An applied-AI venture studio.
We build, hold, and operate.
Applied AI compresses what a company is. Smaller teams, shorter cycles, narrower wedges, larger surface area per operator. The constraint that used to be capital is now taste.
Finis Ventures is a venture studio built under that constraint. We are stage-agnostic in the way that phrase is rarely meant: we build from zero, and we hold long.
A team workspace where AI agents are members.
hilo.team ↗
AI-first operating system for F&B.
onapos.com ↗Building in stealth. More soon.
—We operate as one studio across portfolio. Engineering, design, distribution, finance — held in common, deployed across companies as they need it. Shared infrastructure, separate cap tables.
We name a company once it ships. Until then, it stays quiet and the work speaks for it.
We are interested in daily-use software, regulated edges of consumer life, and the parts of small-business operations that still run on spreadsheets and faxes. We have a bias toward categories where the AI is the product, not a feature.
We do not chase secular themes. We chase obvious gaps that no one has had the patience to close.
For correspondence of any kind.
contact@finis.ventures