What we bring
Engineering, applied AI and cloud infrastructure, delivered by the same team that runs 3Metas AI Labs and 3Metas Cloud. Not advisers. Not a network introduction.
3Metas Ventures · Tech for Equity
You get the team,
not just the check.
Most investors give you money and advice. We give you the engineers, and we take equity in yours.
You are not hiring an agency you have to manage, and you are not waiting two quarters to find a CTO. The people doing technical diligence on your company are the people who would build it.
3MetasEngineers
build →← equity
YouYour company
For a founder
What we take
Equity, on terms agreed case by case.
What it is not
Not a development shop that bills hours, and not a fund that outsources the build. Those are the two things founders most often assume, and neither is us.
What it is
A Statement of Work that says exactly what we build, attached to an equity agreement that says what share we earn for building it.
3Metas contributes engineering, tooling and infrastructure against a defined scope of work, and takes equity in your company as the fee for that work. Not a fund. Not an incubator. Not free development. A standard, repeatable deal.
The instrument
Readable, with the blanks that are yours to fill.
Like a SAFE, our agreement is standard in shape and specific only where your deal is specific. The parts that change per company are left blank on purpose — the number is the deal, not the template.
We walk you through the full agreement before you sign. The percentage, the SOW and the milestones are filled in when we agree a deal — never before.
The 3Metas Tech-for-Equity AgreementPlain-English summary
- What we build
- the deliverables named in the attached Statement of Work — [SOW]
- What we earn (blank on purpose)
- [___]% of your company, for that work
- When we earn it
- as we deliver — vesting against accepted milestones, no cliff
- What you keep
- your product, your data, your brand
- What we keep
- the general tools and methods we bring; you get a license — for as long as your company is operating — to everything embedded in your product
- A check-in at 90 days
- either side can walk; you keep what the work earned
How it works
Four steps, ninety days in.
- 01
You tell us what you are building
A short conversation, not a form to game.
- 02
We decide, on a rolling basis
If it is a fit, we scope the work.
- 03
We build against a SOW
For a share of the company.
- 04 · Day 90
We run it for ninety days
Then both sides choose to continue.
Questions that come up
Do I need to be incorporated?
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No, not to start the conversation. Incorporated is the simplest path; if you are not yet, there is a runway to get there.
For a co-investor
Technical diligence, done by the people who would do the work.
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