi-country from the start, exit-legible from the first contract. Grant-fundable today, investor-ready tomorrow.
A consulting firm can't convert a grant-funded programme into an investable company — it has no equity stake. A pure VC fund can't de-risk the early validation — it has no grant access. The studio sits at the intersection of both. Converting grant businesses into investable ones is the product, not a by-product.
Public sector products were built to survive on grants.
We're building them to stand on their own.