We back founders building the technologies that redefine industries
IMS Digital Ventures is the venture-building arm of IMS Group. We back platform-technology founders with the IMS Labs stack, an operator-led partnership from board down, and a global family-office network behind every commitment.
Most venture capital is broken for platform-tech founders.
Founders building on emerging platform technologies — blockchain, traceability, tokenisation, enterprise SaaS — need more than capital. They need an operating partner with the proprietary IP, the operator bench, and the family-office distribution to compress years off the path from MVP to moat.
IMS Digital Ventures was formed to be that partner.
Capital alone is not enough.
Cash is the smallest part of what platform-tech founders need. We bring the technology stack and the operating partnership.
Technology shouldn't be rebuilt.
We bring core platforms, IP, and capabilities from the IMS Labs stack, applied and innovated on for every founder building to disrupt their industry.
Builders, not venture capitalists.
We put skin in the game on both capital and operations, co-investing alongside founders and embedding operating partners from the Group network on every board.
Four commitments to every founder we back.
IMS Digital Ventures is a venture builder, not a fund. Every portfolio entity gets the same operating commitments from day one.
Skin in the game.
Our investment is just the start. We commit operational expertise, proprietary technology development capabilities, and real resources from across the Group to every entity we back — not just capital.
Operator-led, always.
Every portfolio entity is paired with at least one operating partner from the Group's network and is supported along the entire growth journey.
We back the future
We don't operate to a fund-life timeline. We back founders for as long as they're building toward category leadership, holding through cycles rather than exiting against an arbitrary clock.
Impact-led geography.
We back companies where their technology creates real impact in its respective markets, not where the office happens to sit. Capital and operators follow the opportunity.
Anchored on platform technologies, deployed across many industries.
Blockchain solutions
Trustless infrastructure for ownership, provenance, and settlement where legacy intermediaries are slow, costly, or absent.
↗︎ 02Enterprise technology
Mission-critical systems for institutions where uptime, security, and scale are non-negotiable from day one.
↗︎ 03FinTech
Operating systems for the next generation of financial infrastructure, from payments and lending to digital identity and embedded finance.
↗︎ 04SaaS
Vertical software replacing the spreadsheets, point tools, and analogue workflows that hold high-stakes operators back.
↗︎ 05Tokenised marketplaces
Liquid secondary markets for asset classes that have always traded illiquidly — from real estate to commodities to alternatives.
↗︎Asset management
Operating systems and AI-native infrastructure for next-generation asset managers, automating the diligence, surveillance, and reporting work that defines competitive advantage at institutional scale.
↗︎ 02Capital markets
Tokenised issuance, settlement, and trading rails for asset classes that have outgrown legacy infrastructure.
↗︎ 03Commerce
Brand-side platforms and operations for consumer brands building direct-to-consumer at global scale.
↗︎ 04Consumer
Enterprise-grade technology for the world's leading consumer brands, from machine-readable product systems to AI-native merchandising at global scale.
↗︎ 05Cybersecurity
Autonomous detection and response where human analyst headcount cannot scale fast enough to match the threat surface.
↗︎ 06Real estate
Operating systems and liquidity rails for the world's largest, most analogue asset class.
↗︎ 07Sports & entertainment
Specialist financing and operating platforms for athletes, clubs, and venues underserved by mainstream capital.
↗︎ 08Supply chain
Provenance and chain-of-custody for critical materials moving across borders, jurisdictions, and intermediaries.
↗︎Equity for technology, capital, and operational excellence
IMS Digital Ventures does not just write cheques; it brings the entire operating platform. Every portfolio company inherits the IMS Labs stack on day one, an operator from the partnership on the board, and the family-office network behind the first cohort of customers.
Trade IP for equity.
Founders get the IMS Labs technology stack without rebuilding it. We get a meaningful equity position. The cheque is the smallest part of the deal.
Tech expertise from day one
Every venture is supported by a best-in-class approach to building technology, delivered by a Silicon Valley-grade team of business and technical architects embedded alongside the founder from the first sprint.
Operators on every board.
Every entity is paired with a working operating partner from the Group network. Decisions get made; founders don't get coached, they get backed.
AI agent swarms
Web3 rails
Provenance & RWA
Active portfolio entities.
Three Group advantages, channelled through venture building.
Global family-office firepower.
IMS Digital Ventures is anchored by the Group's network of multi-generational family offices, spanning next-generation principals and established legacy capital across eight markets.
IMS Labs as the unfair advantage.
Underwriting, diligence, and portfolio intelligence run on IMS Labs technology. Investment decisions combine our proprietary technology stack with partner expertise to solve the hardest operational problems across the Group.
Operating excellence as standard.
Our investment team is led by operators who have built businesses, not just allocators reading research. IMS pairs investment pedigree with operational execution.
Three sister divisions on one platform.
We back top-tier founders with skin in the game across frontier technologies, pairing equity-for-tech terms with the operating partnership behind every commitment.
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