Venture creation & operations
Where expertise becomes enterprise.
Cyshel builds and operates a portfolio of companies, and brings the same team to clients as consultants and engineers. We partner with the people who know an industry best and give them a fully operational company from the first day.
At a glance
9
Portfolio companies
50,000+
Active users across the portfolio
15+
Live events produced
3,000+
Attendees hosted
Who we are
Cyshel is a venture creation company. We build businesses from the ground up, run them on a single shared platform, and put the people who know each industry in charge of them.
Every Cyshel company launches with engineering, payments, legal and operations already in place. That is why our companies reach the market in weeks rather than years, and why each one we build makes the next faster to start.
We do not fund companies and step back. We build them, operate them, and share ownership with the Operating Partners who lead them.
About the firmSectors
Three sectors. One operating platform.
We build where deep domain expertise meets markets that software has underserved, and we build the companies to lead them.
01
3 companies
AI & Developer Platforms
The platforms behind AI-native work: creator studios, agent orchestration and the specs software teams build on.
02
3 companies
Consumer & Vertical Software
The apps people book, plan and run their days on, from nail studios to festival weekends.
03
3 companies
Live Experiences
Festivals, screenings and productions, with the community, crews and equipment behind them.
Portfolio
Selected companies.
Live products, built and run on the Cyshel platform.
Consumer & Vertical Software
Looks
The booking and business app Israeli nail studios run on, and the directory their clients find them through.
5,077
Studios in the directory
385
Cities covered
30,000+
Appointments booked
AI & Developer Platforms
Orbit
A macOS app for running many AI coding agents at once, each in its own worktree and its own branch.
2,000+
Active developers
150,000+
Agent runs completed
40+
Countries
Consumer & Vertical Software
Lineapp
A festival companion that learns your taste, builds your timetable, and survives festival wifi.
25,000+
Festival-goers
120,000+
Personal schedules built
400+
Sets scheduled per weekend
AI & Developer Platforms
NAOMI
The workspace an agency runs AI creators from: identity, shoots, approvals, and publishing in one loop.
150+
AI creators under management
60,000+
Assets generated and verified
12
Agencies on the platform
The Cyshel Platform
Every company launches fully operational.
Four capabilities, built once, run centrally and shared by every company in the portfolio. Each is proven in production.
01
Engineering & AI
Product design, engineering and applied AI from one team, on one codebase and one deployment pipeline shared across the portfolio.
02
Payments & Billing
Processing, subscriptions, invoicing and settlement, live from the first transaction and reconciled centrally.
03
Legal & Compliance
Entity structure, contracts, privacy and tax-ready books, maintained continuously rather than assembled at year end.
04
Operations
Onboarding, support, vendors and the day-to-day of the business, run by Cyshel so Operating Partners can lead.
Services / Consultancy
Operator-grade advice, on demand.
Senior operators from the Cyshel portfolio, available when you need them: by the hour, by the project or on retainer. We advise leadership teams on AI, product and operating decisions with the judgement of people who build and run companies every day.
40+
Advisory engagements delivered
10
Industries advised
24 hours
To a senior operator, on demand
01
On-demand advisory
Book a senior operator for an hour, a day or a standing slot, and get a straight answer on the decision in front of you.
02
Fractional leadership
Interim CTO, product or operations leadership while you hire, or instead of hiring.
03
AI strategy
Where AI changes the economics of your business, what to build first, and what to leave alone.
04
Product and venture strategy
New lines of business, validated against real demand before capital is committed.
05
Operating model design
The teams, workflows and automation that let a small organisation run like a large one.
06
Technical due diligence
An independent read on a product, a platform or an acquisition target, delivered in days.
Services / Development
Products engineered and operated to our own standard.
Our engineering team designs, builds and runs software for clients on the same platform and to the same standard as the Cyshel portfolio: web, mobile and AI, taken from first release to production at scale.
60+
Products shipped to production
1M+
End users on software we built
4 weeks
To a first production release
01
Product design
Research, interaction design and a design system, shaped around the people who will use it.
02
Web and mobile engineering
Web applications and native iOS and Android apps, built on one shared codebase.
03
AI integration
Agents, generation pipelines and automation built into the product, with a human review step where it matters.
04
Platform and infrastructure
Cloud architecture, data and deployment pipelines that stay fast and safe as usage grows.
05
Payments and billing
Checkout, subscriptions and invoicing, integrated and reconciled from the first transaction.
06
Managed operations
Monitoring, maintenance and support after launch, so the product keeps improving.
Our model
Venture creation as a discipline.
One method, applied to every company we build: from thesis to an operating business, with ownership shared by the people who lead it.
01
Thesis
We identify an underserved market alongside an Operating Partner who knows it from the inside.
02
Build
The product is designed and engineered on the Cyshel platform, with payments, legal and operations in place.
03
Launch
The company goes to market in weeks and sells from day one. No incorporation, no fundraising, no hiring.
04
Operate & scale
Cyshel runs the operating layer for the long term. The Operating Partner leads growth and shares in the value created.
Operating Partners
Every company is led by an owner.
Each Cyshel company is run by an Operating Partner: a domain expert who leads the business and holds equity in it. Cyshel supplies everything else.
01
Equity in what you lead
A defined ownership stake in the company you run, with the instrument, vesting and departure terms set out in writing before day one.
02
A company from the first day
Engineering, payments, legal and operations are live and staffed from the first week. You never incorporate, open a merchant account or hire a team.
03
Speed to market
Portfolio companies launch in weeks and sell from the first day, on infrastructure already proven across the portfolio.
04
A partner for the long term
Cyshel operates alongside you after launch. The platform, the operating team and the wider portfolio stay with the company as it grows.
Perspectives
What we believe about building companies.
Thesis 01
The tenth company should cost less than the first.
Shared infrastructure compounds. Every integration, contract and workflow built for one Cyshel company is available to the next on the day it lands.
Thesis 02
Operators should own what they run.
The strongest companies are led by people with a stake in the outcome. Ownership, not employment, is what turns expertise into enterprise.
Thesis 03
AI is the operating layer, not a feature.
We build AI into how our companies are engineered and run, so a small team operates with the leverage of a large one.
Operating Partners
Lead a Cyshel company.
For domain experts ready to build and own a company in the field they know best.
Careers
Join the operating team.
Engineering, operations and finance roles across the platform. Six open today.
Services
Work with the firm.
Consultancy and product development from the team that builds and runs the Cyshel portfolio.