Where to play.
We map the value spaces where your assets give you a right to win, and turn them into a portfolio of ventures worth building.
Corporate venture builder
Build with what you already have.
We help large companies turn the assets they already hold into new ventures, through a venture studio they own and run.
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The thesis
Startups begin from nothing. You don't have to.
Your customers, your distribution, your data, your balance sheet and the trust you've spent decades earning are the advantages no startup can buy. Most companies leave them idle, or spend fortunes fighting new markets from zero. We build the vehicle that puts them to work.
What we build
Three products. One system.
The studio.
We design and stand up the venture vehicle inside your company: governance, funding logic, team, cadence, and the method your people keep running after we leave.
The ventures.
We build and pilot the first ones, alone or with startup partners, and take them to the point where they earn their next round of funding on evidence.
We take on a small number of companies a year. By introduction or intake call.
Why Fram
Forward, by design.
Fram is Norwegian for forward. It was the ship built in 1892 for a voyage everyone said was impossible: to sail into the Arctic pack ice on purpose and let the current carry it across the top of the world. Every ship before it had fought the ice and been crushed. Fram was designed differently, with a rounded hull that let the ice lift it instead of break it, so the force that destroyed other vessels became the one that moved this one.
That is the principle the studio is named for. Companies spend fortunes fighting the forces around them. The ones that grow build vessels that use them.
Track record
Track record
15+Ventures built and led inside global companies
€20MInnovation fund governed across three continents
5Countries where our ventures reached market
9Years building inside corporates, not advising from outside
A global agri-food group: a new ingredient venture built from an existing supply chain, taken through validation to a strategic acquisition.
A consumer appliances group: a subscription model that failed validation, pivoted into an AI-powered service platform that passed.
A global bank: a €20M venture fund with stage-gate governance and innovation accounting adopted group-wide.
Ventures built inside global companies. Client names on request.
Who's behind it
Built by people who have done the work.
Studio Fram was founded by Louis Repain after nine years building ventures inside ING Group, Cargill, Versuni and PVH, and opening the Gulf market for a European venture builder. He runs the studio with a small team of operators who have each built and led ventures themselves. Norwegian and French, working across Europe and the Middle East.