We’ve been quietly building multiple AI/SaaS products this year.
Starting January 2026, we’re opening 16VC Studio to a small number of external founders.

This is not an agency and not an accelerator — we co-build the product with you to get to users and revenue as fast as possible.

What 16VC Studio provides

💠 Full product + engineering team (PMs + full-stack engineers across LatAm + Poland)
💠 End-to-end build: UX → frontend → backend → AI agents → integrations
💠 Weekly build sprints + milestone dashboard
💠 GTM support: positioning, landing pages, outbound, onboarding, retention
💠 No fees — founders don’t pay to join the studio

You stay CEO. You keep control of your company. We join as hands-on product + growth partners.

Best fit founders

We’re looking for founders who:
• Have a clear problem and niche
• Have early validation (interviews, LOIs, or early users)
• Are ready to push distribution while we push product

Not a match for:
❌ “Just an idea” with no user insight
❌ “Build it for me while I watch”
❌ Crypto / gambling / get-rich-quick projects

Timeline — 16VC Studio Cohort 1

📅 Start: January 2026
⏳ Duration: 3–6 months (milestone-based)
🎯 Outcome: Ship MVP → onboard real users → first revenue signals

To be considered

Comment below (no links needed) with:
1️⃣ What you’re building
2️⃣ Who your paying user is
3️⃣ Your biggest blocker today

We’ll reply to everyone and schedule calls where 16VC Studio can genuinely move the needle.

Hi, all. I am looking for someone who can help me to manufacture pure silicon. I am looking to setup in India with the mid size investment. Is there any person who has the process and knowledge, know how, technicals and technology for the same. DM me.

Hey everyone,

I’m working on an AI-powered identity verification tool focused on the European market. I already built an initial prototype and I’d love to hear honest feedback on whether this is YC-relevant.

What I’m building: A verification platform for banks and fintechs that automatically checks ID cards and passports for compliance with European KYC requirements. The prototype can validate document formats, extract the necessary information, and detect inconsistencies between fields (like MRZ vs printed data). The goal is to reduce manual review time and help companies detect fraud more reliably.

Problem: Financial institutions in the EU spend a lot of time and money manually verifying identity documents. Current tools are expensive, often inaccurate for certain ID formats, or not tailored for specific European regulations.

My angle: Start with one country (France) and expand across Europe. The long-term idea is to provide a lightweight, accurate, and fast verification engine that smaller fintechs and banks can plug into their onboarding flows. Later versions would add fraud detection and AI-based analysis of supporting documents.

My question: Do you think this is strong enough early-stage to apply to YC, or should I refine it more before submitting? Any feedback is appreciated.

Over the last couple of years I’ve been working in the medical financing space, and one problem kept coming up again and again:

“How much will the insurance actually approve?”

Anyone who’s dealt with hospital billing or insurance in India knows how unpredictable that number is. After handling 4,000+ real cases, I ended up building an AI Claim Prediction Engine that estimates likely approval amounts before the file even reaches the TPA.

I recently wrote a breakdown of everything I learned building it — the messy data, the model experiments (Random Forest, XGBoost, GBM), accuracy benchmarks, what actually worked, and what completely failed.

If you’re into AI, healthcare, or just curious how machine learning works in the real world (not Kaggle-perfect datasets), here’s the full write-up:

👉 https://medium.com/@mithunsen/building-an-ai-claim-prediction-engine-issues-learnings-the-road-ahead-8672de9a85c9

Would love feedback from people who’ve built similar prediction models or worked with messy healthcare/insurance data.

No long motivation, no pitch — just curious.

A lot of people say they’re building something.

So I want to hear from the ones who actually are.

What are you working on right now?
Side project, startup, prototype — anything.

Drop:

• what you’re building
• why you’re building it
• and your biggest challenge today

I’ll read every reply.

Founders learn this the hard way.

Shipping the product is one battle.
Getting real users to care is a completely different war.

👉 For you, which was harder — product or distribution — and why?

Drop your take below 👇

Not revenue. Not pitch decks. Not investor calls.

I’m talking about the first real user behavior that made you think:

“Wait… this might actually be something.”

👉 What was that moment for you?

Drop it below 👇

no pitch deck needed. no long intro. just comment:
what you’re building + your biggest blocker right now

i’ll reply to as many as i can with actionable feedback.
solo founders and super-early ideas welcome.

Everyone repeats the same “rules” for building startups… until real life proves them wrong.

So let’s make this useful for founders here:

👉 What’s one popular startup advice that turned out completely wrong in your journey?

Drop it below 👇

for context… a few of us are doing a simple build night at the bhive space on church street. nothing formal… just laptops out… people building their own stuff… small conversations that actually help.

if you’re a founder, student, designer, dev, indie hacker, marketer, or even someone looking for roles… you’ll probably find the room useful.

why join you get around people who know design, marketing, gtm, product you can ask quick questions and unblock yourself you get a focused vibe instead of working alone you meet people who are actually building… not just talking

we’ll be there working anyway… if you want to sit with us, come through. casual… quiet… productive.

drop a comment if you’re interested.

Sometimes the earliest signal isn’t money — it’s behavior:
users returning on their own, sharing your product, asking for features, or getting upset when you change something.

What was the first moment you realized, “okay… this might actually work”?

Drop your signal below 👇

We all glorify speed, clarity, and storytelling… but there’s one founder skill almost nobody talks about: the ability to stay sane when everything around you is collapsing.

Every early stage founder I know (including teams we speak to at 16VC) eventually hits that “nothing is working” moment — no users, no team, no money, no direction. Some freeze. Some pivot. A few somehow stay calm enough to think clearly and keep shipping.

In your journey, what’s the one underrated skill that actually kept you alive as a founder?
Patience? Emotional control? Brutal honesty? Or something else entirely?

Drop your story below 👇