Welcome.

We are NEXT Studios.

We are a partnership of experienced entrepreneurs who help visionaries shape their ideas, craft them through a repeatable process, and move them forward with capital and talent.

As the first Benefits (B) Corporation venture studio, we provide an alternative to the traditional system. As such, we hold ourselves accountable to both financial success as a business, while supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Indiana.

We are the studio by designed and operated by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs, with entrepreneurs.

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What is a venture studio?

Studios include a strong ideation and definition function which can create new ideas, or rapidly refine the ideas of new prospects.

Studios apply a repeatable but customizable process directly or partner with outside incubators to help refine ideas into fundable startups.

Studios have an attached fund to add capital and talent to the process and may have partnerships with multiple funding and service providers.

Studios have an enduring relationship with a corporation or entrepreneur, partnering with them to take an idea all the way to a growth company.

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Venture partners, inside and out.

As a certified B Corporation, we use proceeds from our Corporate and Community Innovation Partner programs to reduce or eliminate fees for startup companies.

Corporate INTRApreneurs

We help corporations leverage their advantages to disrupt their own industry.

More and more corporations are separating the innovation teams from the main organizations, to shield them from bureaucracy, while protecting the main brand from startup risks.

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Startup ENTREpreneurs

We roll up our sleeves and work alongside you as we take your concept to launch in months.

More and more entrepreneurs are turning to venture studios to partner lean startup methodologies with their industry knowledge to de-risk, avoid failures, and optimize the chance for success.

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