Advisory, community, and venture building with founders in AI, markets, and infrastructure.
Full-stack, end-to-end agentic workflows, data pipelines, and signal generation. Architecture through deployment.
Distribution, partnerships, and access to relevant networks of founders, investors, operators, and decision makers.
Policy, markets, regulation, and strategic decisions. Where AI products meet financial regulation, market structure, or governance.
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, in-person events, and curated access to founders, investors, and decision makers.
Working with founders building in AI, markets, and infrastructure. Building Veynor. Running the NYC Founders & Operators community and the Pulse newsletter. Based in NYC, working across North America and Europe.
1,000+ members in the NYC Founders & Operators community. Biweekly dinners, AI & tech events, the Pulse newsletter, a daily prediction-markets podcast, and strategic introductions.
Startup and founder journeys are unique. Our support and engagement is tailored to your needs.
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 in AI, markets, and 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.
Biweekly notes on AI, markets, policy, and startups.
Qualified pipeline generated for a founding-team GTM build.
Planning and delivery of COVID-19 stimulus packages with the Austrian Federal Government.
Members in the NYC Founders & Operators community.
Helped Coinbase secure US crypto regulation through C-level briefings, policy memos, and analytics tooling.
Hands-on partnership with YC-batch founders building agentic AI products.
NYC founder dinners, AI & tech events, and strategic introductions.
Compare notes, build together, or just say hi.
stephan@rihs-ventures.com