Afraid to miss out?

Let's build real infrastructure.

Most AI solutions are fragile wrappers that collapse at scale. At Afraid Ventures, we partner with industry experts to build deep, production-ready technology that solves actual business pain, and we take it to market.

See what we've built

Sound familiar?

You see the problem every day. Building the solution is another story.

“Custom development is too expensive for our organisation alone.”

“We should be doing something with AI, but we have no idea where to start.”

“The software we need simply doesn't exist yet.”

Quick wrappers and polished demos won't fix this. Fundamental business problems require serious engineering and a serious route to market.

The model

We aren't an agency.
We are venture builders.

No hourly rates, no development invoices. We look for operators and industry insiders with a costly, recurring industry problem and the market access to solve it at scale.

We co-develop the solution and invest our engineering and go-to-market for equity, with you as launching partner or as co-founders.

The deal

Three ingredients, one venture.

Your Domain

You bring deep expertise, a costly recurring problem, and access to the market that has it.

Our Engine

Deep AI engineering plus strategy and go-to-market: we've shipped production systems and taken products to market.

The Venture

Together we build a standalone product and scale it, with you as co-founding partner or launching customer.

Proof

Our ventures.

Engaigy

Built for training agencies

The AI-native operating system for trainers: upload a training PDF and get a complete 8-week follow-up program, written in the trainer's own voice and sent from their own domain.

Status: 2 enterprise pilots, paid contracts in pipeline.

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An inline AI editor that writes in your voice, voice updates on the go, calendar integration, evaluation and upselling built in. Nothing goes out without the trainer's approval.

Engaigy: from PDF upload to a generated 8-mail follow-up program in three steps — From a training PDF to a full follow-up program in three steps: the agent reads the material, asks smart questions, then writes the whole series.

Engaigy inline AI editor suggesting edits in the trainer's voice — Co-write every mail with the agent, inline and in your own voice. Nothing goes out without your approval.

Engaigy sending overview: an 8-week mail program scheduled from the trainer's own address — The whole program scheduled and sent from the agency's own address, their brand, their name.

Monniez

Live

A consumer platform built end-to-end by Maarten with a partner, running in production today. Not a demo but the full stack of a real product.

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Public storefront
Customer accounts & login
Sales-partner portal
Automated legal checks
Full admin backend

Team

The partners behind it.

A venture needs two things: a product that actually works, and a route to market that actually converts. That's the pair. No outsourcing, no hand-offs: the people you talk to are the people who do the work.

Jurre

Partner · Strategy & Growth

From strategy consulting to commercial and growth director roles. Jurre builds the strategy, partnerships and marketing that turn a working product into a scalable business, from positioning to the communication that sells it.

+31 6 49 714393

Maarten

Partner · Engineering & Product

Built and shipped Engaigy and Monniez end-to-end: AI architecture, production systems, and the engineering discipline to make them hold up at scale.

+31 6 28 633 117

Your move

What problem is costing your industry money?

Development too expensive for your organisation alone? No idea where to start with AI? Looking for software that doesn't exist yet? That is exactly the challenge we're looking for. Share it, and let's build something the competition will fear.

We take on one new venture at a time.