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. Some programmes are free: the SoAlive Startup Showcase 2026 and the MW:M Startup Spotlight 2026 charge no fees, take no equity and promise no 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.

#musictech at Slush Accelerator 2026: rolling, first come, first served, applications close 16 November. MW:M × Amplitude Ventures: Startup Spotlight 2026: applications closed, Berlin, 4–5 November. SoAlive Startup Showcase 2026: concluded, LP Duo won the 2026 showcase. 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.