About

Operators building the infrastructure venture building has been missing.

9point8 is a research firm, a platform, and a team of operators — working on one problem: making institutional venture building repeatable.

The problem

Venture building succeeds or fails on its infrastructure.

Universities, corporations, and governments produce world-class research and allocate billions to economic development. The conversion rate to viable ventures stays low — and the gap is operational, not a shortage of ideas.

Who this is for

Venture studios. Universities. Corporates. Development organizations.

Any organization building ventures and hitting the infrastructure wall.

The approach

Research. Platform. Services.

Research

How venture builders should be designed — and what makes them work

Research on how venture-building operations should be structured and what makes them effective, plus scoring models for venture-level readiness and commercialization pathways. Validated against actual outcomes.

Platform

One system for the full lifecycle

Benchmarking, Studio Design, Decision Intelligence, and Sourcing — the full venture-building lifecycle in one platform.

Services

Operators and workflows embedded in your program

When it helps, our operators and workflows embed directly in your program to put the platform to work.

Team