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/ CONSUMER BRAND VENTURES

Unlock new Businesses hidden Inside Your Brand.

Your brand is your most valuable asset — put it to work.


Inside every iconic brand lies a fortune of trapped potential just waiting to be unleashed. A good chunk of your value remains undiscovered – restless opportunities hidden in plain sight.


We’ve assembled a team unmatched in starting and scaling businesses inside global brands. Combining world-class entrepreneurs who have launched over 1,000 startups with pioneering brand experts. And spending a decade perfecting our methodology into a science.


Now we’re bringing our proven methodology to consumer brands ready to transform their legacy into their next iconic chapter.


This is new.

This is difficult to do.

And we can help you do it.

Let’s talk

Discovering new business territories


Most brand strategies travel worn, conventional paths. We blaze trails into unexplored terrain, seeking out communities and analyzing subcultures that resonate with dormant dimensions of your brand. Mining the far corners of the internet, we uncover spaces bursting with potential you never thought to activate.


These are non-obvious opportunities hiding in plain sight that typical consumer research approaches overlook. We go beyond focus groups and demographic segments to spotlight adjacent growth vectors ripe for expansion. Our maps lead to resonant niches where your brand’s right to play remains unclaimed.

Communities are your brand's source of truth... and opportunity.

Opportunity Map

Pinpoint growth communities that align closely with your brand identity. We map evolving consumer networks to reveal spaces primed for activation.


By spotlighting adjacent expansion areas, we identify territories where you can stake out credibility with new audiences.

Community Activator

Accelerate your growth through community engagement. We ignite participation by empowering brands to integrate into their most passionate fans.


Applying the latest emerging tech and motivational techniques, we transform superficial utility into renewed loyalty.

Venture Builder

Identify and execute new paths to growth. Build. Buy. Partner. Invest.


We validate and activate the most viable business ideas, then rapidly incubate and scale new ventures in spaces where you have credibility to play. With our veteran team, we capitalize on the best opportunities.

Mapping Opportunities

Pinpoint growth communities that align closely with your brand identity. We map evolving consumer networks to reveal spaces primed for activation.


By spotlighting adjacent expansion areas, we identify territories where you can stake out credibility with new, previously invisible audiences.

Activating Communities

Accelerate your growth through community engagement. We ignite participation by empowering brands to integrate into their most passionate fans.


Applying the latest emerging tech and motivational techniques, we transform superficial utility into renewed loyalty.

Building Ventures

Identify and execute new paths to growth through building, buying, partnering or investing.


We validate the most viable business opportunities, then rapidly incubate and scale new ventures with our expert team in spaces where you and your brand has credibility to play.

Who this is for


We partner with insurgent brand leaders hungry for transformation and renewal. The internal change-makers struggling to unlock trapped potential. Iconic yet dusty brands lacking capability to activate the full power within.


Our proven methodology ignites growth for those ready to champion change including CMOs, Chief Brand Officers, and other members of the C-Suite invested in creating value but missing critical resources.

So if:

  • Your heavily-licensed brand isn't capturing full value

  • Your market cap doesn’t reflect your most ardent customer passion

  • You’re borrowing equity via influencers to recapture cultural relevance

Brand Ventures is for you.

We transform your dormant brand equity into new ventures primed for lift-off.

Let’s Talk

So if:

  • Your heavily licensed brand isn't capturing full value


  • Your market cap doesn’t reflect your most ardent customer passion


  • You’re borrowing equity via influencers to recapture cultural relevance

Brand Ventures is for you.

We guide transformation by operationalizing your dormant brand equity and credibility. Our approach delivers the missing capabilities and steering strategy to navigate unmapped growth terrain.

Let’s Talk
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In 15 Weeks...

We go from pure ideation to validated business opportunities in market faster than what it takes to launch a single brand activation campaign.


Combining cultural exploration with our proven venture building methodology, we rapidly activate new ventures to unlock a brand's unseen potential.


Every icon has unseen opportunities. Uncover yours.

/ THE TEAM

Meet the architects of brand transformation


Our team of entrepreneurs, innovators, and brand builders has a proven track record of activating growth by turning groundbreaking ideas into reality. With over 1,000 ventures launched, we're uniquely equipped to help unearth and unlock your hidden potential.

Mark

Adams

Kelly

Nizolek

Laura

Moon

dave
lewis

Clement

Wang

Shane

Ginsberg

Ry

Luikens

VALERIE

HOECKE

joseph aquilina

unlock your brand's hidden potential.

Ready to treat your brand as your most valuable asset?

Let's Talk
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