Where brilliant people and bold ideas get the traction they deserve.
Where brilliant people and bold ideas get the traction they deserve.
We’re on the hunt for problems worth solving, led by impressive minds who have the insight and expertise to be the founder of the next best thing.
We step in as early-stage partners — helping you validate, build, and launch your idea — before the rest of the world is ready to believe in it too.
We’re on the hunt for problems worth solving, led by impressive minds who have the insight and expertise to be the founder of the next best thing.
We step in as early-stage partners — helping you validate, build, and launch your idea — before the rest of the world is ready to believe in it too.
Ovum
An intelligent health journal for women that creates a comprehensive health profile at any time throughout the user’s history.
Ruminati
Providing climate solutions for every level of the agricultural supply chain
Peeple
A game-changing platform made for employees and businesses driven by passion – and driven by people
Ovum
An intelligent health journal for women that creates a comprehensive health profile at any time throughout the user’s history.
Ruminati
Providing climate solutions for every level of the agricultural supply chain
Peeple
A game-changing platform made for employees and businesses driven by passion – and driven by people
OUR PROCESS
We invest up to AU$250K for up to 25%, split between cash and human capital.
Investment
Qualification
We move fast to assess your idea or ambition, pressure-testing for potential. If there’s conviction on both sides, we invest up to $250K to shape it with you from day one.
Venture
Design
We shape the idea from the ground up — crafting the strategy, modelling the business, and designing the brand, all in-house. Because we’ve done it before, we help you prove value fast, attract the right attention, and build something ready to scale.
Minimum Testable
Product
Our product designers and developers work with you to build the leanest version of the product and put it in the hands of real users, so you can move forward with true insight and channel capital into what works.
Fundraising
We help you get investor-ready by shaping the compelling pitch you need to land the bigger cheque and accelerate your venture.
Minimum Viable
Product
With funding secured, we build a high-fidelity MVP and a clear go-to-market strategy, powered by a fully operational team who’s motivated to see you win. You get access to senior talent immediately, at a speed and cost that’s impossible to replicate.
Building The
Team
We help you assemble the right team to carry your vision forward and scale independently, with Nakatomi as your long-term growth partner.
Co-founders and co-investors
We know how hard it can be to get traction in the early stages. That's why we invest in ideas we believe in. We’re thoughtful about cap tables, fast in execution, and incentivised to help your company grow, attract investors, and win customers.
Made to be replaced
We don’t hang around longer than we’re needed. As we build your venture, we’ll help you hire the right team to scale, then step back after launch, staying on as your long-term advisor.
Nakatomi brought with them an incredibly thorough and motivated team of product designers, business strategists, engineers, software developers, and marketing gurus. Without their expertise and unconditional willingness to make sure every deliverable was perfect – Ovum would not have had the success it has, in just two years.
Founder
Working with Nakatomi has supercharged our progress and impact without a doubt. Our business is the first in this category so we had to conceptualise a product and service in the absence of comparables and in a changing landscape. Nakatomi took our ideas, anecdotes, beliefs and hypotheses and turned them into a great product.
Farmer and Founder
Share your bold ideas, shower thoughts, or a problem you’re passionate about. We’ll be in touch.
Share your bold ideas, shower thoughts, or a problem you’re passionate about. We’ll be in touch.
WHO WE WORK WITH
We partner with experts in their field who have the ambition to change it. Here’s who we’re looking for:
A clear and compelling vision
You have a bold idea that gets us almost as excited as you.
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FAQ
We’re tech-agnostic and industry-agnostic. Although we gravitate to ideas with venture-scale potential - what’s important is that you’re tackling problems that can grow into defensible, impactful businesses. Whether software, hardware, or tech-enabled, if the idea has a credible path to meaningful growth, we’re interested.
The whole point of our model is to arm impressive people who have great ideas with the resources they need to make them real. We’re looking for partners who bring the unique and essential skills of a great founder, who can build the team around them and grow the venture long-term. You don’t need to be technical to be an incredible leader, but you do need to have the vision and strategic mindset to grow your business long-term.
We work with both. Some ventures start with a single founder, others with co-founders. What matters most is the strength of the problem and the founder’s drive.
Our value lies in helping founders shape their idea, brand, product, strategy and GTM — which means we’re best positioned to back businesses early. Typically, that looks like being pre-product, or still building market traction within the zero-to-one. That said, our terms aren’t set in stone - we’re open to new engagements whenever we believe that, together, we can create the traction your business deserves.
No. We don’t charge fees — we partner on equity. If you need any third-party services outside of our support (e.g. legal or accounting), those fees are between you and the provider.