Co-create the next generation of industrial and mission-critical ventures.
We are re-writing the rules of business creation, de-risking new OT ventures and taming the complexity of technology to move further, faster by focusing on incumbents with the domain expertise and vision to accelerate value and exits. Critical Mission Studio partners with industrial companies, operators, incumbent players, entrepreneurs, founders, and domain experts to co-create AI-enabled software and operational technology ventures across manufacturing, buildings and infrastructure, and life sciences.
Mission-critical systems are at a modernization inflection point.
- Aging OT systems and rising operational complexity.
- Growing cybersecurity and resilience demands.
- Skilled labor shortages.
- AI and open-source technologies reducing development time and cost.
- Corporate need for new growth vehicles beyond internal development and acquisitions.
We create ventures where modernization and industrial systems intersect.
CMS is a venture studio focused on under-served mission-critical markets. It identifies high-value opportunity spaces, shapes solution concepts with customers and partners, validates them quickly, and helps form and support ventures with the teams, tools, and operating structure required to grow.
Two venture paths. One integrated studio model.
Platform Ventures
Domain-level OT system developer and management platforms for focused sectors.
Solution Ventures
Specific co-created solution ventures built around defined customer problems.
Three domains where modernization matters most.
Industrial & Manufacturing
Operational complexity, aging infrastructure, and data fragmentation create room for new OT software, automation, analytics, and workflow ventures.
Buildings & Infrastructure
Buildings, facilities, and infrastructure systems need modern overlays that improve resilience, efficiency, security, and operational visibility without disrupting installed environments.
BioPharma & Life Sciences
Regulated operations, digital bottlenecks, and specialized workflows create opportunities for new ventures in areas such as sample management, manufacturing systems, and data-intensive operations.
A venture studio built for hard domains, not generic software markets.
When the companies we want to back do not exist yet, we create them.
Start a conversation about a domain opportunity, a co-creation concept, or a new venture pathway in mission-critical markets.