We build companies that expand human potential.
DonaLabs is an applied-AI venture studio. We research high-friction markets, find the opportunities worth pursuing, and build focused companies around them.
Research finds important problems. Ventures pursue them. The studio makes the process repeatable.
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Research
Understand the problem.
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Validate
Earn the right to build.
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Build
Launch narrowly and quickly.
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Scale
Compound what works.
Many ventures. One idea.
Every company in the portfolio works on part of the same mission: helping people thrive physically, professionally, intellectually, and socially.
- PsonalHealth Find the right care, and book it with confidence.
- DonaForce Engineering capacity for organizations that need to deliver more.
- Dona Institute Applied learning and serious mentorship that turn potential into proof.
- Chocolate City FC A football club that develops people on and off the pitch.
Human potential has more than one dimension.
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Thrive physically.
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Thrive professionally.
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Thrive intellectually.
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Thrive socially.
Health, work, learning, and community are not unrelated markets. They are dimensions of the same life, and a person held back in one is held back in all of them. Every venture we build, now and later, works on at least one.
We find the opportunity before we build the venture.
Venture discovery is a discipline, not a hunch. We look for markets where people have learned to tolerate broken systems, and an opportunity has to pass three filters before anyone builds anything.
- Friction
- Important workflows people tolerate because nothing better exists.
- Leverage
- Places where new technology lets a focused intervention create disproportionate value.
- Durability
- Problems that can become enduring companies, not temporary products.
- Where they meet
- We build where all three hold.
One studio. Many shots on goal.
A single startup learns once. A studio keeps what it learns. Research, product capability, technology, talent, operating infrastructure, and the lessons of every existing venture carry into the next company.
Build the next one with us.
The studio works with three kinds of people. If you are one of them, write to us.
- Operators
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People who can build and run a company, and want a researched problem worth years of their attention.
Write as an operator - Domain experts
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People who understand a difficult market from the inside and can see what others miss.
Write as a domain expert - Capital partners
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Investors who believe in the studio model, or in a specific venture.
Write as a capital partner