Research reports, playbooks, and case studies on venture studios, first-ticket investing, AI-native businesses, and Brazil opportunities. Written by operators who have built and scaled companies.
The data is striking: venture studios generate ~50% IRR vs ~19% for traditional VC. Here's the structural reason — and why Brazil is the next theater for the model.
The biggest determinant of venture returns isn't picking ability — it's whether you wrote the first check. Here's the math, and the four-filter framework Avante uses to act on it.
$2.5T economy, 215M people, 70% services GDP, $4.5B AI investment, ~90% of SMEs under-digitized. The setup for AI-native venture creation in Latin America's largest market.
A working case study from inside the Avante team. How a Brazilian industrial-software bet became a 10× outcome — and what it taught us about building category leaders in fragmented Brazilian verticals.
Most studios talk about "shared infrastructure" without specifying what they actually share. This is what Avante shares — and what we deliberately do not — across every venture in the studio.
Our repeatable system for launching 3-4 ventures per year: from research to traction to compounding.
How we co-built an AI workflow automation tool in a fragmented service industry — proving unit economics in 12 weeks.
Why cashflow-first businesses compound, and how to prove unit economics before scaling.
Identifying workflows where AI creates 10× advantages — a framework for domain experts building AI-native products.
Manual workflows, fragmented industries, and low software penetration create massive opportunities for AI automation.
GSSN Report breakdown: why venture studios lead all asset classes and what this means for emerging markets.
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