WE ARE AN AI VENTURE STUDIO
We build and scale-up AI-first companies in B2B,
Finance & Health.
WHAT WE DO
We co-found companies,
not just sit on Boards.
We believe venture building AI companies is what is needed in emerging Southeast Asia, where ecosystems and infrastructures are still developing.
To build and scale successful AI startups, you need experienced founders and AI experts in operations. We bring both to the table.
We focus on the “boring” use cases in B2B.
Emerging market businesses in Southeast Asia are late to digitalization.
We build companies for these legacy industries and functions overlooked by others, and where AI can make the greatest impact. Starting with B2B, Finance & Health, our access to enterprise challenges in the region is unmatched.
We take AI ventures from
the ‘obscure’ to ‘obvious’.
We invest capital and work closely with exceptional co-founders in their early stages and take them from zero to seed.
OUR TEAM
We are a seasoned team of tech founders, operators, and investors, deeply experienced in AI transformations, finance, and healthcare.
Xavier Marzan
Fintech maestro. Former CEO at GCash & TrueMoney, two Southeast Asia Fintech Unicorns. Operator advisor to Fintech & AI startups.
Venture builder & Deal maven. Ex-CEO, F(DEV) Digital Foundry. Ex-CorpDev/M&A, AOL Time Warner in New York.
Duke MBA. Stanford ExecEduc in Entrepreneurship. VC Lab Alum.
Miguel Testa
HealthTech & AI Virtuoso. Former VP Engineering-AI for Vial, a $100Mn venture-backed biotech company in Canada. Software Engineer, Later and YC-startup Finni Health.
2x Founder, CTO.
University of British Columbia, BASc Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Rolan Marco Garcia
3x Founder & Award-winning Entrepreneur. Founding CEO, Embiggen (AI/Digital Transformations)
Innovation Authority. AIM MSc. Former Innovation Center Managing Director. Asia Pacific partner, Global Innovation Management Institute.
We are backed and supported by a network of Venture Partners and Advisors across various disciplines and several industry sectors including Growth, Sales & Marketing, Engineering, Data & Machine Learning, Investments & Fundraising, Legal, Enterprise Transformation and more.
If you’d like to be part of our venture network, please reach out to us via hello@embiggengroup.com.
Venture Studio vs Traditional Startups
We believe that venture building in emerging markets is the right business model we need to build AI ventures fast & efficiently.
Venture studios leverage on valuable expertise, human resources, and intellectual capital to take startups to market and help them achieve growth and scale, with repeatable success.
The research was done by StudioHUB and was also described in the
book Startup Studio Manifesto by Farhad Alessandro Mohammadi (2023).
Venture Studio
vs VC Funds
Venture Studios are more investment-efficient than Venture Capital.
Higher IRR due to cheaper equity at the start,
less dilution at exits, and more frequent exits.