At the NJII Venture Studio, we’re building companies that solve real problems, bring cutting-edge research to the market, and create meaningful economic impact. And we know we can’t do it alone.
We work across many sectors, including Human Health, Advanced Manufacturing, and AI/ML, because we believe innovation can and should happen everywhere. But we also know that we’re not experts in everything. That’s where our strategic partners come in, and why they’re such a critical part of our model.
Deep industry knowledge and lived experience help us focus our energy on what we do best and are uniquely positioned to do: building new ventures that address real-world problems and unlock the value of IP assets.
Two Approaches to Strategic Partnerships
- Translating Industry Needs to New Ventures
- Startups don’t have to be built in a garage or a lab. Some of the best startup ideas can come from inside a company that’s been living with a problem for years. Whether it’s a costly inefficiency, a market need that isn’t being met, or a shelved concept that never had the resources to get off the ground, these problems can represent high-potential starting points for new ventures.
- At the NJII Venture Studio, we collaborate closely with corporate partners to uncover these challenges, validate the opportunity, and build purpose-built startups to solve them. We bring the entrepreneurial talent, capital, and operational support needed to take an idea from concept to company without draining our partners’ internal resources.
- The result is a venture that’s independently operated, structured for scale, and built with real-world relevance from day one. For our corporate partners, that means early insight into an emerging solution, potential shared ownership or commercial rights, and a strategic way to extend innovation beyond the boundaries of the core business.
- Commercializing Underutilized IP
- Many companies are sitting on intellectual property with untapped commercial potential—technologies that fall outside the core business, require a nontraditional go-to-market strategy, or simply never found the right internal champion to move them forward.
- At the NJII Venture Studio, we provide a structured path to bring these assets to life. We work with corporate partners to assess the commercial viability of underutilized IP, identify high-impact use cases, and build independent startups designed to bring those technologies to market.
- We handle the heavy lifting—from sourcing talent and conducting early-stage validation to structuring capital and managing operations. The result: your team can stay focused on core priorities while we work in parallel to unlock new revenue streams, accelerate IP utilization, and increase the long-term return on R&D investments.
Why This Model is a Win-Win
Venture studios are distinctly different from startup incubators, accelerators, and venture capital firms. We typically don’t look to existing startups or founders to build our pipeline. We actively create companies from scratch, and we do it with intention, speed, and structure.
By collaborating directly with corporate partners, we ensure that our ventures are grounded in real demand and have a built-in customer, use case, or market channel from day one. That reduces risk, helps us hit inflection points faster, and drives meaningful innovation.
It also means that our ventures are not just technically feasible, but also strategically aligned with industry trends, customer needs, and evolving market pressures.
Let’s Build What’s Next, Together
We’re actively seeking strategic partners who are:
- Sitting on valuable but unutilized IP
- Dealing with persistent problems that can’t be solved internally
- Looking for new ways to innovate without disrupting core operations
- Interested in shaping or co-owning the next wave of market-ready startups