# Venus Digital

> Venus Digital is a venture incubator and studio based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It incubates and builds ventures with founders, co-investors and corporate and government partners across South and Southeast Asia. It focuses on four sectors: education, media, SME digitalisation and tourism.

Website: https://venusdigital.co/
Contact: inquiry form at https://venusdigital.co/#contact. Every inquiry gets a reply within two working days.
Office: Colombo, Sri Lanka.

## What Venus Digital does

- Incubate: validate the problem with paying customers, shape the business model and prepare the company to raise its first round.
- Build: a studio that provides product, engineering, design and talent, so founders can hire for the long term.
- Scale: open doors to co-investors, corporates and governments, and plan regional expansion before the first market is won.

## Sectors

- Education: learning, skills and the systems schools and employers run on.
- Media: content, publishing and the platforms that carry it.
- SME digitalisation: tools that bring small and mid-sized firms online and help them grow.
- Tourism: travel, hospitality and the services visitors rely on.

## Who it works with

- Founders, from first idea to first round.
- Co-investors, who invest alongside Venus Digital in vetted ventures with investor-grade reporting.
- Corporate and government partners, through programmes, pilots and new ventures.

## Five commitments

1. Evidence before capital. Back problems that paying customers have already proven. Every round then buys a milestone.
2. Regional by design. Built for one market and architected for many.
3. Founder-led, studio-backed. Founders own the vision. The studio brings the bench.
4. Governance from day zero. Investor-grade from the very first board meeting.
5. Aligned outcomes. Venus Digital wins only when founders and co-investors win.

## What it looks for

- Founders who know the problem first-hand, can show that customers care before there is a product, and want to build for more than one market. A deck is not needed to start.
- Problems customers already pay to solve, with an answer that works across South and Southeast Asia and progress that can be measured in months.

## Process

1. Apply: tell Venus Digital about the problem and the team.
2. Validate: test the market, the model and the fit against criteria agreed up front.
3. Build: product, brand and go-to-market, built side by side with the studio team.
4. Launch and raise: take the venture to market and to investors, with Venus Digital staying on as a long-term partner.

## About the name

The site's emblem is the rose of Venus. Seen from Earth over eight years, Venus traces a five-petalled rose, and its five meetings with Earth form a pentagram. Venus Digital builds ventures on the same disciplined cycle.

Information on this site is not an offer of securities.