AI Venture Studio
Martell Ventures
We cofound new AI-first ventures with operators ready to do it again. From day one, with our audience, playbooks, infrastructure, and capital behind you.
Inside Martell Ventures
What Is Martell Ventures
Funds write cheques and hope. Accelerators give you three months and a demo day. Martell Ventures cofounds new AI-first ventures with experienced operators, from day one, and stays through the build, the scale, and the outcome. We co-create. We don't spectate.
15+
Companies Launched
13
Months to Get Here
350+
Growth Playbooks
10M+
Audience Reach
$25B
EV Target
Cofound With Us
You've built before. Founder, CEO, CTO, founding engineer. You've scaled a product, faced the hard parts, and earned the right to do it again. The next time should be the easiest. We're looking for the operators who will cofound our next ventures with us.
Founder, not operator
You've founded or co-founded a B2B SaaS, taken it to real MRR, and sold to SMBs yourself. You take new AI ventures from zero to paying customers, then bring on a Tech Lead once traction is real.
Kelowna, BC · Full-time in-studio
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Founding engineer DNA
5+ years shipping SaaS as a founding engineer or technical co-founder. Deep with LLMs, agents, and modern AI tooling. You partner with a Business Lead and turn validated concepts into shipped products inside 60 days.
Kelowna, BC · Full-time in-studio
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The Stack
Five compounding advantages. Deployed into every venture we cofound. This is what makes Martell Ventures the operating system, not just a backer.
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10 million followers across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and LinkedIn. In a world where you can spin up any tool with AI in seconds, the real moat is distribution. Every venture gets access to that reach from day one. Not as an ad. As a co-creator.
02
Three exits. 70+ angel investments including Intercom, Udemy, and xAI. Hundreds of SaaS companies coached to $1M, $10M, $50M ARR. Every lesson is documented and ready to deploy. Not theory. Proof.
03
Roddy Awad runs Martell Ventures as Managing Partner. 20+ years in the game. Built and exited a software company. The technical background. The EQ. And the ability to manage people at a level AI will never replicate.
04
We don't talk about AI. We build with it. Our internal AI OS runs 23 apps, 26 APIs, and 91,000+ lines of custom automation. Tools like our AI CTO that founders activate by voice. No interface, no login, just results.
05
Martell Media is in our building. Cofounders are in our building. Operators, growth leads, AI engineers, all under one roof. Founders walk in and say: “I need to be in this environment more.”
The Difference
Most solutions today take an existing product and bolt AI onto it. A chatbot here. An “AI-powered” badge there. That's the red ocean. Everybody's drowning in it.
We start with AI from the ground up. Not as a feature. As the foundation.
Red Ocean. Everyone Else.
You have an existing interface, existing workflows, existing assumptions, and you layer AI on top. The result? A product that kind of does AI, but isn't built for it.
Blue Ocean. Martell Ventures.
We start with one question: if AI could do this from scratch, how would we design it? Take Hero, our recruiting platform. There's no login screen. You make a phone call. It creates your account, runs the ads, handles everything. That's what AI-first actually means.
The Mission
Most people are still treating AI like it's the internet. Like it's mobile. Like they've got time to figure it out.
They don't.
The companies that win in the next decade won't be the ones that added AI to their product. They'll be the ones that built their entire product from AI.
Our Core Mission
Become the global leader in AI-powered SMB innovation.
15 companies in 13 months. $25 billion in enterprise value on the horizon. The next company on that list could be yours.
Ready
We're looking for the operators who will cofound the next decade of AI-first software companies with us. If that's you, the next move is yours.
P.S. Already Building
We do partner on a small number of AI-first SaaS companies that already have meaningful traction. If that's you, apply.
Common Questions
Yes. We're operator-partners, not advisors. We take equity because we're doing the work alongside you.
We want to see real traction. Minimum $100K MRR with a tech team in place and an AI-first product. If you're pre-revenue or below that bar, come back when you've grown into it.
No. We work with founders globally. The SaaS ecosystem doesn't have borders.
Fill out the form. Our team reviews it and reaches out within 5 business days if there's a mutual fit. We move fast.
Most accelerators give you 3 months and a demo day. We're operator-partners for the long haul, with 10M audience distribution, 350+ tested playbooks, and an AI infrastructure stack you can't find anywhere else. We don't just fund founders. We build with them.
