By: Chris Chae, Gary Fung, and Jake Janosik — Venture Studio Leads @ Highline Beta At Highline Beta, we build startups and invest primarily in the areas of fintech, insurtech, CPG, and health. Our Venture Studio spends a lot of time exploring these industries and developing a unique perspective on opportunity areas. The studio’s approach […]
Venture studios exist to build and fund startups. The model has existed for a long time and has seen plenty of success. At Highline Beta, we help Fortune 1000 companies identify and pursue areas of opportunity beyond their core business. When it comes to external innovation, it’s all about partnering them with startups that can help accelerate their objectives, or building new companies from scratch through our Venture Studio.
In the tech ecosystem, everyone is talking about founder diversity. It is a complex and challenging issue that highlights the inequality that many face. And 2020 has been a year of reckoning. With the Black Lives Matter movement, conversations around diversity in leadership and across sectors have become pressing. To-date, 70% of founders from Highline […]
When Marcus, Lauren and I started Highline Beta, we always believed in the opportunity to help founders build their startups from scratch in close collaboration with corporate partners. With our experience building and supporting startups, assets and insights from large companies and our Fund, all the ingredients are there to build great companies. As we’ve grown, learned and iterated over four years, more and more of the pieces are now in place to build startups faster through our venture studio model.
