Venture studio — LP — direct investor
PVP.An alternative capital solution to turn ideas into reality
An alternative capital solution to turn ideas into reality
Platform Venture Partners backs Australian and New Zealand founders with capital plus the engineering, data, and AI muscle of Horizon Labs. We co-build, we cheque in, and we commit as an LP where we can add something a wire transfer cannot.
How we back founders
Capital, engineering, distribution — under one roof.
Capital
Real cheques, sized to the round and structured on fair terms. Lead, co-lead, or a meaningful supporting position — never the name at the bottom of a SAFE you forget about.
Engineering
Access to Horizon Labs AI engineers, platform engineers, and ML operators. Not outsourcing — augmentation, where the founder stays in the driver's seat and we ship alongside them.
Distribution
Positioning, early design partners, founding-customer introductions, and the playbooks we have seen work for AU and NZ founders breaking into offshore markets.
Thesis
What we back.
We back operator-founders building AI-native software for Australian and New Zealand markets. Capital is the table stakes. Engineering, data, and distribution are how we actually move the needle.
Our edge is structural, not rhetorical. Portfolio companies tap the Horizon Labs engineering bench on day one, which compresses the path from idea to a shipped first version.
Portfolio
Founders we back.
Announcements coming soon.
We will share portfolio names when the founders are ready to.
Tell us what you are building.
The fastest way to reach us is email. Founders get a response within five business days.