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We connect capital and ideas — and we build.

We bootstrap ideas into reality — bringing money and ideas together, running experiments and studies, advising governments, and designing and building across the physical and digital worlds.

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Government & Policy

We work directly with public bodies on the questions in front of them — weighing options, shaping policy, and standing up the data and systems behind it. And because new industries and the people governing them often can't find each other, we make that introduction too: bringing emerging thinkers into the room with the officials who need to hear from them.

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How it works

  • 01

    Advise the public sector

    We help governments and agencies think through hard, fast-moving questions — weighing the options honestly and saying what we'd actually do.

  • 02

    Shape policy

    From analysis to drafting to the data underneath it, we help turn intent into policy that can survive contact with reality.

  • 03

    Connect government to the frontier

    We bring emerging industry thinkers into rooms with the officials who'll have to support and regulate what they're building — and translate between the two.

What this looks like

  • A briefing that puts a working researcher in front of the people writing the rules.

  • A policy or program that needs analysis, shape, and the data to back it.

  • An agency that needs an honest read on a fast-moving technology before it has to act.

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