Advisory, community, and venture building for founders navigating technology, capital, and regulation.
The most ambitious AI companies increasingly operate across technology, capital, and regulation.
Building companies, products, and growth engines alongside founders.
Deep experience across fintech, crypto, prediction markets, and financial infrastructure.
Government, regulation, policy, and public-sector decision making.
Most advisors are good at one of these. The work that matters now sits at the intersection.
Qualified pipeline generated for a founding-team GTM build.
Hands-on partnership with YC-batch founders on agentic AI products.
Founders and operators in the NYC F&O community room.
Pulse newsletter open rate · top decile.
C-level briefings, policy memos, and analytics tooling during a category-defining period for US crypto regulation.
Public-sector strategy contributions during the COVID-19 economic response.
Frontier model integration, agent architectures, and production pipelines for AI-native products.
Fintech, capital markets, payments, prediction markets, and the rails underneath them.
Crypto policy, AI governance, financial regulation, and the institutional fluency to navigate them.
GTM engineering, distribution, partnerships, and access to the NYC founder ecosystem.
The most valuable asset isn't a deck — it's the room. NYC founder dinners, AI & tech events, the Pulse newsletter, a daily prediction-markets podcast, and founder-to-founder introductions.
AI products, agentic workflows, and venture ideas. Architecture through deployment. Veynor is built in-house.
Distribution, partnerships, and access to the NYC founder network. GTM engineering and a curated audience already paying attention.
Policy, markets, regulation, and strategic decisions. Where AI products meet financial regulation, market structure, or governance.
Every founder is in a different moment. The right kind of support depends on what you need — leverage, horsepower, or alignment.
High-level judgment, sounding board, and targeted introductions. Help with fundraising, partnerships, policy, and go-to-market decisions.
Best for founders who need leverage, judgment, and network access.
Embedded operational support for growth, product, partnerships, or special projects. Typically 1–4 days/week for 1–3 months.
Best for founders who need an operator inside the team, not a traditional consulting engagement.
Long-term collaboration with aligned incentives through equity, revenue share, or partnership structures.
Best for exceptional founders building in areas where we have deep conviction — AI, markets, infrastructure.
We don't believe every company needs a full-time hire, a consulting firm, or a venture round. Sometimes the right answer is focused support at the right moment.
Let's talk →Building products ourselves keeps us close to the same technical, distribution, and operational challenges our founders face.
Live prediction market infrastructure built on Polymarket and Kalshi. Oracles, calibrated edge, and agents that act on it.
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Hands-on partnership with the YC-backed team building an agentic AI operating system. Architecture, GTM, and ecosystem access.
Built the GTM engine from zero. Drove $500K+ in qualified pipeline.
Sourced and landed strategic partnerships to unlock distribution into NYC's dealmaking ecosystem.
Best-in-class execution, insight, and thoughtfulness. Stephan consistently combined strategic judgment with a bias toward action.
Stephan landed partnerships that were crucial to our growth and go-to-market efforts. He quickly became an extension of our team.
A unique combination of intellect, charisma, operational rigor, and technical fluency. Stephan is equally comfortable discussing strategy, product, policy, or execution.
Today: working with founders in AI, markets, and infrastructure. Building Veynor. Running the NYC Founders & Operators community and Pulse newsletter from NYC, with time in Vienna and Philadelphia.
Biweekly notes on AI, markets, policy, and startups. 62% open rate.
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stephan@rihs-ventures.com