Straight answers.

One team builds the whole company with the founder. Product: design, engineering, apps and AI, taken to production and kept running. Go-to-market: brand, website, content, ads, CRM and sales. Capital: the investor story, the materials and the raise itself. Operations: reporting, tools, processes and a team that grows with you. Because it is one team, nothing falls between suppliers.

An accelerator gives you a cohort, some capital and mentorship, then leaves you to build. A venture studio builds with you. We take on the product, the go-to-market, the raise and the operations alongside the founder. We also run accelerator programmes with music-tech conferences across Europe: short, focused versions of the same work.

An agency delivers one layer and hands it over: an MVP, a campaign, a deck. We build across layers and stay to run them. On the ventures we believe in, we co-found and take equity, so part of what we earn depends on the company working.

Yes. Many engagements start with one layer, such as a product build, a sales engine or a raise, and grow from there. We don't ship an MVP and walk away.

Mostly early stage: idea-stage founders with no product yet, and pre-seed teams with a product but no company around it. We also take on companies at an inflection point that need whole functions built or run. You do not need a deck to start a conversation.

As long as the company needs the layers we run. Diligence takes a few weeks and ends in a clear go or no-go before anyone writes code. After that we build, launch and keep running what the company can't staff yet. On the ventures we co-own, we stay for years.

Three ways, often combined: a fixed-scope project, a monthly retainer for the layers we run, or co-investment, case by case, where we take equity as a co-founder or early strategic partner, sometimes in exchange for part of the work. We'll tell you in the first conversation which one fits.

No. The SoAlive Startup Showcase 2026 is free, with no fees, no equity and no promise of investment. The Linecheck Fundraising Bootcamp 2026 costs €1,500 per startup and takes no equity. Studio investments are a separate track, so talk to us about terms.

We work with early-stage companies and are generalists by design, with one vertical we go deepest in: music and audio technology. That depth comes from original research, including a Master's thesis at the University of Agder and 170+ episodes of our podcast with founders and investors.

No. We are based in Stavanger, Norway, with a team across Europe, Africa and Asia, and we work with founders in Scandinavia, Europe and beyond. Programmes run online with an in-person finale.

SoAlive Startup Showcase 2026: applications closed, jury pitch in Sofia, 15 October. Linecheck Fundraising Bootcamp 2026: open, late applications considered, sessions under way. Music Frontiers 2026: concluded, Gigevate named Startup of the Year 2026. The programmes page always has the latest dates. For anything else, start a conversation. You don't need a deck.

Probably not. We are Amplitude Ventures AS, Norwegian org. no. 926 716 034, based in Stavanger. We are not affiliated with Amplitude Ventures of Canada (a life-sciences VC) or Amplitude Inc., the product analytics company listed on NASDAQ as AMPL.