Venture Success Engineered Right From Zer

At Repeat Builders, we engineer venture success right from zero. With research-driven ideas, purpose-built teams, and embedded systems, we remove friction so founders can build at speed and investors capture realised returns. The zero-to-one stage is our natural arena - where outcomes become tangible, compounding, and repeatable.

The Repeat Builder System

A repeatable zero to one system for turning raw ideas into outcomes.

Every venture we create goes through the same disciplined, repeatable build process.
It's a proven system forged across 100s of startups and a decade of learning what actually works.

Ideas Factory

Where possibilities become hypotheses

We systematically research, source, evolve and continuously score 1000s of ideas. We filter with an exceptionally high bar to leave only the ideas with the strongest market signals, the best timing and ones we know we can execute on confidently, immediately.

Evidence Before Execution

Where conviction is earned, not assumed

In this phase, we move fast through rapid prototyping to test the core assumptions behind the idea. We uncover the target audiences who feel the problem most, validate their willingness to pay, and gather the evidence needed to prove the opportunity. This is where hypotheses are proven, conviction grows, and only evidence-backed ventures advance.

Venture Greenlight

Where evidence earns commitment

Our Venture Committee reviews the evidence, pressure-tests the assumptions, and decides whether the concept becomes a company. When a venture is greenlit, we formalise the entity with pre-prepared agreements, allocate capital, and move into the build phase immediately - with momentum on our side.

Assemble the Builders

Where the right builders step in

Long before a venture is greenlit, we invest early in relationships across our ecosystem. Builders with the domain experience, execution capability, and energy to deliver on ideas they connect with at pace. From this pool, we assemble a team engineered for the opportunity ahead, shaping the foundational DNA together as they take the venture into their own hands.

Embedded Execution

Where co-building becomes an unfair advantage

Instead of advising from a distance, we embed inside the venture - working alongside the founders day to day for two years across strategy, product, growth, talent, engineering, and operations. We bring proven playbooks, unblock execution, accelerate learning loops, and support the founding team to stay laser-focused on building and iterating a product customers love.

Built to Attract Investors

Where evidence attracts growth capital

This is the point where the venture’s scale signals become unmistakable. It’s operating independently, charting its own strategy, and executing with discipline, pace, and repeatability. With operational maturity in place, it’s primed to attract the next wave of investors and the capital required to grow.

Outcomes That Power the Next Build

Where realised value sustains the system

As ventures scale or exit, we sell down our equity and return that value to HQ. These realised outcomes sustain the system - funding new ideas, new founders, and the next cycle of builds. Each success strengthens the ecosystem and fuels the momentum behind the ventures that follow.

What Building Looks Like

When you engineer ventures as a system, you need data.
Every idea, decision and progression is measured. The numbers here aren't outputs, they're inputs and metrics.
They guide what we pursue, what we reject and when we move. They keep us honest, disciplined and aligned to outcomes.

371

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Ideas Considered

303

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Ideas Rejected

29

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Founders Considered

88

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Ecosystem Followers

What Sets Venture Building Apart In The Ecosystem

“A venture builder creates startups from scratch - deliberately, repeatedly and systematically”

The venture ecosystem is made up of multiple models - each with different incentives, responsibilities, and outcomes. But because the language overlaps, these models often get mistaken for one another, especially when it comes to venture building.

We use a structured set of questions, represented in this flowchart, to differentiate the models clearly. Who creates ideas? Who deploys capital? Who takes the early risk? Who builds? Who gets equity?

The answers to these questions define the model.

Through this lens, Repeat Builders’ place becomes clear: we’re “a venture builder” that originates the ideas, funds the earliest stages, assembles exceptional founding teams, and co-builds companies until they’re ready to stand independently.

Who Are We?

We’re a team of high-agency builders who thrive in the zero-to-one arena. We're experts in our individual crafts, but world-class when we operate together as a team.

We think in automated systems, experiment relentlessly, and let derived data shape our decisions. High trust and ownership define how we work, empowering each person to lead their domains, take smart risks, and create snowball momentum for ventures.

Andonis Sakatis
CEO
Linh Le
Head of Ecosystem, Events & Comms
Zaki Saad
CTO
Victoria Tran
Head of Venture Research & Product

How We Show Up

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We are about outcomes,
but we’re not obsessed with jargon
We are driven by belief,
but we lead with proof
We are built on systems,
but we’re not built like robots
We are bold in our ambition,
but we don’t need to be loud
We are about outcomes,
but we’re not obsessed with jargon
We are driven by belief,
but we lead with proof
We are built on systems,
but we’re not built like robots
We are bold in our ambition,
but we don’t need to be loud
We are realistic,
but we’re not discouraging
We are quietly relentless,
but we’re not performative
We are optimistic,
but we’re not blind
We are motivated,
but we’re not manic
We are realistic,
but we’re not discouraging
We are quietly relentless,
but we’re not performative
We are optimistic,
but we’re not blind
We are motivated,
but we’re not manic

- We are about outcomes, but we’re not obsessed with jargon

- We are driven by belief, but we lead with proof

- We are built on systems, but we’re not built like robots

- We are bold in our ambition, but we don’t need to be loud

- We are professional, but we’re not over-formal

- We are builder-minded, but we’re not builder-bro

- We are precise, but we’re not pedantic

- We are honest and open, but we’re not brutal

- We are realistic, but we’re not discouraging

- We are quietly relentless, but we’re not performative

- We are optimistic, but we’re not blind

- We are motivated, but we’re not manic

For Builders

For the high agency operators who love the build more than the outcome. You’re not fixated on finding the perfect idea - you’ll make most ideas work. What you need is the right talent, timing, and system around you with capital ready to go to move fast and build well.

At what point do you bring in founders?
Founders join before launch, but after validation. We first confirm the problem, customer demand, and a viable business model. Once there’s clear evidence the company should exist, we recruit the founding team to build and lead it. They help shape the product, strategy, and early customers from day one, without spending a year discovering whether the idea works.

For Investors

For the investors who are tired of paper wins and slow exits. You seek repeatable, superior, compounding returns and you know they can exist from perfect earlystage wins. You understand how fast the world - and the tools to build within it - are evolving. You want to back a new models that can fulfil what they need.

At what point do you bring in founders?

Founders join before launch, but after validation. We first confirm the problem, customer demand, and a viable business model. Once there’s clear evidence the company should exist, we recruit the founding team to build and lead it. They help shape the product, strategy, and early customers from day one, without spending a year discovering whether the idea works.

How do you decide which ideas to go with?

We don’t start with pitches. We start with problems. Before a company exists, we run structured research to find opportunities where real customer pain meets a viable business model. Every idea is validated through customer conversations, willingness-to-pay testing, and early commercial experiments. If the signal is weak, we stop. We only launch a company when three things are clear: the problem is real, customers will pay, and we can assemble a team capable of executing.

For Our Ecosystem

For the wider ecosystem we work within—the domain experts, collaborators, operators, and partners who understand that venture creation is becoming more complex, more technical, and more dynamic. You’re drawn to models that reduce friction, increase the probability of success, and turn ideas into outcomes with precision. You believe in systems that work and in teams that execute.

How do you decide which ideas to go with?
We don’t start with pitches. We start with problems. Before a company exists, we run structured research to find opportunities where real customer pain meets a viable business model. Every idea is validated through customer conversations, willingness-to-pay testing, and early commercial experiments. If the signal is weak, we stop. We only launch a company when three things are clear: the problem is real, customers will pay, and we can assemble a team capable of executing.

Frequently Asked Questions

At what point do you bring in founders?

Founders join before launch, but after validation. We first confirm the problem, customer demand, and a viable business model. Once there’s clear evidence the company should exist, we recruit the founding team to build and lead it. They help shape the product, strategy, and early customers from day one, without spending a year discovering whether the idea works.

How much support do you provide the ventures once you've launched?

Repeat Builders isn’t an accelerator and we don’t step back once the company exists. The zero-to-one stage carries the highest execution risk, so we remain embedded alongside the founders while the business reaches product-market fit. Each venture receives hands-on support from our team and up to $2M of capital, which we typically plan to support around the first two years of operation (timing varies depending on how quickly the company grows). We drive the initial hiring, operating systems, governance, finance, and the practical work of building from early customers and pricing to recruiting and internal processes. As the company matures, our involvement naturally reduces and the venture becomes fully independent, while we remain long-term partners and shareholders.

Do you look for founders with an idea?

Repeat Builders is an idea-first venture builder. We develop and validate opportunities before a founder joins, so founders start with evidence rather than a hypothesis. What we look for is a builder - someone who wants to lead a company and take ownership of the outcome, not someone attached to a single concept. When the right person meets the right validated opportunity, both the founder and the company have a much higher chance of succeeding. If someone comes to us with an idea, we’re happy to talk. But our primary goal is to pair exceptional operators with opportunities that are already showing real signals of demand so we typically suggest the traditional funding routes if they are tied to their own idea.

How do you decide which ideas to go with?

We don’t start with pitches. We start with problems. Before a company exists, we run structured research to find opportunities where real customer pain meets a viable business model. Every idea is validated through customer conversations, willingness-to-pay testing, and early commercial experiments. If the signal is weak, we stop. We only launch a company when three things are clear: the problem is real, customers will pay, and we can assemble a team capable of executing.

How do you find the founders for your ideas?

We don’t run an application process and we don’t match strangers to ideas. We stay actively embedded in the ecosystem - operators, builders, and specialists. So we’re rarely far from the people capable of starting the next company, even if they’re not yet looking for one. As an idea is validated, we begin detailed conversations with potential founders. At that point we can share real evidence, early traction, and the operating plan, allowing them to make an informed decision about whether they want to commit. Founders aren’t selected because they had an idea - they’re selected because they’re the right person to build this specific company.

What industry/vertical do you focus on?

We don’t operate under a fixed sector mandate. Our focus is the earliest stage - the zero-to-one. For every opportunity we ask a practical question: does our team have the capability to build and execute this venture from nothing to a working company? We choose ideas where our operating experience meaningfully reduces early execution risk, and we bring in specialist operators from our network when deeper domain expertise is needed. Our team has built and operated across data, automation, finance, retail, marketplaces, property, and blockchain.

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