Skin in the game Group resources, proprietary IP and people committed to each entity — never capital alone.
IMS Digital Ventures is the venture-building division of IMS Group. We bring proprietary IP, an operator who has built before, and a route to the first customers — everything it takes to compress years off the journey to a defensible business.
So we partner with platform-technology teams on every front — trading the core technology for meaningful equity and embedding alongside them for the whole journey. The capital is the least of what we put on the table.
A venture builder, not a fund. Every portfolio entity inherits the same operating commitments from day one.
Passive money can't make a team more defensible. We built a different model — technology for equity, with operators in the room — to bring what capital alone never could.
Platform-technology teams don't need a passive cheque — they need a stack they can build on, people who have shipped before, and a way in to the early customers. So we hand over the core technology for meaningful equity, seat an operating partner from the board down, and open the network that brings those first accounts in.
We are an evergreen division of IMS Group, not a fund running against a clock. We hold through cycles toward category leadership, and we commit where the technology creates real impact — not where the office happens to sit. The people building inherit a partner, not a coach.
To compress the path from MVP to moat for the teams at the frontier of the industries they set out to redraw.
Network — family-office firepower across eight markets, and the relationships that bring the first customers in. Technology — the IMS Labs stack running our underwriting, diligence, and portfolio intelligence. Pedigree — operators who have built businesses, not allocators reading research. We invest in platform-technology teams across these core technologies:
We don't coach from the sidelines — we are in it alongside the team. The platform, the operators, and the network are on the table from day one, and we hold for as long as it takes to reach category leadership.
Operators who have built businesses, standing behind the next generation of platform-technology teams.
Technologists and operators — embedded alongside the people building, and the families and institutions across eight markets.
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