Partners
Partner with us
GarageLabs builds its own companies, and we build them with partners. Venture capital firms, studios, Fortune 500 companies, schools, or something we haven't thought of yet: if you want to build the future instead of waiting for it, this is the door.
What we are looking for
Three paths. Partnerships first.
- Start here
Partnerships
The primary path. Venture capital firms, other studios, Fortune 500 companies, schools, and more, building the next companies with us from the first spec.
Partner with us - Path 02
Talent
Leaders to run our companies, team members who ship, directors who run a function across them, and advisors who have done it before.
Join the build - Path 03
Capital partners
A small number of aligned capital partners. By introduction.
We talk with investors at the studio level. Each company may pursue its own rounds and partnerships when the time is right.
Request an introduction
Why partner
We are sitting in a rare moment. The companies that define the SuperIntelligence era are being started right now, and the best of them will be built by people who bring different things to the same bench.
We bring a shared platform, a team that ships, and a process with the kill decision written down first. Partners bring markets, research, distribution, perspective, and problems worth a company.
Every partnership starts with a conversation and is written down for each company. If the work belongs inside your existing product, we will say that and stop. We would rather lose a deal than build the wrong company.
Partnerships, up close
Five ways to build with us.
- 01
Venture capital
Firms that would rather see the future at Phase 0 than at a pitch meeting.
What it looks like
- Shared theses: where the next companies should come from
- An early look at companies as they leave the garage
- Co-building in your focus areas, with terms written per company
- 02
Studios
Other studios and company builders. Different benches, same belief that companies should be built, not just backed.
What it looks like
- Co-building where our strengths meet
- Swapping playbooks, specs, and lessons
- Platform collaboration where it helps both sides
- 03
Fortune 500 and enterprise
Companies that would rather shape what we are building than buy it later.
What it looks like
- Customer zero: run the first version inside your business
- Design partner: bring the hard cases and the domain depth
- Distribution, or spinning out a capability trapped inside your company
- 04
Schools and universities
Where the research and the next builders come from.
What it looks like
- Taking research out of the lab and into a company
- Real work on real companies for students and faculty
- Piloting what we build where it fits your campus
- 05
Something we haven't thought of
The best partnership might be one nobody has named yet. Governments, nonprofits, creators, communities, people with a strange and good idea about how we could work together.
What it looks like
- Tell us what you see.
- We will tell you honestly whether it fits.
How it works
From first call to a company in the world.
- Step 01
Talk
A conversation about the problem, the market, and what each side brings.
- Step 02
Spec together
One written spec: the user, the job, what the platform covers, and the conditions that end the idea.
- Step 03
Build
A small senior team ships on the shared platform, with you close enough to shape it.
- Step 04
Grow
The company takes its own name and its own team. The partnership is written into its documents.
Partnership inquiry
Start the conversation.
- Tell us what you are reaching out about: a partnership, joining the team, capital, press, or something else.
- Tell us who you are and the problem, not the solution.
- A person reads every inquiry.
- We will be honest if it is not a fit.