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Everything you need to write about AI Native Ventures. Boilerplate copy, quick facts, logos, and a direct line to the founder. Five minutes, no chase.
AI Native Ventures
Research Lab
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Boilerplate.
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Short, one sentence
AI Native Ventures is a research lab building AI-native companies. Every venture runs on a small team of people and a team of AI agents working together. Founded in 2026.
Long, one paragraph
AI Native Ventures is a research lab that runs live experiments to find out what an AI-native business actually looks like. The lab builds and operates companies, each one staffed by a small group of people working alongside specialist AI agents. Every business in the lab runs on the same platform, Company Agents, which was built specifically for this kind of work. The first business in the lab, Horizon Labs, is a web and social agency for small South African businesses. AI Native Ventures was founded in 2026 by Basheer Phiri.
Quick facts.
The basics.
- Founded
- 2026
- Founder
- Basheer Phiri
- Headquartered
- South Africa
- Ventures live
- 2
- Platform
- Company Agents
- First business
- Horizon Labs
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Founder.
Basheer Phiri.
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Request photo→Founder of AI Native Ventures. Spent years trying to build software products with small teams and ran into the same wall every time: building was possible, running the rest of the business was not. The AI tools finally got good enough to close that gap, so he started a lab to figure out what it actually means to build companies in that world.
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basheer@ainative.ventures→Or use the contact form