Venture Studio Architect - I help you design, launch, and grow your company creation studio.

Most innovation programs fail not because of lack of ideas, but because they lack a system for venture creation.

I help innovation leaders in corporations, universities, and economic development organizations build venture studios that scale and deliver. Backed by data, frameworks, and insights from studying over 500 venture studios globally.

As Senior Director of Research & Data at the Venture Studio Forum, I'm building the empirical backbone of the venture studio asset class. VSF is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing 1,500+ members who have built 650+ companies, 11 unicorns, and $48 billion in enterprise value.

My work establishes venture studios as a formal asset class through:

-Asset Class Analysis in partnership with MIT and Harvard, delivering the first institutionally credible research for LPs and institutional investors
-The Venture Studio Index (VSI) — the first open standard and formal definition for venture studios
-Studio Data Platform (2026) providing structured datasets and benchmarks for researchers and operators
-State of the Studio Report (2026) tracking trends, performance, and sector segmentation
-Policy recommendations for state and federal innovation agencies

Concurrently, as Partner and Head of Insights at 9point8 Collective, I translate this research into practice. We've designed and launched 25+ venture studios. Our approach builds clarity, alignment, and momentum at the intersection of innovation, capital, and impact.

I've spent 20+ years at the intersection of innovation, strategy, and venture building. I launched NCR's first internal accelerator (generating $90M from its first cohort), secured 27+ patents across AI and fintech, and developed investment frameworks that institutional investors now use to allocate capital into the studio model.

Speaking & Workshops: I deliver keynotes and workshops on designing high-performing venture studios, the future of venture creation ecosystems, and turning knowledge engines into commercial engines.

🎤 Book me to speak: VentureStudioForum.org/speaking
 📊 Learn from our research: newsletter.venturestudioforum.org
 🌍 Join the community: venturestudioforum.org
 💼 Work with us: 9point8collective.com

Matthew Burris

Venture Studios have a 100x advantage over accelerators and venture funds.

Studios vs. accelerators vs. VC vs. incubators

One of the simplest ways to compare them? Hands-on support.

Venture capital: maybe 30 minutes per week.

Accelerators: 1–2 hours a week. Mostly group sessions and some limited 1:1.

Incubators: slightly less. Some education, co-working space, network access. But very little operational involvement.

Venture studio: 20 to 100+ hours a week of hands-on execution.
Real operators. Half a person to an entire team building the business with you.

The range of support isn't even close.

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• Created an Elevator Pitch for Bob Kagle, founder of Benchmark Capital and Kettering Alum, to be an intern at the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital as a freshman
• Received an offer for $2M to pursue technology platform that would increase the capability and improve alignment between Semiconductor and MEMS technology

Completed all coursework and received MBA while working overseas in the Middle East on a three year continuous deployment.

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National Defense Industrial Organization

Product Development & Management Association

Navigation Institute

Monitoring of a project by video analysis

Voice-based Transaction Terminal Ordering

Dual Control Security Processing

Internet-of-things (IoT) enabled lock with management platform processing

Secure Zone Access Control

Visual-based security compliance processing

Secure zone monitor

Laser sintering apparatus and methods

Cartridge for an additive manufacturing apparatus and method

Apparatus and methods for manufacturing

Elevating the Venture Studio Ecosystem | $500M+ Strategic Impact | M&A, Innovation & AI | Trusted by 500+ Studios

I’m an entrepreneurial strategy and innovation leader with 20+ years of experience designing and scaling ventures, partnerships, and corporate initiatives that have generated over $500M in strategic value.

As Chief Content Officer at The Venture Studio Forum, I lead the world’s largest global venture studio association—now 400+ members representing $48B+ in value creation across 675 companies and 8 unicorns. I drive content, standards, and community that define the venture studio asset class and position it for institutional adoption.

Previously, I launched NCR’s first internal accelerator—generating $90M from its first cohort—and secured 27+ patents across AI, fintech, and computer vision. I’ve built and scaled startups from zero to funding and strategic partnerships with Fortune 50s, and developed investment and diligence frameworks that institutional investors now use to allocate capital into the studio model.

I work with investors, founders, and innovation leaders to design, launch, and scale venture studios tailored to their goals, environments, and constraints. I bring unmatched breadth of exposure across 500+ global studios to create models that align incentives, avoid fatal design flaws, and drive long-term success.

Let’s connect if you're designing a studio, evaluating the model, or scouting strategic talent to take innovation, venture, or corporate development goals further.

Resources by Matthew Burris

Access studio expertise at scale. Our paid membership provides direct support, fractional guidance, and group sessions that effectively create advisory support from experienced studio builders, operators, and other studio operating partners.

We're talking about fundraising guidance, operational insights, legal structure frameworks, and deck reviews from experts who've built successful studios.

Join us in defining and elevating the venture studio asset class.

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The Venture Studio Perspective Newsletter

Burris organized, facilitated, and mentored at Startup Weekends across Indiana, working with over 450 aspiring entrepreneurs to turning their ideas in to viable businesses that resulted in more than $1M in investment from investors such as Mark Cuban. 

Model Comparison.pdf

I help innovation leaders build venture studios | Senior Director, Research & Data @ Venture Studio Forum | Partner, Head of Insights @ 9point8 Collective | Keynote Speaker | Trusted by 500+ Studios

Venture studios aren’t VC

So why should we try to fit them inside VC frameworks?

The carousel below explains why this is the case (and breaks down an alternative model for venture studios instead).

For more on studio structures, capital efficiency, and the case for new frameworks for venture studios… 

DM/Comment “VSF” to join the venture studio forum (a community for the venture studio ecosystem)

Venture Studios Aren’t  VC Funds.pdf

Corporate Venture Studios are surprisingly common in major corporations. 

Around a third of corporations with Corporate Venture Capital also have a Venture Studio.

Both serve different purposes, and they're distinct operationally, strategically, and financially.

Corporate VC is about gaining strategic access to an external startup, one that the corporation might one day acquire, partner with, or monitor closely.

A Venture Studio works differently, Instead of buying in, you’re building from the ground up.

Usually in a category where the corporation already has deep industry knowledge.

Two powerful tools, but useful for very different parts of the corporate growth strategy.

For more in depth comparison, check the carousel below

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CVS vs. CVC.pdf

Emerging venture studios often struggle to get off the ground.

And the reason for that is because they never solved the fundamental question:

Who are they really building for?

Venture studios have 4 “customers”:

→ Investors
→ Founders
→ Internal team
→ Follow-on capital

And optimizing for one can break another.

A studio that maximizes investor money without thinking through operating needs often ends up overbuilt and unfocused.

A studio that designs everything for founders may land early talent but struggle to raise sustainable capital.

A studio that assumes follow-on VCs will just show up rarely survives past Fund I.

And the studios that work, start with alignment.

They know what kind of investor they want (and what kind they don’t).

They design an operating model that delivers real support, without getting in the way.

They define what types of entrepreneurs they’re built to serve and what types they should avoid.

And they’re clear-eyed about the follow-on capital they’re targeting, so they can reverse engineer the conditions for it to show up.

Lastly: 

For investors evaluating studios, those 4 customers are a simple lens that cuts through the pitch decks.

→ Does the model make sense for the capital, the people, and the downstream funding?
→ Or is someone subsidizing someone else?

Too many firms focus on perfecting one relationship.

The best ones get the balance right.

Practical Applications for Studio Design and Due Diligence.pdf

6 Common venture studio design mistakes

1. Incorporating Fund Too Soon
2. Picking the Wrong Follow-on Capital
3. Picking the Wrong Founder Archetype
4. Raising Capital Too Early
5. Designing Something Too Fancy
6. Pitching the Model Instead of Yourself

For more in depth breakdown, check the carousel below

The more focused you are early, the better your odds.

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6 Common Mistakes Venture Studios Make Too Early.pdf

In June 2023, Business Insider reported tensions at the venture studio Fractal, where several founders said they had been “blacklisted” by later-stage investors.

That report set off a chain of closer analysis.

Here’s a case study, grounded in public information, that revealed there deeper design issue:

1) Follow-on Capital: 

Fractal promised founders that their companies could raise a Series A just 12 months after launch. 

That’s nearly 4x faster than the average startup timeline and half the time most venture studios take. 

Investors weren’t open to the companies that clearly were not ready for that stage.

2) Founder Incentives: 

Press reports suggest entrepreneurs held only ~15% equity. 

That made it harder to attract strong founding teams, and triggered concern from later-stage capital about founder incentives.

3) Operational Load: 

Spinning up one company per week with 100 staff reduced support per venture to ~2 full-time equivalents, assuming zero admin and operations overhead.

For an equity stake that was greater than a cofounder stake, the equity studio took didn’t match the operational lift they provided.

4)  Market Misalignment: 

Fractal’s thesis focused on “boring markets with unicorn potential,” but their target VC investors weren’t aligned with that narrative. 

Founders were caught in the middle.

None of these elements would have sunk the model individually.

But venture studios are integrated systems. 

When any one stakeholder group isn’t aligned, founders, investors, or internal teams, the consequences ripple through all of them.

And when alignment fails at multiple levels, the venture studio model breaks.

The Fractal Case Study.pdf

I'll be moderating at the Virtual VC Conf on March 31. Topic: “The Cap Table Problem: Do Venture Studios Make Startups Uninvestable for VCs?”  Join me and register free here:  https://vcconf.com?32

Super Founder

$344 billion worth of speakers/investors. Super Founder is a brand built around growing the largest investor, founder and executive network globally starting with monthly startup pitch events and monthly speaker events. 
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The Super Founder Global Advisory Council releases a weekly newsletter discussing things like how to progress through rounds of investment, how to grow as a founder/human and how to grow companies properly (with or without investment). 
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The Super Founder Global Advisory Council (SFGAC) is a part of the Super Founder brand created by Rocket Mindset. SFGAC has 17 members and two parts. 

Part one is an internal monthly meeting by the members to discuss the state of the world, latest actions and upcoming actions in terms of investment, founders and growing companies generally. 

Part two is a public weekly newsletter which each member contributes to. There will be some guest contributions as well. 

The council was chosen to be well rounded so that readers of the newsletter (investors, founders, executives and more) would have a well rounded and trusted source of information. 

Some people at our events 
- $80 billion - Jeff Lavin 
- $21 billion - Managing Director - Neha Jatar 
- Ex-COO Techstars - Scott Ford 
- $5 billion exits - Mark McNally 
- 50 million $ marketing machines - Trevor Longino 
- Former employment attorney - Sejal Thakkar 
- Head of insights at Carta - Peter Walker 
- 15x founder - Daniel Mumby - 385k followers 
- Investor in 80+ startups - Raja Skogland 
- $4 billion sales org - David Weiss 
- $3 billion exit to Uber as marketing director - Omar Abedin
- $235 billion exec coach - Sharesz T. Wilkinson 


Newsletter & more info at: https://sf-gac.com/

Super Founder Global Advisory Council (SFGAC) CEO & Founder

The Super Founder Global Network (SFGN) is the world's largest investor, founder and executive network in the making. 

The network is backed with a defensible core of top tier management growth methods and a unique method called CGF. This enables us to not just “curate” investors/executives but “create” top tier execs/investors at scale. 

The SFGN Heads in the network come from Visa, Coca-Cola, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nike, Redbull, PepsiCo, Pacific Capital Partners ($80 billion AUM), Techstars, Gartner, Fundingstack, P&G, State Farm Ventures, Michael Cowan (worked with/on 850+ consumer brands), GE Capital, E.W. Scripps (Founded in 1878), Kraft Foods, Standard Chartered, Super Bowl, Lehman Brothers, VC, PE, HR, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Growth and more. 

See more at: https://sf-gn.com/

Super Founder Global Network (SFGN) CEO & Founder

Founder Institute

The Founder Institute is the #1 place in the world to turn ideas into fundable startups, and startups into global businesses. FI Alumni have raised over $1.5 billion in funding and are building meaningful businesses across 200+ cities and 6 continents.

Mentor

Nobody Studios

I’m excited to announce joining Nobody Studios as a Founder Mentor. Nobody Studios is one of the largest venture studios in the world with CEO Mark McNally who has had $5 billion in exits. 

Nobody Studios is stacked with top talent (Facebook & Coca Cola execs, multi-exit founders and much more), amazing humans and incredible portfolio companies that will change the world. 

We align on a global playing field (ambitious is my number one trait), high quality high scale founders/humans as a core (rigor is so important to me), rapid sustainable company creation, collaboration mindset & tactics in a variety of ways and much more. 

Mark McNally has been a great partner at Super Founder by Rocket Mindset. We’re excited to be stepping up our partnership today. 

Thank you Sejal Thakkar for everything you have done and continue do…you are beyond incredible. Much to come. 

I’m excited to meet more of the amazing Nobody team in the coming weeks. 

I’ll continue to build the world’s largest investor & founder network (pitch events monthly 🚀) with my team based defensibly on high quality high scale founders that we create rapidly at scale. Our team will continue to make global partnerships like this. This is another exciting one with another great human team and great founders 🚀

Founder Mentor

PTH Venture Studio

I’m excited to announce joining PTH Venture Studio as an Advisor. Omar Abedin was Marketing Director at Careem prior to its $3.1Bn acquisition by Uber, did $100 million annual marketing budgets, has great portcos and has been a great partner at Super Founder by Rocket Mindset. We’re excited to be stepping up our partnership today. I’ll continue to build the world’s largest investor & founder network and make global partnerships. This is another exciting one with another great human and great founders 🚀

Advisor

StudioHUB Startup Studio Community

I’m excited to announce joining StudioHub as a Studio & Founder Mentor. StudioHub is the world’s largest startup studio network with 1,000+ startup studios. 

In the network StudioHub has studios like IdeaLab, High Alpha and hundreds more that spun up companies like Coinbase, Twilio, Attentive, SalesLoft and hundreds more. 

Manush Melkumyan has been a great partner at Super Founder by Rocket Mindset. We’re excited to be stepping up our partnership today. 

I’ll continue to build the world’s largest investor & founder network (pitch events monthly 🚀) with my team based defensibly on high quality high scale founders that we create rapidly at scale. Our team will continue to make global partnerships like this. This is another exciting one with another great human and great founders 🚀

Studio & Founder Mentor

Montelier Capital

Investing in a wide range of founders that meet our "Gravity Ball" concept plus 100+ other attributes we have a deep founder / management team science for. We mentor founders / teams through Rocket Mindset / Super Founder brand to make extremely strong returns.

General Partner

Rocket Mindset Inc.

CEO Consulting across industries and countries to grow your company faster than any other method...and we have fun too :-) Our goal is to make the largest global impact and measurably affect 3 billion people...CEOs have a powerful cascading effect to teams and customers. 

The deepest people science and company science is at our core...and we have fun growing hundreds of companies. 

Specialized mechanics for every type of business. Customized and calculated...every inch of a company can be optimized...every line of code, every micro expression on a sales call, every strategy accounting for the latest interest rates and much much more. 

All in weekly 1:1 calls...customized to each CEO / team. 

We also connect you to additional experts and investors you will need on your journey as each phase comes. 

“You are probably one of the best investments I’ve ever made” - Carlos Ramirez (Former Tesla Exec) 

“Jeremy is a force of nature” - Omar Abedin ($3B exit to Uber as Marketing Director) 

“Jeremy Barr is a powerhouse” - Sharesz T. Wilkinson (Executive Coach to orgs up to $235 billion) 

“Sometimes I’m stuck on a problem for a week, then one conversation with Jeremy changes the game.” - Shoukri Kattan (CEO at BitLab) 

“Jeremy is an absolute rockstar! I deeply appreciate his ability to take large, complex problems and break them down into manageable, actionable steps to accelerate progress, while maintaining the human element.” - Angela Priest (CEO at Groyu - managed $1 billion operations) 

“Simply put, Jeremy is a machine” - Anwar Imani (Co-Founder at Smashtech - $40 million revenue)

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

THE Founder Mentor $0-$100 million 💰 | VC | Pitch events monthly 🚀 | 3,000+ exec mentoring calls …up to 200 person orgs 🔥 | Building the largest investor & founder network globally 🌎 | DEEP posts DAILY 🤓

Jeremy grows companies with advanced strategies ($200k - $1B)...after managing teams of teams of teams of people up to $1.4 billion.

"I paid over $50,000 to Jeremy...worth every penny." - Brett Butler (CEO) 

“You are probably one of the best investments I’ve ever made” - Carlos Ramirez (Former Tesla Exec) 

It includes weekly advisory calls ($1k - $2k / mo) and/or full business/growth plans ($10k - $20k) and/or growth mathematics/models/algos ($50k - $300k) for cross industry (except healthcare) cross product revenue sizes $0 - $1 billion 

If you're "already a very smart CEO" and want to go "next level" (see what you don't know you don't know) and become unquestionable then DM me for an intro chat. 

Month by month flexibility. Clients usually stay over a year. 

Jeremy managed teams of teams of teams of people, operated at million $ and billion $ scale, did and managed nearly every role in a ton of companies, bought a company, became a VC, did AI on a project with the FBI & Secret Service and now consults top tier CEO's, investors and venture studios in 30+ countries globally. 8 countries/day.

-> DM to check availability and fit <- 

“Jeremy is a force of nature” - Omar Abedin ($3B exit to Uber as Marketing Director) 

“Sometimes I’m stuck on a problem for a week, then one conversation with Jeremy changes the game.” - Shoukri Kattan (CEO at BitLab) 

“Jeremy Barr is a powerhouse” - Sharesz T. Wilkinson (Exec Coach to orgs up to $235 billion) 

"Jeremy is one of the rare ones who can break down art into science." - Dr Ankur Pathak (Founding Principal at London Real Ventures) 

"I made $68,000 in 47 days thanks to Jeremy" - Ally Kennedy (CEO) 

“Jeremy is an absolute rockstar!” - Angela Priest (CEO - managed $1 billion operations) 

"Jeremy is extremely talented at growing companies rapidly…every nuance considered. I rarely see anyone master such breadth and depth." - David Weiss (Helped 200+ startups in 2023, $4 billion sales org) 

"Ultimately, Jeremy is a force." - Cindy Skalicky (CEO - Clients raised $500 million in deal flow)

"Jeremy's mastery in scaling teams, transformative innovation, and driving growth is exceptional." -  Mohammad Tavangar (Director at Founder Institute, Ex Financial Advisor at European Commission) 

"Jeremy is an amazing human being who has one of the most brilliant minds." -Ted Belinky (CFO - Ex Kraft Foods)

“Simply put, Jeremy is a machine” - Anwar Imani (Co-Founder at Smashtech - $40 million revenue)

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