Research

Proprietary research powering the platform.

Scoring models, benchmarking data, and operational research — developed with domain experts and validated against actual venture outcomes.

The thesis

Venture building is an engineering discipline.

The gap between institutional research and viable ventures is an infrastructure problem — the absence of repeatable systems for converting ideas into companies.

The research studies what makes venture-building operations effective: the structural conditions, operational patterns, and ecosystem dynamics that separate high-performing programs from the rest. The findings become tools.

Active programs
ActiveR1 University Partnership

IP Evaluation and Commercialization Scoring

Validated scoring models for technology readiness, IP viability, market potential, and commercialization pathways. Developed with domain experts and validated against actual venture outcomes.

ActiveMulti-institutional

Venture Building Efficacy

Measuring what drives successful venture building across institutional contexts. Identifying the structural, operational, and ecosystem conditions that separate high-performing programs from the rest.

Ongoing9point8 proprietary

Studio Benchmarking and Population Data

The most comprehensive cross-entity dataset on venture-building operations. 1,000+ entities benchmarked across financial structure, governance, portfolio performance, and operational maturity.

EmergingIn development

Dynamic Optimization for Innovation Programs

Approaches that produce reliable signals from the small datasets typical of early-stage innovation programs. Adaptive models that improve with every deployment cycle.

Research to product

Every model ships.

Research that stays in a paper doesn't help operators. The pipeline moves validated models into the platform where they drive real decisions.

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Research

Domain expert partnerships. Models developed and validated against real venture outcomes.

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Integrate

Deployed into the platform. Models accessible through intuitive interfaces.

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Learn

Every deployment generates new data. Every data point makes the models smarter.

Tools & data

The research, in your hands.

Educational Tool

Studio GPT

An interactive tool for exploring venture-building concepts, terminology, and operating models. Ask questions, get grounded answers drawn from real studio data.

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Proprietary Dataset

Venture Studio Index

1,000+ venture-building entities benchmarked across 47 countries and 12 tracked dimensions — our own classification and evaluation framework for the asset class, and the most comprehensive cross-entity dataset on venture-building operations anywhere.

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