What we do · 03 — Incubation Factory & Governance

Turning bold ideas into transformative solutions.

We enable smart ideas from our community — backing researchers, startups, and institutions with mentorship, network, and governance to ship AI responsibly.

What we offer

From idea to deployed venture.

Mentorship, network, and governance — built for startups, researchers, and institutions ready to ship responsibly.

Strategic guidance from people who’ve built it.

We support startups as domain experts, consultants, and coaches, enabling AI-driven products and services with tangible market and societal impact across energy, agriculture, health, and environment.

  • 1:1 founder coaching with industry veterans
  • Strategic advisory across product, AI, and market
  • Access to research and curriculum networks

Active builds

What we’re building.

Each product turns research and capability into something deployable, designed for the contexts in which our collaborators actually work.

Our process

Four stages, one trajectory.

Each venture moves through a structured trajectory, designed to translate AI capability into deployable, accountable systems.

  1. 01

    Explore

    Validate the problem.

    Discovery sessions with stakeholders and end users, testing whether AI is the right tool, before building.

  2. 02

    Design

    Build with rigour.

    Co-creation with our research network, grounded in data and method. Architecture, governance, and trust by design.

  3. 03

    Pilot

    Deploy in the wild.

    Living-lab environments with real users. Feedback informs every iteration toward operational readiness.

  4. 04

    Scale

    Across regions and systems.

    Market translation with collaborators across the EU and beyond, sustaining impact at the systems level.

Governance & readiness

Aligned with the frameworks that matter.

Regulatory alignment

EU AI Act

Readiness assessment, risk classification, and compliance mapping for AI systems entering the European market.

Standards alignment

ISO/IEC 42001 · NIST AI RMF

Management-system standards and risk-management frameworks built into every venture, not bolted on afterward.

Building an AI venture?

Mentorship, access to research networks, governance support, and routes to pilot and scale, across the European Union and beyond.

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