The Studio
We build companies the way we diagnose them. One constraint at a time.
Cleymand is a venture studio for B2B companies. We don't advise and we don't just invest — we co-found. We find demand that already exists, build the company around it from zero, pair it with an operating co-founder, and hold equity in what we build together.
The thesis
Most companies die of ten priorities. We build ours around one.
Every company is blocked by one thing at a time — a single constraint between where it is and its next stage. Find that one, remove it, and the whole system moves. Chase ten, and nothing does.
We spent years turning that idea into a discipline: a six-category diagnostic that finds the one constraint in a business, and a build capability — product, brand, and a growth engine — that removes it. We built it to serve founder-led firms for a fee. The studio is what happens when we point the same machine at companies we co-own.
Demand first. Build second. Ownership always.
How we co-found
Two halves of a company, at the same table.
01
We originate
We bring the thesis, the demand, and the build — product, brand, and the growth engine, made in-house, not outsourced.
02
You operate
A co-founder takes the seat and runs it day to day. We build the company; you build the business inside it.
03
We share
Equity, upside, and risk — together. No retainer, no passive check. We only win when the company does.
The engine room
A studio needs an engine room.
A venture studio needs three things before it needs a portfolio: cash, deal flow, and proof it can build. Ours come from the same place — a small, deliberate services practice. We still run Growth Diagnoses and build Authority Sites for a handful of founder-led firms each year.
That practice funds the studio, sharpens the build muscle on real companies, and surfaces the founders and markets our next venture might come from. It isn't a side business. It's the on-ramp.
Who's building this
Founder-led, on purpose.
Cleymand is founded and run by Cleymand Mgiba. It began as a growth practice for founder-led B2B firms — the same firms that taught us exactly where companies get stuck, and how to unstick them. The studio is the next step: from fixing other people's companies to co-founding our own.
Where we are now
We're at the founding line.
Here's the honest part: the portfolio is empty today. We're pre-first-venture, building in the open. We'd rather tell you that than dress up a logo wall we haven't earned.
If you're an operator who can build, or a founder sitting on real demand, this is the best possible moment to talk. The earliest companies are the ones we build closest.
Have a company in you?
Tell us what you'd build. If the demand is real and the fit is right, we co-found it with you.