YE Stack is a Global Venture Studio that empowers Founders to build their startups better through the “ Venture Studio” model of Startup building. Venture Studio, as a startup-building model for founders is gradually becoming one of the most sought after startup building models worldwide is making big waves across the world with its unique value proposition. YE Stack started its journey in early 2023 and founders from India, the US, Australia & Europe have started building with YE Stack within a very short span of time highlighting the acceptance of the model worldwide.
How does YE Stack Venture Studio envision contributing to the entrepreneurial community, and what impact does it aspire to make?
YE Stack Venture Studio intends to become a trusted institutional co founder to any aspiring founder who is building a scalable startup. It is assembling a “ STACK” of capabilities that Startup Founders can in turn leverage to reach Product Market Fit faster and better. It allows faster experimentation and enables these startups to cross the 0-1 journey through a structured playbook, compared to a non guided early phase execution. The YE Stack startup design empowers founders to focus on the core areas of solving their customer problems and generating resources for execution with the support of YE Stack as an operational co-founders who will take care of other aspects
Can you share examples of successful collaborations or projects that have emerged from the YE Stack Venture Studio community?
YE Stack has been instrumental in creating ventures across multiple industry domains including Product Tech, Generative AI, Construction, Hybrid Education, Agritech and healthcare and wellness domains. These founders have learned a collaborative approach to startup building and have started their entrepreneurial journeys with the support of the founder-friendly community around YE Stack. Our startup founders have been empowered with foundational skills and capabilities to enable them to build their dreams better. YE Stack has also created a collective named ‘Founders Tribe’ that aims to cheer for startup founders!
How does YE Stack Venture Studio differentiate itself in terms of the support it offers compared to other platforms or communities?
YE Stack acts as an Institutional Co-Founder to early-stage startups unlike other platforms or startup communities. Venture Studios supports startup founders throughout their journey, unlike an incubator or an accelerator, which typically follows a time-bound or milestone-based approach. The role it plays is not limited to an advisory role or is not limited to access to an investor network. It plays the role of an operator co-founder who delivers certain outcomes for the startup founders in early-stage venture building. It has a three-pronged approach to Startup Building anchored around Capabilities, Coaching, and community apart from the benefits offered by a Stakeholder network that is being built around the Studio.
Can you provide examples of successful ventures that have emerged from YE Stack Venture Studio, highlighting their impact on the entrepreneurial landscape?
Some of the ventures that have come up from the YE Stack community include TGH Technologies which is in the Product Development Space for Startups, Finish Factory, an aggregator of home finishing services, Meeval, a Patient outcome driven healthcare product, SiteXpert, a hybrid edtech for vocational education in Construction space, Glad Hydrogen, a wellness solution built around health benefits of Hydrogen, ProjectsMate, a Project Management solution for Construction Industry, etc. YE Stack has just started its journey and has empowered founders to form startups across industry domains within a very short span of time from its inception.
What values does YE Stack Venture Studio prioritize in its community, and how are they reflected in the organization’s culture?
YE Stack Venture Studio was formed out of the community, that got built around a founder coaching platform that was started by YE Stack founder in 2017. The community prides itself in a “Values Alignment ” driven approach that has been built over the years that enables founders to “appreciate their own core values and build and align their early team accordingly”. It has also helped in creating a culture of collaboration across startups and in instilling a sense of common purpose for the young entrepreneurs in the community. YE Stack has built a continuous learning environment for the startup founders and this has been reflected in the creation of a learning culture in each of the startups that got formed from the community.
Could you share a notable success story of an entrepreneur who thrived with the support of YE Stack Venture Studio?
Sachin Joseph was one of the early members of our community and has built TGH Technologies as one of the first YE Stack startups in the Product Development space for Startups. It has created for itself a unique model that is very founder-friendly for non-tech founders trying to build their first tech-based products. Sachin is a second-time founder who had initially started a med tech product-based startup and TGH Tech is his second startup built with the support of YE Stack community.
What are the upcoming initiatives or plans for YE Stack Venture Studio in supporting and nurturing entrepreneurs?
YE Stack Venture Studio has opened itself to Global Founders and has started supporting Founders from developed markets on specific Capabilities like Product, Tech Development, Marketing, Capital Raising etc. This allows YE Stack to build a wider community of Founders across the world collaborating with YE Stack and gives its community access to a wider set of markets through these collaborations. Also it enables a deeper set of skill building for the studio through the learning journey that the Studio takes with each of the founders across the globe.
How does YE Stack Venture Studio choose its collaborators and partners?
YE Stack is building an institution focused on enabling founders to succeed and works towards creating a transformational impact in the lives of these founders. This requires a dedicated approach for the long term and YE Stack is looking for like-minded individuals and institutions who would like to be part of the ecosystem that YE Stack is building to support Founders. We are looking for partners who understand and value our approach and are interested in being part of the amazing value-creating propositions of the Studio Model, along with our founders across the Globe as well as in India.
How does YE Stack Venture Studio gather feedback from its community, and how is this feedback used to improve the platform?
YE Stack works very closely with its Founders and their startups and is part of their journeys as an operational partner. This allows the core team of YE Stack Studio to make the required adjustments in its operational model to ensure that the founders get the best possible support in building their startups. There is a weekly cadence that YE Stack runs with each of it startups to bring out areas of improvement and is acted upon diligently. The community acts as the Studio’s eyes and ears and makes sure that the Studio is geared to meet the expectations of the founders in all possible ways.